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Our Story

From primates
to proceedings.

Most groundbreaking ideas are born in glass-walled conference rooms. Ours started with an attempt to do exactly the opposite.

CHAPTER 01

The digital detox that backfired.

Nico and Thorsten just wanted to switch off. No Slack, no LinkedIn, no dashboards. The plan was simple: quality time — a walk with the families in the woods at Affenberg, clearing their heads among the Barbary macaques.

But fate had other plans. Instead of the hoped-for digital detox, a realization hit like a thunderclap:

AFFENBERG · 2024

'While we're marveling at primate evolution here, the German legal system is still stuck in the analog Stone Age.'

— Nico & Thorsten
THE SPARK

Two questions that changed everything.

Why does 'getting justice' still take months in a world of real-time data?

Why do highly paid lawyers sift through piles of files while AI can already recognize complex patterns in seconds?

CHAPTER 02

Trust as an operating system.

THE NEIGHBORS — NICO & MARC

Nico brought Marc on board. The two are friends, practically neighbors, and long-time companions. Nico had built the zockerhelden.de project technically and accompanied it to 'Die Höhle der Löwen' (Shark Tank). Marc, the experienced mass-claims strategist, provided the legal conscience.

Nico Sacotte
Marc Ellerbrock
THE TECH PARTNERS — THORSTEN & CHRISTOPH

Thorsten brought Christoph on board. The two have been running the agencies OMlocal and OMfire as a seasoned team for years. Christoph is the IT architect who thinks in high-performance, scalable logic — not in statutes.

Thorsten Loth
Christoph Ehrke
CHAPTER 03

The law firm of the future.

Today, with clever.legal GmbH, we combine marketing power, legal excellence, and an IT architecture built on years of shared experience.

Marc Ellerbrock
#LEGAL
Marc Ellerbrock
Mass-claim strategist
Nico Sacotte
#CONTENT
Nico Sacotte
Content strategist
Thorsten Loth
#GROWTH
Thorsten Loth
Performance marketing
Christoph Ehrke
#TECH
Christoph Ehrke
IT architect

We don't sell software — we sell tomorrow's market advantage.

The system is slow. We are not.

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