Why we built Veft.
Veft is the tooling a senior search consultant always wished they had — turned into the product.
A consultant's network is the business. But what a firm knows rarely lives in one place — and search-by-memory quietly breaks down. The judgement is there; the substrate underneath it isn't.
Veft is that substrate: the unglamorous work behind the longlist, with the lightest possible interface around producing it. It is built for European retained search — German-native, GDPR-rigorous, AI-native where it earns its place and restrained everywhere else.
Onboarded by hand, on purpose
We onboard every firm by hand right now. That's deliberate: at this stage the product is shaped one conversation at a time, with consultants who hold a high bar. If that's you, a demo is the start of it.
Held to a real standard
Veft is built with Georgia Stegmann — among the most sought-after boutique executive-search consultants in the German-speaking market, and the founder of Stegmann Consulting. The product has to survive contact with a real search, or it doesn't ship.
The person behind the product.
Veft is built by Christoph Menge. Chris started coding at eight, on a C64. While studying physics at LMU Munich, he founded the subscription-billing service Pactas in 2011 — today's Frisbii. After selling it, he spent eight years at Fielmann as CTO of Fielmann Ventures and Head of Enterprise Architecture, then led the merchant domain as Product Director at Cenomi, Saudi Arabia's leading retail group.
Veft turns that experience toward a craft that deserves better tooling: confidential work on personal data, where the discipline is part of the product. Chris is German and usually works somewhere between Europe and Southeast Asia.
When he's not working on software of some kind, you may find him in the kitchen or sailing — which are not mutually exclusive.
There is no sales department. If you write in, you get Chris.