— Hi, I'm Jonas.
I build software, automate processes, and write about what happens between code, people, and ROI.
Software developer in Munich · working with the DACH mid-market
New apps for the App Store, AI adoption consulting for the mid-market — and the next blog post.
München · DACH
— Projects
Own work and engagements. Here to show how I work, not as an exhaustive list.
— Apps
Apps track you. NetMute hangs up.
Finally see what your machine is doing.
Simulate processes, find the bottleneck, prove the fix in euros.
Never miss a deadline. Straight from your Excel sheet.
About to share that doc. Are you sure?
Your AI prompts, but reusable.
Scan, OCR, sign, done.
Measure what actually slows you down. Then automate.
Brain training backed by studies. Not vibes.
More apps on balane.app →
— Who I am
2011 – 2017 · Foundation before code
Clerk, designer, manager. The foundation first, the code later.
2018 – 2022 · People first
Business and digital psychology (1.4). Measure behaviour instead of guessing.
2018 – 2023 · Proof, not claims
Data into dashboards; at Hubert Burda Media, AI into editorial teams.
2023 – 2025 · Knows large organisations from inside
Pielen & Partner: a CRM initiative for a European car manufacturer. TOGAF.
since 2025 · Advises and builds it himself
Balane in Munich, tech lead at KI Management Solutions. A dozen of my own apps.
— Contact
About a project, an idea, AI and automation — or just because it’s interesting. I genuinely enjoy meeting new people. An email or a message on Instagram, LinkedIn or TikTok is enough.
— From the blog
What I am learning and thinking about — regularly updated.
“The End of History” is filed as the most famous failed prediction of the postwar era. But the title has two halves, and the second one describes exactly what everyone uses to refute the first. On recognition as a currency that cannot be divided, and on a state nobody maintains because it counts as reached.
44 percent was not a surprise. The curve has been climbing in public for five years, interrupted twice by a pause everyone mistook for a ceiling. Christopher Clark described how a system walks into catastrophe with its eyes open. His book is about 1914 and reads like the transcript of this election night.
Rhysida published 1.4 million files from Berlin's state administration: personnel records, plaintext passwords, a vulnerability analysis of the city's drinking water supply, contingency plans for the defence case. The environment that was breached is one of the most densely regulated in the country. Why that is not a contradiction, why regulation manufactures the loot, and what is left of the word secure once a handful of people with no address can put a German state under deadline.
Wittgenstein's Tractatus ends by telling you to throw it away. Before that it takes apart the question everyone asks wrongly: not how much you know, but which side the answer could even be on. It is not the side made of facts. With three drawn scenes that run as you scroll.