References · Case studies
Our projects.
Concrete solutions for real problems — with results in numbers. Over the years, more than 100 projects have been delivered for and with clients, many of them before vona – here we show a selection from AI integration, automation, apps, design and SEO/GEO, plus our own in-house projects: what was the problem, how did we solve it and what did it bring? Every figure shows where it comes from.
01 · Case studies
Selected projects, real results.
Pick an area or open a project directly: every case study shows problem, solution and result with numbers.
The client projects are anonymized and come from real work. “In-house” marks a project vona built for itself. Projects for LANAKILA, our owner’s brand, are labeled as such, as are René Mattis’s private project MaxxLevel and RENEKI as a vona product. Every figure shows where it comes from: most results were reported to us by the clients after launch (partly measured, partly estimated); some we measured ourselves or extrapolated from time and number of cases. Scope figures such as pages, fields or items come from the project itself.
Spotlight · our own tool17 · In-house · AI integration
vona Cockpit: running the website by chat and voice
Our website keeps growing – with a blog, an AI weekly review, an AI tools directory, job postings and a newsletter. The vona Cockpit brings it all together in a Mac app of our own: changes by chat or voice input, SEO and GEO always in view – and nothing goes online before it has been editorially reviewed and approved.
- Chat + voicechange and extend the website by instruction – typed or spoken
- 14 areasfrom the weekly review to AI visibility in one app
- 0 stepsgo out without editorial review and approval
01 · AI integration · E-commerce
AI customer advisor for online retail
A growing online retailer was struggling with rising support volume. According to the client, around 70% of tickets were standard questions — which the team answered from scratch every day.
68%of inquiries handled without staff · according to the client
View case study →02 · AI automation · Logistics
Automated document processing
A logistics provider processed hundreds of delivery notes, waybills and customs documents every day — manually, error-prone, slow.
85%less manual data entry · according to the client
View case study →03 · Corporate design · Web development
Corporate design & website for B2B SaaS
A B2B software provider was growing fast — its visual identity and website weren't keeping up. No consistent design, no design system, no clear brand image.
6 wksfrom briefing to launch
View case study →04 · GEO · E-commerce
Automated GEO optimization for an online store
A large online retailer was barely visible in AI-powered search systems — despite good Google rankings. As the share of AI search grew, it was missing out on qualified traffic.
800 pagesoptimized automatically in 3 days
View case study →05 · AI integration · Events & catering
Automated quote generation
An event and catering business created quotes manually from close to 50 templates — based on incomplete form submissions. Time-consuming, error-prone, not scalable.
120 min → 3 minquote generation from inquiry to PDF delivery · according to the client
View case study →07 · AI integration · Recruitment
Automated job postings
A recruitment agency for physicians entered clinics' job postings by hand — up to 30 minutes per listing, 40 fields, error-prone and barely scalable.
> 80%time saved per job posting · our estimate
View case study →06 · AI integration · Fashion
AI product images instead of photo shoots
LANAKILA, the Leipzig sports brand of Sylvia Michalk, runs an online store with an extensive product range. Every new collection required expensive photo shoots — time-consuming, costly, barely scalable.
0 shootsneeded for new product images · according to LANAKILA
View case study →08 · AI automation · E-commerce
Automated competitor analysis
An international online store operator lost hours every week manually checking competitors' prices and rankings — expensive, error-prone and barely scalable.
> 75%time and cost savings compared to manual analysis · our estimate
View case study →09 · AI integration · iOS app
AI framing preview for specialty retail
A picture framing and art restoration business regularly lost customers during the consultation — because customers simply couldn't picture the finished result.
~10 sAI generation per framing preview · measured
View case study →10 · AI automation · SEO
10,000 items — new copy, new images.
A reseller with around 10,000 items from dozens of brands barely ranked in search engines — because nearly all product copy and images had been taken over directly from the manufacturers.
