Choosing a TypeScript Consultancy in Europe

What the Pitches Sound Like

Almost every consultancy proposal for an industrial software project has the same first slide: we do TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node. The next slide lists deliverables: modern UI, fast performance, accessible design. The slide after that is the pricing. The evaluation needs to go deeper than the first three slides.

Criteria That Matter, in Order

1. Relevant domain experience, not generic B2B

Ask for references in your sector. Manufacturing software integrates with MES, PLM, ERP, SCADA, OPC UA, and sometimes historians. Automotive software adds diagnostic protocols (UDS, OBD-II, DoIP), vehicle platforms, and market variants. Energy adds SCADA/ICS protocols, IEC 61850, and regulatory regimes (NERC CIP, NIS2). A consultancy that built excellent e-commerce storefronts has demonstrated TypeScript competence but not the integration depth your project needs.

2. Willingness to read your existing codebase before proposing

A credible proposal follows a paid discovery phase in which the consultancy's engineers actually read your code, run it, and document findings. Proposals without this step are guesswork. Insist on a short (2–4 week) paid discovery with deliverables: architecture assessment, integration map, risk register, estimate refinement.

3. Engineers on the project, not a bait-and-switch

The senior engineers in the sales meeting may not be the engineers on the project. Put names in the contract. Agree on substitution clauses. Ask how the consultancy handles resource continuity across multi-month engagements.

4. Onshore, nearshore, or distributed — stated clearly

European industrial clients have varied comfort levels with different delivery models. Some require onshore (Germany, Sweden, Netherlands). Some accept nearshore (Poland, Portugal, Romania). Some are fine with distributed teams across Europe or beyond. The consultancy should be transparent about where the engineers actually work, not hide it behind vague language.

5. Experience with your identity and security stack

Industrial organisations run on Azure Entra, Keycloak, or ADFS in the vast majority of cases. The consultancy's experience with your specific identity platform matters. Integration with SSO, role-based access control, and session management is where most "simple" industrial frontends spend their first month. A consultancy that has done it before saves that month.

6. Compliance literacy where it applies

Depending on the sector, the software may be in scope of ISO 9001, IATF 16949, AS9100, ISO 13485, IEC 62443, NIS2, DORA, or the EU AI Act. The consultancy does not need to be the compliance expert, but it must work competently within the constraints that the client's compliance team imposes. Ask for examples where the consultancy navigated regulated delivery.

7. Accessibility and localisation as defaults, not add-ons

WCAG 2.1 AA is the minimum for European public-facing software and increasingly the baseline for internal operator tools. The European Accessibility Act has enforceable provisions from 2025 onwards. Localisation across EU languages is not optional. Ask how the consultancy handles these as engineering defaults rather than late-stage retrofits.

8. Testing and evaluation discipline

Serious consultancies ship with automated tests: unit, component, integration, end-to-end, visual regression where applicable. For AI-adjacent features (RAG, copilots), an evaluation set with labelled queries and regression scoring is expected. Ask for a demo of the consultancy's testing setup. If it is sparse or performative, the engineering culture is probably sparse or performative.

9. Observability beyond logs

Shipping an industrial application to production without OpenTelemetry, structured logs, and alerting is shipping half a system. Ask what the consultancy instruments by default. The answer should include traces, metrics, per-tenant cost attribution for AI features, and on-call runbooks.

10. Clear handover plan

The end of the engagement is the beginning of your internal team's long relationship with the code. A consultancy that plans handover — documentation, training, code walkthroughs, on-call shadowing — sets up your team for success. One that disappears the day the final invoice is paid sets you up for a second consultancy.

Red Flags Worth Walking Away From

• Fixed-price bid without paid discovery. The consultancy is either under-scoping (and will change-order the delta) or over-scoping (and eating margin on a project it will then deprioritise).
• Only senior architects on calls, no engineers. The engineers on the project determine code quality. Meet them.
• No written opinion on architectural trade-offs. A consultancy that agrees with everything the client says has no opinions worth paying for.
• Opaque subcontractor layer. Nominally Swedish or German consultancy, actually a thin reseller for engineers you never meet. Ask explicitly.
• No recent public artifacts. Blog posts, conference talks, OSS contributions from the team's senior engineers. Absent means the team is junior or the "thought leadership" is outsourced marketing.

The Cost Conversation

European TypeScript consultancy pricing for industrial projects in 2026 sits in three broad tiers:

• Premium senior consultancies (DACH, Nordic, top-tier UK): 800–1,400 EUR/day per engineer. Small teams of 2–4 highly senior people. Expect opinionated delivery and rigorous engineering culture.
• Mid-market consultancies (wider European cities, onshore with some nearshore): 500–800 EUR/day. Larger teams, mix of seniorities. Good fit for scoped projects where the domain has been nailed down.
• Nearshore specialists (Poland, Romania, Portugal, Ukraine, Serbia): 300–500 EUR/day. Larger teams, predictable delivery, stronger ops than engineering culture typically. Works best for well-specified work with a strong internal architect.

Costs alone do not predict outcomes. A 400 EUR/day senior shipping the right architecture beats a 1,200 EUR/day architect who cannot make decisions. Evaluate engagement quality first, daily rate second.

Where Technspire Fits

Technspire is a Stockholm-based consultancy that works with Swedish and DACH industrial clients on TypeScript, Next.js, Azure, and AI-adjacent engineering. Projects typically start with a paid discovery phase, ship a vertical slice in the first month, and settle into sustained delivery with clear handover to the client's team. The stack we favour is opinionated: TypeScript end to end, Next.js for web surfaces, Azure for platform, Prisma for data, Azure AI Search and Azure OpenAI for retrieval and generation where applicable.

If you are evaluating consultancies for an industrial software project and want a second opinion on an architecture decision, a pattern review, or a frank look at a proposal you received, we are happy to spend a short call doing that. No obligation and no deck. Reach us through the contact link on this site.

The Closing Framing

The right TypeScript consultancy for European industrial software is the one that understands your sector, reads your code before proposing, commits named engineers to the project, ships with tests and observability by default, and plans for the handover from the start. Framework familiarity is a commodity. Domain depth, engineering discipline, and delivery culture are not. Evaluate those directly, and the consultancy that actually fits your project becomes visible quickly.