WAVECT vs OBJECTBAY

Wavect or Objectbay. A senior team with two accountable founders, or a 70-person agency with dedicated Scrum teams.

Objectbay is an established Austrian agency, founded 2006, around 70 people across Traun, Vienna, and Salzburg, ISO 27001 certified, delivering custom software through dedicated Scrum teams for enterprise clients like Raiffeisenverband Salzburg, A1, and VERITAS. We are a senior-only team of two founders who both carry product management and the technical call, with 75+ products shipped across 17 countries. If you need a large dedicated team you can scale and formal enterprise compliance, Objectbay fits. If you need product judgement and the technical call in the same head, with pricing you can read before the call, we fit.

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Decision snapshot

VerdictThe practical split: if you need a scalable dedicated team and formal enterprise compliance, Objectbay is a strong, established pick. If you need product ownership and the technical call from the same senior head, with published pricing, talk to us.

Wavect is best when

  • You need product judgement, not only delivery. Fractional CTO ownership, roadmap decisions, and pushback on scope come from the same founders who ship the code, not from a separate hire.
  • You want pricing you can read up front. We publish our ranges and offer a fixed-price Werkvertrag; agency dedicated-team rates are quoted per engagement and usually stay behind a call.
  • Your build is contained enough that a 70-person shop is oversized, and you would rather have two senior founders in every call than a staffed team with account layers between you and the people writing code.

The alternative is best when

  • You need a large dedicated team you can scale up and down across parallel workstreams, and depth of bench matters more than founder-level continuity.
  • Your program is enterprise or regulated, and formal ISO 27001 certification is a procurement requirement, not a nice-to-have.
  • You want a vendor with a twenty-year track record and a documented enterprise client base in banking, insurance, and logistics.

Questions to ask before you choose

  1. Who specifically is committed to your team for the whole engagement, and how is senior staffing guaranteed once delivery starts?
  2. What does the published lifetime guarantee actually cover in the contract: defect remediation, scope, IP, or something narrower?
  3. Who owns the decision about whether a feature should be built at all, versus only how it gets built?

Commercial risk to watch

  • With no published pricing, the engagement model, hourly or sprint or time-and-materials, and the cost ceiling need to be pinned down in the contract before you can compare total cost.
  • A dedicated team is capacity you buy; ask what the vendor is paid to increase, team hours or shipped outcomes, because those are not always the same thing.

Evidence notes

  • This comparison uses Objectbay’s own published facts and Wavect’s operating model, not a hidden quality claim about Objectbay, which is a reputable, established agency.
  • Use the official source link on this page as the starting point, then verify pricing, certification scope, references, and guarantee terms before signing.
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How they actually differ

Six dimensions where an established dedicated-team agency and a senior founder-led team actually diverge.

WAVECT DIMENSION ALTERNATIVE

Senior-only team, two founders, one to three people per engagement, a founder in every call. Specialists work inside the Wavect contract, under our responsibility.

TEAM SHAPE

Around 70 people across three offices. Dedicated, certified Scrum teams staffed to the engagement and scalable up or down, with the founders not typically in the room.

Founded 2018. 75+ products shipped across 17 countries. Google 5.0, Trustpilot 4.5, Clutch 5.0, with named case studies you can look up.

TRACK RECORD

Founded 2006, around 20 years. Publishes 210+ projects and a 94% recommendation rate, with named enterprise references including Raiffeisenverband Salzburg, A1, and VERITAS.

Weekly outcome retainer, EUR 400 to EUR 20,000, or fixed-price Werkvertrag with a Discovery Phase from EUR 3,500. Published ranges, quote per scope.

PRICING TRANSPARENCY

No published pricing. Dedicated-team rates, hourly or sprint-based, quoted per engagement after a sales call.

Fractional CTO offer. Product management and the technical call in the same head, with pushback on scope as part of the job.

PRODUCT JUDGEMENT

Delivery-led Scrum teams with biweekly demos. No published product-management or CTO-level offer; roadmap ownership stays on the client side.

Full products across modern web, mobile, AI, and IoT, with on-chain capability when projects need it.

SCOPE AND STACK

Custom software, web and app development, e-commerce, modernization, code audits, and AI, mainly in Java, JavaScript, Python, and Ruby.

Austrian GmbH, named founders, contracts under Austrian law. Built for products that need founder-level continuity and judgement, not headcount.

COMPLIANCE AND SCALE FIT

ISO 27001 certified, enterprise-oriented, built to scale a professional delivery bench against large programs in banking, insurance, and logistics.

