WAVECT vs EXPONENT

Wavect or exponent. Fixed-price SMB delivery, or a senior team that owns the product call.

We take on a technical product owner alongside the implementation team, with scope and responsibilities agreed upfront. Our development offer connects scope decisions, reviewable increments and handover.

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

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Decision snapshot

VerdictChoose Wavect if your brief calls for a technical product owner alongside the implementation team. Start by agreeing the first deliverable, responsible people and acceptance checks with us.

Wavect is best when

  • We take on a technical product owner alongside the implementation team, 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

  • You need a straightforward marketing website or a standard business app, and a fixed price named before you start is the deciding factor.4
  • A DSGVO chatbot, a booking or dashboard tool, or a CMS site is the whole job, and it does not need product leadership around it.6
  • You want a local Lower Austria provider with the one fixed contact person they publish, for a contained, well-defined scope.31

Questions to ask before you choose

  1. For a technical product owner alongside the implementation team, what must the first phase cover?
  2. Which of the published references can you contact, and what measured outcomes can they share? Ask us for exactly the same.
  3. What happens commercially if the “PRICING MODEL” fixed quote meets a change in scope after signature, and which legal entity signs the contract?

Commercial risk to watch

  • The named fixed price is not the whole cost. The risk sits in who delivers, what happens when scope moves, and whether anyone owns the product call.
  • Ask what the vendor is paid to increase: a packaged deliverable at lowest price, or a shipped product outcome someone is accountable for. Ask us too.

Evidence notes

  • Every statement about exponent on this page comes from the numbered sources below, each with the date we opened it. Re-check them before you sign, because a vendor can change a page the day after we read it.
  • This comparison rests on exponent’s own published statements plus the commercial register, and on Wavect’s operating model. It carries no claim 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 a fixed-price SMB agency and a senior product team actually diverge.

WAVECT DIMENSION ALTERNATIVE

Full products across modern web, mobile, and AI, with on-chain capability when a project needs it, and fractional CTO or CPO running the build-or-not call across the whole surface.

SCOPE FOCUS

Packaged SMB delivery: SEO websites, booking and dashboard web-apps, React Native apps, and DSGVO chatbots, scoped to a fixed price.4

Two named founders you can look up, senior-only, one to three people per engagement, founder in every call. Specialists work inside our contract.

TEAM AND TRANSPARENCY

exponent describes a lean core team and a specialist partner network, with a fixed contact person.3 Confirm the assigned people and implementation responsibilities.

Austrian GmbH with named founders and contracts under Austrian law.

LEGAL ENTITY

Registered sole proprietorship: Exponent Software e.U., Firmenbuch FN 523110f at Landesgericht Wiener Neustadt, register entry dated 1 April 2017.12 Confirm the contracting entity, insurance and warranty terms with them, as you should with us.

Weekly outcome retainer from EUR 400 per week, full-stack delivery EUR 10,000 to EUR 30,000 per month, or fixed-price Werkvertrag with a Discovery Phase from EUR 3,500. Published ranges, quoted per scope.

PRICING MODEL

exponent publishes websites from EUR 999 and typical business apps for iOS and Android at EUR 15,000 to EUR 30,000.4 Its AI page lists projects from EUR 5,000, website chatbots typically EUR 5,000 to EUR 15,000, and wider CRM integrations EUR 15,000 to EUR 50,000.6 These are vendor starting prices and typical ranges, not fixed quotes for every brief.

Founded 2018. 75+ products shipped across 18 countries. Google 5.0, Trustpilot 4.5, Clutch 5.0, with named, checkable case studies.

TRACK RECORD

Register entry dated 1 April 2017.2 Three named portfolio entries, described by deliverable rather than outcome metric, with a note that further references are being added.5 Three testimonials attributed by name and client domain on the home page.4

AI engineering as a product capability, built into the product your users touch, model-agnostic, with EU hosting or self-hosting when compliance needs it.

AI POSITIONING

DSGVO chatbots and process automation for SMBs from around EUR 5,000, built on GPT-4, Claude and Gemini or on open-source models such as Llama and Mistral, with a stated commitment to European servers and documented data flows.6

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The real difference, in practice

Why choose Wavect for this brief?

