Nearshore software development for DACH product and engineering teams
We provide nearshore software development for DACH product and engineering teams, from new functionality to modernization.
We agree delivery responsibility, working arrangements and procurement requirements. English is our working language.
- ISO 27001Certified security practice, audited by Quay Audit UK
- ISO 9001Certified quality management, audited by Quay Audit UK
- ISTQBISTQB-certified QA engineers
- 120+Projects delivered across 12 countries since 2012
- 2 to 4 weeksTypical time from signature to start
01Overview
Evaluate the engineering partnership and procurement fit
unicrew provides nearshore software development for DACH companies, shaped around industry requirements and your delivery process. Confirm the contracting entity, proposed team and security requirements before agreeing delivery.
- The entity you signConfirm the legal counterparty, agreed governing law and invoicing details.
- Artelogic OÜ, Tallinn
- Registry code 16127919
- Data-handling requirements agreed per engagement
- The certificatesWhich standards are held, who audited them, and whether they are current.
- ISO 27001:2022
- ISO 9001:2015
- Audited by Quay Audit UK
- The peopleEmployees or subcontractors, how they are vetted, and who you actually meet.
- Senior in-house engineers
- ISTQB-certified QA engineers
- You interview the engineer
- The evidenceReview client accounts and case studies relevant to the engineering work.
- 20 German clients reviewed on Clutch
- Every review verified by Clutch
- Named case studies, linked
02Compare
Compare internal hiring, nearshore and offshore delivery
Compare the delivery model, contracting arrangements and onboarding responsibilities. Geography informs the proposed setup; scope, access and responsibilities still need explicit agreement.
| Hire in GermanyIn-house | Nearshore with unicrewunicrew | Offshore, outside the EUOffshore |
|---|---|---|
| Best whenYou want permanent product knowledge and engineering leadership within your organization. | Best whenYou want a remote engineering partner with agreed delivery, contracting and access responsibilities. | Best whenThe proposed skills and delivery setup fit your scope, working hours and procurement requirements. |
| Contracting and dataYou manage employment, system access and internal data-handling responsibilities. | Contracting and dataArtelogic OÜ in Tallinn is the contracting entity. Team locations, governing law and data access are agreed for the engagement. | Contracting and dataReview the counterparty, delivery locations, access model and data-handling requirements for the proposed engagement. |
| Getting startedRecruitment and an agreed joining date, followed by onboarding into your product and process. | Getting startedTwo to four weeks from signature on most engagements, with your team interviewing the engineer first. | Getting startedAgree availability, working-hour overlap and product onboarding with the proposed team. |
| If it endsYour internal team retains product knowledge and continues under its employment arrangements. | If it endsCode, documentation and handover follow the agreed contract and repository arrangements. | If it endsAgree code ownership, documentation and handover requirements in the contract. |
03Capabilities
Engineering scopes delivered for German product companies
Our German client work spans product engineering, modernization, mobile, AI, automation and web platforms. Scope the relevant discipline around your product priorities.
Senior engineers join your stand-ups, repository and process, with technical responsibility and product context agreed during onboarding.
- Who buys it
- Product teams planning ongoing delivery
Replacing legacy interface components without losing behaviour, and rebuilding front ends that have outgrown their framework. TypeScript, React, Vue and Angular work sits here.
- Who buys it
- Vendors whose product outlived its own UI
We build iOS and Android clients on existing web products, including layout, theming and video-streaming functionality.
- Who buys it
- Web-first products whose buyers now expect an app
We develop relevance, filtering and autosuggest, plus AI tagging and embeddings for vector search. The scope includes the product measures used to judge the change.
- Who buys it
- Products where search is the product
We build document recognition and database workflows on C# and AWS to automate manual datasheet entry.
- Who buys it
- Teams automating manual data entry
We build corporate web platforms with accessibility treated as an engineering requirement from the start of delivery.
- Who buys it
- Groups whose public sites carry obligations
For DACH buyers, we start with the security and data questions. We answer your questionnaire in writing, so your auditor can review our answers while your engineers judge the technical work.
Vuhar MamedovManaging Partner, Europe, unicrew04Delivery
Evaluate the team, then agree the first delivery
Run procurement and technical evaluation around the proposed engagement, then assess collaboration through a contained first deliverable.
