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Your Digital Future. Mashed with Vision and Craft.

A digital agency blending design, code, and AI — partnering with ambitious brands to ship products that feel inevitable.

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Our services

AI integration

  • Opportunity mapping
  • AI-driven product features
  • AI-powered automation
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Our process

Four stages. One team. A process refined across hundreds of projects — designed to keep clients in the loop and momentum on the work.

  1. 01

    Discover

    Research, stakeholder interviews, and data — we map the problem space before touching a pixel.

  2. 02

    Define

    Translate research into a sharp strategy: positioning, scope, and a roadmap you can trust.

  3. 03

    Craft

    Creative execution — identity, interface, motion, and prototypes that make the strategy real.

  4. 04

    Deliver

    Build, ship, measure. We stay with you post-launch and keep iterating on what the data shows.

Selected projects

Our services in detail

AI integration

We find where AI earns its keep in your products and operations — then build it in with the same rigor as any other production system. Practical, measurable, vendor-neutral.

Lift the hood
  1. Opportunity mapping across product and operations
  2. AI-driven software — embedded, not bolted on
  3. LLM integrations with guardrails you can defend
  4. Starts wherever you are — no rip-and-replace

Web & mobile development

Design, code, and ship — web, mobile, and everything that keeps them healthy in production.

Lift the hood
  1. Discovery & market fit
  2. Customer & partner portals
  3. E-commerce & payments
  4. Headless CMS & multi-channel
  5. Fullstack web development

Business automation

Automate the operational glue — workflows, integrations, and internal tools that keep the business compounding.

Lift the hood
  1. Workflow automation (n8n / Zapier / Make)
  2. Process digitisation
  3. Custom internal tools
  4. System integration & APIs

OUR JOURNEY

Your Digital Future. Mashed with Vision and Craft.

A digital agency blending design, code, and AI — partnering with ambitious brands to ship products that feel inevitable.

Discover

Discover. We uncover the shape of your problem.

Research, stakeholder interviews, and data — the rigorous work that happens before a single pixel is drawn. You leave this phase with a map of the opportunity and the constraints that matter.

Develop

Develop. We ship products that feel inevitable.

Design, code, and launch under one roof — so the thing we concepted is the thing we build. Tight feedback loops, real users touching it early, measurable progress every week.

Evolve

Evolve. We keep shipping after launch day.

Post-launch we measure, learn, and iterate. A product is never finished — it just gets closer to what users actually need. We stay with you for the long game.

Tell us about your next big idea.

Service
Budget Range€20k – €50k

The full mix

Development, AI and automation in one room.

Each discipline works on its own. Together they compound. Here's what changes when one team runs all three:

Meet the team

The people behind the work — a small team covering design, engineering, AI, and automation. We'd rather have our hands on the product itself, and bring in the right people when a project needs it.

Patrik Potocny

Patrik

Software Architect & Senior Developer, AI Engineering

Miriam

Miriam

Strategic Advisor for Product & UX

Manuel Penaloza

Manuel

Co-Founder, Strategist & Creative Lead

Patricia

VIA HS|MS

Patricia

Online Marketing

Jakub

VIA Devehope

Jakub

Software Engineering

Jirka

VIA Devehope

Jirka

Software Engineering

Clients & partners

Platform partners

Storyblok
STORYBLOK // HEADLESS CMS
Crystallize
CRYSTALLIZE // HEADLESS COMMERCE
Heyflow
HEYFLOW // CONVERSATIONAL FORMS
Leadinfo
LEADINFO // B2B VISITOR ANALYTICS
CookieYes
COOKIEYES // CONSENT MANAGEMENT
Vando
VANDO // WAREHOUSE & INVENTORY

Let's Work Together

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Questions

Frequently asked questions

A few we hear most often. Don't see yours? Just write to us.

Where is Mashed Lab based?
Our headquarters are at Kasernstraße 30b in Graz, Austria, and we also work from our office at the UNICORN Startup & Innovation Hub (Schubertstraße 6a, Graz). We work on-site with regional clients across Styria and remotely with clients across Austria, Germany, Switzerland, and beyond.
Do you work with clients outside Austria?
Yes. Most of our engagements happen across the DACH region, and we regularly work with English-speaking clients across Europe. We deliver in both English and German.
What does a typical engagement look like?
Most projects start with a discovery and strategy phase (2–4 weeks), then move into design and engineering sprints of 4–12 weeks. Long-term partnerships with ongoing strategic advisory are also common.
How quickly can you start?
New engagements typically begin within 2–4 weeks of the first conversation. For urgent work we can sometimes accommodate a faster start — get in touch and we will tell you honestly what is possible.
Which industries do you work with?
We have deep experience in industrial manufacturing, sports and outdoor retail, e-commerce, and B2B software — but we are happy to work with any organisation that wants to build serious digital product.
Do you build with AI? And does that make my project cheaper?
Yes, deeply — across our own tooling, our coding workflows, and the products we ship for clients. What it actually changes for you isn't the price; it's where the time goes. Less of it is spent on mechanical typing, more on architecture, judgment calls, and review. That tends to make the product better. Sometimes faster too — but that's the side effect, not the headline.
What happens after launch — do you maintain the product?
Most products only get interesting after the first deploy — that's when real users start finding the edges. We stay on through that phase by default: maintenance, iteration, and the strategic conversations about what's worth building next. That ongoing partnership is our default mode, not an add-on. We're not the kind of studio that ships and disappears.
Are there projects you say no to?
Yes. Mostly when we can't see a way to do the work to the standard we'd want our name on, or when the scope is shaped around someone else's plan we don't believe in. We'd rather say no early than build the wrong thing well. Honesty about fit saves both sides months.
Do you build online shops and e-commerce platforms?
Yes — e-commerce is one of our core fields. We've relaunched commerce platforms for brands like Nuki and Blue Tomato, work with headless commerce stacks like Crystallize and Shopify, and build the surrounding machinery too: product data, payments, ERP integrations, and the warehouse layer (we built our own WMS, Vando). From shop frontend to fulfilment, it's one connected system.
Who owns the code — and what if we part ways?
You do. Everything we build for you — code, designs, infrastructure configuration, documentation — belongs to you and lives in repositories you control. We deliberately build on open, widely-used technology so any competent team could take over tomorrow. Lock-in is a business model; it just isn't ours. Clients stay because the work is good, not because leaving is hard.
What technologies do you build with?
TypeScript and React — with Astro and Next.js — on the frontend; Node, Python, or Go on the backend, with Postgres as the default store; React Native or Flutter for mobile; headless CMSs like Storyblok, Sanity, and Contentful; commerce stacks like Shopify and Crystallize. But we choose per project, not out of habit: proven, boring technology where it counts, newer tools only where they genuinely earn their place.
How do you make sure the quality holds?
With process, not promises. Automated tests and CI/CD pipelines are standard on every project, every change is reviewed before it ships, and accessibility (WCAG 2.2 AA) and performance are built into the pipeline rather than retrofitted before launch. After deploy, monitoring and observability show us how the product actually behaves — because quality is something you keep, not something you hand over.

The full portfolio

Everything we do, spelled out.

Three service pillars, and under each the specific work we take on. Every link opens a dedicated page that goes deep on that piece — what it is, how we run it, what you get.