Services
Open source at the coreRemote or on-siteThe product is free. The shortcut is not.
bino is open source and stays open source — you can run all of it without ever talking to us. What we sell is the time it takes off your team: the standard designed properly the first time, someone accountable when a build breaks at month-end, and the infrastructure run by the people who wrote it.
- Remote or on-site
- German or English
- Hosting in the EU
- The core stays free
Why teams ask
The tool is the easy part
Reporting as code rarely fails on the technology. It fails when nobody owns the visual standard, when the first report is built by trial and error, or when the pipeline breaks the week the numbers are due.
Get the standard right once
IBCS is a discipline, not a setting. We work through your scenarios, variances and naming with the people who will maintain them, so the first template is the one you keep.
Skip the first three months
Your team learns the manifest format on a report that matters, with us beside them — instead of rediscovering it from the docs while the month-end deadline runs.
Someone accountable
When a build fails on close day, an SLA and a direct line to the people who wrote the engine is worth more than any dashboard tool’s support portal.
Infrastructure off your plate
A private registry and a sandbox for your teams, run and updated by us in the EU — so your platform team never has to add bino to its list.
How it runs
Four steps, and you can stop after any of them
Nothing here is a long-term commitment. Most engagements start small, and several end because the team no longer needs us — which is the point.
- 01
A call
Half an hour on what you report today, who reads it, and what hurts. If bino is the wrong tool for it, we say so on that call.
- 02
One real report
We build a report you actually publish, together with the people who will own it — your data, your layout, your close.
- 03
Handover
The definition lives in your repository, the build runs in your pipeline. We write down what we decided and why, and your team takes it from there.
- 04
Whatever is left
Support if you want a response time in writing, hosting if you would rather not run it, or nothing at all.
Open core
What you pay for, and what you never have to.
The line is worth being explicit about, because open-core products are usually vague on it. Nothing you need to build and publish reports sits behind a paywall.
Always free
free- bino cli — every feature, no seat limits, no gated flags.
- The public sandbox and the public registry.
- The VS Code extension, the language server and the MCP server.
- The documentation, the templates and community support in GitHub Discussions.
What we charge for
paid- Our time — coaching, workshops, and building your first reports with you.
- A written response time and prioritised fixes.
- Running the registry and the sandbox for you, in the EU.
- A commercial licence, when the AGPL does not fit your policy.
Engagements
Four ways to work with us
Priced per engagement or per organisation, never per seat. Tell us the situation and we will say which of these fits — including "none of them".
IBCS coaching & training
Hands-on help for teams introducing standardized, code-first reporting.
- IBCS® workshops for report authors and consumers
- We build your first reports together with your team
- Review of existing reports against the IBCS standard
- Remote or on-site, German or English
Enterprise support
Production-grade backing for teams that depend on bino.
- Guaranteed response times (SLA)
- Prioritized bug fixes and feature requests
- Direct line to the engineering team
- Upgrade and integration guidance
Managed hosting
We run bino registry and bino sandbox for your organization.
- Private registry: private packages, teams and roles
- Private sandbox for experimenting on internal data
- Backups, monitoring and updates included
- Hosting in the EU
Commercial licence
The same software, on terms that fit your policy.
- AGPL obligations lifted
- Embed bino in a closed-source product
- Operate a service on top of bino without publishing changes
- Written terms for procurement and legal
Practical detail
The questions that come up before a contract
What we need from you, what you get back, and where things run.
Coaching & workshops
- Remote or at your offices, in German or English.
- Workshops are run for two audiences: the people who author reports, and the people who read them — the second half is what usually makes IBCS stick.
- We work on your data and your reports, not on a training dataset.
- Existing reports can be reviewed against the standard without any bino adoption at all.
Support
- Response times are agreed in writing before the engagement starts.
- Your reports and feature requests are prioritised against our roadmap.
- You talk to the people who wrote the engine, not a first-level queue.
- Upgrades are our problem to explain — we tell you what changed and what it means for your manifests.
Managed hosting
- A dedicated registry and sandbox for your organisation, hosted in the EU.
- Private packages with teams and a viewer / member / maintainer / owner role ladder.
- Private sandboxes so teams can experiment on internal numbers.
- Backups, monitoring and updates are included, not extra.
- You can leave: the CLI speaks to any registry, and a sandbox exports a runnable project.
Running it yourself
- Both the registry and the sandbox ship as a single binary with the web UI embedded.
- Container images are published for both.
- We help with the deployment and stay available for it — you keep the keys.
- Nothing your teams write leaves your network.
Licensing
- bino cli is AGPL-3.0. Building your own reports with unmodified bino triggers no obligation at all.
- The commercial licence exists for closed-source embedding, SaaS on top of bino, and policies that exclude AGPL software.
- Priced per organisation, not per seat or per report.
- Written terms your procurement and legal teams can review.
Getting started
- One email with what you report today and who reads it is enough to begin.
- The first call is free and has no deck.
- If bino is not the right tool for your situation, we will tell you rather than sell you an engagement.
- Invoicing from Germany, in euro, with a VAT ID.
The products these services sit on
Not sure which fits?
Tell us where your reporting hurts — we will suggest the shortest path, even when that path does not involve us.