Size & team
SMEs, typically 5–50 people. Owners or managers who decide themselves, without a six-month enterprise procurement cycle.
Honest about fit
Is ultimAItech a good fit for you?
Practical digitisation for SMEs — connect and simplify, do not stack more tools. Here is who that fits, when another type of partner is better, and how you avoid getting trapped if you later need to leave.
Best fit
Who ultimAItech is built for
Usually businesses without a heavy IT department that want one technical contact for website, integrations and AI — step by step, not a big bang.
Sector & setting
Trade, services, recreation, beauty, B2B and local businesses in Drenthe, Overijssel and the NL/DE border region — or remote when the fit is right.
Problem types
Messy tech stack: Excel, point SaaS tools, Zapier/Make, email tennis. You want one coherent system, or a website that finally matches how you work.
Working style that fits
Fixed price upfront, direct contact (Andre), training at delivery, and willingness to map processes before anything is built.
Not a fit
When ultimAItech is the wrong partner
Transparency beats a bad match. In these cases I would rather point you elsewhere.
Very large enterprise programmes
Multi-year programmes, hundreds of users, heavy compliance chains, or comparisons with Valtech, Capgemini, Ordina or DEPT: that is enterprise-integrator territory.
24/7 global operations
Worldwide support SLAs, follow-the-sun teams or always-staffed critical systems need a different scale than a specialist SME studio.
Pure marketing campaigns
Ads, brand campaigns, content calendars or social-first work: hire a marketing agency. I can still collaborate with them as the technical partner.
When standard SaaS already solves it
If Shopify, a template or an off-the-shelf tool already solves the problem well, I say so. Custom work is not a goal in itself.
Alternatives
What to choose instead
- Enterprise integrator — for large programmes, procurement and national roll-out scale.
- Marketing agency — for campaigns, brand and content; ultimAItech can stay on the technical side.
- Managed SaaS or platform partner — if you mainly want hosting, plugins or a standard stack managed for you.
- Another technical specialist — if you deliberately split work (e.g. SEO elsewhere, software here) — fine when roles stay clear.
No vendor lock-in
How you avoid depending on one agency
Worrying about depending on one developer is fair. This is the exit and growth path.
Source code & repository
After full payment you get usage rights to the delivered work and, where agreed in the proposal, the source code — so you are not stuck with one supplier. Generic libraries follow the terms.
Documentation as a deliverable
Documentation, admin guidance and a clear technical structure are part of delivery — not knowledge locked in one person’s head.
Training & handover
Your team learns how it works, where the limits are and how normal changes are made. If you later move to another partner, I support a clean handover.
Backups & out-of-scope costs
Hosting, APIs and third-party software are named upfront. Changes outside scope are agreed separately — no silent extra invoices.
Common questions
Risk, scale and dependency
Will I depend on one person?
You work directly with Andre as your fixed contact. At the same time you get documentation, training and — where agreed — source code, so maintenance or handover to another party remains possible.
Do systems scale if we grow?
Yes within SME bounds: modular extensions, integrations with existing tools, and cases like Jan Sok (webshop live, wider system phased) and VYBR!S (multi-tenant platform on AWS). No enterprise-scale promise without that kind of programme.
Is one partner for website, automation and AI smart?
Often yes if you have no IT department and want processes mapped first. Sometimes no: marketing campaigns or pure enterprise programmes belong with specialists. We discuss that line openly.
Do you work with our marketing agency?
Yes. ultimAItech does not replace a brand or campaign team. I build the technical layer and coordinate with existing partners.