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SAW CONSULTING & IT

How we work

How we build and operate.

Principles, data path, tools and collaboration: the rules every task at SAW Consulting follows — from the first draft to the record.

05Principles

What attracts me is not automation at any cost, but progress that people can understand and shape.

P1

Need before tool

The tool follows the requirement, not the other way around.

P2

Data paths defined while building

Decided and documented during design, not reconstructed afterwards.

P3

People approve

Where decisions have consequences, there is a clear control point.

P4

No lock-in without an exit

Every provider choice is deliberate and reversible.

Data path

Choose a data class. Which route is open is defined while building, not reconstructed afterwards.

Intake
Pre-check

  • Self-hosted in the EU

    own infrastructure

    open

  • EU provider

    with a data processing agreement

    limited

  • Provider outside the EU

    only on explicit request

    blocked

Illustration of the principle. Whether a route is permissible in a specific case is assessed by your data protection or legal partner.

Stack

Not every tool may be used everywhere. Filter what is based in the EU, what can be self-hosted and what works with customer data.

  • 01

    Thinking and communicating

    • Perplexity

      workbench

      Research with sources

    • Grok

      workbench

      Research, current affairs

    • Notion AI

      workbench

      Knowledge and documentation

    • Gamma

      workbench

      Presentations

  • 02

    Building

    • Claude

      workbench

      Code, projects, design

    • Cursor

      workbench

      Code editor

    • Lovable

      workbench

      Frontend prototypes

    • GitHub

      workbench

      Code and versions

  • 03

    Orchestrating

    • n8n

      customer path

      Standard for workflows

    • Make

      workbench

      When the client uses it

    • Zapier

      workbench

      When the client uses it

  • 04

    Data

    • Supabase

      customer path

      Database and auth

    • Apify

      workbench

      Capturing web data

  • 05

    Models and evidence

    • Mistral

      customer path

      Language models from the EU

    • Langfuse

      customer path

      Tracing model calls

  • 06

    Operations

    • Hetzner

      customer path

      Servers in the EU

    • Coolify

      customer path

      Deployment, self-hosted

workbench · Workbench: tools we use to research, plan and build.

customer path · Customer path: what works with customer data. EU hosting as the foundation, self-hosting as the goal.

03Collaboration

  1. 01

    Intro call

    30 minutes, free of charge. We clarify whether and how we can help.

  2. 02

    Analysis

    We understand your workflows, data and systems before proposing anything.

  3. 03

    Proposal

    Fixed price or day rate, with a clearly described result.

  4. 04

    Delivery

    In short stages with visible intermediate results.

  5. 05

    Handover

    Documentation, training for your team and a described exit path.

Formats

Analysis workshop

A compact session to sort out workflows, data and goals together.

Delivery project

A clearly described result, built and handed over to your team.

Ongoing support

Regular support for operations, further development and new workflows.

Working in your team (interim)

We work directly inside your team for an agreed period.

07Frequently asked questions

Contact

Let's talk about your project.

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