WAVECT vs CRAFTWORKS

Wavect or craftworks. An industrial machine-learning specialist, or a product team that ships software with AI inside.

We take on the user workflows and integrations around your AI model, with scope and responsibilities agreed upfront. Our development offer connects scope decisions, reviewable increments and handover.

Plan your first milestone with us

Commercial comparison published by Wavect, one of the providers compared. Not an independent review. No affiliation with or endorsement by craftworks.

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Decision snapshot

VerdictChoose Wavect if your brief calls for the user workflows and integrations around your AI model. Start by agreeing the first deliverable, responsible people and acceptance checks with us.

Wavect is best when

  • We take on the user workflows and integrations around your AI model, with scope and responsibilities agreed upfront. Wavect’s offer
  • Our development offer connects scope decisions, reviewable increments and handover.
  • Start by agreeing the first deliverable, responsible people and acceptance checks with us.

The alternative is best when

  • Your problem is predictive maintenance, predictive quality, or visual inspection on real production lines. All three are named on their solutions page.2
  • You need an MLOps platform to deploy and monitor models. That is how they describe navio.4
  • You want a specialist with referenced work at large industrials. Audi, VERBUND, ÖBB and voestalpine are among the client references shown on their site.3

Questions to ask before you choose

  1. For the user workflows and integrations around your AI model, what must the first phase cover?
  2. Ask craftworks to name the people responsible for this work and specify decision rights, deliverables and handover in the proposal. Published services do not determine the scope of your engagement.
  3. Ask us the same two questions and compare the written answers.
  4. None of this implies anything is withheld: product pages are marketing surfaces, not contracts, and the only reliable place for scope, ownership and exit is the signed agreement, ours included.

Commercial risk to watch

  • The visible price is not the whole cost; the risk sits in where the scope boundary falls and what happens the first time it moves.
  • Ask what the vendor is paid to increase: hours, seats, retained advice, platform usage, or shipped outcomes.

Evidence notes

  • Every statement about craftworks on this page is footnoted below with the page we read it on and the date we opened it.
  • This comparison states published scope and asserts nothing about the quality of their work.
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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 craftworks and Wavect actually diverge.

WAVECT DIMENSION ALTERNATIVE

Complete products with AI inside: app, backend, billing, product call.

CORE STRENGTH

Their solutions page leads with predictive quality, predictive maintenance, visual inspection, anomaly detection and data engineering, and also lists industrial software and generative AI.2

Founders, scale-ups, enterprise pilots.

TYPICAL CLIENT

Large industrials and utilities. Audi, VERBUND, ÖBB and voestalpine are among the client references shown on their site.3

Bespoke builds, you own the stack and the IP.

PRODUCT VS SERVICES

Services plus navio, which they describe as their own MLOps platform.4

User-facing products: web, mobile, AI, on-chain.

WHERE THE WORK LIVES

Production lines, plants and grids: their solutions page describes models and software for industrial operations.2

Weekly outcome fee or fixed-price Werkvertrag. No timesheets.

PRICING MODEL

Request a written quote from craftworks for the same deliverables, assigned roles, support, taxes and exit terms. Compare it with our agreed outcome fee; a rate or starting package alone does not establish the total cost.

We push back on scope and the should-we-build-it question, founder to founder.

SCOPE OWNERSHIP

Ask which parts of the product their statement of work covers, since the published scope spans models and industrial software.2

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The real difference, in practice

Why choose Wavect for this brief?

We take on the user workflows and integrations around your AI model, with scope and responsibilities agreed upfront. Our development offer connects scope decisions, reviewable increments and handover. Wavect’s offer

Start by agreeing the first deliverable, responsible people and acceptance checks with us.

What craftworks publishes

Their company page states a founding year of 2014, 40+ people and two offices in Vienna.1

The Austrian company register lists craftworks GmbH in Vienna under FN 424082a with status active.5

Their solutions page publishes predictive quality, predictive maintenance, visual inspection, anomaly detection and data engineering.2

They also ship a product of their own, navio, which they describe as an MLOps platform for managing, deploying and monitoring machine-learning models, with edge deployment and MLflow integration.4

Braun and Wienerberger are among the client references shown on their site.3

Their published scope is not only models: the same solutions page also lists industrial software, described as custom software for industrial operations, and generative AI.2

Ask both providers who owns scope, technical decisions and acceptance, and what remains with your team after handover.

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When each is the better call

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Why choose Wavect for this scope

  • We take on the user workflows and integrations around your AI model, with scope and responsibilities agreed upfront. Wavect’s offer
  • Our development offer connects scope decisions, reviewable increments and handover.
  • Start by agreeing the first deliverable, responsible people and acceptance checks with us.
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When to include craftworks

  • Your problem is predictive maintenance, predictive quality, or visual inspection on real production lines. All three are named on their solutions page.2
  • You need an MLOps platform to deploy and monitor models. That is how they describe navio.4
  • You are a large industrial and want a specialist with referenced work at that scale. Audi, VERBUND, ÖBB and voestalpine are among the client references shown on their site.3
  • The hard part of your project is the model itself, not the product around it. Their published solutions are built around exactly that problem.2

We take on the user workflows and integrations around your AI model, with scope and responsibilities agreed upfront. Plan your first milestone with us .

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Relevant Wavect work

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FAQs

We take on the user workflows and integrations around your AI model, with scope and responsibilities agreed upfront. Our development offer connects scope decisions, reviewable increments and handover. Wavect’s offer Start by agreeing the first deliverable, responsible people and acceptance checks with us.
We build AI products: LLM integrations, RAG pipelines, AI features inside web and mobile apps. We do not run industrial data-science mandates like vision-based defect detection on a production line. That is specialist territory, and craftworks publishes visual inspection and predictive quality as core solutions.2
Yes, and the split is natural: a specialist builds and operates the model, we build the product, the interface and the business logic around it. We have no problem recommending that setup when the ML is genuinely hard. Worth noting that their solutions page also lists industrial software, so the boundary is something to agree explicitly rather than assume.2
Request a written quote from craftworks for the same deliverables, assigned roles, support, taxes and exit terms. Compare it with our agreed outcome fee; a rate or starting package alone does not establish the total cost.
Ask craftworks to name the people responsible for this work and specify decision rights, deliverables and handover in the proposal. Published services do not determine the scope of your engagement.
Source: craftworks.ai
Last reviewed: byKevin Riedl wiki ↗

Sources for the statements about craftworks

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: founding year, headcount and number of offices craftworks. retrieved 2026-08-04
  2. Solutions page: the published scope, including predictive quality, predictive maintenance, visual inspection, anomaly detection, data engineering, industrial software and generative AI craftworks. retrieved 2026-08-04
  3. Company site: the named client references shown on the front page craftworks. retrieved 2026-08-04
  4. navio product page: MLOps platform for model management, deployment and monitoring, including edge deployment and MLflow integration craftworks. retrieved 2026-08-04
  5. Austrian company register entry FN 424082a: legal name, registered seat, registration date and status North Data (Austrian Firmenbuch data). retrieved 2026-08-04

For the user workflows and integrations around your AI model, what must the first phase cover?

We take on the user workflows and integrations around your AI model, with scope and responsibilities agreed upfront. Start by agreeing the first deliverable, responsible people and acceptance checks with us.

Plan your first milestone with us