A Solution for every Stage of your Product Story.
Keep Building Your Embedded Product. Let Our Competence Center Take Care Of The Rest.
For founders launching their MVP with less than €200K annual runway.
Competence Center Solutuion for Stage 1
BASIC.
✓ Work directly with our experts and get the ongoing support you need for product maturity.
✓ Gain instant access to proven development strategies with our Project and Methods & Tools Offices, providing actionable insights and support through the Reliance Framework™.
Bonus: You can pospone your need for a full Project and Methods & Tools Office setup that would normally require five of your own team members.
Solutions starting at 3% of your runway for
499,- €
per month.
Start small, scale as needed with add-on services.
For people growing after launch, aiming for €1M in annual revenue.
Competence Center Solutuion for Stage 2
STANDARD.
✓ Seamlessly integrate a running Competence Center into your product development.
✓ Your team gains access to proven process methods and best practices, all guided by the Reliance Framework™.
Bonus: Skip the five-year wait to build a Center of Excellence inhouse and all the trainings needed. With our Competence Center, you’ll see results in a 30-day pilot
Solutions starting at 4% of your revenue for
3.000 €
per month.
Flexible enough to adapt to growing organization.
For Management teams scaling up, with annual budget above €3M.
Competence Center Solutuion for Stage 3
ENTERPRISE.
Following ISO management system IUMSS™ requirements allows businesses to effectively manage product creation via marketing, sales, product development, and finance.
Achieve objectives like total product quality, operational efficiency of zero defects, IT security, and sustainability.
Solutions starting at 7% of your budget for
18.000 €
per month.
Hassle-free integration with full end-to-end management.
Starting with a pilot, establish your Competence Center, and build with structure, not stress.
Disclaimer:
We are not selling any products directly on this website. This site is for informational and advertising purposes only.
If you book a room or reserve a seat, you are NOT entering into a binding contract. The actual contract will be completed separately through our sales process.
Your reservation is simply a hold with a down payment. If no contract is signed, you have no obligations, and your deposit will be refunded to you within 10 days. No fees no charges.
One Reliance Framework. Three Solutions. Adapted to Your Product Story.
No matter what stage your product is in, our Reliance-Framework™-Solutions keeps your development practices aligned, your execution sharp, and your roadmap competitive:
BASIC
Predictable Progress Without Stress
Shift your team's focus from reactive to proactive with the Reliance Framework™.
Regardless of size, every company must manage its resources efficiently to build the scaffolding that both develops and delivers their MVP.
Benefits:
✓ The Project and Methods & Tools Offices handles coordination and continuity
✓ Your team follows a clear project plan with defined milestones
✓ Progress stays on track — no last-minute chaos
What Changes? We reduce the noise so you can focus on high-impact decisions
STANDARD
Growth Without bloated Committees
Concentrate on what matters most: the product.
As your ideas and team evolve, our Competence Center adapts through the Reliance Framework™, coordinating every day-to-day activity needed to deliver your product.
We refine the industry's best practices and processes to keep your team aligned, practical, and up-to-date.
Benefits:
✓ The Competence Center operates using dedicated offices and a structured approach, rather than bureaucracy.
✓ Processes stay lean and flexible as they evolve throughout your product lifecycle. Meaning clear workflows replace ad hoc coordination.
✓ We adapt methods and tools as your product matures, ensuring quality keeps pace with your ambitions.
The Result? Engineers and your Product-Leads focus on the customer and have time to build without being stuck in meetings.
ENTERPRISE
Managers That Build Teams Up
Our Reliance Framework adheres to ISO-IMUSS principles, unifying the application of various standards, including ISO 9001, ISO 27001, and agile methodologies like SCRUM.
It then synchronizes product development with finance, sales, and marketing to drive effective, company-wide performance.
This creates a single source of truth for strategic decision-making, compliance management, and product excellence throughout your entire enterprise.
Benefits
✓ Lead Without Overhauling Everything In-House
✓ Unified Processes Eliminate Gray Areas
✓ Reduce Compliance Overhead While Increasing Control
Attract and retain talent, as it fosters a culture that appeals to professionals seeking structured, growth-focused environments.
