Software & Product Development
Architecture, platforms, data and AI agents for industrial products and processes. Built so they can be maintained, audited and scaled, with a human sign-off where it matters.
About this areaEResponsible: Enrico
Quality · Product Security · Compliance
From Complexity to Confidence.
ef.next helps manufacturing companies deliver quality, secure software and compliance as finished, verifiable results. Industrial experience, our own software, and a named person who signs off on every result.
Fixed price per result. The first conversation is free.
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Production floor, machine or the two of you at a customer site. Landscape, at least 1600 px wide.
- Based in Sweden and Belgium
- Fixed price per result, not per hour
- Every result signed off and verifiable
- Ready for ISO 9001:2026 and the CRA
Services
Three areas. One team.
Each area has a responsible person, a clear set of results and a fixed price per result. Together they cover what usually falls between two suppliers: quality, software and product security.
Product Security & CRA
From “does the Cyber Resilience Act apply to us?” to evidence for every release straight from your pipeline. SBOM, vulnerability handling, signed releases.
About this areaEResponsible: Enrico
Quality Management & Compliance
ISO 9001:2026 transition, internal and supplier audits, CAPA and management review. Results your certification body can check, prepared by someone who has audited plants worldwide.
About this areaSResponsible: Stephan
What is your situation?
Customers come to us with sentences like these.
If one of them sounds familiar, the linked area explains what we deliver and what it costs.
Our ISO 9001 certificate has to be transitioned to the 2026 edition by September 2029.
Quality ManagementA customer has announced a supplier audit at our plant.
Quality ManagementOur product contains software. Does the Cyber Resilience Act apply to us?
Product SecurityA customer is asking for an SBOM and a vulnerability process.
Product SecurityWe want to use AI agents, but controlled and traceable.
Software & Product DevelopmentOur grown software is blocking the next product generation.
Software & Product Development
Why now
Two deadlines affect the same companies.
Manufacturers with an ISO 9001 certificate and products that contain software have to manage both. We handle them in one plan instead of two projects.
11 Dec 2027Cyber Resilience Act
Full application of the CRA
All requirements apply, including technical documentation and CE marking. Reporting obligations for actively exploited vulnerabilities have applied since 11 September 2026.
13 months left
30 Sep 2029ISO 9001:2026
End of the transition period
Certificates to ISO 9001:2015 expire. Latest date for a successful transition audit. The new edition was published on 16 September 2026.
35 months left
How we work
From the first workshop to an ongoing service.
Every engagement follows the same five steps. You decide after each step whether to continue.
Workshop
Understand and align. The paid entry point with a clear result.
Assessment
Analyse and prioritise.
Roadmap
Plan and design.
Implementation
Execute and enable your team.
Ongoing service
Operate and improve. Our systems keep delivering the result, for example standard conformity or release evidence.
Results, not tools or hours.
You do not buy software your people have to operate, and you do not buy consultant hours. You buy a finished gap analysis, a documented CRA status or an approved audit, at a price agreed in advance.
- PriceFixed per result, per site, per product family or per supplier.
- Routine workDone by our own software, so results come faster with every repetition.
- ResponsibilityAn experienced expert checks and signs off, and the evidence shows who did.
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Enrico and Stephan together, or a workshop situation.
Company
Two founders, two countries, one way of working.
ef.next AB was founded in Sweden in 2026 by Enrico, a software and product-security engineer, together with Stephan, a quality manager and auditor based in Belgium. Between them: plant audits on four continents and industrial and automotive software from architecture to release.
We build every service so that software can take over the next step. What an expert does by hand today becomes a repeatable, checked result tomorrow. People remain responsible: every result is reviewed and signed off by a named person, and the evidence shows how it was produced.
- Legal entityef.next AB, Sweden
- Founded2026
- LocationsSweden · Belgium
- LanguagesEnglish, German, Swedish
- Our own softwareThe open-source ef.next Security Framework for Laravel (tenant isolation, tamper-evident audit log), and ef.next Sign for verifiable approvals.
Team
Two Perspectives. One Stronger Team.
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Enrico
Product · Technology · AI
Sweden · Software & Product Development, Product Security
“Turning expertise into scalable solutions.” Builds and runs the ef.next software, and is responsible for software development and product security.
info@ef-next.comSPortrait
Stephan
Quality · Audit · Business
Belgium · Quality Management & Compliance
“Creating trust through structure and evidence.” Responsible for quality management, audits and the method behind our quality results.
info@ef-next.com
Insights
What we are learning, written down.
Practical articles from our three areas. Each one is written by the person responsible for the topic.
Product Securityef.next
Does the Cyber Resilience Act apply to your product? Five questions to find out.
A practical check for manufacturers whose products contain software, with the deadlines that matter.
Quality Management · in preparationef.next
ISO 9001:2026: what actually changes for certified companies.
The clauses that move, the ones that stay, and how to plan the transition before 2029.
Software & Product Development · in preparationef.next
AI agents in quality management: where human sign-off has to stay.
Which steps an agent can take over safely, and which decisions must remain with a person.
Contact
Let us talk about your situation.
The first conversation is free and without obligation. Tell us which of the three areas it concerns, and the responsible person will get back to you.
Product Security & CRA
security@ef-next.comQuestions about the CRA, SBOMs and release evidence. Also the address for reports concerning the ef.next Security Framework.
ef.next AB
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