Run by one person, on purpose.

KiwiStack is a one-person managed IT shop, operated from Luxembourg by Corentin Dekimpe — Head of IT Risk & Compliance at a Luxembourg utility, with a Master's in Information System Security Management from the University of Luxembourg and years of hands-on engineering before that. The thesis is straightforward: small European companies pay enterprise prices for tools sized for enterprises, billed in dollars, with their data sitting under foreign jurisdictions whose recourse is weaker than what GDPR, NIS2 and EU courts give a European buyer. Most of what they actually need — mail, files, chat, video, devices, a private network, a credible security baseline — is now solvable as a single bundle, on open source, by one operator who knows the stack end-to-end.

Open source has caught up. OpenDesk — built by the German Center for Digital Sovereignty for federal administration — is mature enough that a 10-person studio in Liège can run on it without noticing. The work isn't in the software anymore; it's in operating it well: identity, devices, certificates, network, backups, audits — the boring discipline that carries over from a regulated-utility day job.

That operating discipline is what you're paying for, at €22 per person — roughly a third of the all-in cost on Microsoft plus a contractor. Every operational decision is published. Every customer reads the same DPA. Every tier ships the same security baseline, on EU infrastructure, under a Luxembourg-governed contract. There's no enterprise sales motion because there's no enterprise sales budget — and you're not paying for one.