How to keep up with best practices up-to-date in a rapidly changing environment?
As your KPO partner, we integrate a Competence Center directly into your development process. This means that a fully functional Competence Center, within your organization, eliminates cases where requirements, goals, or processes are unclear or open to multiple interpretations.
How do we do this?
The Reliance Framework™ is designed to effectively manage the critical path of the product life cycle, enabling our partners to outpace failure throughout the product life cycle. To achieve this, we employ the principle of Product Ambidexterity, which balances exploration and exploitation in product development. Our approach encourages confident decision-making, especially in high-stakes situations, where regulatory pressures are increasing and timelines are compressed.
You stay focused on the product. We provide the structure that makes it work.
Experience the advantages of transparent pricing, proven methodologies, and impactful results that stand the test of time:
✓ Reduce decision fatigue with clear ownership and predictable routines.
✓ Provide your team with scalable workflows that enhance autonomy and accountability.
✓ Cut reporting noise and reclaim time for deep engineering work.
Not Sure Which Solution Fits Your Company?
See How We Grow With You from MVP to Lauching and Beyond.
| Business Context | Step-by-Step: Your Path Forward | Competence Center Support | |
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| DIY |
Stage 1: Pre-Market / Early Dev For founders launching their MVP on less than €200K annual runway. Focus: Establishing reliable processes for your stakeholders while avoiding costly mistakes before market entry. |
Unlock Expert Guidance, Minus the Overhead Stage-1 companies are measured by how quickly they build and validate an MVP, and our Basic Plan provides the solid, resource-light Reliance framework™ early teams need to test, refine, and deliver that first product with confidence. It starts with a common Ground audit to identify your team’s needs and current product journey goals. A 30-day pilot with the Reliance Framework™ provides clear guidance and the most suitable practices for one of your main development projects. Central to this plan is full access to the Technology & Method Office and the Project Office, both integrated into your development process. Our experts will use proven project methods like OLGE and Scrum tailored to fit your product creation. Starting at just 3 percent of your runway, the Basic Plan provides steering discipline that streamlines development, cuts delays and rework of during MVP validation. This prevents costly errors while avoiding the heavy upfront investment in a Technology and Method Office or Product Management Office that would inflate your burn rate worse. |
Basic Solution ✓ Common Ground Audit using Value Proposition Canvas ✓ 30-day Reliance Framework™ pilot ✓ Basic Performance: Access to Technology & Method Office and Project Office Included for efficient Stage 1 product development: ✓ MVP Steering of Customer Scaffolding ✓ Facilitation of formal reviews, product roadmapping, customer interviews, pitch deck development ✓ Backlog Grooming of System, Hardware & Software Interface, and Product ✓ Coaching of Best Practices in software engineering, agile hardware engineering, Systems engineering ✓ Extra: Engineering services |
| Managed |
Stage 2: Soft Launch / Post Launch Growth For people growing companies after launch and aiming for €1M in annual revenue. Focus: Managing development risk as new products that threaten cash flow. |
Seamless Competence Center Integration Seamless Integration, Zero Training Delay Consumers value innovation, and the Standard Plan empowers your business to build products reliably and scale development with confidence. Integrating a dedicated Competence Center into your development process is essential for transforming it into a business driver, delivering measurable improvements in quality, speed, dependability, flexibility, and cost-effectiveness. Our team of experts utilizes proven methodologies, including Agile, Scrum, ISO-9001™, the OLGE Toolset, PMP, and Design Thinking, to enhance and customize your product development strategy. We provide your development team with a state-of-the-art process structure, empowering them to improve their skills, attitudes, and enlarge shared assumptions to meet expectations:
You can sustain the Competence Center internally or seamlessly transition it to other service partners while maintaining uninterrupted product development. The Standard Plan enhances your capabilities, enabling your business to innovate in the future without the overhead of a fully staffed process and quality department. All of this comes with an investment starting at just 4% of your revenue. |
Standard Plan - Everything from BASIC, plus: + Common Ground Analysis-Workshop using Operating Model and Business Model Canvas + Review + Risk-free 90-day Reliance Framework™ change project roll out + Standard Performance: A dedicated Competence Center integrated into your development process. Included for efficient Stage 2 product development: ✓ P3 Management guidance: Critical-Path Product Development with Investor-Ready Reporting ✓ Test Management guidance: Product quality assurance, system testing concepts, bench testing strategies ✓ Config & Change Management guidance: Orchestrating of releases, compliance activities, deployment milestones ✓ Impediments & Riskmanagement guidance: Escalation & removal of systemic impediments, Exposure of dependencies and risks ✓ Coaching of advanced methods: Flow and transparency in knowledge management ✓ Coaching of advanced methods: Agile, Scrum, ISO-9001™, OLGE-toolset, heavy process like PMP, SAFE, SPICE ✓ Extra: Engineering services |