- Send the security questionnaire firstWe answer the questionnaire in writing, covering the contracting entity, certifications, access model and proposed delivery setup. Your procurement and security teams can review the answers alongside the technical evaluation.You getWritten answers on entity, certification and access
- One technical call, with the engineer on itDiscuss the work with the proposed engineer and assess their fit for your architecture and process. Your leads can interview the engineer against the work they will own.You getA named engineer and an opinion on scope
- A contained pilot to startAgree a contained deliverable in your repository, with scope and timing settled before work starts. Review the code and collaboration before extending the partnership.You getWorking code in your process, and a decision
- Scale it into a standing teamReview the pilot together and agree the next scope, engineering roles and engagement model. A continuing team builds on the product context established in the first work.You getA standing team of the same engineers
05Security
Security evidence and engagement responsibilities
We supply certification and delivery information for your review. Your organization determines its obligations, and we agree the engineering and access requirements for the engagement.
Your NIS2 classification
Your organization determines whether NIS2 applies and which duties it must meet. Bring those requirements into the engagement review so engineering responsibilities can be agreed.
- Who owns it
- You, with your regulator
Your vendor questionnaire
Your own review of us: the contracting entity, the certification and its auditor, the access model, and where delivery physically happens. We answer it before the technical call.
- Who owns it
- You ask, we answer in writing
Personal data inside your product
Your data-protection team defines the product requirements. We agree the engineering tasks for retention, access and erasure within the build scope.
- Who owns it
- You, in the build with us
ISO 27001:2022 and ISO 9001:2015
Information security and quality management, both renewed through a multi-stage audit with Quay Audit UK. We provide the certification details for your review.
- In an engagement
- The controls your questionnaire asks about
ISTQB-certified QA engineers
We have ISTQB-certified QA engineers. Testing responsibilities and release checks are agreed around the product and delivery scope.
- In an engagement
- Testing matched to the agreed scope
Least-privilege access, agreed first
On build engagements, access is least-privilege and agreed with your technical contact, read-only wherever the work allows, with no write access to production during discovery. Contracts and NDAs are settled before work starts.
- In an engagement
- Read-only where the work allows
A fixed-scope readiness sprint, run separately from a build
A fixed-scope readiness review can assess the supplied requirements and controls, identify findings and produce a written report and remediation roadmap. Agree the review scope separately from software delivery.
06Proof
German client experience and measured results
German clients describe their software work, product outcomes and collaboration with us in verified Clutch reviews.
- Twenty German clients have reviewed us in publicNamed: CaT Concepts, Bitergo, meinUnterricht, Logic Screen Solutions, meta-fusion, Goldn, QUEO, Interone, JewelCandle, Bigfood Group and RWTH Aachen. Further German client references include a Hamburg ERP SaaS provider and a building-security software vendor. All 61 carry Clutch's verified badge and are readable in full on client reviews. The UI modernization case covers the Cologne learning-software engagement. Bitergo in Dortmund began with a pilot before extending the partnership.20of our 61 Clutch reviews come from Germany
- The value of a clear contracting entityRichard Klees, Managing Director of CaT Concepts and Training GmbH in Cologne, was asked on Clutch what we could have done differently. His answer: "They could have told earlier that they have a business entity in the EU." We identify Artelogic OÜ during the procurement review. The same review says we were "super responsive and did exactly as we agreed upon". A Regensburg financial-services group commissioned four corporate sites, with accessibility treated as a requirement from the first sprint.
- Automation throughput and search performanceA Munich software company automated a manual database process with us on C# and AWS. Its CEO writes: "Two people typing data into the database went about 5,000 new data sets per month. With this component, we’re reaching twice the amount of data sets per month." Berlin ed-tech platform meinUnterricht reports a roughly 9 percent lift in search success rate, from a controlled experiment. The search and AI engineering case describes the Berlin work.2xdata-entry throughput, in the client's own count
- Client experience with reliability and reportingSven Grundmann, CEO and Lead Architect of Logic Screen Solutions in Karlsruhe, calls unicrew a "Very reliable business partner. We already did recommend them on multiple occasions." A Hamburg ERP SaaS provider, describing work done under our former Artelogic brand, credits developers who "frequently offer reports, track their times accurately, and keep track of their activities in version control frequently". German clients have joined candidate interviews and selected the engineers they work with. Interone's Munich engagement ran from December 2021 to January 2023; its executive credited "dedication and resilience during moments of crisis (russian invasion)". Goldn CTO Frank Rössler wrote that we "deliver in a highly professional way while being in a volatile and insecure situation".
