A Dutch open-source product company in Amsterdam. Twelve apps shipping under EUPL-1.2, nine people on the team, one product mission: an open ecosystem of apps that solve concrete problems for MKB and overheid.
Every line of code we ship is EUPL-1.2 on GitHub. Issues, releases, roadmap discussions, all public. The day you uninstall is as easy as the day you installed.
We don't replace your platform; we plug into the one you already log in to every morning. Files, identity, calendar, Talk, has it. We add the typed-data layer on top.
We won't sell you a roadmap workshop. We'll install OpenCatalogi in 2 minutes and you'll have a working catalogue this afternoon. The problem is shipping software, not strategy decks.
Founder and solution architect. Started Conduction in 2019 to bring open-source thinking to Dutch government IT, now sets the engineering direction across all twelve apps.
Research and market lead. Spots the gap between what customers say and what they actually need, and keeps the product and the team focused on outcomes that ship.
Sales and operations lead. The first contact for new partners and customers, and the engine that keeps the office, the contracts, and the quarterly reviews moving.
Bridges Conduction apps with the legacy stacks Dutch municipalities already run. Speaks gemeente, ZGW, and zaakafhandeling fluently, and translates them into our schemas.
Backend developer. Sees the corner cases everyone else misses, particularly happy when something complicated finally clicks into place during code review.
Backend developer who quietly carries the weight: the one whose pull requests land first, whose review comments land sharpest, and who never lets a build stay broken.
Backend developer who ships. Picks up tickets early, closes them by lunch, and starts on the next thing before standup ends. The throughput engine of the squad.
Obsessed with the small things, spacing, easing, the moment a button lights up. The reason the apps feel right and not just look right.
Started in Amsterdam as a Dutch government consultancy, building one-off ZGW integrations for gemeenten. Realised most clients needed the same five things.
Started building our own open-source framework for the Dutch Common Ground architecture: a Common Gateway that gemeenten could plug into instead of yet another point-to-point integration. Adopted by several municipalities.
Dropped Common Gateway as our primary stack and refocused fully on apps. The lessons from Common Ground, typed registers, open APIs, federated catalogues, became the foundation of OpenRegister, OpenCatalogi and OpenConnector.
The twelve apps brought under one product brand. launches as the public surface; Conduction stays the company name behind the contracts and the hex avatar.
Open roadmap on GitHub, weekly stable releases, partner program ramping up. Het verhaal is nog niet af, krijgt elke sprint nieuwe apps en grotere klanten.
The team picks up the phone during NL office hours. For everything else, we're a GitHub issue away.
