Digitalisation for mid-sized firms: portals & prototypes

Process digitalisation for mid-sized companies means translating workflows that run through email, Excel and phone today into end-to-end software: client, supplier and team portals, configurators and cockpits on one shared data foundation. Unlike introducing off-the-shelf software, it maps your own process. A clickable prototype with real workflows and roles serves as the basis for the decision before anything is invested in implementation – instead of a requirements spec that few people in the company read. Everyone involved sees early on what their future work will look like.

This matters for mid-sized companies now because skilled staff are scarce and customers expect fast quotes and transparency. Yet many digitalisation projects fail: off-the-shelf software does not fit the process, requirements specs take months, and in the end the result convinces neither management nor staff. Often money goes into technology too early, before it is clear whether the solution works in everyday use and pays off economically. So email and Excel remain the real system, patched with isolated tools that share no common data.

I have built 14 client prototypes across more than ten industries – including sheet metal, mechanical engineering, plastics and insurance. After one to two days of process capture, a clickable prototype with realistic data is ready in about ten days. In week three you get an ROI presentation and a fixed price for implementation; after that I build the production system in sprints, connected to ERP and CRM. It runs on the same architecture as my seven AI SaaS products. I check funding programmes in the first call.