The studio
About
Ficus & Co is a small Athens studio that builds custom internal software for Greek SMEs. We started by building our own — one of us runs a packaging business, and the spreadsheets broke.
Nikos Benakis
Product and engineering
I'm a Product Engineer, Growth Advisor and Fractional CTO based in Athens.
Over the past decade I've worked across banking, consulting and startups — enterprise at EY and Fiserv, core product at Workable, and Uizard from the sixth engineer until Miro acquired us.
Giannis [surname]
[Role line]
[Two sentences — the packaging business he runs, what he looks after there, and what he does in the studio.]
Where this came from
Built a quoting and production tool for our own packaging business, because the spreadsheets broke.
A supplier saw it and asked for the same. Then an accountant. Then a builder.
Ficus & Co — named after the studio cat, who attended every call.
How we build
We use a modern, boring stack — React, TypeScript and Supabase — and AI-assisted development that lets a small team move fast without cutting corners. You own the code and the data. Nothing is locked into us.
- React
- TypeScript
- Supabase
- PostgreSQL
- Lovable
- Claude
What we believe
Watch first, build second
The best spec is an afternoon next to the person doing the job.
A working version beats a document
You can click it in week one. Documents can't be clicked.
The client owns everything
Code and data in your accounts. No lock-in, ever.
Small is a feature
Two of us. The person who sits with you in discovery is the person who builds your tool and picks up the phone afterwards.
About the name
Ficus is the studio cat. She has attended every discovery call held from the office and has never once suggested a feature nobody needed. We try to live up to that.
2024
studio founded
GR
based in Athens, work nationwide
EL/EN
we work in both
Let's talk about your business
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