Insights for business owners.
Answers to the questions business owners in Germany ask us before a project. Costs, building your own or buying standard software, data protection and the EU AI Act, each with a date so you can see how current the answer is.
Five articles.
Each article answers its question in the first few sentences, gives figures with source and retrieval date and, for legal questions, cites the provision with a link to the official text.
What does an AI phone assistant really cost?
Setup, running costs per call and the internal effort that no quote shows.
What does custom software cost for an SME?
What drives the price, why even small standard processes pay off and how small a first stage can be.
Your own management system or standard software?
When your own system pays off, when a standard solution is enough and how to connect the two cleanly.
AI assistants and the GDPR: What has to be in place?
Legal basis, data processing agreements, US providers, retention periods, impact assessment and call recording, with a checklist.
What obligations does an SME have under the EU AI Act?
Deadlines after the Digital Omnibus, deployer or provider, AI disclosure under Art. 50, training under Art. 4 and fines.
How the articles are written.
Every article starts with a question that business owners ask before a software or AI project. The articles are written by B&S Ventures from Hannover. We built the systems of our own portfolio companies ourselves and run them every day, including vendor portals with identity verification, shops with inventory connections to logistics partners in Lithuania and Hong Kong, and mail systems in several languages. Our assessment comes from this day-to-day operation. Provider prices, market rates and salaries appear in the text with source and retrieval date. For legal questions, every statement cites the article or section with a link to the official text, and we say what we recommend instead of referring you to a lawyer.
Every article carries the date it was last reviewed. When a price, a deadline or a law changes, the article is updated and the date is reset. Anything we cannot back up is marked as open in the text. If your question is missing, write to us. If it comes up often, it becomes an article.
If you want to go further after reading, you will find the matching services under B&S Systems: Management systems for the cost questions and the choice between building your own and standard software, AI assistants for phone, data protection and the EU AI Act. We build in stages. Source code, documentation and access credentials stay with the client.
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