Custom software and AI for the systems your business runs on

We build, test, secure and run software for companies across Europe. Berlin-based, with engineers 1–2 hours from CET.

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Organisations we've built for

  • Zemen Insurance
  • Addis International Congress Center
  • Awash Insurance
  • Ahadu Bank
  • Space Science and Geospatial Institute
  • MeQrez General Hospital
  • Hidasie Telecom
  • Information Network Security Administration
  • Office of the Federal Auditor General
  • Tsehay Bank
  • Abay Industrial Development

Track record

Systems that hospitals, banks and cooperatives run on every day

Production systems in healthcare, finance, logistics and the public sector, each one live within months.

7

systems delivered to production

4

sectors: healthcare, finance, logistics and the public sector

4–6

months from kickoff to go-live

1–2 h

from Central European Time

Healthcare

Financial services

Logistics & mobility

Public sector & geospatial

Where we come in

If one of these sounds familiar, we can help.

This is what we fix every week.

Build

You run key work on spreadsheets, paper or a tool you've outgrown.

We build one system around how you actually work, typically live in 4–6 months.

AI

A manual workflow eats hours every week, or your AI pilot never reached production.

We put AI into production, with evals, logging and clear rules for your data.

Rescue

You inherited code that's too risky to touch and too critical to ignore, and tech debt blocks releases.

We stabilise first, then refactor safely. No hero rewrites, and a business case leadership can sign off.

Run

Your team spends the week firefighting instead of building the roadmap.

We take over pipelines, monitoring and patching, so your team ships again.

Data

Every report shows a different number.

One source of truth your reports and AI can rely on.

Quality & security

A big client sends a security questionnaire, or releases go out without a safety net.

Test automation, penetration tests and the evidence your clients ask for.

Teams

Hiring senior engineers locally is slow, expensive or blocked.

A dedicated team 1–2 hours from CET, managed by us or prioritised by your product owner.

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Case studies

Systems we've put into production

For a farmers' cooperative, a hospital and a national geospatial institute: what we built, how long it took and what changed.

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Engineering certainty

We're the anti-agency.

For tech leaders and founders who are tired of vague updates, missed deadlines and fragile code.

You meet the engineers who do the work.

No swaps without your approval.

Working software early, not slide decks.

A thin slice first, then we harden it for production.

Progress you can see every week.

Pull requests, demos, deploy notes, and access to the repository from day one.

Before we write code, you get a risk register, a data plan and a list of what we won't do.

01

Plan

Goals, scope and risks, and which part we build first, agreed with you.

02

Thin slice

One part of the system working end to end, then built out step by step, with a demo every week.

03

Launch and handover

Documentation and a delivery pipeline, so your team can run and change it.

1–2 h from CET

English and German

Managed project or dedicated team

Contract under German law

How we work

Security and data protection

Your data, your code

Where your data lives, who can see it and what happens if something goes wrong.

Your data stays in your EU systems.

We sign your data processing agreement, or bring ours.

Every engineer is under NDA.

If something goes wrong, you hear from us within 24 hours.

How we protect your data

FAQ

Questions we're asked first

Data, the team, the code, contracts and cost, each answered in a sentence or two. The full detail sits on How we work and Security.

Your data stays in your EU systems. Our engineers work in them under a data processing agreement and an NDA, with access only to what the project needs. We don't copy production personal data; test data is synthetic or anonymised.

FlightLabs is based in Berlin. Our engineering team works from Addis Ababa, 1–2 hours from Central European Time, so most of your working day overlaps with ours. Every project team works in English and German.

Yes, in practice. The code we write for you is yours to use, change and license: exclusive, unlimited rights, with the source in your repository from day one.

German law doesn't allow copyright itself to be transferred, so the contract grants rights of use instead. Open-source parts keep their own licences, and projects built on one of our platforms include a licence to the platform core.

A managed project is priced as a fixed scope or as time and materials; a dedicated team has a monthly rate. After our first call you get a written proposal within 3 working days, with the scope, team, timeline, cost model and risks.

An engineering lead replies within one working day, then we have a 30-minute call about your goals, constraints and data. Before we write any code, you get a risk register, a data plan and a list of what we won't do.

Your data stays in your EU systems. Our engineers work in them under a data processing agreement and an NDA, with access only to what the project needs. We don't copy production personal data; test data is synthetic or anonymised.

FlightLabs is based in Berlin. Our engineering team works from Addis Ababa, 1–2 hours from Central European Time, so most of your working day overlaps with ours. Every project team works in English and German.

Yes, in practice. The code we write for you is yours to use, change and license: exclusive, unlimited rights, with the source in your repository from day one.

German law doesn't allow copyright itself to be transferred, so the contract grants rights of use instead. Open-source parts keep their own licences, and projects built on one of our platforms include a licence to the platform core.

A managed project is priced as a fixed scope or as time and materials; a dedicated team has a monthly rate. After our first call you get a written proposal within 3 working days, with the scope, team, timeline, cost model and risks.

An engineering lead replies within one working day, then we have a 30-minute call about your goals, constraints and data. Before we write any code, you get a risk register, a data plan and a list of what we won't do.

Your data stays in your EU systems. Our engineers work in them under a data processing agreement and an NDA, with access only to what the project needs. We don't copy production personal data; test data is synthetic or anonymised.

FlightLabs is based in Berlin. Our engineering team works from Addis Ababa, 1–2 hours from Central European Time, so most of your working day overlaps with ours. Every project team works in English and German.

Yes, in practice. The code we write for you is yours to use, change and license: exclusive, unlimited rights, with the source in your repository from day one.

German law doesn't allow copyright itself to be transferred, so the contract grants rights of use instead. Open-source parts keep their own licences, and projects built on one of our platforms include a licence to the platform core.

A managed project is priced as a fixed scope or as time and materials; a dedicated team has a monthly rate. After our first call you get a written proposal within 3 working days, with the scope, team, timeline, cost model and risks.

An engineering lead replies within one working day, then we have a 30-minute call about your goals, constraints and data. Before we write any code, you get a risk register, a data plan and a list of what we won't do.

Contact

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FlightLabs is a Berlin-based software engineering company that builds, tests, secures and runs production software and AI for European companies, with its engineering team in Addis Ababa, 1–2 hours from Central European Time.

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