| Enterprise |
Stage 3:Established / Scaling For management teams scaling up with an annual budget above €5M. Focus: Ensuring sustainable growth, quality, and risk management as complexity increases |
Initiating the Product Excellence Initiative The Enterprise Plan integrates the dedicated Competence Center of Excellence into your product creation process. These resources will be available to you immediately:
We leverage best practices and ISO-specific frameworks throughout your product creation journey, equipping your team with the Reliance Framework™ for sustainable success. The International Organization of Standardization™ states that the benefits of an effective management system to an organization include:
By combining different management areas, we believe we create a unified structure that optimizes your processes and prepares you for external certification assessments. This plan is perfect for growing companies aiming for efficient scaling and quality assurance from the beginning. |
Enterprise Plan - Expanding on STANDARD: ✓ Integrated Competence Center of Excellence Included for efficient Stage 3 product development: ✓ Technology Office, Risk Hub, Governance & Compliance Office ✓ Portfolio, Program, and Project Management Offices ✓ ISO-specific frameworks and full Reliance Framework™ integration |
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
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We are a KPO provider and we integrate Competence Centers into the product development process for embedded systems at our clients’ companies. Our framework is called the Reliance Framework.
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This is not a software product, but a KPO service. We use various software tools like Miro and Trello, or we work on client-provided laptops within their IT environment.
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You gain a system that delivers real clarity, stability, and momentum. Your leaders can lead. Your teams stop firefighting. Your projects move forward with purpose. And your product creation function becomes a true advantage — not a bottleneck.
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The relaince framework reduces delay risks, increases throughput, and makes your product organization more resilient. It shifts leadership from reactive to proactive and improves transparency for investors, auditors, and stakeholders. It is not just about better projects — it is about a better system.
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During the Common Ground Workshop, we offer a Reliance Framework Master Class. Together with a whitepaper, this provides the foundation for theoretical understanding. We work exclusively with well-known frameworks and ISO standards, such as Scrum and ISO 9001.
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After our work together ends, you are free to bring in any other service provider to continue supporting your company. There are no restrictions or obligations to keep working with us.
We leave thorough documentation:
We make sure to provide complete, well-organized documentation about everything we set up and worked on. This includes guides, processes, and important project information.We follow industry best practices:
All our work is based on recognized industry standards. This means your next team or provider can easily understand and continue where we left off.Smooth transition:
With all the documentation and clear processes in place, your team and any new partners can pick up right away without delays or confusion.Your advantage:
You keep full control and independence. Our goal is to empower your organization, not to create any dependency.
This way, you can feel confident that your company will always have what it needs to move forward, even after our partnership ends.
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Once the Competence Center is integrated, your teams experience more structured collaboration, clearer ownership, and defined rhythms. This reduces friction in day-to-day work, improves decision speed, and brings transparency to priorities across roles.
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These roles are often caught between tactical execution and strategic direction. With the Competence Center, they gain access to structured support in areas like planning, coordination, quality assurance, and tooling allowing them to focus on their core tasks without being overwhelmed by organizational gaps.
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You keep the product, the customer, and the vision. We take responsibility for the system around the product — the rhythm, routines, support offices, and cross-functional alignment. Our goal is not to replace, but to stabilize and enhance your internal capabilities.
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Clients report faster alignment in cross-functional teams, shorter time-to-decision, more reliable delivery, and greater leadership bandwidth. In pilot phases, teams often uncover root causes of delays that had remained hidden for years.
