Where others see problems, we see puzzles.

We build complex platforms for industries where the rules are unforgiving and the edges are messy. Fifteen years. Three cities. The work most agencies quietly decline.

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Who we are for

We do our best work on the hard problems.

Plenty of teams do simple and fast very well. When that is what a project needs, we are glad to say so and point you their way.

What we love is the tangled, high stakes problem, the kind that keeps your best people thinking. If that sounds like yours, we should talk. That is the work we came here to do.

Selected work

Puzzles we have solved.

Every project starts the same way. Someone tells us it cannot be done cleanly. We disagree.

Fintech boxtrades.de

Germany’s first box-spread platform

ProblemBox-spread strategies on EUREX were considered too complex to offer cleanly in Germany.
ApproachWe built real-time EUREX integration with institutional-grade operations.
ResultThe first box-spread trading platform in Germany — zero downtime since launch.
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Compliance wb-check.de

Compliance that clears in minutes

ProblemTransparency-register verification took three weeks and risked compliance violations.
ApproachWe automated the entire transparency-register check, end to end.
ResultVerification fell from three weeks to four minutes, with zero violations.
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Automation culscorp.com

One quote from hundreds of variables

ProblemEvent quotes spanned catering, AV, and logistics — hundreds of combinations done by hand.
ApproachWe built a dynamic quoting engine that models every variable.
ResultHundreds of combinations resolved into one seamless flow.
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In their words

Trusted on the hard ones.

“A complex, first-in-Germany tool, delivered on time and flawlessly. Simply exceptional.”
J. PUNSTEIN, CEO
“They understood our compliance requirements from day one. No hand-holding needed.”
A. Altmann, CTO, WB-Check
“They challenged our assumptions and built something better than we asked for.”
Founder, SeedSafari
What we take on

Four kinds of hard.

01

Fintech systems

Money movement, ledgers, and the controls that keep them honest under scrutiny.

02

Compliance engineering

Regulation built in as architecture, never bolted on as an afterthought.

03

Commerce at scale

Storefronts and checkouts that stay fast and stay standing under real weight.

04

The messy edges

The integrations, migrations, and edge cases everyone else quietly routes around.

About

Fifteen years of the problems nobody else wanted.

We are a small studio of engineers and designers who took a deliberate turn toward difficulty. We work where the stakes are real and the constraints are tight, because that is where good thinking actually shows.

Three offices, one habit of mind. We treat every brief as a puzzle worth getting right, not a ticket to close.

CologneStudio
FloridaStudio
LimaStudio
Journal

Field notes.

On pricing

Why we price the puzzle, not the hours

On craft

Regulation is a design material

On systems

The quiet case for boring infrastructure

Have a puzzle worth solving?

Tell us the part everyone else said was impossible. That is usually where we start.

Start a conversation hello@zeenko.com