PRO OFFICE

What PRO OFFICE does

PRO OFFICE is a founder-owned sole proprietorship established in November 2004 by Elke Hartwig in Volkertshausen, in the Hegau-Bodensee region of southern Germany. The firm provides a portfolio of nine commercial and administrative service modules to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and trades businesses: Marketing, Sales, Trade Shows, Office Organization, Back Office, Accounting, Translations, Web Presence, and Project Work. It also offers publicly certified sworn translation and court-interpreting services in French and English, and on-site or in-office administrative support. Operations are deliberately lean, with the founder handling client work directly and engaging handpicked partner subcontractors on a project basis to keep overhead low.

The business model is professional services delivered on a flexible, pay-as-you-go basis, either on-site at the client's premises or from PRO OFFICE's offices in Volkertshausen. Services are quoted per engagement rather than sold under fixed subscriptions or annual contracts, and no pricing is publicly disclosed. The technology stack is conventional: standard MS Office tooling for documents and templates, and commodity web-development languages (HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, JavaScript) plus CMS platforms (Joomla, Contao) and the Shopware e-commerce suite for client web projects. There is no proprietary platform, no mobile or SaaS product, no app, and no API.

Go-to-market is sales-led and relationship-driven through the company website (pro-office-ihr-service.de) and referrals within the local Hegau-Bodensee market. PRO OFFICE is privately held with no external investors, no subsidiaries, no funding rounds, no acquisitions, and no documented strategic partnerships; geographic scope is domestic and effectively sub-regional. The firm has operated continuously for over 20 years serving a reference base of roughly two dozen named local clients spanning trades, retail, manufacturing, legal, education, hospitality, and financial services.

Name

PRO OFFICE

Legal name

PRO OFFICE KAUFMÄNNISCHE DIENSTLEISTUNGEN PROJEKT- & SERVICEMANAGEMENT

Website

https://pro-office-ihr-service.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

2004

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

PRO OFFICE is a founder-owned German sole proprietorship, founded in 2004 in the Hegau-Bodensee region, providing nine commercial and administrative service modules — including marketing, back office, accounting, certified translations, and web development — to local SMEs and trades businesses on a flexible, pay-as-you-go basis.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Commercial Administrative Services

NAICS

Office Administrative Services (56111), Management Consulting Services (54161)

SIC

Services-Facilities Support Management Services (8744), Services-Management Services (8741)

akta.pro primary industry

Office Services & Supplies Management (Stationery, Inventory, Vendor Coordination) (IMAIALAH)

Keywords

• Commercial administration services
• Back office support
• Trade show services
• SME administrative support
• Accounting services

Headquarters

HQ city

Volkertshausen

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Commercial Services for SMEs: PRO OFFICE provides commercial and administrative services to trades businesses and small-to-medium enterprises on a flexible, as-needed basis. Services are delivered either at client premises or at PRO OFFICE's offices, with pricing based on actual services consumed rather than fixed overhead.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

PRO OFFICE provides on-demand commercial administrative services to small and mid-sized enterprises and trades businesses, delivered through nine modular service lines: Marketing, Sales, Trade Shows, Office Organization, Back Office, Accounting, Translations, Web Presence, and Project Work. Clients engage the firm on a flexible, pay-as-you-go basis, selecting the modules they need rather than committing to a full outsourcing contract. The company was founded in November 2004 by Elke Hartwig and operates in Volkertshausen in the Hegau-Bodensee region of Germany.

Product overview

PRO OFFICE is a commercial administrative services company offering a portfolio of nine service modules: Marketing, Sales (Vertrieb), Trade Shows (Messe), Office Organization, Back Office, Accounting (Rechnungswesen), Translations (Übersetzungen), Web Presence (Webpräsenz), and Project Work (Projektarbeit). The company serves small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) and craft businesses in the Hegau-Bodensee region of Germany. Services are delivered either on-site at the client's location or from PRO OFFICE's own offices. The offerings are structured as discrete service modules that can be engaged individually or as a comprehensive package, providing flexible commercial and administrative support to business clients.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Marketing services Marketing support services delivered to SMEs and trades businesses on an on-demand basis.
• Sales (Vertrieb) support Sales support services delivered to SMEs and trades businesses on an on-demand basis.
• Trade show (Messe) services Trade show support services for SMEs and trades businesses, including trade show preparation and on-site/back-office support.
• Office organization (Büroorganisation) Office organization services delivered to SMEs and trades businesses on an on-demand basis.
• Back office services Back office administrative services delivered to SMEs and trades businesses on an on-demand basis.
• Accounting (Rechnungswesen) services Accounting services delivered to SMEs and trades businesses on an on-demand basis.
• Translation services Translation services delivered to SMEs and trades businesses on an on-demand basis.
• Web presence (Webpräsenz) services Web presence services delivered to SMEs and trades businesses on an on-demand basis.
• Project work (Projektarbeit) services Project work services delivered to SMEs and trades businesses on an on-demand basis.

Named customers23 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Emerging players

• WorkGenius: Digital marketplace for freelance administrative, marketing, and business support talent. Competes for the same SME demand for flexible admin and project services but via a tech-enabled platform model rather than local on-site delivery.
• GULP (Randstad): German freelance and project-services platform (now part of Randstad) specializing in IT, web, and commercial project placements. Overlaps with PRO OFFICE's web design, project work, and flexible professional services offerings through a digital marketplace.
• Personio: HR and people-operations SaaS platform for SMEs in Germany. Adjacent to PRO OFFICE's HR/project-work services, displacing in-house administrative HR functions with software — a substitute rather than direct competitor, but serving the same SME buyer.

Broad incumbents

• Randstad Deutschland: Large German staffing and workforce-solutions incumbent. Offers overlapping capabilities in administrative and back-office placement and managed services, but as part of a much broader portfolio rather than specializing in PRO OFFICE's local SME niche.
• Adecco Germany: Global staffing leader with German operations providing office, admin, and commercial support to businesses. Comparable in flexible admin service delivery to SMEs, though at significantly larger scale and broader geographic footprint.

Others

• Lexware (Haufe-Lexware): SME accounting and business-management software suite from Haufe-Lexware. Serves the same SME accounting needs that PRO OFFICE addresses manually through its Rechnungswesen service, representing a software-substitute rather than a direct service competitor.

Direct peers

• DIS AG: German staffing firm specializing in commercial/administrative and skilled-trades placements. Comparable to PRO OFFICE in serving SMEs and trades businesses with flexible administrative talent on a pay-as-you-go basis, though operating at significantly larger scale.
• Datev eG: German cooperative providing accounting, tax, and business consulting software and services primarily to SMEs and tax advisors. Overlaps with PRO OFFICE's accounting and SME commercial-services portfolio in the same German SME segment.
• Robert Half (OfficeTeam): Global staffing firm with a dedicated OfficeTeam division placing administrative and office-support professionals. Closely comparable business model of providing flexible administrative capacity to businesses that lack in-house resources.
• Haufe Group (Haufe-Lexware): German provider of business content, software, and services for SMEs and HR/tax professionals, including the Lexware accounting suite. Comparable target customer (German SMEs) and overlapping service categories in office organization, accounting, and HR-adjacent support.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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

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

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