We take on a technical product owner alongside the implementation team, 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 exponent publishes

exponent describes a lean core team and a specialist partner network, with a fixed contact person.3 Confirm the assigned people and implementation responsibilities.

exponent publishes websites from EUR 999 and typical business apps for iOS and Android at EUR 15,000 to EUR 30,000.4 Its AI page lists projects from EUR 5,000, website chatbots typically EUR 5,000 to EUR 15,000, and wider CRM integrations EUR 15,000 to EUR 50,000.6 These are vendor starting prices and typical ranges, not fixed quotes for every brief.

Ask exponent 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.

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When each is the better call

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Why choose Wavect for this scope

  • We take on a technical product owner alongside the implementation team, 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 exponent

  • You need a straightforward marketing website or a standard business app, and a fixed price named before you start is the deciding factor.4
  • A DSGVO chatbot, a booking or dashboard tool, or a CMS site is the whole job, and it does not need product leadership around it.6
  • You want a local Lower Austria provider with one fixed contact person for a contained, well-defined scope.31
  • Budget is the hard constraint and their published website entry price of around EUR 999 sits below our fixed-price floor, which starts at EUR 3,500 for a Discovery Phase.4

We take on a technical product owner alongside the implementation team, 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 a technical product owner alongside the implementation team, 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.
Ask exponent 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.
exponent publishes websites from EUR 999 and typical business apps for iOS and Android at EUR 15,000 to EUR 30,000.4 Its AI page lists projects from EUR 5,000, website chatbots typically EUR 5,000 to EUR 15,000, and wider CRM integrations EUR 15,000 to EUR 50,000.6 These are vendor starting prices and typical ranges, not fixed quotes for every brief. Request a written quote from exponent 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.
No. exponent sells packaged, fixed-price delivery to SMBs: websites, business apps, and chatbots.4 We are a senior product team that also runs as fractional CTO and CPO, owning the roadmap and the technical call, not just executing a spec. Different buyers, different problems. Both of us show up when an Austrian company searches for a software partner, so it is worth understanding which model fits your project.
Ask for specifics, and start from the register. The company’s Firmenbuch entry is dated 1 April 2017, a date you can check independently.2 The references page publishes three named portfolio entries, describes what was delivered rather than outcome metrics, and notes that further references are being added.5 Three testimonials on the home page are attributed by name and client domain.4 Ask which references you can contact and what measured results they can share. Our case studies are named and our review scores are public, so you can hold both providers to the same evidence bar.
exponent publishes websites from EUR 999 and typical business apps for iOS and Android at EUR 15,000 to EUR 30,000.4 Its AI page lists projects from EUR 5,000, website chatbots typically EUR 5,000 to EUR 15,000, and wider CRM integrations EUR 15,000 to EUR 50,000.6 These are vendor starting prices and typical ranges, not fixed quotes for every brief. Request a written quote from exponent 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.
Because buyers searching for a software or AI partner in Austria find both of us, and we would rather they compare the two models with the sources in hand than guess. If your project is a contained, budget-first SMB build, exponent is a legitimate pick and we will say so. If it needs product ownership and continuity written into the contract, that is where we differ.
Source: exponent.at
Last reviewed: byKevin Riedl wiki ↗

Sources for the statements about exponent

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. Imprint: registered company name, legal form, commercial-register number, court and trade licence exponent. retrieved 2026-08-04
  2. Commercial-register data: Exponent Software e.U., FN 523110f, register entry dated 1 April 2017 FirmenABC. retrieved 2026-08-04
  3. About page: deliberately lean core team working with a network of specialist partners, 24-hour response promise exponent. retrieved 2026-10-08
  4. Home page: website entry price, typical business-app range, cross-platform saving claim, one fixed contact person, three attributed testimonials exponent. retrieved 2026-10-08
  5. References page: three named portfolio entries, described by deliverable, with a note that further references are being added exponent. retrieved 2026-08-04
  6. AI integration page: project and chatbot price ranges, the models offered, and the European-server statement exponent. retrieved 2026-10-08

For a technical product owner alongside the implementation team, what must the first phase cover?

We take on a technical product owner alongside the implementation team, 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