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In most cases, all you need to get started is a shared collaboration space and access to selected planning tools. Our system is designed to be remote-ready, making it easy to begin working together from anywhere. Full IT access is only required for specific roles, such as Release or Compliance support, and is agreed upon during the Common Ground phase and defined in the Service Management Agreement (SMA)
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Yes. Our structured approach gives you the clarity, rhythm, and coordination tools needed to lead confidently—across teams and up through the organization. You stay the technical anchor, but with a system that supports and shares the leadership load.
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Yes. The Reliance framework is designed to evolve with your organization. Whether you are managing one product or an entire portfolio, the structure adapts to support delivery without increasing friction.
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Our sales process begins with establishing a Common Ground — a shared understanding of your organization's current state and its most urgent bottlenecks. Thie precondition is the Reliance Framework Master Class, which provides your team with the theoretical foundation and language for structured collaboration.
Once this groundwork is complete, we sign the Service Management Agreement (SMA), which marks the formal beginning of our engagement it takes three days for the pilot to start.
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No but we offer a 30-day pilot phase designed to give you a real, hands-on experience of our service. It’s a structured collaboration that lets you explore how our approach fits your team and challenges.
You'll get measurable results before making a longer-term commitment — and it all starts with clarity, not risk.
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Product creation refers to the full journey from initial concept to market-ready product.
It includes the core functions of marketing, sales, product creation, and finance, and covers every stage from exploration, planning, and design to engineering, validation, and deliveryIn embedded development, this journey is especially complex because software, hardware, and compliance must work together in a tightly coordinated process.
We focus on building the structure around product creation to ensure progress is repeatable, teams stay aligned, and leadership can focus on long-term value.
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Ambiguity in development arises when requirements, goals, or processes are unclear or open to interpretation, making it hard for teams to move forward with confidence. This often leads to indecisiveness—teams hesitate, struggle to make timely decisions, and may become stuck in uncertainty or inaction.
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Ambidexterity is an organization’s ability to balance and excel at both optimizing current operations and exploring new opportunities. When organizations achieve ambidexterity, it leads to decisiveness—they can make clear, timely, and effective decisions, even amid uncertainty, ensuring they remain both competitive and innovative.
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Embedded development involves creating software that runs on specialized hardware systems. These systems are found in everything from industrial equipment to medical devices and connected vehicles. Embedded development demands technical precision, regulatory compliance, and seamless integration between engineering teams. Our approach provides the support structures that let your embedded development teams focus on what they do best — building great products.
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The product creation journey is not just a linear process from idea to launch. It is a shared challenge shaped by five fundamental dilemmas that every organization must address. These dilemmas touch on technology, leadership, purpose, feasibility, and market fit — and they cannot be solved by one role or department alone.
Each dilemma requires balancing different perspectives, aligning conflicting goals, and committing to coordinated action. That’s why the journey is as much about building clarity and agreement among people as it is about building the product itself.
The Reliance Framework helps teams make these trade-offs visible and actionable. It creates space for your organization to answer the hard questions together — and move forward with alignment and trust.
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The Reliance Framework tackles five key dilemmas that every product creation journey faces:
Builder Dilemma (Founder-Problem Fit):
How do you align the founders’ vision with real market needs? This ensures you’re solving a genuine problem and not building in a vacuum.Cohesion Dilemma (Problem-Solution Fit):
How do you create a shared understanding and purpose within your team? This unifies everyone around a clear “why” and keeps the team motivated and focused.Entry Dilemma (Technology-Solution Fit):
Is your solution technologically feasible and ready for market entry? This involves building and iterating MVPs to make sure your product is viable before scaling.Demand Dilemma (Product-Market Fit):
Is there real demand for your product in the market? Continuous testing and validation help ensure your solution matches actual customer needs.Channel Dilemma (Channel-Market Fit):
How do you reach your target customers effectively? This dilemma is about finding and scaling the right channels to maximize your product’s impact and growth.
By addressing these five dilemmas, the Reliance Framework helps you navigate the most critical challenges in building successful, scalable products.
