Development partnership inquiry

Your hardware is excellent.
We build the software around it.

Nukipa develops your own software product together with you, based on your products: under your brand, for your customers, for additional revenue.

Three months to product launch.

No internal team. We work fully externally.

Success-based compensation. No large upfront investment.

Why digital products are changing right now

01

AI is radically accelerating software development.

What used to be a two-year project with an in-house IT department is ready in three months today.
02

Development costs have dropped dramatically.

For the first time, a digital product of your own pays off even for companies with 20 to 30 employees.
03

Operating costs have dropped massively.

Digital infrastructure costs a fraction of what it used to - operations and maintenance are no longer a permanent cost risk.

Who we are

Portrait of Valentin Rüchardt

Valentin Rüchardt

Software engineer for 15 years

  • Studied at TU Munich, 15 years of experience in software development.
  • Owns product development, testing with customers, and the technical operation of the product.
Portrait of Steffen Iwan

Steffen Iwan

Product strategy for 15 years

  • Studied at TU Munich, 15 years of experience in strategy & sales of software products.
  • Owns strategy, marketing and sales planning for the digital products.

Together we have built software products that today are used by more than 10,000 people every single day.

What we are already working on

Tool manufacturing

Worker guidance for connected torque wrenches

Developed together with a torque wrench manufacturer: software that guides the technician step by step through the bolting process and logs every tightening without gaps. The tool becomes a documented process - the one-time sale becomes a subscription.

Screenshot of the worker guidance software
Construction & trades

Satellite-based roof measurement tool for roofers

Built on measurement tools for the roofing trade: a tool that calculates roof areas from satellite and geodata. The measurement is done at the desk instead of on the roof - the quote takes minutes instead of days.

Screenshot of the roof measurement tool

How the collaboration works

01

Step 01

Product workshop

Two hours. Together we look at your products, your customers and their daily work - and identify three software ideas with real willingness to pay. Free and without obligation.

02

Weeks 1–4

Concept & prototype

A clickable prototype that we show to selected customers before a single line of production code is written. We validate in the market, not in the meeting room.

03

Months 2–3

Development

We build the product. You bring domain knowledge, hardware access and one or two pilot customers. Effort on your side: one to three hours per week.

04

From month 4

Launch & growth

Your sales team sells together with us; we operate and keep developing. Every piece of customer feedback flows into the next version - in weekly cycles, not yearly releases.

Two-hour workshop on site. Three product ideas. No invoice.

Request a workshop

Why software products are attractive

Recurring revenue

Software revenue is recurring - as an add-on to your existing hardware revenue.

Customer retention & data

Your customers become more closely tied to your physical products. On top, you collect valuable usage data - and a basis for potential AI training.

Company value

When a company is valued, software revenue is often weighted higher than one-time revenue from physical products.

Terms

We commit to the outcome, not to day rates.

from €10,000 per month

Fixed, predictable development costs. In return you get a complete product team - product leadership, design, development, sales & operations. A single permanently employed senior developer costs you more on a full-cost basis.

Share of the profit

We receive a percentage of the profit of the joint software product. That means we only really earn when your product sells in the market - our interests are the same as yours.

12 months minimum term

Because a product needs time after launch to land with your customers. After twelve months you decide freely whether and how to continue.

Control stays with you

Software, brand, data and customer relationship belong to your company. We are the development partner and build the software together with you.

The questions we get asked first

“We have nobody who could manage a project like this.”

That is the normal case and not an obstacle. We need domain knowledge and access to one or two customers - not project management. Realistically: two to four hours per week on your side.

“What happens if Nukipa Labs goes away?”

From day one the code lives in a repository you have access to and runs on infrastructure that can be transferred to you. There is no state in which you are left without your product.

“How do we know customers will pay for it?”

That is what the prototype before development is for. We show it to three existing customers. If nobody wants to buy, you know after four weeks - instead of after two years.

Next step

Two-hour workshop on site. Three product ideas. No invoice.

Steffen Iwan & Valentin Rüchardt

Nukipa Labs GmbH, Munich

steffen@nukipalabs.com