About

Practical engineering, not hype

We build and maintain the systems teams actually run on: Pimcore, internal tools, and the automation around them. Engineering discipline, not buzzwords.

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// location
Vienna, Austria
// founded
2025
// team
2 founders
// region
Austria & Germany
// focus
Pimcore + internal tools

Our mission

We keep the software a business relies on running

Product catalogues, the systems feeding them, the tools that grew out of a spreadsheet. Including the ones another agency built and left behind, because building is the easy half.

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Our story

Where Aiki Labs came from

Aiki Labs started from a pattern we kept running into inside companies. The system everyone depends on is understood by exactly one person, and the day that person leaves, it turns fragile. Nobody remembers why the data model looks the way it does, and every small change starts to feel risky.

Most agencies are good at the first build and gone by the second year. The hard part is everything after that: the data model coming due, the ERP export that quietly changes shape, the spreadsheet that became business-critical while no one was looking. That is the work we wanted to do, so we built a studio around operating software, not just shipping it.

The two of us come at it from opposite ends. Danyl spent four years inside a regulated medical device manufacturer, two of them running its Pimcore, DAM, CRM, and translation stack. Veronika spends her time with the people who actually use these systems, working out what needs to change before a line of code is written. Understand it, build it, keep it running: that is the whole loop, and we cover it between us.

Most of the weight in a company sits in systems nobody outside the team understands.

The people behind it

Two founders, both sides of the work

One works out what the system actually needs to do. The other builds it and keeps it running. Neither half works without the other.

Danyl Daniliev, Founder & CTO at Aiki Labs

Danyl Daniliev

Founder & CTO

Delivery, architecture, and the parts that have to keep working long after launch.

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My background is in product management and information systems, and before Aiki Labs I spent four years at a medical device manufacturer, two of them running its Pimcore instance along with the DAM, CRM, and translation workflows around it. That shaped how I approach every project: understand how the operation really works first, then design a system people can trust, maintain, and use day to day. At Aiki Labs I own how projects are structured and delivered, from early process mapping through build decisions to long-term reliability. We use AI where it genuinely removes work, but the goal is always software that still holds up in real operations long after the first demo.

Veronika Herasko, Co-founder & CMO at Aiki Labs

Veronika Herasko

Co-founder & CMO

Discovery, scope, and the client relationship from the first call on.

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My job is to make sure we are solving the right problem before anything gets built. I spend most of my time talking to clients and understanding how their work actually happens day to day: what slows things down, what is messy, and what could work better. It is easy to build something that looks impressive and helps no one, so I keep us focused on what is genuinely useful. I also look after growth and the client relationship, so working with us stays clear and straightforward from the first message to delivery.

How we work

What we hold to on every project

01

Understand the operation first

We map how the work really happens before we design anything. The software is the second step, not the first.

02

Fix the data model, not around it

Shortcuts in the model are the thing that comes due two years later. We fix it underneath instead of piling workarounds on top.

03

Build what gets used

A tool nobody opens is a failed project, however clean the code. We optimise for daily use, not for the demo.

04

AI where it earns its place

We reach for AI when it removes real work, not because it belongs on a slide. The rest of the time we just build the thing well.

Get in touch

Drop us a line

Questions, project proposals, or plain curiosity about what we do. We respond to every message.

Response time

We respond to every inquiry within 1–2 business days.