Software we build ourselves.
What comes out of real client work at digiFORMER sometimes lives on as a tool in its own right — for our own delivery chain, and for smaller companies with the same problems to solve.
A workshop, not a software house.
digiTools is not our main business. Our main business is advice and delivery for smaller companies. But working with clients throws up the same problems again and again — and sometimes it is worth solving one of them properly rather than starting from scratch every time.
That is where digiTools come from. We build and run them ourselves, use them in our own delivery chain, and make them available to the companies they suit. No scaling to thousands, no investor pitches — tools that genuinely help a manageable number of businesses.
SlimCore
A multi-tenant SaaS platform for German small and mid-sized businesses. Built and hosted in Germany, with no dependence on US providers in its architecture, its data core or its operation.
SlimCore came out of a simple observation: most smaller companies do not need a new ERP. They need a thin layer on top that mediates between their ERP, their shop, their accounting and their mailbox — and brings documents, tasks and communication together in one place.
Rather than building another monolith, SlimCore is a platform structured into sixteen clearly bounded modules. Each module has a clean contract with the others, each can grow independently, and each connects to the tools German companies already use.
- Hosted exclusively in Germany (Berlin)
- Open-source stack: PostgreSQL, PostgREST, React — with no proprietary cloud ties
- Multi-tenant architecture with strict data isolation at the database level
- Integrates with Microsoft 365, IMAP, DATEV, n8n and the common shop systems
SlimCore is not “also hosted in Europe”. SlimCore was conceived as European from the start.
With most cloud tools smaller companies use today, at least part of the data chain sits outside the EU — often enough in the United States. In daily work that is rarely a problem. But when it becomes one, it is usually one you can no longer get out of.
Data under European law.
SlimCore data sits exclusively on servers in Germany and is subject exclusively to European law. No US provider can be compelled by its own legislation, such as the CLOUD Act, to reach into your data.
What happens across the Atlantic stays there.
Tariff escalations, sanctions regimes or unilateral service shutdowns are not a concern for SlimCore. Your ERP backbone does not hang on the political weather between Washington and Brussels.
A stack on open standards.
PostgreSQL, PostgREST, n8n — open components throughout, all of them migratable. If we do end up making a foolish decision at some point, you are not trapped by it. You can leave.
SlimCore can optionally integrate with Microsoft 365, Gmail or other US services — for reading and sending mail, for instance — because many of our clients use them. The integration is always optional, arranged as read access, and never a prerequisite. The SlimCore core stays independent of it.
trendscout
A SaaS tool that analyses websites and compares them against social media and Google trends — to produce concrete campaign briefings for smaller companies.
Marketing in a smaller company does not fail for lack of budget — more often it fails for lack of clarity about what deserves attention right now. trendscout looks at your website, checks which topics currently connect in the market, and suggests concretely what you might write or post about this week.
Behind it run a few solid data sources, an LLM-based link between the website and the trending topics — and an output that does not sound generic but fits your company.
- Website analysis plus current trend data
- Briefings including image suggestions for social posts
- Stack: FastAPI, Next.js, PostgreSQL, n8n — hosted in Germany
How client work turns into a digiTool.
A problem shows up more than once.
Working with clients we notice: we have solved this question three times already — individually each time. It is time to solve it properly once.
We build an internal tool.
For ourselves at first. We test whether it genuinely helps day to day, or whether it feels different at the desk than it does in practice.
Clients show interest.
When clients ask about the tool — without us selling it — we know it holds up. Only then do we think about making it available.
It becomes a digiTool.
With its own name, in time its own domain, its own upkeep. Not for maximum scale — for the companies it is the right tool for.
Want to try a digiTool — or set one in motion?
If one of our tools suits you, put yourself on the waiting list. If you have a problem of your own that sounds like a digiTool, we are glad to talk about it.