Nike. Intel. Renault. Monocle.
Engineering judgment for the AI era.
We build our own AI products and help companies integrate AI into theirs. Architecture review. Technical audit. Hands-on implementation. The same engineering discipline we practiced at Nike, Intel, and Renault — applied to the technology that's reshaping every industry.
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Every company is being told they need AI. Most of them are getting that advice from people who have never shipped an AI product themselves. The result is abandoned integrations, wasted budgets, and systems that create more problems than they solve.
We ship our own AI products. That's the difference.
We build AI systems that handle real traffic and real users. When we advise your team, it's not theory — it's what we learned building and operating our own. We evaluate whether AI actually solves your problem, design the architecture if it does, and tell you plainly if it doesn't.
What we build
Our Products
BidScout
AI procurement intelligence
Tender matching for European public procurement. Daily intelligence across 27 EU member states — with AI-generated summaries that turn 80-page documents into what actually matters. Built so smaller companies can compete for public contracts.
Semesto
University scheduling
Constraint-based university scheduling with natural language input. Professors describe their availability in plain English — Semesto builds the timetable. In open beta with universities across Europe.
Cult.gallery
Curated digital art
A curated alternative to algorithm-driven art marketplaces. Weekly drops chosen by people, not feeds. Launching 2026.
Coming soonWhere we learned
Expertise
Nike
European digital platform
Engineering lead at AKQA on Nike's European web presence. Architectural decisions under a brand with zero tolerance for technical debt. Components reviewed. Performance budgets enforced. Nothing shipped without sign-off.
Intel
Global site architecture
Architected the global site header and component system at MRM Worldwide — the entry point for millions of daily visitors across every market. The kind of infrastructure where one wrong decision cascades worldwide.
Renault
Streaming platform architecture
Technical lead at DADI on Renault TV. Designed the dual-deployment architecture — a streaming platform that shipped as both standalone site and Facebook application from a single codebase. System design decisions that survived production.
Monocle
Full editorial ecosystem
Technical lead at DADI. Designed and delivered the complete digital architecture — editorial platform, custom CMS, subscription system, commerce engine, and microsites framework. Five systems that had to work as one.
How we help
Advisory Services
AI Strategy & Readiness
We figure out where AI actually helps your business and where it's expensive theatre. Use-case evaluation, build-vs-buy analysis, readiness assessment — before you commit budget.
AI Integration & Architecture
LLM integration. RAG pipelines. Agent systems. Process automation. We design and build AI architectures that work in production — not just in pitch decks.
Architecture & System Design
Architecture review for existing systems. Design for new ones. Migration planning when you're stuck between the two. We'll tell you what's working, what isn't, and what to do about it.
Code & Infrastructure Audit
Codebase health check. Performance analysis. Security review. We find what your team has been too close to see and give you a clear, prioritised list of what to fix first.
Compliance & Governance
GDPR, accessibility, data architecture. We check whether your technical decisions hold up against the regulations that actually apply to you — and fix the gaps before someone else finds them.
Technical Consultation
Fractional CTO. Board-level technical advisory. Due diligence for acquisitions. Vendor evaluation. Senior engineering judgment on call — without a full-time hire.
From the founder
The most expensive AI integration is the one that shouldn't have been built. The most expensive architecture is the one you have to replace in eighteen months.
Viktor Fero
Founder & Principal Architect
Nearly twenty years of engineering at enterprise scale — Nike, Intel, Renault, Monocle. Now building AI products like BidScout and Semesto, and helping other companies integrate AI with the same discipline. Nettlepie exists because too many technology decisions get made on hype instead of experience.
Based in Europe. Available worldwide.
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