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We built an unofficial MCP server and CLI for mein-aldi.de, ALDI Süd's grocery delivery. Ask your AI assistant what's in stock and what it costs over the public, read-only API — plus an opt-in prefill of your own cart that stops before checkout. Not affiliated with ALDI.

Article 4 has applied since February 2025 — even if your team just uses ChatGPT. What 'AI literacy' concretely means, why no certificates are needed, which penalties are real (spoiler: not €35M fines), and the 5-step program that satisfies the duty in an afternoon.

Not every MVP should become a product. We've helped founders kill projects — and that's often the most valuable outcome. Here are the signals we've learned to watch for.

The typical startup journey: solo founder → agency → first hire → in-house team. Here's how to know when to make each transition — and how to not lose 3 months in the handoff.

Most agency projects end with a code dump and 'good luck.' We publish our actual handoff process — ADRs, walkthrough recordings, living documentation — so your team doesn't lose 3 months.

Your AI chatbot processes personal data every time a user sends a message. Here's how to build LLM features that satisfy GDPR, the EU AI Act, and your legal team.

'AI-powered platform' = OpenAI API wrapper. 'Scalable microservices' = single Django app. 'Proprietary algorithm' = SQL query. Here's why that's completely fine.

Most startups adopt Salesforce too early or too late. Here's when it actually makes sense, what to automate first, and whether you should use Flows, Apex, or third-party tools.

The German Startup Monitor 2025 says 29% would leave. Funding dropped 24%. Zero unicorn IPOs since 2022. But here's why we're still building in Germany — and how we engineer around the friction.

July 2026 update: the Digital Omnibus pushed high-risk obligations to December 2027 — but transparency duties and market surveillance start as planned in August 2026. What your engineering team needs to build and when, in code instead of legalese.

We deploy client projects on both Vercel and Hetzner. Here's a real cost comparison — with actual numbers from production workloads — and a framework for choosing between them.

Only 4% of global cloud capacity is European-owned. The US CLOUD Act undermines data sovereignty. Here's our complete production stack built entirely on European providers.