Initiative 04 — International reach: working across the EU

01Where we are now

CodeXon is registered in Bratislava and works in Slovak and English. Most enquiries so far have come from Slovakia and from Slovak companies operating abroad. The next stage is to work directly with companies in other EU countries — not because the studio is out of local work, but because the work we want to do is larger than one market.

02The checklist before it is responsible

Selling across a border is mostly paperwork. Getting it wrong is not a technical failure but a legal one, and it lands on the client. These are the items that must be settled before an EU engagement is signed.

1. Invoicing and VAT handled correctly for a business customer in another member state, not guessed at.
2. A written contract that states scope, ownership of code and design, and what happens if we stop.
3. A data-processing position we can state plainly: what we store, where, for how long, and who can see it.
4. Clear insurance and liability terms for work performed for a foreign company.
5. A payment method that does not cost either side a fortune in transfer fees.

03How remote collaboration will actually work

Distance is a scheduling problem before it is a cultural one. The working method below is designed so that nobody waits a day for an answer they could have had in a minute.

1. A fixed weekly call inside the client's working morning — CET overlaps most of the EU comfortably.
2. Written decisions only: if it was not written down, it was not agreed.
3. A shared board showing what is in progress, blocked or waiting for a decision.
4. Screen recordings for anything too long to type, so the client can watch it at nine at night.
5. Named contacts on both sides, so a question never has to find its way to the right person.

04What we will not promise

A studio three time zones away can offer coverage we cannot. We will say so rather than pretend.

No out-of-hours coverage, no local-language content writing we cannot fact-check, and no claim of being a company in the client's country. CodeXon is Slovak, remote, and reachable in CET.

05How we will know it is working

The measure is not how many countries appear in a slide deck. It is whether a client in another country would start a second project with us, and whether the paperwork held up the first time.

1. First EU client engaged with a clean contract and correct invoicing.
2. No surprise VAT or data-protection questions raised after the project started.
3. A repeat project from a client outside Slovakia.