What types of clients do you work with?
Start-ups, SMEs and established companies that want to modernise. Whether you need technical guidance, AI automation or a scalable system design, we tailor the work to your goals.
Where are you based, and do you work remotely?
HEPIUS Software is based in Hof bei Salzburg, Austria, and works remote-first with clients across Austria, Germany and Switzerland, in German or English. We meet in person when a project calls for it.
How do you price custom software projects?
In monthly hour packages instead of open-ended estimates: an hour budget sized to your project, every hour in a report, and the package adjusted together each month. You get a tailored proposal after a free call. To get to know each other first, the lite advisory costs €990 per month and can be paused or cancelled monthly. All prices net, plus 20% VAT.
Who owns the code and the infrastructure?
You do. The code lives in your GitHub from the first commit, cloud resources run in your own AWS or Google Cloud account, and documentation and hand-over are part of the work. You can maintain the project yourself at any time.
Do you build fully custom software?
Yes. We build solutions that fit your workflows, infrastructure and long-term plans, from AI agents to cloud systems and first product versions. Every project is designed to scale and to stay maintainable.
Which AI models do you use, and where does our data go?
We build AI agents with models from Anthropic and OpenAI, usually through AWS Bedrock inside your own cloud account. Guardrails, monitoring and cost control are part of every setup from the start, and data is handled in line with the GDPR. Which model fits is decided per use case, not by habit.
Can you help me get my start-up off the ground?
Yes. We support founders from the very beginning with strategic advice and hands-on technical work, and as interim CTO if needed. That way your product, technical foundation and market readiness grow together.
What does an interim CTO do for a start-up or SME?
An interim CTO gives you senior technical leadership for a limited time: architecture decisions, hiring and building the development team, vendor and cost control, and a technical voice towards investors. You get the judgement of an experienced CTO without a full-time position, and hand over to your own team when it is ready.
Can you improve existing systems instead of starting from scratch?
Absolutely. Many clients come to us with legacy setups or systems that have grown too complex. We analyse your architecture, find what to improve and lay out a clear path to an efficient, future-proof setup.
Why are you called Hepius?
The name is inspired by Asclepius, the Greek god of medicine: a nod to our roots in healthcare, where we built our first reliable, compliant software for medical teams. We still have a strong network in medicine and help doctors and health innovators get their ideas started. The name stands for clarity, reliability and solutions that genuinely help people.