One hand, start to finish
Look first.
Then build.
Then hand it over.
We find the point where your operations cost you most, rebuild it, and put everything in your hands. Advising, development, operation — from the same people. Munich, owner-led.
No code? Then you found us without a letter. What this is about is further down.
What we do
Whoever looks also builds. Otherwise half of it is lost on the way.
Finding the weak points
We follow one order all the way through, from the first call to the invoice, and note every place where something is copied by hand, entered twice, or chased by phone.
Advice with numbers
No slide decks. A set of findings that says what it costs per year — with the calculation open and assumptions you can change yourself.
Development
We build it ourselves. Interfaces, automation, small applications that do exactly one thing — and do it properly.
Connecting what exists
Your existing programs talk to each other instead of someone retyping data between them. That is usually cheaper than buying something new.
Operation and handover
We run it for as long as you want. Source code, access and documentation are yours from day one, not only at the end.
AI, in the right order
Clean data first, models second. Reverse that and you pay twice — and end up blaming the technology.
Why now
Three numbers that belong together.
of German companies plan to run on fewer staff this year. Ten percent plan on more. The work does not shrink to match.
DIHK business survey, early summer 2026, 23,000 responses
structured e-invoicing becomes mandatory for companies above €800,000 in prior-year revenue. That only works if the data behind it is clean.
§ 14 UStG, phased plan under the Wachstumschancengesetz
of German mid-sized firms would even consider a loan to fund an investment. In 2017 it was 66 %.
KfW SME panel, special survey January 2026
Together that is an awkward position: the work stays, the hands get fewer, a deadline is fixed — and there is neither money nor appetite for the big solution. So the only move left is to make the work itself smaller.
What it costs
Three steps. You can stop after any of them.
Every step ends finished, not open. We only recommend the next one once the previous one has produced a number.
Short check
We look at how orders move through your company and tell you whether there is anything to gain at all. If there is not, we say so.
Findings with numbers
Where it snags, what it costs per year, what an intervention would return. Calculation open, assumptions editable.
First rebuild
One point, built and in production. Source code, access and documentation are yours afterwards.
Fixed price before you sign, payment after delivery. If we see no clear lever, we do not recommend the engagement — and we would rather say that in the short check than after the rebuild.
Who this is
You talk to the person who does the work.
I am Jonas Höttler, founder of Balane GmbH in Munich. I write the letters myself, I make the calls myself, and when we build, I am at the table. There is no sales team here promising something another team has to deliver.
No lock-in.
No hidden floor.
No back doors.
Hold us to it.
Jonas Höttler
Balane GmbH · Balanstrasse 84 · 81541 Munich · Germany
Honestly
When you do not need us.
Save yourself the call if
- Your operations run and nobody in the building complains about them.
- You are looking for someone to roll out a finished product and train your staff.
- You want a partner who sends an invoice every month.
- You need someone to agree with you.
What you will not find here
- No retainer, no subscription, no minimum term
- No licence over your own data
- No standing access after handover
- No commission from software vendors
- No step you have to take for the previous one to make sense
The envelope
This page belongs to a package that arrives by post.
A handwritten letter, a card carrying your code, and an insert with what we noticed about your company. Twenty-five of them. Not a print run.
Code on the card?
Then your findings are already waiting.