10,000items with completely new copy and images
View case study →11 · iOS app · Custom development
Birdy: one app instead of five workarounds.
LANAKILA, the Leipzig sports brand of Sylvia Michalk, produces custom designs to order and coordinated orders, logistics and inventory across multiple systems, WhatsApp groups and manual interventions — daily, error-prone, frustrating.
5 → 1process gaps consolidated into one app
View case study →18 · App development · E-commerce
LANAKILA Shopping App: shop, design your own, share.
For LANAKILA, the Leipzig sports brand of Sylvia Michalk, we built a native shopping app for iPhone and iPad: catalog, wishlist, cart and checkout with Apple Pay – plus the LANAKILA Designer for custom jerseys and an area where athletes share photos and videos straight from the app.
iPhone + iPadone native SwiftUI app, connected through a custom middleware
View case study →19 · App development · Community
LANAKILA Media App: photos and videos straight to the team.
For LANAKILA, the Leipzig sports brand of Sylvia Michalk, we built a native app for iPhone and iPad that lets athletes send photos and videos straight to the team – without an account, even for 3 GB videos, in the background and resumable. A person reviews every submission first.
3 GBper file, up to 500 photos and videos at once
View case study →20 · App development · Fitness
MaxxLevel: a fitness app for kids that never nags.
MaxxLevel is a private project: René Mattis designed and developed the app together with his son. Kids set up a weekly plan, tick things off every day and see their progress – no reminders about misses, no red days, no account and no server.
No serverno account, no tracking – data stays on the device and in the private iCloud space
View case study →21 · AI integration · Desktop app
RENEKI: AI image generation for teams, as a desktop app.
RENEKI is a vona desktop app for macOS and Windows, built for LANAKILA. Teams use it to create new image motifs from product photos – with one-click prompt building blocks, tokens and costs per image, and a web app that centrally manages users, models and building blocks.
macOS + Windowsone desktop app, local and usable without a server connection
View case study →12 · AI integration · E-commerce
Returns & product questions: AI writes the reply
An online retailer answered customer emails about returns and about ordered items by hand — every message with a long thread, many similar cases. That tied up time and expertise in customer service and led to replies worded differently from case to case.
> 70%time saved handling the emails · according to the client
View case study →14 · In-house · AI integration
Self-hosted AI shop assistant with n8n and WooCommerce
A chatbot for WordPress and WooCommerce that answers questions about products, sizes, prices, shipping costs and delivery times – entirely on our own server, without cloud AI. Built and tested in a demo shop.
100 %self-hosted: n8n, Ollama and Postgres on our own Ubuntu server
View case study →15 · In-house · Automation
Automated newsletter from blog and shop – with n8n and Listmonk
A workflow that builds a newsletter from blog posts and products of a WordPress shop, creates it as a campaign in Listmonk and sends it at a set time – self-hosted and without assembling anything by hand. Built and tested in a demo shop.
3 APIsconnected: WordPress, WooCommerce and Listmonk
View case study →16 · In-house · App development
Shopping app with AI assistant – built with Replit
A multilingual progressive web app for a WooCommerce shop: with an AI shop assistant, push notifications for offers and order status, and checkout via WooCommerce. Built with the AI development tool Replit around ten times faster than the conventional way, by our own estimate.
≈ 10×faster to build than the conventional way (our estimate)
View case study →22 · In-house · Web app
TypeGrid: design your own pixel fonts, right in the browser.
Draw letters on a grid, melt the pixels into smooth, liquid shapes and download the result as a real font. TypeGrid runs entirely in the browser – no account, no server, no upload.
0 uploadsall drafts stay in the browser – no account, no server, no tracking
View case study →13 · In-house · AI integration
AI Weekly Review: collected automatically, approved by humans
The AI world moves faster than any team can keep up with. We built a workflow that collects the most important news every week and delivers a bilingual draft — published only after human review.
18selected sources the workflow reads every week
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