The operating system for builder organizations

Become a builder organization.

With Canvas everyone becomes a Builder. Now, every non-engineer can build production ready software using AI. Your people build, management keeps full control. 

AI runs in Germany, no US provider No setup fee, no lock-in Your code is yours 
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The idea

What is a builder organization?

An organization where not just developers, but every employee can build and contribute his own software. Once AI makes building cheap, the bottleneck is no longer the code — it's the organization itself: With Canvas you give all your employees the tools and infrastructure they need to build while you keep full control over the code, the security, the scalability and the deployment. 

Tuesday, 10:17

The Controller

Builds a contribution-margin analysis in two hours that had three days blocked on the calendar. He stops waiting on BI — he writes the tool himself.

Sunday, 22:03

The Head of Sales

Writes a quoting tool over the weekend that fits her process exactly. No backlog, no ticket. By Monday morning it's live.

Wednesday, 08:45

The Customer Support

Automates the onboarding process herself — instead of waiting weeks for an agency that doesn't know the company anyway.

Problems get solved where they occur — by the people who understand them best. That's the real AI lever: proximity to the problem.

The dilemma

Simplicity for your team.
Control for the organisation.

Anyone who wants to unlock this potential runs into an apparent contradiction — one most companies can't resolve.

On one hand: maximum simplicity

Your employees want to build, not spend days setting up a dev environment, configuring servers or wiring up AI tooling. If it isn't ready out of the box, nobody builds anything — and the potential fizzles out before it becomes visible.

On the other: don't lose control

Your standards, security requirements, compliance rules and cost budgets still apply — especially when dozens of employees write software in parallel. Without guardrails, you get shadow IT: a sprawl of island solutions no one maintains, reviews or understands.

Most companies manage only one of the two. They either let sprawl happen — or they lock everything down. Canvas is built so you get both at the same time.

Canvas is the software for it

One platform that solves both

Canvas makes production-ready software development easy for your builders — and gives your company full control over all of it. Two promises that belong together.

One platform, fully managed

Everything is wrapped into Canvas

Build, Git, CI/CD, deployment — it's all handled for you. No setup, no maintenance, nothing to worry about. Your people just build; Canvas takes care of everything underneath.

Included

Build

Browser-based · Claude Code / Private LLM, agents review along.

Included

Git

Versioned automatically, no setup.

Included

CI/CD

Build & deploy integrated, checks on every change.

Included

Deployment

Infrastructure as Code · isolated sandboxes (dev/staging/prod).

HARNESSCoding agents review every change — security · quality · tests · architecture · performance.
GUARDRAILSPolicy-as-code, active while building and in CI/CD — quality · scalability · security.
MANAGEMENTDelivery cockpit: who builds what · duplicate work · on-/offboarding · oversight (break-glass).
WHY IT WORKS  Canvas puts three layers underneath the whole process and is optimized to manage hundreds of builders and take as much work off their hands as possible.
Sovereign AI

No US model sees your data

Every app on Canvas is built by an open AI model that runs on our servers in Germany. Your data and your code never leave your company or the country. OpenAI and Anthropic never see either. We use Claude ourselves, but only to build Canvas, never in your projects.

Built on Canvas

The proof is what gets built

A CRM, a company operating system, a deck tool, a stock screener, foundation platforms. Real software, built by real teams on Canvas, across every department.

Request a demo

See Canvas in action

We'll show you in 30 minutes what Canvas could look like in your organization. No sales pitch — an honest tour of the platform with questions and answers.

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