Go-to-market engineering

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We engineer the go-to-market systems that turn traffic into booked pipeline. Conversion sites, WhatsApp lead engines, CRM and full-funnel attribution, wired end to end. Twenty years of production engineering behind every build.

What we build

Seven practices, one studio. Held to the same standard.

We're a small studio with twenty years of compounded experience shipping software and standing up teams inside government, fintech, adtech, recruitment, and emerging-market startups. The practices below share a single bar: production-grade, observable, secure by design, honest about what works.

01

Go-to-market engineering

The technical plumbing that turns marketing spend into booked pipeline. A conversion layer, a lead-qualification engine, CRM and calendar integration, and attribution that ties the first ad click to the closed deal. Across markets and languages.

  • Conversion layer & CTAs across EU, UK and West Africa
  • Connects to any major CRM, ATS, sales tool or calendar
  • Ad-click-to-closed-deal attribution in one dashboard
  • Campaign & event tracking, automated reporting

02

Market entry & hub building

Opening a commercial presence in a new country, end to end. We find and headhunt the right people, hire the local lead first, and build the hub top-down so it runs on the ground, not just on paper.

  • Executive search & headhunting for the founding team
  • Local lead hired first, hub built top-down
  • New-market entry across EU, UK, West Africa
  • From first hire to a running commercial hub

03

Conversational infrastructure

Doc-grounded WhatsApp agents that qualify prospects, advance deals, and feed structured leads into your CRM. Multilingual from day one.

  • Lead capture & qualification, 24/7
  • Calendar booking, document delivery in-thread
  • Structured CRM extraction every turn
  • Multilingual, auto-detected per visitor

04

Finance tools

Admin consoles, reconciliation systems, multi-tenant ledgers, finance dashboards. Production-grade fintech with the compliance posture pension and investment work taught us.

  • Multi-tenant audit-compliant by design
  • Real-time reconciliation, ledger integrity
  • Any major payment rail, cards to local
  • Built for finance teams, not engineers

05

Converting websites

Designed for the LLMO and SEO landscape of 2026. Schema-perfect markup, structured content that LLMs actually cite, conversion paths that prove themselves in your CRM.

  • LLMO-first information architecture
  • Core Web Vitals green, every page
  • Structured data, citations, JSON-LD
  • Conversion attribution wired to your CRM

06

Custom platforms

When off-the-shelf doesn't fit. Multi-tenant SaaS, recommendation engines, verifiable credential wallets, high-traffic loyalty systems. The ones we've built ship to millions.

  • Domain-driven design, observable by default
  • AI-native architectures where they earn their place
  • GDPR and regional compliance postures
  • From zero-to-one prototype to production scale

07

IT consultancy

Embedded engineering on mission-critical systems. Architecture reviews, technical due diligence, engineering management. We've spent years inside government, adtech, and fintech teams.

  • Architecture & code-quality review
  • Technical due diligence for investors
  • Embedded engineering leads on long engagements
  • Incident response, observability rollouts

Selected work · a case

A WhatsApp lead engine, in production.

A B2B sales team needed a way to qualify inbound prospects 24/7 without expanding their SDR roster. We delivered a doc-grounded WhatsApp agent in three weeks: prospects ask the sales deck questions; the agent answers from the company's own materials; a structured lead lands in the CRM before the SDR's morning stand-up.

The conversation

Sunday evening, fleet manager taps a WhatsApp CTA on a landing page:

Hi, saw your product at the trade event. Run a 42-truck fleet, cold chain + general haulage.
Welcome! Quick three: incident or insurance trigger pushing this now? Interior or exterior priority? And when's your current contract up?
Two near-misses last quarter. Both interior and exterior. Contract ends in Q3.
Got it. Putting you with our UK lead. Tuesday 14:00 GMT or Thursday 10:00 GMT? Sending the 360° one-pager so you can preview.
Tuesday works. Send it over.

What landed in the CRM

Lead created · 42 vehicles · cold chain + haulage · pain: incidents + false claims · contract end Q3 · demo booked Tue 14:00 GMT · one-pager delivered in-chat. SDR notification fired.

Under the hood

  • Grounding

    Website crawl + PDF/DOCX ingest. Retrieval over indexed material; answers cite source passages for audit.

