About Kufu
Kufu builds custom software for SMEs — using AI, in days instead of months. Founded byJens Téblick, who carries out the work today. This page is about the practice behind that: seventeen years of experience building software and running it in production.
The name comes from the Japanese kufū: the practical resourcefulness to find a clever way around a concrete problem. Not innovation in the grand sense of the word, but the small, resourceful, hands-on kind.
Before Kufu
Before Kufu, Jens Téblick founded InterHost Solutions, a web hosting company: not building other companies' websites himself, but keeping the servers and infrastructure those websites and applications depended on running. That grew into Lemon Live and was sold to a third party in september 2020.
Out of that same group he also founded Lemon Companies, building web applications and developing software. He was CTO there: responsible for the technical side — building software and applications, but also keeping the infrastructure underneath running in production and up to date, so customers never noticed. He sold that company too; it operates today under new ownership.
Alongside Kufu: Veton
After that he co-founded Veton, a manufacturer of EV charging stations.
At Veton he still builds and maintains: the firmware that runs on the charging stations themselves, the cloud platform behind it, the mobile app (Android and iOS, published all the way to the App Store and Play Store) users control their charger with, and the link to the ERP system. Systems that run in production today, not in a test environment.
He is the inventor of Belgian patent BE 1032335 (application BE2024/5020), granted on 18 augustus 2025 and registered with the FOD Economie, for "Component voor een elektrische laadinrichting voor elektrische voertuigen" — held by Veton, not in his own name.
Seventeen years of entrepreneurship
Underneath that technical line runs another one: seventeen years of entrepreneurship. Founding InterHost Solutions and growing it into Lemon Live, selling that company in september 2020, and later co-founding a second one in Veton — that's not just building technology, it's running a company: staff, invoices, cashflow, decisions that go beyond code.
That's a different lens than a purely technical one. Anyone who has run a company themselves judges a process on what it costs and delivers first, and only then on what's technically possible. A Kufu engagement starts there too, not from a technology looking for a problem — which is exactly where consultants who walk in with a technology most often get it wrong.
What that means for Kufu
Years of keeping other companies' infrastructure running — first as a hosting company, later the firmware on devices in the field, a cloud platform, an app and an ERP link at Veton — is a different skill from building a prototype that only has to work once, in a demo. Knowing that also means knowing how to build something that isn't tied to you.
That's why Kufu software runs, where possible, on systems you already own, and where it needs a place of its own, in a portable container on a server you pay for and control yourself — never on an expensive cloud provider you can't leave, and never dependent on Kufu. Not advice that stays on paper, but something that's already running at handover, and stays yours after that.
Want to see what that looks like in practice? See examples from practice.
Want to know if this fits you?
Half an hour is enough to know whether Kufu can do something for you.