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Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO) is the transfer of high-value business functions to an external partner with deep domain expertise. Unlike traditional outsourcing, KPO focuses on knowledge-intensive tasks such as strategic planning, risk management, and operational execution. In the context of embedded development, KPO enables companies to extend their capabilities in complex environments without giving up control or ownership of the product.
Our KPO model embeds directly into your organization, helping you structure how work gets done — not just who does it.
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Embedded development involves creating software that runs on specialized hardware systems. These systems are found in everything from industrial equipment to medical devices and connected vehicles. Embedded development demands technical precision, regulatory compliance, and seamless integration between engineering teams. Our approach provides the support structures that let your embedded development teams focus on what they do best — building great products.
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The Competence Center includes the following core steering functions:
Center of Excellence: Elevates quality and spreads best practices across teams.
Technology Office: Equips teams with effective tools and methods.
Risk Hub: Encourages open conversation around uncertainty to unlock bold, shared decisions.
Governance and Compliance Office: Builds the foundation of trust needed for innovation to flourish.
Portfolio Management Office: Focuses energy and investment on high-impact priorities.
Program Management Office: Keeps strategy visible and aligned with daily work.
Project Management Office: Guides execution across product life cycles with clarity and consistency.
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The Reliance Framework is a flexible, field-tested system that helps organizations structure and improve the product creation process for embedded systems. It serves as the foundation of the integrated Competence Center, bringing delivery, governance, and strategic alignment into one coherent setup so teams can move from idea to launch with clarity and confidence.
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We see ourselves as an active part of the entrepreneurial service provider community.
This means we don’t just help companies launch products—we want to help you create something that truly excites your users. We share ideas, learn from other experts, and work together with partners who care about real impact, not just quick wins.
For our clients, this means you get a team that brings fresh thinking, proven methods, and a real passion for making your product stand out in the market and in people’s lives.
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We do not advise from the sidelines. We embed with your team. We take responsibility for the system around the product, so your team can focus on building the right product. This is about operational partnership, not external audits or method coaching.
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That’s a great question! Incubators and accelerators are programs that help startups get off the ground or grow quickly. Incubators usually support very early ideas and help founders turn them into real businesses, often by providing space, coaching, and resources. Accelerators work with startups that already have a product and help them grow fast, usually through short, intense programs and connections to investors.
We’re different because we don’t just give advice or run a program for a few months. As a KPO (Knowledge Process Outsourcing) provider, we actually become part of your team and help you build the structure and routines your company needs to create great products, especially if you work with embedded systems. We use our Reliance Framework to guide and support your team in the day-to-day work, so you get real, lasting results—not just a boost for a short time.
Also, we’re open to investing in companies we believe in, but that’s something we discuss as part of our sales process. Our main goal is to help you build a strong foundation so your business can grow and your users are excited about what you create.
Disclaimer
This website is intended for informational and advertising purposes about the Reliance Framework only. The FAQ and all other content do not constitute legal advice and should not be relied upon as such. We strongly recommend that all clients seek independent legal counsel for any legal questions or decisions.
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Great products start with the right setup. The Reliance Framework Self Assessment helps your team understand where it stands today — and what it needs to move forward with clarity and strength. It is designed to uncover gaps in structure, rhythm, and coordination that may not be visible during daily operations.
Whether you are starting a new initiative or struggling to scale existing efforts, the assessment offers a focused view on your current capacity to deliver. It enables leadership to align on next steps before launching deeper integration work.
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Before we introduce any system or solution, we work with your team to establish what we call the "common ground." This is a shared view of your current situation, framed around the most pressing fit that needs to be found — whether it is between teams and strategy, between product and compliance, or between leadership and execution.
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The pilot phase is a 30-day focused engagement where we work with your team to address one specific bottleneck identified during the Common Ground phase. It is not a training or demo — it is a working partnership that delivers measurable results in your real environment. This allows both sides to validate the fit, value, and readiness before committing to a full Competence Center integration.
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Integration happens in two steps. First, we launch a focused pilot project. This pilot is based on a shared understanding of your context — your "common ground" — and is aimed at resolving one of your most critical bottlenecks. Only once this targeted intervention has proven value do we proceed with establishing the full Competence Center.