  • Safety

    Post-pass scrubber removes answers not supported by retrieved material. The agent says "I don't know" honestly.

  • Tools

    Book-meeting (any scheduler), send-doc, update-CRM, escalate-to-human. Per-stage whitelist.

  • Languages

    Multilingual. Per-user auto-detect; mid-conversation switching.

  • Channel

    Signed-webhook verification, 1600-char auto-split, circuit breaker, voice-note transcription, in-thread PDF delivery.

  • Compliance

    Persistent consent + STOP state machine. GDPR-defensible by design.

More work · a platform

An entire recruitment platform, built end to end.

For EdoMatch we built the whole stack: a two-sided recruitment platform and HR suite, the conversational agents that run on top of it, and the converting product pages that bring people in. Four practices from this studio, in one production system.

Recruitment platform & HR suite

A two-sided hiring ecosystem

A recruitment platform pairing jobseekers with employers on a tiered match-confidence engine, plus a full HR suite for the teams that hire. Built for EdoMatch, running across multiple markets.

  • Match-confidence scoring with multi-region search and fallback tiers
  • Document OCR and structured profile extraction at intake
  • HR suite: onboarding, contracts, timesheets, payroll, billing
  • Country-specific contract generation and compliance postures

Conversational infrastructure · B2C

A career coach that lives in the chat

A channel-agnostic assistant that guides jobseekers on WhatsApp and web. Deterministic flows keep it on-rails, multilingual from the first message, and honest about what it doesn't know.

  • State-machine flows over free-form chat for reliable outcomes
  • Multilingual with per-user auto-detect and mid-thread switching
  • Layered safety: tool whitelist, structured extraction, no bluffing
  • Reads and generates documents in-thread

Conversational infrastructure · B2B

Document-grounded agents per company

Multi-tenant WhatsApp agents grounded in each company's own material, with an admin dashboard to configure them, track visitors, and hand off to a human when it counts.

  • Retrieval over a company's own documents, answers cite their source
  • Per-tenant isolation and injection-guarded scope
  • Lead capture, timezone-aware booking, escalation to a human
  • Admin console for agent config and conversation oversight

Converting landing pages

Product pages built to be found

The public product and landing pages behind EdoMatch: fast, structured for search and LLMs, and instrumented so every experiment proves itself.

  • Schema.org structured data and dynamic social images per page
  • Core Web Vitals tuned, lazy-loaded, multi-region
  • Analytics, feature flags and A/B testing wired in
  • Internationalised, canonical, citation-ready content

Track record

Twenty years of shipping inside high-stakes environments.

The studio compounds two decades of engineering inside Dutch government, European fintech and adtech, white-label enterprise, and emerging-market startups. Across three companies we co-founded, and inside teams at Politie Nederland, Adevinta, LeasePlan, Nationale Nederlanden, and Macaw.

Where we've built

Government

National security systems for law enforcement: biometrics, fingerprints, legal identity. Priority-1 zero-downtime postures, multi-tenant audit compliance.

Finance & investments

Pension service web applications and investment partner platforms. Compliance-first delivery, security by design, real-money flows.

High-load adtech

Multi-tenant B2B advertising platforms across NL and BE at Adevinta / Marktplaats scale. Domain-driven design, observability, fast safe releases.

Recruitment & HR

Recruitment platforms from LeasePlan's join.leaseplan.com to a full digital recruitment ecosystem in West Africa. Identity, matching, candidate experience.

Healthcare & e-commerce

White-label pharmacy e-commerce, loyalty platforms at national scale. Pragmatic stacks, predictable releases, durable products.

Emerging markets

Ultra-light onboarding flows for low-connectivity environments. GDPR + NDPR security postures. AI-powered recommendation engines built for context, not just for show.

How we work

Production-grade by default

Every line ships behind observability, tests, and a rollback path. We don't hand over prototypes.

Security & compliance built in

GDPR, NDPR, audit trails, identity, encryption. Compliance is a posture, not a checklist run at the end.

AI where it earns its place

We've built AI-powered recommendation engines and verifiable-credential wallets. We also know when a boring rule fits better than a model.

Honest about trade-offs

We tell you what won't work, what scope means in time and cost, and where the risk lives. No magical thinking.