WAVECT vs CLOUDFLIGHT

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

Cloudflight is one of the largest custom-software groups in the region: 800 professionals at 15 locations in four European countries per its own company page, ISO 27001 on its certifications page, and voestalpine, TGW and AOK Baden-Württemberg on its published reference list. 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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Decision snapshot

VerdictCloudflight publishes 800 professionals at 15 locations in four European countries and describes ISO 27001 on its certifications page, which is what an enterprise procurement process usually asks for.13 Wavect is built for focused product bets where direct senior judgement matters more than organisational mass.

Wavect is best when

  • The buyer is a founder, product owner, or innovation lead who needs fast judgement and a small senior team.
  • The project can be won by better scope decisions, not by adding more parallel teams.
  • You need AI, on-chain, QA, or product engineering depth without a large account structure.

The alternative is best when

  • Your procurement requires ISO certifications and framework agreements. Cloudflight’s certifications page describes ISO 27001 and also shows ISO 9001 and ISO 13485.3
  • Your work spans multiple countries, business units, or parallel delivery teams. Their company page states 15 locations in four European countries.1
  • You need industrial or embedded software capacity next to cloud and data work. Both are listed on their services overview.2

Questions to ask before you choose

  1. Cloudflight’s company page states 800 professionals at 15 locations.1 Ask which named people would be assigned to your project, at which location, and for what share of their week.
  2. Ask us the same question, and ask both sides in writing what happens to that answer if the timeline slips a quarter.
  3. Ask which legal entity would sign your contract. Their imprint lists a group entity in Munich and separate country entities, including an Austrian one in Linz.5
  4. Is the buying constraint procurement acceptance, or the product outcome?

Commercial risk to watch

  • Large-vendor fit can be exactly right for an enterprise and expensive friction for a smaller team.
  • Partners Group announced in November 2022 that it had agreed to acquire a controlling equity stake in Cloudflight from Deutsche Beteiligungs AG, which published that it would retain a minority position.67 We report that because it is public and checkable, not as an allegation: institutional ownership is ordinary in this market and says nothing about the quality of anyone’s engineering.

Evidence notes

  • Every statement about Cloudflight on this page is footnoted below with the page we read it on and the date we opened it.
  • This comparison does not rank capability; it separates enterprise-program fit from small senior-team fit.
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Project fit: not limited to small builds

Project size and provider headcount are separate decisions. Wavect’s delivery unit is a named senior core, but that does not limit the work to MVPs or short startup projects. Larger projects are split into phases with separate budgets and acceptance criteria. We also build internal systems and process automations inside a client’s existing repositories, tooling and workflows. A vetted bench supports continuity and scope-specific capacity. A larger provider may still be the better choice when the main requirement is several parallel teams, an incumbent framework agreement or certifications Wavect does not currently hold.
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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

800 professionals at 15 locations in four European countries per their company page.1 Group entity registered in Munich, Austrian entity in Linz.5

Founder-owned, independent.

OWNERSHIP

Partners Group announced in November 2022 that it had agreed to acquire a controlling equity stake.6 The seller published that it retains a minority position.7

The founders and the senior engineer doing the work.

WHO YOU ACTUALLY TALK TO

On the pages we reviewed we did not find who is assigned to an individual account, so ask for named people and their location.1

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

PRICING MODEL

Enterprise project and program engagements. On the pages we reviewed we did not find published prices.2

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

CERTIFICATIONS AND PROCUREMENT

Their certifications page describes ISO 27001 and also shows ISO 9001 and ISO 13485.3

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

TYPICAL CLIENT

Corporates and public sector: voestalpine, TGW and AOK Baden-Württemberg on the published reference list.4

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The real difference, in practice

Cloudflight is the heavyweight in this list. Its company page states 800 professionals at 15 locations in four European countries.1 Its services overview lists software engineering including industrial and embedded software, alongside digital commerce, cloud, and data and AI.2 Its certifications page describes ISO 27001 and also shows ISO 9001 and ISO 13485 among its certificates.3 Its published reference list includes voestalpine, TGW and AOK Baden-Württemberg.4 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 published facts matter for smaller buyers, and neither is a flaw. First, size: 800 professionals at 15 locations in four European countries.1 A group figure that size says nothing about who would actually be on your project, which is why the question to put to them is a narrow one: which named people would be assigned, at which location, for what share of their week, and what happens to that answer if the timeline slips. Ask us exactly the same question and hold both answers to the same standard. Second, ownership: Partners Group announced in November 2022 that it had agreed to acquire a controlling equity stake in Cloudflight from Deutsche Beteiligungs AG, which published that it would retain a minority position.67 We state that because it is public and checkable, not as a criticism: institutional ownership is ordinary in this market and tells you nothing about how a team works or how it treats its clients. Their imprint lists a group entity in Munich and separate country entities including an Austrian one in Linz, so which entity signs your contract is worth confirming with them.5

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 a group-scale 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. Their certifications page describes ISO 27001 and also shows ISO 9001 and ISO 13485.3
  • Your program needs parallel teams across multiple countries and a vendor who can absorb staffing risk at scale. Their company page states 15 locations in four European countries.1
  • You need industrial or embedded software capacity alongside cloud and data teams. Both are listed on their services overview.2
  • A multi-year digital transformation with formal governance is the actual job, and a group of that size is a normal answer to it. Their company page states 800 professionals.1

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. Their company page states 800 professionals at 15 locations in four European countries, and their certifications page describes ISO 27001.13 We are a small senior team selling senior judgement plus execution, with founders accountable for the result. The two are bought by different people for different reasons.
Partners Group announced in November 2022 that it had agreed to acquire a controlling equity stake in Cloudflight from Deutsche Beteiligungs AG, and the seller published that it would retain a minority position.67 We report that because it is public, not as a criticism, and institutional ownership tells you nothing about the quality of anyone’s engineering. What is worth asking any vendor, us included, is which legal entity signs your contract and who stays accountable if the plan changes; their imprint lists a group entity in Munich and separate country entities.5
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 programs of dozens of people.
When the constraint is organisational: certifications, multi-country staffing, formal governance, procurement. Their certifications page describes ISO 27001 and their company page states 15 locations in four European countries.31 If your project dies without those, hire them and do not look back.
Source: cloudflight.io
Last reviewed: byKevin Riedl wiki ↗

Sources for the statements about Cloudflight

Every numbered claim above links to the source we checked, with the date we checked it. Linking a source is not a partnership or an endorsement.

  1. Company page: headcount, number of locations and number of countries Cloudflight. retrieved 2026-08-04
  2. Services overview: software engineering including industrial and embedded software, plus digital commerce, cloud, and data and AI Cloudflight. retrieved 2026-08-04
  3. Certifications page: ISO 27001 described, with ISO 9001 and ISO 13485 also shown among the certificates Cloudflight. retrieved 2026-08-04
  4. Published reference list, including voestalpine, TGW and AOK Baden-Württemberg Cloudflight. retrieved 2026-08-04
  5. Imprint: group and country legal entities with registered seats and commercial register numbers Cloudflight. retrieved 2026-08-04
  6. Investor press release announcing the agreement to acquire a controlling equity stake Partners Group. retrieved 2026-08-04
  7. Seller announcement of the sale and of the minority position it retains Deutsche Beteiligungs AG. retrieved 2026-08-04

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