Software for specialist professions

Proving you do your work well takes more time than the work itself.

For agencies and consultancies, paperwork, deadlines and accountability eat the week. Wagoe builds software that takes that work off your hands. Close enough to understand your field, experienced enough to do something about it.

The bottlenecks

Three bottlenecks we hear about in every conversation.

01

The evidence is everywhere except in one place.

Contracts in email, hours in Excel, explanations in loose documents. The moment someone says “show me”, the search begins.

What we do

One file per contractor that keeps itself complete. That is ZZPGuard.

02

The deadline is the same every year. So is the crunch.

What is due in May gets done in April, by the same people who do everything else. Postponing solves nothing, and there are no extra hands.

What we do

Have the paperwork ready in advance, so the crunch becomes a review instead of a production run.

03

Eighty percent is digging through public sources.

Your expertise is in the last twenty percent. The first eighty is querying the same sources and building the same tables, all over again for every assignment.

What we do

Bundle the public sources into one report, so your hours go into the judgement. That is QuickEco.

How we work

Three commitments you can hold us to.

01

Conversations first, code second.

We build nothing until practitioners in your field say: I would offer this to my own clients under my own name.

02

One profession at a time.

No platform for everyone. Each product serves one profession, in its language, with its rules. And those rules are configurable, because they change.

03

Paid pilots before the full build.

Two firms paying for a first version count for more than a hundred that find it “interesting”. That is how both of us know it works.

In practice

Two products, two professions.

For agencies and clients working with freelancers

ZZPGuard

One file per freelancer: contract, assignment, hours and the assessment against the Dutch Tax Administration’s criteria. The dashboard shows, day by day, who is at low, medium or high risk, and which checks have not yet run.

zzpguard.nl →
ZZPGuard dashboard with a compliance overview per freelancer
The dashboard: subscription, seats in use, risk overview and background jobs.
ZZPGuard file for one freelancer with compliance risk per assignment and contracts
The file per freelancer: identity, rate, risk per assignment, contracts.

For ecological consultancies

QuickEco

From an address to a flora and fauna quickscan in minutes: parcel data, land cover, aerial imagery with cadastral boundaries and the protected species from NDFF distribution data, in a finished report. Anything that needs a site visit is flagged “to be added”.

quickeco.nl →
Aerial photo with the parcel, neighbouring parcels and buildings from the QuickEco report
From the sample report: the parcel at the address, neighbouring parcels and registered buildings on the aerial photo (PDOK).
Table of protected species from NDFF distribution data in the QuickEco report
Desk research: 3,585 NDFF species records narrowed down to the 335 with protected status, per species group.
About Wagoe

Small, independent, Dutch.

No investors, no exit strategy. We build software that lasts, at a price that won’t suddenly double.

Wagoe was founded by Thijs Creemers and Johan Krap, with 60+ years of combined experience building software that runs for years. You talk to the people who build it, not to a support desk.

All our products run on our own open-source foundation. That lets us adapt quickly when the rules change, and should Wagoe ever cease to exist, the foundation remains public.

We work from the Netherlands, for Dutch businesses. Your data stays in the EU, and we know the rules you work under.

Contact

Sound familiar?

Then a thirty-minute call is enough to see whether we can help. No demo, no pitch.