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The real difference, in practice

Objectbay is a genuinely established agency. Founded in 2006, around 70 people across Traun, Vienna, and Salzburg, ISO 27001 certified, with a published track record of 210+ projects and enterprise references including Raiffeisenverband Salzburg, A1, W&W Informatik, and VERITAS. Its core model is Software Engineering as a Service: dedicated, certified Scrum teams delivering on a biweekly cycle, mostly in Java, JavaScript, Python, and Ruby. For a company that needs to scale a professional delivery team against a large, well-scoped program, that is a solid offer, and we would not pretend otherwise.

The first real difference is what sits in the room with you. Objectbay sells a delivery team. We did not find a published product-management or CTO-level offer on their site, which means roadmap ownership and the decision of whether a feature should exist at all typically stay with you or with a separate hire. Wavect starts with two named founders who both carry product management and the technical call. On a program where scope is already settled and the job is execution at scale, that distinction may not matter. On a product still deciding what it should become, it usually decides the outcome.

The second difference is pricing you can read. We publish our ranges: a weekly outcome retainer from EUR 400 to EUR 20,000, or a fixed-price Werkvertrag with a Discovery Phase from EUR 3,500. Objectbay does not publish pricing, which is normal for a dedicated-team agency, and also means the engagement model and cost ceiling only surface after a sales call. Neither approach is wrong, but they are different ways to buy, and the difference is worth naming before you compare totals.

The third is scale fit and the guarantee. A 70-person agency is built for programs that need a bench; a two-founder senior team is built for products that need continuity and judgement from the same heads throughout. Objectbay advertises a “lifetime guarantee” and a “free exit after two sprints.” Those are attractive claims, and also worth pinning down in writing, because a blanket guarantee on custom software is inherently bounded by what the contract defines it to cover. Ask what remediation, scope, and IP terms actually apply. See the products we ship and hold both of us to the same bar.

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When each is the better call

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When Wavect is the better call

  • You need product judgement, not only delivery. Fractional CTO ownership, roadmap decisions, and pushback on scope come from the founders who ship the code.
  • You want pricing you can read before the call, and the option of a fixed-price Werkvertrag rather than an open dedicated-team rate.
  • Your build is contained enough that a 70-person shop is oversized, and continuity from the same two senior heads matters more than depth of bench.
  • Your references end up in front of investors and need product-and-technical judgement in one place, not just clean execution against a fixed spec.
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When Objectbay is the better call

  • You need a large dedicated team you can scale across parallel workstreams, and depth of bench matters more than founder-level continuity.
  • Your program is enterprise or regulated, and formal ISO 27001 certification is a hard procurement requirement.
  • You want a vendor with a twenty-year track record and a documented enterprise client base in banking, insurance, and logistics.
  • Your scope is settled and the job is professional execution at scale, where a dedicated Scrum team on a biweekly cycle is exactly the right shape.

If the bullets on the right describe your program, an established dedicated-team agency is a strong pick. If the bullets on the left describe it, talk to us.

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Relevant Wavect work

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FAQs

Yes. Objectbay is an established Austrian agency, founded 2006, around 70 people, ISO 27001 certified, with a documented enterprise client base and a 20-year track record. This page is not a quality argument against them. It is a fit comparison: their dedicated-team model and our senior founder-led model suit different situations, and we would rather you compare the two honestly than guess.
Shape and ownership. Objectbay staffs a dedicated Scrum team of professional engineers you can scale, with delivery-led process and no published product-management offer. Wavect is two named founders carrying both product management and the technical call, in a senior-only team. If the open question is execution at scale, Objectbay fits. If it is whether you are building the right product at all, that is the job our fractional CTO model exists for.
It depends, and Objectbay does not publish pricing, so you cannot compare up front. We publish our ranges: weekly retainers from EUR 400 to EUR 20,000 and a fixed-price Discovery Phase from EUR 3,500. Scope the same outcome with both, and pin down the engagement model, whether hourly, sprint, or time-and-materials, and the cost ceiling before comparing totals.
Objectbay advertises a lifetime guarantee on its work and a free exit after two sprints. Those are attractive claims worth confirming in the contract, because any guarantee on custom software is bounded by what the terms define it to cover. Ask specifically about defect remediation, scope changes, and IP ownership, so the guarantee means the same thing on paper as it does on the website.
Not that they publish. The offer is delivery: dedicated Scrum teams, modernization, e-commerce, and AI, with biweekly demos and clean handover. If your gap is purely execution capacity, that can be exactly right. If you also need someone to own the roadmap and push back on scope, that is the gap our fractional CTO model is built for.
Source: objectbay.com
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