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title: "About Elchi Studios: company, team, way of working"
description: "Elchi Studios, in Oberägeri, Switzerland, builds software for companies and administrations with its own development team and runs it itself. Founded in 2024 by Samuel Krauss."
url: https://elchi.dev/en/ueber-uns
language: en
---

About

# We build software and run it ourselves.

Elchi Studios replaces slow, outdated processes in companies and public administrations with software that runs in Switzerland and the EU. What we build, we also run: on servers of our own, with open numbers, and with a name you can call.

founded

2024

Client projects since

December 2024

seat, canton of Zug

Oberägeri

servers of our own, since 3 October 2026

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## Who is behind it

Samuel Krauss founded Elchi Studios in Oberägeri in 2024 and runs the company as managing director. The software is built and operated by a team of developers, together with fixed partners for design and marketing. Whoever builds your project stays your contact, from the first conversation to day-to-day operation. When Samuel Krauss is not available, others from the team answer.

Samuel Krauss, Founder and managing director

[Talk to us](https://elchi.dev/en/kontakt)

## Small, and what that means for you

Elchi Studios is young and small. For you that means short paths: the people who build your project are the people you talk to, and a decision takes hours, not weeks. Much of the routine, such as backups, monitoring and shipping changes, is done by software the team wrote itself and whose work it measures.

## Outages so far

In the time Elchi Studios has run its clients' websites and its own services, we know of one outage: about 17 minutes on 8 June 2026. A third-party library we used for licence checks failed and took the whole system down. We no longer use it, and since then four independent monitors watch the services. Until then no monitor measured the availability, so we give no exact percentage for that time. status.elchi.dev now publishes the measured availability.

[What happened on 8 June 2026](https://elchi.dev/en/journal/seventeen-minutes-on-8-june-2026)

## How we work

### You talk to the person who builds it.

No sales department and no account manager in between. Whoever plans your project also writes the code and answers your questions.

### Numbers instead of adjectives.

We do not write fast and secure; we write what was measured, with what and when. And we add what is still missing.

### What is yours, you can take out.

Accounts, mailboxes, text, pictures and data can be exported in full at any time, without asking us.

### Our own platform, run by us.

Everything runs on our own software and our own cluster of servers. When one fails, another takes over.

## And if someone is not available?

A fair question to put to any company. With us, more than one person knows every system, and three things come on top: you can export your data yourself at any time, without us. Every installation is described as code and kept in version control, not in one head. And every change to our legal texts and services is published with its date.

## Who the contracting party is

Elchi Studios is a brand of Krauss Software, the sole proprietorship of Samuel Krauss in Oberägeri ZG, under Swiss law. The details are in the imprint.

[To the imprint](https://legal.elchi.dev/en/legal-notice)