Weird

Name

Weird

Legal name

The Weird Science B.V.

Website

https://weird.io

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Technology Consulting & Engineering Services

NAICS

Custom Computer Programming Services (541511), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151), Computer Systems Design Services (541512)

SIC

Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373), Services-Computer Programming Services (7371), Services-Management Consulting Services (8742)

akta.pro primary industry

DevOps, SRE & Platform Engineering Consulting (BPAHAEAK)

akta.pro secondary industries

Platform Engineering & Internal Developer Platforms (IDP) (BPAEAKAC), Customer Experience (CX) & Digital Experience (BPAHAEAC)

Keywords

• Technology staff augmentation
• Open source solutions
• Cloud-native development
• Engineering consulting services
• Digital transformation services

Headquarters

HQ city

Utrecht

HQ country

Netherlands

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Others

Revenue model

1. Staff Augmentation: Providing skilled tech professionals on-demand with flexible engagement models. Professionals are selected through rigorous processes and integrated seamlessly with client teams. Revenue generated through hourly or project-based billing for augmented talent.
2. CxO + Co-Creation Labs: Strategic leadership and collaborative innovation services bringing CxO-level executives together with clients for ideation, prototyping, and growth strategy development. Revenue generated through consulting engagements and strategic advisory engagements.
3. Open Source Solutions: Community-driven open source software solutions that can be customized and tailored to client needs. Revenue generated through customization services, implementation support, and ongoing maintenance for open source deployments.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Weird is a creative-technology services firm that supplies organizations with three integrated offerings: Staff Augmentation (on-demand skilled engineering and design professionals integrated into client teams), CxO + Co-Creation Labs (executive-level strategic collaboration for ideation, prototyping, and growth strategy), and Open Source Solutions (customization, deployment, and support of Weird's open source software portfolio). Underpinning these services is a proprietary open source product line — Id.IOT (industrial IoT gateway), RxEL (reactive web component framework), and QLF (serverless lambda orchestration) — used to deliver tangible technical outcomes for client projects.

Product overview

Weird is a creative technology company offering three core service lines: Staff Augmentation (on-demand skilled professionals), CxO + Co-Creation Labs (strategic leadership and collaborative innovation), and Open Source Solutions (community-driven software). The open source portfolio includes Id.IOT (industrial IoT gateway for edge computing and multi-cloud data pipelines), RxEl (lightweight reactive web components with one-way data binding), and QLF (serverless lambda orchestration with low-code workflow). These products address industrial automation, web development, and financial data processing use cases respectively.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Id.IOT: Industrial Internet of Things solution providing real-time communication conduit for devices, machines, and systems in industrial settings
• RxEL (Reactive HTML Element)
• QLF (Quarkus Lambda Flow)

Products and services

• Staff Augmentation On-demand staffing service supplying skilled technology professionals (engineers and designers) to client teams, with a rigorous selection process, express-mode rapid hiring, pay-as-you-go flexible engagement, and seamless integration with in-house teams. Target buyers are technology and engineering leaders facing talent gaps, project peaks, or specialized skill shortages.
• CxO + Co-Creation Labs Collaborative innovation service pairing organizations with Weird's top-tier CxO executives and creative technologists in a sandbox environment to brainstorm, ideate, prototype, and develop growth strategies using agile methodologies. Targeted at leaders needing strategic technology direction combined with execution support.
• Open Source Solutions Community-driven open source software solutions that Weird customizes, implements, and maintains for clients, offering adaptability, seamless integration, reduced licensing costs, and benefits from an evolving community ecosystem. Built on the Id.IOT, RxEL, and QLF open source projects.
• Id.IOT (Industrial IoT Gateway) Open-source industrial IoT gateway solution that runs on edge hardware (e.g., Raspberry Pi 4B) and bridges legacy industrial protocols (Modbus TCP/RTU) with modern cloud computing. Features observability, insights, monitoring, and alerting, with multi-cloud integration to Azure, AWS, GCP, Linode, and DigitalOcean. Used for industrial automation, real-time data collection, and Digital Twin scenarios.
• RxEL (Reactive HTML Element) Lightweight, intuitive, and flexible reactive web component solution built on W3C component blueprints. Provides high-speed one-way data binding, dynamic one-way data connectivity, and a proprietary DOM diffing algorithm with O(n) time complexity. Uses native JavaScript APIs including Proxies and Web Components with an ES6-inspired template engine.
• QLF (Quarkus Lambda Flow) Serverless lambda optimization solution featuring high-performance native executables within a low-code orchestrator. Includes a domain-specific language for data flow, a Quarkus extension for JVM-based lambda development, and a bespoke Kubernetes operator for serverless orchestration in cloud-native environments.

Quantifiable outcome

• Reduced billing allocation process from 9 hours to 30 minutes for Transpower
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Iquality: Dutch digital agency and software services firm offering custom development, cloud solutions, and UX/UI work for enterprise clients. Similar size, Dutch origin, and combination of branding/UX with cloud-native engineering services.
• Info Support: Large Dutch IT services firm providing custom software development, data, and cloud solutions with a similar staff-augmentation plus project delivery model. Comparable in terms of Dutch heritage, enterprise focus, and breadth of technology services.
• Luminis: Netherlands-based technology services company focused on cloud-native development, software engineering, and enterprise innovation. Direct peer given shared Dutch origin, comparable size, and overlap in cloud, Java, and modern software engineering services.
• OpenValue: Dutch IT consultancy offering software development, cloud, and data services with a similar staff-augmentation-plus-projects model. Direct peer based on shared Dutch geography, comparable headcount band, and enterprise client focus.
• Xpirit: Netherlands-origin technology consultancy specializing in Microsoft, DevOps, and cloud-native development with staff augmentation and project services. Comparable in size, geography, and engineering culture focus, though heavier on the Microsoft stack than Weird.
• Xebia: Dutch-headquartered IT consultancy with strong cloud-native, DevOps, and Agile practices, offering staff augmentation and managed services across multiple geographies. Closest direct comparable given shared Dutch origin, similar service mix (consulting + staff aug + training), and overlap in cloud-native/enterprise transformation engagements.

Broad incumbents

• HashiCorp (IBM): Provider of cloud infrastructure automation tooling (Terraform, Vault, Nomad) with associated consulting and services ecosystem. Comparable to Weird's Id.IOT and QLF open-source work in the infrastructure automation and serverless/cloud-native orchestration domain.
• Red Hat: Open-source enterprise software leader with a large consulting arm and a Quarkus/JBoss ecosystem. Comparable to Weird in the open-source solutions and Java/cloud-native engineering space, but at massive scale.
• Thoughtworks: Global technology consultancy with deep expertise in custom software, platform engineering, and design-led engineering — directly overlapping with Weird's service lines but at vastly greater scale and brand recognition.

Emerging players

• Mirantis: Specialist in Kubernetes, cloud-native infrastructure, and open-source platform engineering services. Comparable to Weird's QLF and cloud-native delivery practice, though much larger and more productized.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

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