For owner-led companies of 5–100 people. A fixed-price diagnostic first, then fees tied to a result we agree upfront.
Your systems, processes, vendors and costs, reviewed with your people. You get the 10 biggest losses in hours and money, and a priced 90-day plan.
Fee credited in full if we continue.
I own the technical side with you: priorities, vendors and contractors, hiring, incidents, roadmap.
Goals for each quarter in writing.
Orders, CRM, reports, documents, customer replies. AI agents where they pay off, plain software where they don't.
Half at the start, half after 30 days of running against the agreed baseline.
For cloud, licence and contractor spend above €3,000 a month.
Billed only after the savings show on your invoices.
Every number below is from work I led. Where a client asked for privacy, the name stays out.
Leadership asked two questions: why is development so slow, and why can't we onboard new operators? The audit found the answer: launching a brand was a manual process, and team processes wasted time. After automating brand setup, a new brand went live in one day instead of a week.
About a third of problem bookings were getting lost, because nobody could see the whole process. My team of seven rebuilt it as a state machine on Camunda, so a case can no longer drop out unnoticed. In six months losses fell to about 5%.
When COVID stopped face-to-face sales, the client had only an internal system and no way to sell insurance packages. I audited that system, then built an online sales platform that sends every application straight into it, growing the team from just me to 10 engineers. Live in about six months; around 35% of new applications moved to the new channel.
A floral studio I co-founded. I built its whole operating system with AI agents and no dev team: an ordering bot, an online shop, stock and every order in one place, automatic replies to reviews.
Engineers spent hours on routine configuration tickets. I put an AI coding agent into the workflow: it prepares each change as a ready merge request, and engineers only review it. Time spent on these tickets fell by about 30%.
When an outsourced engineer wasn't working out, I replaced them quickly instead of waiting and hoping. Utilization of the contracted team went up by 70%, so the company paid for work actually done.
Products for markets in South Africa, the US, Israel and the EU. From a car marketplace and a birthday app to 5G roll-out and real-money platforms.
Most recently I ran engineering for the casino side of a B2B iGaming platform: 40 engineers in 5 teams. Before that I built a payments team from 2 to 20 people at an EU operator. I also led engineering at Kiwi.com, and earlier built products for ironSource, Goodyear, IQVIA and Maven Machines, and took a fintech product from zero to Kubernetes.
In every role, the first thing I did was an audit of the systems, the processes, the vendors and the costs. Starax is that habit turned into a service for companies that can't hire a full-time CTO.
I also co-own a floral studio in Prague and built its operations myself. So I know what a small company can actually afford, and what it doesn't need.
I don't resell software or staff, so my advice has no commission behind it.
No. E-commerce, clinics, schools, agencies, logistics: any company where software or processes slow the business down. Payments and iGaming are where I have the deepest experience.
For automation, the second half is due only after 30 days of running against the agreed baseline. Cost cuts are billed only from savings on your invoices. The diagnostic is always paid, because its result is the plan.
Usually not. I work with the team you have. If someone has to change, you'll see why in the diagnostic, with numbers.
Yes, as a fixed-price takeover after a diagnostic, so the scope is known before we start. For IQVIA I designed the replacement for a doctors' conference platform that nobody maintained any more and that could no longer take new features.
On-site in Prague, remote anywhere in the EU.
30 minutes, free. If I can't help, I'll say so and point you to someone who can.