Twelve tiles with what people say when they call: a system nobody dares touch, a spreadsheet out of hand, a cloud bill that keeps growing. Each tile carries the number of the block it lands in.

Whatwedo

Three kinds of work, two ways to deliver it.

What people bring to us almost always falls into one of three categories: something has to be built that does not exist yet, something old is causing pain, or something is running that has to run better. More and more often that last one is software someone else built, which we take over, run and develop further. Build or run: we do it, or we strengthen the team you already have.

Three ways we help you forward

  • Modernise legacy systems

    Legacy nobody dares to touch any more. Sometimes we rebuild. More often we take it over first and renew, step by step, whatever hurts most. No big bang, no standstill.

    • Often only the version fell behind, not the language

    • Reversible per step, not everything in one weekend

    • Also when another party built it

  • Build and run custom software

    Applications that follow your process, not the other way round. From first sketch to production, and after that we keep them running and develop them further.

    • A web application, an app, a customer portal or an API integration

    • Build new, or run and extend what already exists

    • Source code and documentation are yours

  • Cloud & platform

    The foundation everything else runs on. Landing zones on AWS and Google Cloud, CI/CD and observability. We set it up, and we keep it running.

    • Migration without downtime or surprises on the bill

    • Cost, security and governance from day one

    • Managed cloud on its own, if the building is already done

Webuildit,orwebuildwithyou

With each of the three above you can go two ways, and the difference is not in the work but in who holds the wheel.

  • We take the project. Our own team, a product owner on your side, and something working to look at every two weeks. You keep the direction, we do the delivery and the running afterwards.
  • We strengthen your team. Senior engineers who work in your own rhythm. Not to add hands, but because someone is needed who dares to point at the architecture or knows why the pipeline falls over every Friday.

The second form is mostly cloud and operations with us. How staff augmentation works.

Two rows of people: in the first ZEN takes the project with one product owner from the client, in the second two ZEN engineers join a team of five from the client.

Stillfindingyourbearings?

Sometimes the question is not yet "who builds this" but "should this be built at all". Manual work that keeps coming back, an export someone makes by hand every Monday, three systems that know nothing about each other.

Start by working out what it costs you and what it would save. That usually ends in one of two directions: the system you have is due for renewal, or something new has to come.

Whatwebuildourselves

We are not an agency that only works for others. Four of our own products run in production, and what we learn there goes into the work we do for you.

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Frequently asked questions

  • I do not know yet which of the three my question falls into.

    You do not have to. In a half-hour conversation it is usually clear whether it is about renewing, building new or the foundation underneath, and often the answer is a combination: first the cloud side in order, then the system on top of it.

  • Can you also just supply people?

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  • Can you take over software someone else built?

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  • What does it cost?

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Our contact details

Oosterweezenstraat 6E
1823CN Alkmaar

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What are you up against?

Describe briefly what runs and where it hurts. You get back which of the three directions we see it in, and what the first step would be.