IT providers: recognising and ending dependence

A simple question for you as managing director: if you gave your IT provider notice today, would your business still run tomorrow?

If you hesitate now, you have a problem. A massive one.

Many companies slide gradually into total dependence. The code somehow belongs to the agency (a “licence model”), the documentation exists only in the heads of two external developers, and passwords are handed over only on request. That is not a partnership. That is being open to blackmail.

We often see CEOs who do not dare to ask critical questions because they are afraid the provider will stop its support. That has to stop. A healthy project must be possible to hand over at any time.

When we come into a company, this is the first thing we check: the ability to exit. We ask for source code, access and documentation. Anyone who works properly has no problem with that. Anyone who stonewalls has something to hide. We bring back your digital sovereignty. The same applies to our own projects: domain, hosting and access are registered in your name.

20 minutes. Afterwards you’ll know whether a project pays off.

Tell us briefly where things are stuck. We’ll tell you whether we’re the right people, roughly what it would cost and whether funding might be available.

No sales pitch. No presentation.

If we can’t help you, we’ll tell you in the first five minutes.