We stopped building software and hired an employee instead
This page is the reasoning behind Nika, including the parts that are not finished. If you are deciding whether to hand a real job to something like this, you should have both halves.
What an owner actually wants
Nobody running a shop, a clinic or a workshop wants software. They want the invoice pile gone before dinner. The gap between those two sentences is where almost every business tool quietly fails.
The wall: a tool still needs an operator
You have probably already tried to fix this. There was an app with a good demo, and for a fortnight it worked. Then it became another tab — and instead of typing invoices you were maintaining the thing that was supposed to type invoices. That is not a bad product. It is the model. A tool needs an operator, and the operator is still you, so a better tool cannot give back the hours.
The switch: what would I hand a person?
The only thing that ever took work off an owner's evening was somebody else doing it. So we stopped asking which features to build and asked what you would hand a person, if a person for this job were affordable. The answer is small and specific: a mailbox where the invoices arrive, the place where your records live, and one job you can describe on a sticky note. Not admin rights. Not your bank.
So that is what she is
Nika takes those two accesses and does one narrow job properly. She works like an employee works — she does the task, she asks when she is not sure instead of guessing, and she writes you a plain-language report at the end of the day. And she is paid the way work is paid, not the way software is sold: a fixed price per finished result, and nothing at all in a week with no work.
What we do not know yet
Nika is new, and her first employers are being onboarded now. Of the thirteen roles on the wall, one is live — the rest are job descriptions, not products. That is deliberate: the wall exists so employers can tell us which employee to build next, and reserving one is how you vote. We would rather say that plainly than show you a team that does not exist and hope you do not check.
Which is why the price of finding out is five euros
You can reserve a spot for nothing, and a founding balance starts at the price of a coffee — refundable, untouched until she actually finishes something. We are new and money is the only signal that cannot be faked, so that is the one we ask for.