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We build what should already exist. CRENO

We buildwhat shouldalready exist.

CRENO is an independent technology company building and operating its own digital products.

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CRENO / 001

The world doesn'tneed more software.It needssimpler systems.

Businesses and consumers still lose time to processes built around forms, spreadsheets, documents, disconnected software and manual work. We look for those problems, and build the product we believe should already exist.

What the process looks like now
CRENO system

One simple product.

What the process looks like now: PDF, Excel, Email, Database, Form, Calculation, Rules, Manual check. CRENO system. One simple product.

CRENO / PORTFOLIO

Built by CRENO.

CRENO identified, designed, built and launched every product here, and still runs each one. None of them were built for a client.

01 / SubsidieThuisLIVEGovtech / Consumer service

Subsidies.Without thecomplexity.

Dutch homeowners insulate, glaze or install a heat pump, and the subsidy for it arrives without them touching a government form.

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subsidiethuis.nl
The SubsidieThuis.nl subsidy check, as a homeowner sees it.

Hundreds of rules.One simple experience.

Behind it: document understanding, measure detection, rule validation against the current scheme, amount calculation, dossier assembly, and filing with RVO as the applicant's authorised agent. A person signs off on every dossier before it goes out.

Check
Free · two minutes
Fee
€64.99 one measure · €84.99 two or more
Payment
Only after the subsidy is granted
Filing
By CRENO as authorised agent, no DigiD needed

What happens behind the interface

  1. InvoicePDF / image
  2. Document analysisExtraction
  3. Measure detectedClassification
  4. Data verifiedCross-check
  5. Rules checkedScheme logic
  6. Subsidy calculatedAmount
  7. Human reviewSign-off
  8. Application filedOn behalf of
02 / MijnMaatLIVEField software / Professional tool

Measured on site.Reported beforeyou leave.

A measuring app for window frames. Draw, recognise and report every frame from the job it was measured on.

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mijnmaat.app
MijnMaat drawing a window frame with its real division of panes.

The drawingbecomes the data.

The drawing is not a picture. It is a structured model of stiles, rails and panes, so the same act of drawing produces the measurement report and the ISDE glass subsidy calculation at once.

Recognition
Frame layout detected from a photo
Devices
Phone, tablet and laptop, continuously synced
Output
Measurement report, photo download and ISDE glass subsidy
Reuse
Recurring layouts saved as templates

What happens behind the interface

  1. PhotoOn site
  2. Layout recognisedStarting point
  3. Frame drawnStiles · rails · panes
  4. Dimensions & specsStructured
  5. SyncedEvery device
  6. Measurement reportOne tap
  7. Subsidy calculatedISDE glass
03 / MesurLIVEConsumer / Nutrition and performance

Know exactlywhat to eattoday.

Calorie and macro targets, resolved into real meals with exact ingredient amounts.

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mesur.fit
A Mesur meal resolved to exact ingredient amounts.

A number in.Dinner out.

A solver works against the day's remaining calories and macros, the ingredient set, and the shape of a real meal, so the output is food a person would recognise, not a spreadsheet row that happens to hit a target.

Start
Free · no account needed
Setup
Ready in two minutes
Precision
Ingredient amounts to the gram

What happens behind the interface

  1. Targetskcal · P/C/F
  2. Ingredient setChosen
  3. Meal structureBowl · pasta · wrap
  4. Solve to the gramConstraint fit
  5. Day balancedRemaining budget
  6. Shopping listAggregated
CRENO / IN PROGRESS

Coming next.

The search for problems worth solving never stops. The products below are being built now. Nothing is published about them yet.

  • 04MaatScan
    IN DEVELOPMENT
  • 05SawPilot
    IN DEVELOPMENT
CRENO / APPROACH

Different markets.Same question.

Can this besimpler?

CRENO is not tied to one industry. We look for specific problems where technology can cause a disproportionate improvement. That is why our products can exist in completely different markets. The similarity is not the industry. The similarity is how the problem is approached.

  • SubsidieThuisGovtech / Consumer service
  • MijnMaatField software / Professional tool
  • MesurConsumer / Nutrition and performance
CRENO / SIGNALS

We look forfriction.

  • Too many steps.
  • Too much manual work.
  • Too many documents.
  • Too many rules.
  • Too much copying.
  • Too many spreadsheets.
  • Too much waiting.
  • Too much explaining.

That's usually where a product starts.

CRENO / METHOD

How we build.

0104
01

Find the friction

Find a specific problem where people are losing time, money or attention.

02

Understand the system

Understand the process, exceptions, data and rules underneath it.

03

Remove the complexity

Build the technology required to make the user's experience dramatically simpler.

04

Operate & improve

Launch it, observe real usage and continuously improve the product.

CRENO / ENGINE

AI isn'tthe product.

It's part ofthe engine.

We use modern AI systems where they genuinely remove work: document understanding, classification, data extraction, automation and intelligent interfaces. The objective isn't to put AI everywhere. The objective is to make software more capable while making the experience simpler.

The best automationfeels like nothing happened.

CRENO / SYSTEM

Complexity in.Simplicity out.

Input
  • Documents
  • Images
  • User data
  • Rules
  • APIs
  • Databases
CRENO system
  • Logic
  • Validation
  • Automation
  • AI
  • Processing
  • Calculation
Output
  • Answer
  • Decision
  • Calculation
  • Document
  • Application
  • Action
CRENO / EXPERIMENTS

Lab.

Not every experiment needs to become a company. Smaller tools, internal systems and prototypes are built here, and shown when they are worth showing.

Nothing published yet.

Work in the lab is not public until it holds up. When a tool is ready to be shown, it appears here.

Enter the lab
CRENO / STRUCTURE

Small by design.

Modern infrastructure, automation and AI make it possible to build products with far less organisational complexity than before. We prefer systems over overhead.

Less organisation.More system.

CRENO / PRINCIPLES
  • 01

    Simplicity is engineered.

    Simple products often require complicated systems.

  • 02

    Automate the repetition.

    Human attention should be spent where it matters.

  • 03

    Build the product.

    Don't make another workaround for a broken process.

  • 04

    Own the experience.

    From the first interaction to the final result.

  • 05

    Ship. Learn. Improve.

    Real usage beats assumptions.

  • 06

    Systems over headcount.

    Scale the software before scaling the organisation.

CRENO / COMPANY

Our own products.From idea to operation.

It started with putting up online concepts and keeping them running. Building products from nothing made one thing obvious: the interesting problem was rarely the website. It was the system behind it.

About CRENO

03 products are live.

The systembehind themis CRENO.

03 products are live. The system behind them is CRENO.