07Client voices
German clients, in their own words
The goal was to replace legacy UI elements with new UI components. The new UI components already existed, key challenge was to map the existing implementations to the new ones while not losing functionality. They were super responsive and did exactly as we agreed upon. The colleague they send to us was an extremely good fit to the problem that we have described.
After launching the site we saw a rapid increase of test accounts ordered by potential customers. Now the site provides a steady source of sales leads.
They always seem to have a suitable developer on standby when we require an additional skillset and they always respond very quickly and help to work out a solution if e.g. the project requirements are suddenly changing.
Two developers from Artelogic have joined our team: a frontend developer and a backend developer. The work ethic of Artelogic’s developers is very good, and they’re very professional in their job execution. For example, they frequently offer reports, track their times accurately, and keep track of their activities in version control frequently.
Shippable and well received web GUI for previously API only application. The whole team is highly dedicated to the success of the project and delivers the planned artefacts on time. We are very happy to have chosen Artelogic.
08Case studies
Modernization and mobile delivery in Germany
Explore UI modernization for a Cologne learning-software company and mobile work for a building-security software company. The mobile work included layout, theming and video streaming for an existing web product.
See all case studies- EducationModernizing the UI of a training-software product (CaT Concepts)One unicrew engineer mapped the existing implementations in CaT Concepts' application onto a set of new UI components that already existed.
- SecurityiOS and Android apps for a building-security software companyunicrew contributed to the iOS and Android apps of a security software company, built on its existing web client, through to the production release.
09Questions
Questions about contracting, language and security
You sign with Artelogic OÜ, registered in Tallinn, Estonia under company code 16127919 and trading as unicrew. Governing law and contractual terms are agreed in the contract. The proposed team locations, system access and data-handling requirements are reviewed separately for your engagement; the contracting entity alone does not determine them.
English, in writing and in meetings: it is our working language throughout an engagement. The Managing Director of a contract research organisation wrote "Very good communication skills, no language barrier".
ISO 27001 certification does not by itself establish NIS2 compliance. Our ISO 27001:2022 certification, renewed through a multi-stage audit with Quay Audit UK, supplies information-security evidence for your review. Your legal and security teams determine applicable obligations; we agree the engineering and access responsibilities relevant to the engagement.
unicrew holds ISO 27001:2022 for information security and ISO 9001:2015 for quality management, both renewed through a multi-stage audit with Quay Audit UK. We also have ISTQB-certified QA engineers. Regulatory and data-handling requirements are reviewed for the specific engagement rather than inferred from those credentials.
Our public DACH client record is German: all twenty DACH reviews on our Clutch profile come from companies in Germany. For an Austrian or Swiss engagement, we discuss the proposed team, contracting and data-handling requirements with your reviewers. The German cases and reviews provide the existing delivery references for that assessment.
Three engagement models: time and materials billed hourly and quoted per project, fixed price quoted per project against an agreed outcome, and team extension billed monthly per team member. Which one fits depends on how firm the scope is, and we recommend one at the end of discovery rather than before it. Most engagements start within two to four weeks of signature, and there is no recruitment or placement fee on a team extension.
Our project managers and engineers work from Ukraine, Poland, Estonia and the UK. We discuss the proposed team and continuity arrangements for your engagement.
Discuss your project and procurement requirements
Share the technical scope and procurement questionnaire. We answer the contracting, certification and access questions in writing and discuss the proposed engineering setup.
What happens after you contact us
- We reply within one business dayWe review the project and procurement requirements.
- Entity, certification and access, in writingThe procurement answers before the technical conversation.
- A technical call with the engineer on itYour product, your constraints, and how we would work within them.
- Engagement model, then a pilotTime and materials, fixed price or team extension. Most engagements start within two to four weeks.