This process is more than structural — it is also human. At its core, the Competence Center introduces new ways of working, new roles, and new rhythms to your teams. It is a structured form of change management that helps people across your organization experience and embrace functions such as the PMO or Technology Office not as add-ons, but as enablers of better product creation.
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The OLGE Toolkit is a structured facilitation and decision-support tool that helps teams manage ambiguity, build shared understanding, and align around critical decisions. It enables people to reflect on different perspectives, define realistic next steps, and clarify what matters most in complex projects. As part of the Reliance Framework, OLGE provides practical scaffolding for alignment without delay or confusion.
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After the pilot phase, the cancellation period is one quarter. You can cancel at the end of the week in which the pilot phase ends.
Disclaimer
This website is intended for informational and advertising purposes about the Reliance Framework only. The FAQ and all other content do not constitute legal advice and should not be relied upon as such. We strongly recommend that all clients seek independent legal counsel for any legal questions or decisions.
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Yes. As part of our sales process, we sign a Service Management Agreement (SMA) with each client. This agreement outlines the scope of services, expectations, and working principles. It ensures that both sides have clarity and mutual commitment before we begin embedding a Competence Center into your organization.
The SMA reflects our partnership-based approach and provides a clear operational foundation for moving forward together.
Disclaimer
This website is intended for informational and advertising purposes about the Reliance Framework only. The FAQ and all other content do not constitute legal advice and should not be relied upon as such. We strongly recommend that all clients seek independent legal counsel for any legal questions or decisions.
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A Service Management Agreement (SMA) is a simple contract between you and us that clearly lays out how we will work together. As your KPO partner, we take responsibility for the structure and coordination of your product creation process using our Reliance Framework
This agreement defines which tasks and roles we will manage—like planning, coordination, compliance, and supporting your teams—while you keep full ownership of your products, your customers, and your vision. The SMA also covers important details such as what is included in our service, how we handle your data, costs, and how either side can end the partnership if needed.
Our goal is to give your teams the structure, rhythm, and support they need, so you can focus on building great products while we take care of the organizational foundation. The SMA makes sure everything is clear, fair, and built for real co-creation.
Disclaimer
This website is intended for informational and advertising purposes about the Reliance Framework only. The FAQ and all other content do not constitute legal advice and should not be relied upon as such. We strongly recommend that all clients seek independent legal counsel for any legal questions or decisions.
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The pilot phase begins with the signing of the Service Management Agreement (SMA).
This 30-day engagement is designed to address a specific, agreed-upon bottleneck identified during the Common Ground phase. You may cancel at the end of the week in which the pilot phase ends if you choose not to proceed with full integration.
After the pilot, the standard cancellation period is one quarter.
Disclaimer
This website is intended for informational and advertising purposes about the Reliance Framework only. The FAQ and all other content do not constitute legal advice and should not be relied upon as such. We strongly recommend that all clients seek independent legal counsel for any legal questions or decisions.
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Yes, you can pause the Competence Center for 50 euros per month. During the pause, WhatsApp and email support will remain available. This right to pause is part of our standard contract terms and is outlined as a clause in the Service Management Agreement (SMA).
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We take data protection very seriously and follow the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR/DSGVO). All personal data is handled according to strict legal requirements. We use secure tools like Trello and Miro for project work, and no client data is stored locally. For deeper technical integration, we use your company’s IT systems, such as a provided laptop, to ensure your data remains within your environment.
The specific details of data handling and security are always clearly defined with you in the Service Management Agreement (SMA) before we start.
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If you decide to cancel, we make sure your information is handled safely. We create a short summary (testimonial) about our work together.
The contact details of your sales representative stay in our system for five years.
All your project information is deleted 30 days after cancellation.
Any other data we have is deleted after two years.
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Our goal is to help you set up a Competence Center.
All documents we create are shared with you under different licenses, so you can keep using them.
Any custom data or materials made just for you belong to you.
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You can reach us via WhatsApp, mobile phone hotline, or email. Support is available Monday through Saturday from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm. Different arrangements can be made in the SMA.
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You can reach us via WhatsApp, mobile phone hotline, or email.
Support is available Monday through Saturday from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm.