WAVECT vs CLOUDFLIGHT

Wavect or Cloudflight. A PE-owned enterprise transformation group, or a founder-grade senior team on weekly outcomes.

Cloudflight is one of the largest custom-software houses in the region: roughly 800 people, 15 locations, ISO certifications, industrial clients like voestalpine and TGW per their published references, owned by Partners Group. We are a senior-only team with founders on every call and weekly outcome billing. If you are a corporation running a transformation program through procurement, they are built for exactly that. If you are a founder or a product team that needs judgement and speed more than organisational scale, the comparison shifts.

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How they actually differ

Six dimensions where Cloudflight and Wavect actually diverge.

WAVECT DIMENSION ALTERNATIVE

Small senior-only team in Austria. Both founders in the room.

SIZE AND STRUCTURE

Roughly 800 professionals, 15 locations, 4 countries, group HQ in Munich, per their published figures.

Founder-owned, independent.

OWNERSHIP

Majority-owned by Partners Group (private equity) since 2023, per public reporting.

The founders and the senior engineer doing the work.

WHO YOU ACTUALLY TALK TO

Account and delivery structures sized for enterprise programs.

Weekly outcome fee or fixed-price Werkvertrag. No timesheets, cancel any week.

PRICING MODEL

Enterprise project and program engagements. Pricing not published.

No ISO certifications. We pass technical due diligence, not framework-agreement tenders.

CERTIFICATIONS AND PROCUREMENT

ISO 27001, ISO 9001, cloud partner badges. Built to win enterprise procurement.

Founders, scale-ups, and enterprise pilots where judgement beats headcount.

TYPICAL CLIENT

Corporates and public sector: voestalpine, TGW, AOK Baden-Württemberg per their published references.

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The real difference, in practice

Cloudflight is the heavyweight in this list. Roughly 800 professionals, 15 locations in four countries, ISO 27001 and 9001 certifications, and a client roster of corporates and public-sector bodies, all per their published figures. If you are an enterprise that needs a certified vendor who can staff parallel teams across countries, survive a procurement audit, and carry a multi-year transformation program, that is precisely the machine they have built. We will not pretend to match it.

Two structural facts matter for smaller buyers. First, scale: an 800-person group runs on process, account structures, and utilisation, because at that size nothing else works. Second, ownership: Cloudflight has been majority-owned by private-equity firm Partners Group since 2023, per public reporting. Neither is a flaw. Both shape who the organisation is optimised to serve, and it is not the founder with a six-figure budget and an open product question.

We are the opposite shape. Both founders sit on every call, the senior who scopes the work does the work, and you pay a weekly outcome fee you can cancel any week. Scope pushback is part of the job: we tell you when a feature should not ship, because nobody at our size survives on billable volume alone.

If your organisation needs the machine, hire the machine. If you need senior hands and the product call in the same room, see how we run build engagements.

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When each is the better call

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When Wavect is the better call

  • You are a founder or product team, not a procurement department. The question is what to build, not how to staff a program.
  • You want the senior who scoped the work on every call, with no account layer in between.
  • You want weekly outcomes you can cancel any week, instead of a program-sized commitment.
  • You need deep product depth in AI or blockchain without paying for an 800-person organisation around it.
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When Cloudflight is the better call

  • You are an enterprise and your procurement requires ISO-certified vendors and framework agreements. We do not clear that bar, they do.
  • Your program needs parallel teams across multiple countries and a vendor who can absorb staffing risk at scale.
  • You need industrial or embedded software capacity alongside cloud and data teams, which they list as core practice areas.
  • A multi-year digital transformation with formal governance is the actual job. That is what an 800-person group is for.

If you are running an enterprise program through procurement, Cloudflight is built for it. If you need founder-grade judgement and senior hands without the organisation around it, talk to us.

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Relevant Wavect work

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FAQs

No. The size difference is the model difference. They sell certified capacity at enterprise scale. We sell senior judgement plus execution with founders accountable for the result. The two are bought by different people for different reasons.
It does not make the work worse. It tells you what the organisation is optimised for: growth and utilisation targets set by the owner. A founder-owned shop answers to its clients and its own name. Neither is wrong, but you should know whose incentives sit behind your vendor.
Yes, on enterprise pilots and focused builds. We joined an in-flight city-wide LoRaWAN build for Innsbruck and ran QA across a seven-microservice enterprise platform for eighteen months. What we do not do is staff fifty-person programs.
When the constraint is organisational: certifications, multi-country staffing, formal governance, procurement. If your project dies without those, hire them and do not look back.
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