CzechCrunch: From zero to 60 million. How Koala42 is digitizing the Czech industry and where it is heading next

Servers CzechCrunch brought a comprehensive profile of Koaly42 - a development studio specializing in the digitalization of industrial companies and aiming for a turnover of CZK 60 million this year. The article describes our journey from our beginnings in 2018 to today's position, helping customers with the so-called “last mile of digitalization” and testing AI solutions for quality control in production. CzechCrunch also charts how we found our specialization and why it is precisely the interconnection of existing systems that makes the most sense for industrial companies.

CzechCrunch also reminds us that the path to today's focus has not been established since the first day: the original direction with sports marketing did not work out, so we gradually profiled ourselves through different types of contracts — from websites to applications — to what makes the most sense to us and our clients. The times also shaped us in this: covid and the subsequent changes in the market accelerated how industrial companies began to take digitization as a real need, not just a “pretty” topic for presentations.

Today we are mainly standing on the “last mile of digitalization”. We are not going to companies with the ambition to deploy another giant system, but we are connecting what already exists and solving the places where efficiency is most often broken — data from machines, processes in operation, connections to administration, which often still lives in Excel. CzechCrunch also mentions specific examples of cooperation in the article (e.g. Petainer in Ashi or Wooden structures) and also pilot use AI in Quality Control in production.

And one more detail that CzechCrunch reminds us of: the number 42 in our title is a reference to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and at one point “forty-two” came together in company numbers (turnover, number of people, hours worked).

You can read the full article (in Czech only) directly on CzechCrunch: https://cc.cz/firmu-zalozili-v-hospode-pak-i-taxikarili-aby-ji-udrzeli-nazivu-byt-ziskovi-je-zaklad-rikaji/