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A Prague company built to do the work, not to sell it.
Data HS started in 2017 supplying branded electronics. It now engineers software, advises on technology decisions and builds its own products, from an office in Vinohrady.
The story
From supply chain to software.
We began by solving a supply problem: getting branded electronics to businesses at a fair price, on a date that could be relied on. Doing that well for years taught us where operational software actually fails, because we were living inside those failures every day.
So we started building. First for ourselves, then for clients who had watched us do it. Today Data HS runs three lines that feed each other: hardware supply that funds and grounds the business, consulting that keeps us honest, and software development that is now the centre of gravity.
We are still small on purpose. The people who scope the work do the work. That is the whole model, and it is not one you can scale by hiring a sales floor.
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Principles
Six things we will not trade away.
01
Say the difficult thing early
Bad news does not improve with age. If a plan is not going to work we say so at the point we know, not at the point it becomes undeniable.
02
No lock in
Your code, your accounts, your data, your documentation. Clients stay because leaving is easy and they choose not to.
03
Price before work
Scope, price and assumptions agreed in writing before anything starts. Surprises on an invoice are a failure of ours, not a cost of yours.
04
Seniority over headcount
We would rather turn work away than staff it with people who cannot do it. Growth that dilutes the work is not growth.
05
Build what we sell
We run our own products on our own advice. If a recommendation is not good enough for us, it does not go in a client report.
06
Answer the phone
Clients reach a person who knows their account, not a ticket queue. Being reachable is a service, and we treat it as one.
Ventures
The services business funds the product business.
Data HS is the operating vehicle for our own software products. Consulting and hardware generate cash and client insight; that capital and that insight go into building platforms we own rather than features we bill by the hour.
For clients it means the engineering standard is visible in things we run ourselves, under real load, with our own money at stake. For investors it means a services business with genuine margin sitting underneath a product roadmap, rather than a product with no revenue underneath it.
Product detail is shared under NDA with partners and prospective investors.
The venture model
- Services revenue funds product development without external dilution
- Client engagements surface the problems worth building for
- Products are proven on our own infrastructure before external release
- Engineering standards are set once and applied to both sides
- Intellectual property is held by the Czech entity
The team
Who you will actually be dealing with.
A small senior team rather than a hierarchy. What that means in practice, on every engagement.
One named lead, start to finish
A single senior person owns your engagement from the first call to handover. They are reachable directly, and they do not change halfway through because a bigger account came in.
No layer between you and the work
You speak to the people writing the code and sourcing the hardware, not to an account manager relaying it. That removes the fortnight of lag that kills most projects.
Continuity that does not depend on one person
Decisions, architectures and supplier terms are written down as we go. If anyone is unavailable, the next person picks it up from the documents rather than from memory.
Credentials
The formal details, in one place.
For procurement teams, due diligence and supplier onboarding. Certificates and registry extracts are available on request.
- Registered name
- Data HS s.r.o.
- Company ID (IČO)
- 06371906
- VAT number (DIČ)
- CZ06371906
- Registered seat
- Záhřebská 562/41, 120 00 Praha 2
- Jurisdiction
- Czech Republic, EU
- Invoicing currencies
- EUR, CZK, GBP
- Working languages
- English, Czech
Want the longer version?
We are happy to walk through the business, the venture model and the numbers with clients, partners and prospective investors.