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One studio, one person accountable.
I’m Ben. I have built software and search for established companies since 2019. bss works is the studio I run: a small team, every project with me in the room, and nothing shipped that I would not run in my own company.
Working software, not a deck.
Every engagement ends with something running in your business: a system your team uses on Monday, a number you can check, and a person you can call.
Ben Strautmann · founder · New York, 2026 · founded in Monaco, working worldwide
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Extended Monaco
Official partner of the Principality’s national digital programme, helping local companies adopt digital tools.Trace
Our first product of our own: client-verification software for Monaco’s regulated professions, in production at tracemonaco.com.bss works
The studio refocuses on applied AI: agents that take over the admin, software built around your data, visibility in AI search. Same people, same standards.
A small team, so every client deals with the people actually building the project.
0projects delivered since 2019, from stores and apps to AI systems
0articles in our journal, cited by AI search engines
official partner of the national digital programme
0product of our own in production: Trace
trusted by established companies since 2019
BSS successfully brought our Shopify e-commerce vision to life, guiding the project with expertise and delivering it efficiently.
It was a real pleasure to work with BSS on our new website. They were attentive, quick, and worked extremely efficiently.
BSS helped us create our online store. They have been an excellent collaborator and Shopify Partner. Highly recommended!
Official Extended Monaco partnerthe Principality’s national digital programme
Shopify Partneraccredited partner for online shops
Framer Expertlisted expert for websites built on Framer
All twenty-four selected projects and six reviews: projects since 2019
What we believe, in five lines.
- A job, not a technology. We start from the hours someone loses, never from a model we want to use.
- Working software, every step. Prototypes on real data, systems in production, numbers you can check. No decks.
- People decide. Agents gather, draft and act within limits you set. Judgement stays with a person, always.
- Your data, your code. Inside your tools, EU-hosted by default, nothing used for training, everything handed over.
- We run what we build. On ourselves first: our journal, our product, our own inbox. Then for you.
See it rather than read it.
Trace
Trace is client-verification software for Monaco’s regulated professions, built and run by bss works. A person, company or vessel is checked against 18+ official sources, 120,000+ politically exposed persons, 810,000+ offshore entities and the press, in under three minutes, with a dated, fingerprinted PDF report. In production at tracemonaco.com.
product · 3 min per check
Found by AI search
An article a day in four languages, drafted by an agent from real questions and checked by a person. 169 articles cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google, +38% impressions in the first quarter. Our own journal, bss.mc.
retainer · +38% impressions
How we work
Small steps, each one paid back before the next: a free 30-minute quick-check, a two-week prototype on your real data, a build into your tools, then we run it and count the hours. Fixed prices per step, code you own, one person accountable.
case study
Talk to the person who builds it.
The quick-check is thirty minutes with the founder of bss works, not a sales team. Book a slot, or write first.
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