Kernowerk is your outsourcing partner for day-to-day operations and strategic projects across data, finance, marketing, engineering, AI and strategy. One senior team delivers the work end to end, at a quality freelancers and FTE hires struggle to match, under one contract with one accountable owner. Switch us on like a subscription and scale up or down anytime.
The calibre of a senior hire, with the flexibility of a subscription.
About Kernowerk
No hiring wait. No onboarding. No fear of losing the person who runs it. Just a senior team, on call.
Growing companies rarely lack talented people, they lack time. Hiring one senior specialist takes 3 to 6 months to source and interview, then weeks more to onboard before they're actually productive, and the day they finally are, you're one resignation away from starting the whole search over. Our founding team lived this from the inside, spending 7+ years in senior roles at companies including Zalando, Uber, ImmoScout24, Lotto24 and Wayfair, and kept seeing the same pattern repeat: data, finance and marketing operations left understaffed, handed to freelancers nobody owned, or stalled behind a hire who hadn't started yet.
Kernowerk removes the wait entirely. No job posting to write, no candidates to screen, no ramp-up period to plan around. A senior, embedded team plugs into your company within days and runs the operational work itself, under one contract with one accountable Program Manager. You spend your time growing the business; we run data, finance, marketing, engineering, AI and strategy operations in the background. Need more capacity for a launch or a fundraise? Scale up. Quiet quarter? Scale down. One month's notice, no severance, no backfill panic, no single point of failure.
Our mission is simple: senior-quality delivery, run end to end by us, for less than the cost of one full-time hire, and without the coordination tax of managing a freelancer roster. You get a whole team's coverage and one Program Manager accountable for outcomes, not a headcount line on your payroll or a patchwork of contractor invoices.
Every specialist has 7+ years leading this exact function. No juniors learning on your budget.
We work inside your tools and workflows, under our own management, not yours.
A fixed monthly subscription for a set number of hours, with the outcomes we deliver tracked and reported every month.
Data, finance, marketing, engineering, AI and strategy, coordinated by one Program Manager.
Kernowerk the company is new. The people running your work aren't: senior roles at fast-growing companies, not names pulled from a freelancer marketplace.
The Problem
Fragmented across a dozen different tools
Reporting takes days, decisions take weeks
Still running on spreadsheets
Marketing and revenue reports disagree
3 to 6 months and €90k+ per senior hire
You don't need another hire to manage. You need a team that runs the work itself, starting this week.
What We Do
We don't just staff these functions, we run them. From raw data to strategic decisions, our team executes every layer of your business intelligence, finance, marketing and technology stack.
How We Work
Domain experts work in parallel, coordinated by a dedicated Program Manager, so you never have to.
Tell your Program Manager what the business needs. No juggling three freelancers, no chasing updates across contractors.
Goals become a prioritised weekly plan, split across the right experts from our bench: marketing, finance, engineering, data, AI.
Senior specialists execute in their domains while the PM keeps dependencies aligned, quality checked and deadlines on track.
A regular weekly update on progress and one monthly invoice. Scale hours up or down each month, or shift them freely between your chosen domains.
The Process
From first call to first delivery in under a week. No recruitment, no onboarding chaos, no handholding.
30 minutes on a video call. We learn your challenge, your current stack and what "done" looks like. You walk away with clarity on scope and a rough price range, not a sales pitch.
A one-page proposal in your inbox within 48 hours: scope, timeline, pricing and your first deliverable, named. No ambiguity, no surprise invoices.
We get least-privilege access to your systems, set up a shared Slack channel, and start work the same week. Async-first, a written weekly update every Friday, full visibility throughout.
Most clients expand to a monthly retainer: a dedicated Program Manager, a senior team on demand, a written weekly update, and one invoice. Cancel with 1 month's notice.
Why Kernowerk
Outsourced operations and strategic projects, delivered by a senior team, not a freelancer roulette or a slow FTE hire. One contract for your whole company.
A senior specialist costs €90 to 130k/yr all-in. Our retainers start at €2.5k/mo, and you get a whole team, not one person.
Retainer clients get a named Program Manager who coordinates work across every department: one point of contact, zero dropped balls between teams.
The realistic alternative isn't one hire, it's a patchwork: an in-house data engineer, a fractional CFO, and a marketing agency retainer, each on a separate contract, invoice and onboarding. Data, Finance, Marketing, Engineering, AI: all under one retainer instead. Freelancers can't do this. Agencies charge for each vertical separately.
No 3-month hiring process. No juniors learning on your budget. We onboard fast and deliver from the first week.
No paid vacation, sick leave, social contributions, severance, recruiting fees or equipment. You pay for productive hours only, nothing else ever lands on your invoice.
Staffing and recruiting agencies place a person on your team who you then have to manage and direct. Our Program Manager scopes the work, our specialists execute it, and we're accountable for the deliverable landing in your business, not just for filling a seat.
Salary figures based on 2025 market salary reports for senior specialist roles; US and UK figures adjusted to local market rates.
Savings Calculator
Choose your capacity. We price it three ways and chart what you accumulate in savings.
Transparent Pricing
From €2,500/mo, less than half of one senior hire, cancel monthly.
Sprint
Sprint
Replaces: ad-hoc freelance support
per month · 20 hrs · 1 pillar
A funded trial, not a discount. Upgrade to Core Team within 60 days and your first Sprint month is credited.
Core Team
Core Team
Replaces: a senior in-house hire
per month · 50 hrs · 3 pillars · dedicated PM
Half the cost of one FTE, below senior freelancer rates, and your dedicated Program Manager coordinates everything.
Embedded
Embedded
Replaces: a full internal department
from 150 hrs · tailored to your team & scope
Full cross-departmental coverage. We act as your embedded tech and data leadership team.
Need a one-off project instead? We also work on fixed-scope engagements. Get in touch →
FAQ
Straight answers. No fluff.
Book a Call
Tell us your biggest challenge. We'll map out the plan, cost, and savings, no pitch, no obligation.
You'll speak directly with a founding partner: no sales team, no pitch deck.
Last updated: July 2026
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Last updated: July 2026
These Terms of Service govern the contractual relationship between Kernowerk Consulting ("Kernowerk", "we") and clients ("you") engaging our consulting services.
Kernowerk provides consulting, analytics, software development, and advisory services as agreed in individual service proposals or retainer agreements. The specific scope, deliverables, and timelines are defined per engagement in a written proposal or statement of work.
Monthly retainers are invoiced in advance. Up to 20% of a billing period's unused hours roll over to the following month; any remaining unused hours beyond that are forfeited. Extra hours beyond a plan's monthly allowance are billed at that plan's published ladder rate, always agreed in advance before work begins. Either party may terminate a retainer with 1 month's written notice.
Invoices are due within 14 days of issue. Late payments beyond 30 days accrue statutory interest pursuant to § 288 BGB. We reserve the right to pause work until outstanding invoices are settled.
Upon full payment, all custom deliverables produced exclusively for your engagement are assigned to you. Kernowerk retains ownership of pre-existing tools, frameworks, and methodologies used in delivery. We may reference the engagement type (not confidential specifics) in our portfolio.
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Kernowerk's liability is limited to direct damages up to the total fees paid in the three months preceding the claim. We are not liable for indirect, consequential, or lost-profit damages except in cases of gross negligence or wilful misconduct.
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