Owner-managed
The people who own Portera lead your work. Decisions are made fast, and accountability sits with the people who own the business.
About Portera
Owner-managed. M-shaped. Committed to your outcome.
An AI, data and engineering company for maker businesses, headquartered in Amsterdam and working worldwide. We’ll prove it before you commit.
- Gartner awardfor Patient or Customer Innovation, 2024, with Danone
- Fastest-growingrecognised again by Het Financieele Dagblad as one of the fastest-growing companies in the Netherlands
- 14+ yearsengineering for maker businesses
- 20+ marketsserved across 3 continents, from 3 bases
Why Portera
Others bring the deck. We bring it to life.
We sit at the intersection between business, technology, and impact.
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Strategy × Execution
Together we write the plan, then build it, run it and prove what it is worth.
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Business × Technology
Engineers who understand the P&L as well as the platform it runs on.
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Sales × Operations
Commercial ambition, connected to the operations that have to deliver it.
Engineers, not advisors, who see a solution from the plan to the production line, because a part-built bridge is no bridge at all.
Why clients choose Portera
M-shaped people
Engineers deep in several disciplines at once, across software, data and AI, with the business acumen to run programmes alongside your teams.
Flexible deployment
Forward deployed, embedded, partnered or delegated. Mix models across teams, and change the balance as the work changes.
Committed to outcomes
No declaration of victory until you see real, quantified value. We are accountable for the outcome, not the hours.
Value realisation at the heart
A Value Realisation Office sizes the prize, sets the targets and tracks every build against evidenced value.
Client and sector knowledge
14+ years inside consumer goods, baby and juvenile, retail, manufacturing, and chemicals and base ingredients.
Want to see what this would mean in your business?
The Value Realisation Office, at the heart of what we do
Most AI programmes can’t say what they returned. Ours are built to. The Value Realisation Office replaces belief with evidence: it sizes the prize, prioritises the work that pays, and tracks every build against the value it was meant to deliver, including what the AI costs to run.
Consumer goods, in market
€109mannual savings already realised
€800m+size of prize identified, by 2028
94%of that prize wasn’t on the roadmap before
- 1Size the prizeEvidence, not belief, from your own data
- 2PrioritiseThe work with the highest, fastest return
- 3BuildInto production, with targets agreed up front
- 4Prove and trackValue measured, then reinvested
Headquartered in Amsterdam. Working worldwide.
Our teams sit in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Türkiye, and we operate wherever our clients do: from the United States to Singapore, across 20+ markets on three continents.
- HQAmsterdamPortera B.V.
Beethovenstraat 502
1082 PR Amsterdam - Bath, United KingdomPortera UK Ltd.
Waterloo House
Bradford Road, Bath - Istanbul, TürkiyeEngineering and delivery
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An M-shaped team
Deep in several technical disciplines at once, with the business acumen to run programmes alongside your teams.
Most people are experts in one thing. Our engineers go deep in more than one, across software, data and AI, and understand the business problem as well as the technology. It is why a Portera team can design, build and land a solution without handing it between specialists.
- Engineers
- Data scientists
- Solution architects
- Consultants
Read the piece: M-shaped people — the key to successful digital transformation
The people who do the work.
No account layer. The engineers and architects who design it are the ones who build it and sit with your team while it lands.
Trusted by the world’s leading companies
Client and sector knowledge
Years inside the sectors that make things, and specialists who know them.
- 14+yearsConsumer goods
- 14+yearsBaby and juvenile
- 5+yearsRetail
- 14+yearsManufacturing
- 6+yearsChemicals and base ingredients
Technology partners and specialisms.
Our Microsoft Advanced Specialisation in Data & AI sits alongside our Claude and Databricks partnerships. We work across the wider technology ecosystem to fit your enterprise.
Test us first: 1 day, 30 days or 90 days.
We’re happy to prove it before you commit. Choose the pace, and we start the week you say go.
1 day
The operating model session
A working session with your leadership team. We map how your systems, data and teams connect today, and show how Portera Connectoom™ has re-engineered the same picture elsewhere. No deck follow-up unless you ask for one.
You leave withA shared view of where re-engineering your operating model drives the most performance.
30 days
The diagnostic
We map your systems, data flows and workflows against the layers of Portera Connectoom™, baseline growth potential and cost impact, and surface the three highest-value places to orchestrate first. Fixed scope, fixed price.
You leave withA modelled Portera Connectoom™ blueprint for your enterprise, and its value case.
90 days
The build sprint
Portera Connectoom™ stood up over your existing systems for one priority workflow: signals connected, memory in place, and the first automation live in production.
You leave withProof of performance delivered, with P&L impact quantified.
Meet our clients. We’ll connect you.
- €109mannual savings realised
- 5×market share growth
- 3.5 mofrom plan to production
- Gartneraward-winning platform
Hear how it went from the people who lived it, in a business like yours. Results as reported by our clients.
Want to talk?
Share with us the key priorities you have, and we will come prepared for how Portera can work for you.