Means Database Prague office with product builders at work

Product, engineering and AI partner for high-growth companies building for scale

When the next six months define your next three years, we bring the experience, ownership, and drive to deliver real results.

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High-compliance industries

We are specialists in Cybersecurity where getting product decisions right is not optional.

We build products end to end, combining expertise with AI to move fast without compromising quality.

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How we help

We show up. And deliver.

Build a new product on a tight deadline

You have the vision and need an experienced team to take it from zero to production with full accountability.

Work

Work that speaks for itself.

High-compliance industries where getting it wrong is not an option.

Capital Markets Gateway product interface

Finance / Series C

Capital Markets Gateway

$40T+ in assets on platform

The first US platform connecting sell-side and buy-side teams in equity capital markets.

PlexTrac product interface

Cybersecurity / Series B

PlexTrac

Trusted by Fortune 500 companies

An AI-powered platform for penetration-test reporting and threat exposure management.

OpenLoop Health product interface

Healthcare / Series A

OpenLoop Health

Funnel creation: 2 months -> 5 minutes

A virtual-care platform covering regulatory compliance, staffing, and revenue-cycle workflows.

Virtual Dining Concepts product interface

Hospitality / Growth

Virtual Dining Concepts

7,000+ restaurant partners

Revenue recapture and reconciliation tooling for ghost-kitchen operations.

Plotify product interface

Finance / Series A

Plotify

Property purchase in 10 minutes

A real-estate investment platform for managed, cash-yielding properties.

Karus product interface

Finance / Seed

Karus

$1.7M loans booked in month one

AI-powered underwriting products for end-to-end auto-finance lending workflows.

Sett product interface

Finance / Seed

Sett

Hours cut to minutes

Productivity software for investment-bank content creation and workflow communication.

Crave product interface

Hospitality / Acquired

Crave

Launched in 3 cities

A scalable ghost-kitchen platform powering multi-brand restaurant operations.

Reavo product interface

Finance / Seed

Reavo

Loyalty cards in one app

A payment optimization app recommending the best credit cards by location.

Vette product interface

Human Resources / Seed

Vette

24/7 live interviews

An on-demand human-to-human hiring platform for interview operations.

How we work

Two models. One standard of work.

Model 01

Autonomous Team

We own a workstream from roadmap to production, including discovery, design, engineering, QA, and launch.


No handholding required. We are in the driver's seat from day one.

Model 02

Embedded Roles

We join your product org as senior contributors who raise the bar from week one.


Senior contributors, not contractors waiting to be told what to do.

If one of these sounds like the right model for your situation, let's talk about how we can help.

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Who we are

An American company based in Prague, built on the best engineering talent in Europe.

Means Database HQ in Prague
Means Database HQ

We work with high-growth tech companies at the product moments where the next six months shape the next three years.

We do not do staff augmentation. We partner, challenge assumptions, shape decisions, and take responsibility for what ships.

Founded by American-Czech brothers, we hire from Europe's strongest engineering talent pools, and only the top 0.4% make it in.

What Makes Us Different

What sets us apart.

Elite engineering talent

of applicants make it in

0.4%Elite engineering talent

AI-native delivery

average development speed increase

3xAI-native delivery

Stage experience

products shipped across funding stages

65+Stage experience

Long-term partnerships

average client partnership duration

4 yearsLong-term partnerships
Means Database Prague office interior
Prague, Czech Republic

“Means Database facilitated business growth and executed against tight deadlines.”

Dan DeClossCEO, PlexTrac
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“They quickly understood our business and delivered a highly technical product.”

Steve ThompsonCPO, OpenLoop
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“Means Database is my Delta Force team for the biggest challenges.”

Manoj SrivastavaCTPO, Blackpoint Cyber
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AI capabilities

AI in how we work. AI in what we build.

We build faster, measurably

AI is embedded across discovery, delivery, review, documentation, and QA.

3x development speed

We build AI-powered products

Production-grade AI features, RAG pipelines, automations, and agentic systems.

65+ product builds

We leave it behind

We help internal teams adopt AI practices so gains keep compounding after the engagement.

AI-native SDLC

Let's talk

When the work matters, the partner matters.

We work with a select number of high-growth companies so we can go deep and act as a true partner.

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