About
A small practice, deliberately.
Balzer Consulting is an independent advisory built around one principle: the people who design the work should be the people doing it.
Senior practitioners only.
The firm operates as a senior-only practice. Engagements are scoped, designed and delivered by the same hands. When additional capacity is needed, we bring in a small network of trusted specialists — never an offshored junior team, never a name on a slide we haven't worked with directly.
That structure has consequences. It limits how many clients we can serve simultaneously. It also means every engagement gets the kind of attention that, in larger firms, is reserved for the introductory pitch.
What we believe
Software is an organisational decision before it is a technical one.
The choice of architecture, platform and process shapes who can be hired, what can be changed later, and how a company will look in five years. We treat technology decisions as the strategic decisions they are — and write them down so they survive a leadership change.
Strategy is what survives contact with shipping.
A plan that does not yield code, customers or invoices is not a plan. We work in tight iterations with explicit acceptance criteria so that strategy proves itself in the artefacts it produces.
Continuity is a deliverable.
The best sign of a successful engagement is that the company keeps moving without us. We document, train, and hand over by default — not as an afterthought.
Where we work
Switzerland and the wider DACH region, with selected clients across Europe. Engagements are typically delivered remotely with structured on-site days at meaningful inflection points — kickoffs, architecture reviews, leadership offsites, and major releases.
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