Noisy Cricket

What Noisy Cricket does

Noisy Cricket AB is a two-person software consultancy founded in 1999 by Johan Olofsson and David Olandersson in Ronneby, Blekinge, Sweden. The firm delivers custom AI, .NET, Blazor, and Azure systems for clients across manufacturing (Edlack, Ronneby Svets, IGHWeld), public sector (Film i Väst, Rödeby Energi), e-learning (Learnways), and enterprise (Volvo, Pfizer, United Nations), with an average engagement length of 8 years and over 90 client engagements delivered across 25 years.

The firm's core technical differentiators include six proprietary production systems (Drev e-commerce engine, WPS welding procedure management, HireFlow ATS, ProcessHub workflow automation, CaseFlow case management, Fundit document management) plus four mobile/desktop apps (iSkvalp, JuraDrop, Joucbox, Edubox). Architecture is built on .NET, ASP.NET Core, Blazor, Entity Framework Core, Azure, and Docker Swarm. AI capabilities are built on Microsoft Semantic Kernel with RAG-based search, autonomous agents, and self-hosted LLMs via Ollama for GDPR-compliant deployments. The firm applies formal verification (TLA+) and spec drift detection (Allium) to state machines — practices uncommon in boutique consultancies.

Revenue is generated through three streams: monthly IT partnership retainers (system stewardship, quarterly reviews, annual roadmaps), fixed-scope project delivery (60,000-2,500,000 SEK per project, no hourly billing), and managed hosting subscriptions (2,500-25,000 SEK/month). Go-to-market is direct sales with no sales team — clients email the two founders directly. Over 60% of revenue comes from clients outside Blekinge, including Stockholm, Gothenburg, Germany, and international markets. The firm is privately held by its two founders with no external investment disclosed.

Name

Noisy Cricket

Legal name

Noisy Cricket AB

Website

https://noisycricket.se

Company type

Private

Founded year

1999

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Noisy Cricket is a two-person Swedish software consultancy founded in 1999, delivering custom AI, .NET, and Blazor systems for manufacturing, public sector, and enterprise clients with 25 years of continuous founder involvement.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Ronneby

HQ country

Sweden

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. IT Partnership (Monthly Retainer): Monthly retainer for ongoing maintenance, availability, and oversight of a client's technical landscape. Covers system stewardship, vendor recommendations, quarterly reviews, and annual roadmap revision. No hourly incentives — revenue is not tied to problem volume.
2. Project-Based Delivery: Fixed-scope project pricing for new deliveries (websites, e-commerce, custom systems, AI integrations, app development). Scoping starts with 1–2 weeks of specification before a locked estimate. Projects typically range from 60,000–2,500,000 SEK depending on complexity. No time-and-materials.
3. Managed Hosting & Operations: Monthly hosting and operations contracts. Includes monitoring, security patching, daily backups with tested restores, certificate rotation, DNS management, GDPR documentation, and monthly reconciliation. Premium tier adds 24/7 incident response and quarterly cost/performance reports.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Noisy Cricket is a two-person senior software consultancy in Ronneby, Sweden, founded in 1999, that designs and builds custom .NET, Blazor, and AI-integrated systems for organizations that value senior engineering continuity over team size. The company delivers custom web and API systems, AI integrations built on Microsoft Semantic Kernel, a proprietary e-commerce engine called Drev, e-learning backends, and industrial manufacturing execution systems (MPS), sold via fixed-scope project engagements, monthly IT partnership retainers, and managed hosting subscriptions.

Product overview

Noisy Cricket is a technology consultancy specializing in AI-powered business solutions built on the Microsoft technology stack. The company offers a portfolio of modular products including Drev (e-commerce platform), WPS (welding procedure management), HireFlow (recruitment), ProcessHub (workflow automation), CaseFlow (case management), ClubDemo (membership management), and Fundit (document management). These products share integrated AI capabilities including knowledge retrieval, autonomous agents, and process automation powered by Microsoft Copilot Stack and Semantic Kernel. The portfolio includes both web-based platforms and mobile applications (iSkvalp, JuraDrop, Joucbox, Edubox) that extend functionality to mobile and specialized use cases.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Drev Proprietary e-commerce platform with integrated payment processing (Stripe, Klarna, Swish), accounting integrations (Fortnox, Visma), and ERP connectivity, supporting both B2B and B2C retail operations.
• WPS (Welding Procedure Specification) Welding Procedure Specification management system for industrial manufacturing, managing welding documentation, procedures, and compliance records including ISO 15614 certification.
• HireFlow Hiring and recruitment management platform for managing job applications, candidate tracking, and hiring workflows, including public-sector hiring.
• ProcessHub Business process automation and workflow management platform that orchestrates multi-step processes with AI-powered decision-making using Semantic Kernel.
• CaseFlow Case management system with AI-powered document processing, email notifications via Mailjet, payment integration via Stripe, and GDPR-compliant data handling.
• ClubDemo Club and membership management platform for managing member accounts, subscriptions, and club operations.
• Fundit Document and case management system with Public360 integration for government document archive, RAG-powered knowledge retrieval, and compliance with GDPR and ISO 27001. Available as Apache 2.0 open-source option.
• IT Partnership (Monthly Retainer) Monthly retainer for ongoing maintenance, availability, and oversight of a client's technical landscape, covering system stewardship, vendor recommendations, quarterly reviews, and annual roadmap revision. No hourly incentives — revenue is not tied to problem volume.
• Custom Software Project Delivery Fixed-scope project pricing for new deliveries including websites, e-commerce, custom systems, AI integrations, and app development. Scoping starts with 1–2 weeks of specification before a locked estimate.
• Managed Hosting & Operations Monthly hosting and operations contracts including monitoring, security patching, daily backups with tested restores, certificate rotation, DNS management, GDPR documentation, and monthly reconciliation. Premium tier adds 24/7 incident response and quarterly cost/performance reports.
• AI Integration Services LLM and agent systems built with Microsoft Semantic Kernel for orchestration, RAG-based search, guardrails, escalation logic, and audit trails, designed to survive production data, real users, and model failures.
• Web & API Development .NET 8 web apps, APIs, and platforms built for ten-year life expectancy, not for launch. Includes WordPress sites, React frontends, and ASP.NET Core backends on Azure.
• Manufacturing Execution Systems (MPS) Custom Manufacturing Execution Systems (MPS) that drive industrial processes to automotive tolerances, running 24/7 to support production lines (e.g., Edlack's electro-coating line since 2014).

