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Context matters.

We believe business software should see
how everything connects.

In 20 years of running an ICT consultancy, the questions that took the most time were rarely the hard ones. They were the simple ones that needed a lot of context.

Can we take on another project? Why is this one over budget? Should we give that client a discount? The answers existed. They were just scattered across tools, spreadsheets, conversations and someone’s memory.

For a long time, I thought a better process, another checklist or another meeting would solve it. What we really needed was for the facts to know about each other.

A client saying yes to a new project is a fact. Knowing they still owe you for the last three changes the whole conversation. That’s context: the right facts, together, before the decision.

That’s why we built Aqtos BOSS*: to bring our operations under one roof. We’ve run our own company on it long enough that I no longer miss the ten-plus tabs.

Today, AI gives this idea another reason to exist. Most companies have access to the same models. The difference is what those models know about your business. If your team can’t find the context, your AI won’t either.

Our bet is simple: a business works best when its people, work and information connect. We’re building Aqtos so both your team and your AI can see the bigger picture, with access that respects each person’s permissions.

Built from experience

It started with
a working day
like yours.

We’ve run businesses, led global teams and built software used by millions. Aqtos grew out of a problem we kept living with ourselves.

Read the early Aqtos story
  1. 2014

    The idea takes shape.

    Running a distributed team meant piecing together work from too many places. The first wireframes began with a simple ambition: bring the operation under one roof.

  2. 2019

    A partnership takes shape.

    Damjan invited Riste to join as co-founder. Business experience met computer science, and the idea found the partnership it needed.

  3. 2020

    From the sketch to the system.

    The first code was pushed in May. Projects, people and business details began to take shape as parts of the same system.

  4. Today

    Our own working day runs on it.

    We use BOSS* to run our company. And as AI becomes part of everyday work, we’re building on the same foundation: useful, connected business context.

Our goal

A calmer way
to run your business.

When the details live together, your team spends less time chasing answers and more time doing the work that matters.

The founding team

Meet the people
building Aqtos.

Better business software starts with understanding both the people who use it and the systems that make it work.

Damjan Dano

Founder / Business & product

Damjan Dano

A four-time founder and tech entrepreneur whose twenty years running an ICT consultancy shaped the questions behind Aqtos.

Connect with Damjan
Riste Stojanov

Co-founder / Research & engineering

Riste Stojanov

A professor with a Ph.D. in Computer Science who brings research and engineering experience to the way Aqtos is built.

Connect with Riste

The bigger picture

How the Aqtos family
fits together.

BOSS* brings the working day together. DATA, BCG and AI build on the belief that business information becomes more useful when it connects.

BOSS*v2.0

The working day,
in one place.

A shared home for the projects, people, clients, time and money behind your business.

Explore BOSS*
A BOSS project board showing tasks and the people working on them
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your working day.

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