Bootstrapping engine · Amsterdam
We don’t “do software.”
We bootstrap category winners.
Vriend Studio is Ries Vriend’s product engine. Find a painful industry system. Build the operating layer people can’t run without. Prove it in the real world. Repeat. That’s the whole model.
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Three bets. One operating system for building them.
Live products first. Research that earns its keep. No museum of half-finished ideas.
Oteny
A trusted long-term virtual employee — private machine, real tools, real work delegated.
oteny.com → 02Crewradar
The operating system for specialized crewing. Aviation-grade ops, for people logistics.
crewradar.com → 03Power Pets Rescue
VR that borrows the power of animal synchrony — calm, connection, communication.
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We’ve done this before. At global scale.
Before Vriend Studio’s current stack, Ries founded FBO One (Amsterdam Software) — the worldwide standard for VIP business-aviation ground handling.
FBO One became the complete operations layer for FBOs: handling, fuel, multi-location control — the boring, mission-critical stuff that has to work at 03:00 when a jet lands. That’s not a slide deck. That’s a category standard. See fboone.com.
The playbook didn’t retire with the exit. It moved. Same demand for reliability. New industries. New products. Same refusal to ship toys.
Product · oteny.com
Oteny — hire a virtual employee.
Not a chat window.
An OtenyBot is a trusted, long-term teammate you delegate real work to. It runs on its own private computer — sealed off from everyone else’s — with memory that compounds, skills that grow, and tools that act in the world: a real browser, secure account links, scheduled jobs, code, and the systems you already run.
That means work chatbots only talk about. Read and process private email. Reach into a mission-critical ERP. File a government form the way a careful operator would — click by click, field by field — and hand you the receipt. Then it keeps going while you’re offline.
You talk to it where work already happens: Telegram, Teams, voice, and more. Give it a Talent — an open, checklist-grade role pack from the public catalog — and it becomes a specialist: ops, travel, research, a business lane you define. Oteny runs the machine and the model bills. You bring the job and the trust.
- Private always-on workstation — your data stays on your bot, not a shared tab
- Real reach: browser, logins, ERP, forms, files, schedules — not just answers
- Learns the long game: memory, skills, and Talents that compound with use
- Meets you on Telegram, Teams, voice — delegate without changing how you work
Product · crewradar.com
Crewradar — aviation-grade ops for crewing.
Specialized crewing agencies don’t fail because they lack spreadsheets. They fail because generic ERP doesn’t speak rotations, crew changes, credentials, or multi-country payroll. Crewradar does — on solid Odoo Enterprise foundations, with Wilma, an AI colleague that helps under your rights, not around them.
Same philosophy that made FBO One the ground-handling standard: systems that stay precise when the real world gets messy. Read the about page.
- Planning, dispatch, and live credential timelines
- Travel, housing, mobilization — one operational picture
- Multi-country finance without the double-entry circus
Research · Virtual reality
Power Pets Rescue — synchrony with animals, in VR.
Not every line starts as a sales deck. Some start as a question that won’t leave you alone: can the benefits of animal-assisted work — calm, connection, communication — travel into VR without losing the thing that makes them work? Power Pets Rescue is that experiment, made real.
Explore Power Pets RescueThe engine
Vriend Studio is a bootstrapping machine.
Founded and led by Ries Vriend — three decades building mission-critical enterprise software for industries where “mostly works” is a fireable offense.
First major win: FBO One, the global standard OS for VIP business-aviation ground handling — acquired by World Kinect Corporation, now owned by CAMP Systems (Hearst). That wasn’t a lifestyle project. It was a category locked down through ops obsession.
Vriend Studio is what comes next: a lean engine for spinning up the next operating systems — crewing, private AI teammates, and selective deep research — without waiting for permission from a committee. We stay close to operators. We ship. We compound.
Not “deliberately small.” Deliberately concentrated. Force goes where the wedge is sharpest.
Vriend Studio BV · Olympic Stadium 24 · 1076 DE Amsterdam
Contact
If the problem is real, talk to the person who ships.
Product, partnership, crew ops, AI teammates — one inbox. No maze.
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