Quantifiable outcome

• 12 years, same codebase, zero lost production batches for Edlack's 24/7 electro-coating line
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers12 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration23 records

AI capability5 records

Feature7 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• LearnwayscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLong-term backend development and Azure operations partner for Learnways since 2003 — one of Noisy Cricket's longest-standing client relationships. Noisy Cricket writes and maintains the backend infrastructure for Learnways' entire portfolio of Swedish web-based course sites.
• Film i VästcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerContinuous development and operations of Film i Väst's grant management system (GMS) since 2008 — covering financing, project tracking, and fund management for one of Europe's most acclaimed regional film funds.
• VolvominorStrategic or Co-development PartnerEnterprise software delivery. No further detail on scope or engagement length provided.
• PfizerminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerEnterprise software delivery. No further detail on scope or engagement length provided.
• United NationsminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerEnterprise software delivery. No further detail on scope or engagement length provided.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Cygni: Stockholm-headquartered tech consultancy known for premium Swedish .NET and full-stack talent on assignment. Comparable as a Nordic .NET talent provider competing for similar senior-developer mandates, though typically deployed on customer sites rather than delivering finished products like Noisy Cricket's Drev and CaseFlow.
• Solidify: Swedish boutique consultancy specializing in .NET, Azure, and DevOps with a focus on senior engineers and craftsmanship — very similar positioning to Noisy Cricket on stack, senior-bench model, and quality-first ethos, and competing for similar Microsoft-stack engagements in Scandinavia.
• Active Solution: Stockholm-based Microsoft Gold Partner focused on .NET, Azure, and Microsoft 365 solutions for Swedish enterprises and public sector. Closest comparable as a Nordic Microsoft-stack consultancy serving similar regulated-industry clients, though at significantly larger scale than Noisy Cricket's two-person workshop.

Broad incumbents

• Netlight: Premium Nordic IT and digital consultancy operating across Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Germany with a senior-consultant-led model. Comparable on senior-bench philosophy and Nordic enterprise client base, but with many more consultants and a broader service portfolio.
• Knowit: Nordic digital consultancy with deep Microsoft-stack, e-commerce, and public-sector practices across Sweden, Norway, and Finland. A broader incumbent overlapping on many of Noisy Cricket's client segments (Volvo, public sector, manufacturing) but operating at portfolio scale.
• Twoday: Nordic consultancy formed from the merger of several Microsoft-focused shops, with strong presence in Swedish .NET, Dynamics, and Azure engagements. Overlaps directly with Noisy Cricket's Microsoft-stack enterprise and public-sector work but at substantially greater scale.
• Sigma IT Consulting: Large Swedish IT consultancy with broad Microsoft, cloud, and custom-development practices serving many of the same enterprise and public-sector clients as Noisy Cricket. Differs in scale and broad-portfolio approach rather than the two-person senior-boutique model.
• Nexer (formerly Sigma Connectivity IT): Swedish-headquartered tech consultancy with .NET, Azure, AI, and industrial digitalization practices serving manufacturing and public-sector clients. Comparable to Noisy Cricket on Microsoft-stack and industrial software but as a substantially larger incumbent.
• Bouvet: Nordic consultancy with strong presence in Sweden and Norway, covering custom software, Microsoft, and public-sector digitalization — overlapping with Noisy Cricket on government, e-commerce, and integration work but as a much larger organization.
• HiQ: Swedish tech consultancy with strong .NET, embedded, and industrial-software practices serving Volvo, manufacturing, and public-sector clients across the Nordics. Direct overlap on Microsoft-stack enterprise and manufacturing engagements, though at much larger scale than Noisy Cricket's two-person workshop.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/noisycricketwebagency
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/noisy-cricket-ab
• Xx.com/noisy_cricket

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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