Process automation
Repetitive and administrative steps taken over end to end, so your people spend their hours on the work that needs judgement.
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AI automation · Data · Software
We take the repetitive work out of your business.
Marrod builds the automation, puts the data underneath it in order, and delivers the software your team actually uses. First result live in weeks, not quarters.
No obligation. We tell you in the first conversation whether it is worth doing.A two-partner studio for AI automation, data consultancy and app development. We work with mid-sized and large organisations from Amsterdam, and with smaller businesses on focused projects.
We build on the platforms your organisation already uses:
What we do
Four kinds of work.
Start with what your business needs now. Combine services only when it helps.
Data and reporting
Sources brought together into one model, with dashboards management can steer on without anyone rebuilding a spreadsheet.
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AI agents
Assistants that read your own documents and data, answer questions and carry out tasks under rules you set.
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App development
Web and mobile applications, from one internal tool to a customer-facing platform. We also build and improve business websites. Documented and built to hand over.
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Services
What we build, concretely.
AI automation, data consultancy and app development. Each project combines the services it needs, from one improvement to a connected platform.
Process automation
Repetitive steps between people and systems, taken over end to end.
Document processing
Invoices, contracts and forms read, checked and routed automatically.
Internal AI assistant
A secure assistant that answers from your own documents and data.
Data foundation
Sources brought together into one model your reporting can rely on.
Dashboards and reporting
The figures management steers on, refreshed without manual work.
Governance and access
Who may see what, recorded and auditable.
Web applications and websites
Internal tools, customer portals and business websites. From improving an existing site to building a custom platform, ready to hand over.
Mobile apps
iOS and Android, from a first version to a maintained product.
System integration
Existing systems connected so data no longer moves by hand.
Marrod in numbers
Two founders, no layers in between.
None of these are projections or averages. They are the terms of working with us, true from the first day.
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Founders on every project. There is no bench and no account layer.
2 wk
For a scoped process scan, starting on the agreed date. You keep the findings whether or not we build the solution.
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Recurring licence fees for our own components. Hosting, cloud and API usage, third-party licences and maintenance are budgeted separately.
Sectors
Where this can help.
Examples of possible applications, not a client list. We assess fit, data requirements and sector expertise before accepting a project.
Financial services
Reporting, reconciliation and audit trails.
Insurance
Intake, policy administration and claims handling.
Logistics
Planning, tracking and system-to-system messaging.
Healthcare
Administration around care, under strict privacy rules.
Professional services
Billable hours, document flows and client portals.
Retail and e-commerce
Stock, pricing and customer data across channels.
Our method
Four phases. You can stop after any of them.
Each phase ends with something you own and can act on, whether or not you continue with us. Analysis, design, build and hand-over apply across our work. The depth of each phase and the number of build increments depend on the scope; smaller projects get a proportionate plan and schedule.
Talk to a founderAnalysis
We sit with the people who do the work and map the process as it really runs, including the workarounds. Then we put a number on it: hours spent, error rate, cost per case. Without that baseline there is nothing to measure against later.
You end up with
Process map with the real bottlenecks
Baseline in hours and euros
A shortlist of what is worth automating first
Design
We design the solution and the data underneath it, and we price it with a ceiling you approve before anything is built. You see the architecture, the systems it touches and where the risks sit.
You end up with
Architecture and data model
Build plan in two-week increments
Cost ceiling and business case
Build
We build in two-week increments and review working software together. Release timing depends on testing and your approval. If priorities change, we agree the effect on scope, budget and timing before continuing.
You end up with
Working software in production
Demo and decision every two weeks
Tests, monitoring and access control
Hand-over
Documentation, management instructions and a week of working side by side with your team. When we leave, your people can run and change what we built. If you want us to stay, it is because the next thing is worth building.
You end up with
Documentation and runbooks
A week of pairing with your team
All code and architecture transferred
How we work together
Three ways to start.
Business-to-business consultancy. Scope, delivery and costs are agreed with you before work starts.
Process scan
Entry point · fixed scopeTwo weeks. We map one process, the data behind it and the business case.
Process and data map
Business case with figures
Build plan and cost ceiling
Project
From idea to productionA defined result in automation, data or software, built in increments. A website or website improvement can also be a focused project.
Fixed cost ceiling
Working software every two weeks
Documentation and hand-over
You own the result, our components licensed for good
Ongoing partnership
Scale · dedicated capacityMonthly capacity for new processes and maintenance of what runs.
Agreed monthly capacity
Maintenance and monitoring
Response times in writing
Track record
What we did before Marrod.
Marrod is new; the experience behind it is not. This is the kind of work we have done in previous roles, without client names — those results belong to the organisations that paid for them.
Student, staff and research systems that had drifted apart over a decade. Requirements mapped with the people who actually used them, then integrated so that one figure meant one thing across departments.
measured result not ours to publish
Operational reporting for a commodity business: figures pulled out of several source systems into dashboards planners could read in the morning instead of assembling by hand.
measured result not ours to publish
Peer-reviewed papers on software ecosystems, requirements engineering and developer experience, published in international journals and cited by other researchers. It is the reason we start with the process and not the tooling.
Public and verifiable
First Marrod cases
Open to a first pilot together? We can discuss a small, fixed-price project and separately agree what may be published as a case study. No names, screenshots or results are published without permission.
Working with us
Your point of contact is in Amsterdam.
Marcus is your contact in the Netherlands — same timezone, same language, and no account manager in between. You deal with a founder from the first conversation to the hand-over.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
You always speak to a founder
No account manager, no ticket triage. The person who answers is the person who builds.
GDPR and LGPD in one team
European and Brazilian privacy law are both first-hand knowledge here, not outsourced advice.
On site when it matters
Kick-off, go-live and the hard conversations in person. The rest remote, so you are not paying for travel.
Working agreements
What you can hold us to.
No lock-in
You own the work we build for you. Where we reuse our own components you get a perpetual, royalty-free licence to them, so you can run it, change it or take it to another supplier.
Fixed cost ceiling
We agree a monthly ceiling in advance and design within it.
One team, start to finish
The people who scope the project are the people who build it and hand it over.
Built for production
We deliver what can handle real load and real users, not a demo.
Proven technology
Managed services and open standards, so you are not tied to us or to one supplier.
Step by step
We start with one clearly defined process and expand from there.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions.
We scope to what the two of us can genuinely deliver, and we say so when a project is bigger than that. If extra hands are needed we agree who, and on what terms, before the work starts — we do not quietly add people to your invoice.
Contact
Get in touch.
Tell us which process costs you time, which data you need to trust, or what software you want to build. From automation to an app or website, we will discuss a practical first step.
You will be speaking with
Rodrigo Oliveira Zacarias
Marcus Ferreira de Moura
Rodrigo Oliveira Zacarias
Marcus Ferreira de Moura
We reply within one working day, in Dutch or English.
Netherlands
Strawinskylaan 1, 1077 XX Amsterdam
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