Casey at his kitchen table on a Tuesday afternoon. Wire-frame reading glasses, a faded chambray shirt with sleeves rolled, a half-smile, looking past the camera. An open notebook, a ceramic mug, and a fountain pen on the table in front of him. — Brandenburg, 2026. The good light is around four.

— about

I'm Casey. (Kees, technically.)

42, in Brandenburg (an hour east of Berlin), southern Germany on the slow horizon. Two dogs (Fimme and Sien), one wife (Emma), one CrossFit habit, a caravan I keep meaning to buy. I clear paths for people who can see what they want to build but can't get to it.

how I got here, briefly

The kid with the nerd on his forehead.

My dad ran his own companies and put a computer in front of me as soon as I could reach the keyboard. By six I was explaining MS-DOS directories to other people's parents. I learned, very early, that being patient with people who don't know tech is more useful than being smart about tech itself.

Translator, not originator.

Self-taught HTML/CSS not because I wanted to code but because I wanted to understand how other people built things. Pivoted from a Bachelor in IT to Multimedia Communication so I could speak design and business alongside tech. The bridge is the work.

Small companies, big companies, a podcast about World of Warcraft.

Two decades of experimenting, building, leading teams, and learning that my real lever isn't scale, it's impact. Some of the iterations were small. Some were larger than they needed to be. The lesson, both times: my dad was happiest solo, and so am I.

Now: lighter, leaner, freer.

I work alone, with a small network of fellow believers. The ambition is no longer to build a big consulting company. It's to stay light enough to do the work that matters and to be home for the dogs. The lifestyle is the goal. The brand is the vehicle.

Fimme, a curly black-and-grey mixed-breed dog, asleep on a Berber-style wool rug in a beam of late-afternoon light. A worn leather armchair behind him, a hardcover book left face-down on the seat. Worn boots beside the rug, a low bookshelf along the wall. — Fimme, on his rug. The book gets read in the chair, slowly. *The lifestyle is the goal.*

what I'd say yes to without thinking

01 A real human problem worth solving.
02 Creative freedom: a blank canvas with direction, not constraints.
03 Enough runway to do it right, not just done.
04 A 10% spark: something cutting-edge that hasn't been done quite this way before.
05 Pixel-perfect execution: no compromise between vision and what ships.

If anything here lands (or you're a dog person who reads manifestos), say hi.

Email is at hello@casey.berlin · the workshop is at cdit-works.de →