What running our own product since 2012 has taught us.

This page is not product advertising. It is the evidence for everything we claim on the other pages.

What happens over more than a decade

Technology ages faster than contracts run. We have migrated several major framework versions, changed databases and rebuilt the infrastructure from the ground up twice. Every time in live operation, and without customers being meant to notice. That is why we now pick technology for longevity rather than novelty.

The GDPR did not arrive as a project. It arrived as a permanent condition. In 2018 we rebuilt data processing, deletion concepts, processor agreements and documentation. Since then, data protection is part of our architecture rather than a compliance appendix.

Security is a process, not a certificate. As a supplier to international customers we are audited regularly — by security teams that want to know exactly. You build differently when you know somebody is checking.

Scaling rarely happens when it suits. We have had load peaks where architecture decisions from the year before came straight back at us.

AI arrived here early — and had to pay for itself. Machine translation and AI-assisted quality checking run in production at LingoHub, for paying customers. We know what an AI feature costs per month, where it produces nonsense and how to catch that. It is different knowledge from a pilot project.

Technical debt is compound interest. We have seen exactly what deferred clean-up work costs after five years. That is why every operations contract we write reserves a fixed share for structure and clean-up — not out of idealism, out of experience.

Why this matters to you

You can judge a supplier by what it promises. Or by what it has had to live through itself.

Since 2012 we have had to live with every decision we made. There is no better school for building systems that are meant to last.