Operations & finance

BLP Digital

BLP Digital AG, Zurich · document processes around the ERP

Runs the recurring document processes around an ERP system, namely incoming invoices, order confirmations, delivery notes and master data upkeep, and writes the result back into the ERP, which remains the system of record.

Off-the-shelf productAI-native○ Solo◐ Mid-market● EnterpriseSolo: not suitable, Mid-market: suitable with caveats, Enterprise: suitable

Candis

Candis GmbH, Berlin · invoice approval

Takes in incoming invoices, reads out the invoice data, runs them through a multi-step approval flow with deputy rules, and hands the result to DATEV or another accounting system.

Off-the-shelf productEstablished, AI retrofitted○ Solo● Mid-market◐ EnterpriseSolo: not suitable, Mid-market: suitable, Enterprise: suitable with caveats

Chargebee

Chargebee Inc., North Bethesda (Maryland), contracting entity · subscription billing

Holds subscriptions, price book, usage metering, invoice runs, tax and dunning in one system, and reports back to the product through an API which customer is entitled to which feature.

Building blockEstablished, AI retrofitted◐ Solo● Mid-market● EnterpriseSolo: suitable with caveats, Mid-market: suitable, Enterprise: suitable

Circula

Circula GmbH, Berlin · travel expenses and benefits

Captures employees' travel costs, out-of-pocket expenses and card transactions in an app, calculates meal and mileage allowances under German tax law, runs each submission through approval and review, and hands the result to DATEV, payroll or another accounting system.

Off-the-shelf productEstablished, AI retrofitted○ Solo● Mid-market◐ EnterpriseSolo: not suitable, Mid-market: suitable, Enterprise: suitable with caveats

DATEV

DATEV eG, Nuremberg (Nürnberg) · accounting

DATEV runs bookkeeping, payroll and annual accounts on a shared data set that the tax firm (Steuerkanzlei) and the company access at the same time. The bookings sit in the DATEV data centre, and filings to the tax office and social insurance travel the same route.

Off-the-shelf productEstablished, AI retrofitted● Solo● Mid-market◐ EnterpriseSolo: suitable, Mid-market: suitable, Enterprise: suitable with caveats

Deel

Deel Inc., San Francisco, with country entities, in Germany Deel Germany GmbH, Berlin · cross-border employment

Deel employs staff in countries where the customer has no entity of its own, runs salary, tax and social contributions locally, and keeps contracts, the personnel record and payouts for employees and independent contractors on one platform.

Off-the-shelf productEstablished, AI retrofitted◐ Solo● Mid-market◐ EnterpriseSolo: suitable with caveats, Mid-market: suitable, Enterprise: suitable with caveats

Lexware Office

Haufe Service Center GmbH, Freiburg, a brand of Haufe-Lexware GmbH & Co. KG · accounting for small businesses

Lexware Office writes quotes and invoices, reads incoming receipts, matches them against the connected bank accounts and turns all of it into bookkeeping up to the advance VAT return (Umsatzsteuer-Voranmeldung) and the cash-basis profit statement (Einnahmen-Überschuss-Rechnung). Payroll, including filings to health insurers and the tax office, can be added as a module, and the tax adviser gets their own access to the same data set.

Off-the-shelf productEstablished, AI retrofitted● Solo◐ Mid-market○ EnterpriseSolo: suitable, Mid-market: suitable with caveats, Enterprise: not suitable

Metabase

Metabase, Inc., Spring Valley, California · reporting and analysis

Metabase connects to existing databases, lets people ask questions by clicking, in SQL or in natural language, and gathers the answers into dashboards and scheduled reports. The same analyses can be embedded in your own product with row and column permissions, so customers see their figures there.

Off-the-shelf productEstablished, AI retrofitted◐ Solo● Mid-market◐ EnterpriseSolo: suitable with caveats, Mid-market: suitable, Enterprise: suitable with caveats

Paddle

Paddle.com Market Ltd · merchant of record

Resells your software in its own name and thereby becomes the buyer's contractual counterparty. Registration, calculation, remittance and liability for indirect tax in foreign jurisdictions then sit with the vendor rather than with the software company.

Building blockEstablished● Solo● Mid-market◐ EnterpriseSolo: suitable, Mid-market: suitable, Enterprise: suitable with caveats

Personio

Personio SE & Co. KG, Munich · HR processes

Personio keeps the personnel file, absences, time tracking, applications and either preparatory or full payroll in one data set that HR, managers and employees reach with different permissions.

Off-the-shelf productEstablished, AI retrofitted○ Solo● Mid-market◐ EnterpriseSolo: not suitable, Mid-market: suitable, Enterprise: suitable with caveats

Pleo

Pleo Technologies A/S · corporate cards and spend approval

Gives every employee a card with its own limit and ties the receipt to the transaction, instead of letting subscriptions and tools run through private cards that only surface weeks later in an expense report.

Off-the-shelf productEstablished, AI retrofitted◐ Solo● Mid-market◐ EnterpriseSolo: suitable with caveats, Mid-market: suitable, Enterprise: suitable with caveats

Qonto

QONTO SA, Paris, with a German branch (Zweigniederlassung) in Berlin · business payment account

Runs the payment account, cards, receipts and the handover to accounting in one place, with roles and approvals per person, instead of keeping the bank statement, the receipt pile and the coding apart.

Off-the-shelf productEstablished, AI retrofitted● Solo● Mid-market○ EnterpriseSolo: suitable, Mid-market: suitable, Enterprise: not suitable

Sastrify

Sastrify GmbH, Cologne (owned by Deel since May 2026) · software and AI procurement

Pulls software inventory, actual usage and contract data into one register, flags notice periods before an auto renewal fires, and holds the price you pay against a benchmark database built from other companies' contracts.

Off-the-shelf productEstablished, AI retrofitted○ Solo◐ Mid-market◐ EnterpriseSolo: not suitable, Mid-market: suitable with caveats, Enterprise: suitable with caveats