# Who Cordango is for: companies buried in subscriptions and spreadsheets > Cordango is built for companies of ten to a few hundred people who run on a dozen subscriptions and a pile of spreadsheets, need German hosting and a real audit trail, and want their people to build with AI without starting a new silo every time. Source: https://www.cordango.com/who-cordango-is-for/ Language: en WHO IT IS FOR # Built for the company that outgrew the spreadsheet. Not an enterprise with a platform team, and not a solo side project. Cordango is for companies where the work has outgrown a shared spreadsheet, the subscription list keeps getting longer, and somebody has just discovered they can build their own tools with AI. [Book a demo →](https://www.cordango.com/contact/) [Four signs this is you →](https://www.cordango.com/who-cordango-is-for/#signs) The stack Acme Ltd, 40 people \# what we usually find at 40 people 14 subscriptions one per problem, three overlapping 6 spreadsheets the ones the company actually runs on 3 shared inboxes approvals, requests, onboarding 1 person who knows how all of it fits together ✗ one customer list nobody has it ## Four signs this is you. Most companies we talk to recognise at least three of these. If you recognise all four, we built this for you. SAAS #### The subscription list keeps growing Every problem got its own tool. Three of them hold a copy of your customer list, two are paid for by someone who has left, and the invoices arrive from eleven vendors in eleven formats. EXCEL #### The company still runs on spreadsheets The holiday planner, the asset list, the pipeline, the onboarding checklist. They work until the second person needs them, and then nobody is sure which file is current. GERMANY #### The data has to stay in Germany You need hosting you can name, a processing agreement you can hand to a customer, and a record of who changed what. Not for a certificate on the wall, for the next audit and the next tender. AI #### People are already building with AI Somebody made something genuinely useful last month in a tool nobody approved. The question is no longer whether to allow it. It is where it should run and who owns it afterwards. None of these is a software problem on its own. Together they are the reason the fifth tool costs more than the first four. ## The size we build for. Most of the companies we work with have between ten and a few hundred people. Big enough that a spreadsheet with six editors is a real risk and that somebody has to answer for who saw what. Small enough that there is no platform team to ask and no budget for a six-month rollout. There is usually no IT department, or there is one person who is also doing three other jobs. That shapes the whole product. Nobody here has time to learn an app-building platform, and nobody wants to become the administrator of the tool they asked for. - SIZE Ten to a few hundred people, growing - IT No IT department, or one person wearing four hats - SKILL Somebody who can describe a process, not design a schema - BILL One platform to pay for, instead of eleven subscriptions [What you can build on it →](https://www.cordango.com/apps/) ## And the people inside it. The managing director is usually the one counting the subscriptions. The team lead is the one whose process lives in a spreadsheet and who has given up asking for software. The technical person, if there is one, is the one who quietly inherited every tool anybody ever built. Cordango is aimed at the first two. Somebody who understands the work describes it and gets a working app, and the technical person stops being the single point of failure because the app belongs to the company rather than to whoever set it up. - OWNS The process expert describes the app, in business words - SAFE The technical person stops inheriting other people's tools - CLEAR One place to answer where the data lives and who may see it [How describing an app works →](https://www.cordango.com/generate/) Who calls us First conversation \# who usually brings us in ✔ the managing director tired of the subscription list ✔ the ops or team lead owns the process, not the tooling ✔ the one technical person who ends up maintaining everything \# what they all ask first ? where does the data live ? what happens when the person who built it leaves ## German and EU by default, not as an upgrade. Cordango is built and hosted in Germany on EU infrastructure, GDPR-first. One data processing agreement instead of one per tool. One field-level history across every app, so who changed what is a question with an answer. Single sign-on is included rather than sold as an enterprise tier. It matters most at the moment somebody asks where a particular piece of company data actually sits. Across eleven subscriptions that question takes a week and three support tickets. Here it has one answer, and a new app does not add a new one. - DE Built and hosted in Germany, on EU infrastructure - GDPR One processing agreement, not one per tool - LOG Field-level history across every app - REVIEW A new app adds nothing new for a review to assess [Governance and hosting in detail →](https://www.cordango.com/security/) ## When Cordango is not the answer. — worth saying plainly Keep your payroll and your accounting where the law and your tax advisor expect them. Those are specialist products with specialist obligations, and replacing them with something you generated yourself is a bad trade. Cordango runs the operational apps around them. If you have a developer team that wants SQL and JavaScript against databases you already run, Retool, Appsmith and ToolJet are built for exactly that. If you must own the infrastructure, they self-host and we do not. And if you are an enterprise with a platform team and a five-year roadmap, you are not who we designed this for. We would rather you knew that before the trial than after it. - KEEP Payroll, accounting and anything with its own legal obligations - CODE Maximum SQL and JavaScript control lives elsewhere - HOST Cordango is a managed service. If you must own the servers, we lose that row [The comparisons, with sources →](https://www.cordango.com/vs/) MORE ## Further reading - [**What it does** The business software you can build, from a CRM to an Asana-style project app](https://www.cordango.com/apps/) - [**Use cases** See where Cordango fits best, with a real app behind each one](https://www.cordango.com/use-cases/) - [**Sample apps** Explore real apps you can install and make yours](https://www.cordango.com/templates/) - [**Replace spreadsheets** A process becomes an app with states, screens, rights and history](https://www.cordango.com/business-app-builder/) - [**Internal tools** Support queues, approvals and asset registers on one foundation](https://www.cordango.com/internal-tools/) - [**Governance built in** Identity, permissions and audit included](https://www.cordango.com/security/) - [**Describe what you need** Answer a few questions about the process, get a working app](https://www.cordango.com/generate/) NEXT ## Bring one process. We will turn it into an app. The fastest way to find out whether this fits your company is to watch one of your own processes become a working app. About 30 minutes, on a real company platform. [Book a demo →](https://www.cordango.com/contact/) [What you can build →](https://www.cordango.com/apps/)