Own the system.Cut the bill.
Fenix Nordic builds open source systems for Danish municipalities and Nordic teams: hosted in Europe, owned outright, priced for the work rather than the licence. From Skanderborg, delivering anywhere.
How we work
From the audit to the day you run it yourself.
- Analyse
We map your licences, hosting and workflows and find where you pay for infrastructure you do not need. You get a clear picture of spend and a realistic plan to bring it down.
- Build
We move you onto right-sized European hosting and open source tooling, and build the specific applications your workflow needs. We use AI where it speeds delivery, never where it adds risk.
- Own
Every system is documented, testable and yours to run. No vendor lock-in, no per-seat surprises, no dependency you cannot cut.
What we do
Fewer licences. More that is yours.
- Audit
IT cost and licence audit
We analyse your software licences, SaaS subscriptions and cloud hosting against what your business actually uses. You get a prioritised list of what to cut, replace or right-size, with the savings attached.
- Migration
Off-cloud migration
Move from over-provisioned cloud onto your own servers or a European VPS. The same reliability for a fraction of the bill, with your data under your control and EU jurisdiction.
- Custom builds
Custom open source solutions
When an expensive tool only solves part of your problem, we build the application that solves the rest, on open source foundations you own. AI-assisted delivery keeps it fast and affordable.
- Web
Websites, platforms and integration
Headless CMS, Nuxt and Vue frontends, and the API integrations that make your systems talk. Fast, maintainable and free of lock-in.
- Drupal
Drupal migration, upgrades and support
Drupal is our core platform: sixteen years of it, on projects from a single site to large multi-site archives. We migrate legacy sites, run major-version upgrades, fix long-standing pain points and smooth out the daily friction your team has learned to live with.
- Maintenance
Continuous maintenance
Software left alone becomes a liability. We keep your stack patched, current and secure: dependencies, security releases and platform updates handled as routine, so problems are prevented rather than discovered.
Products
Open source products you own, not licence agreements you rent.
Self-service and case workflows for municipalities
AabenForms
Citizen-facing forms and workflows, without the per-form licence.
Eighteen municipal flows ready, six KOMBIT integrations, four ESDH systems. GPL, so the municipality owns it.
AabenForms is an open source platform for secure digital forms and case workflows: MitID login, Digital Post, and the approval flows that public-sector and regulated work depend on. The proprietary alternatives charge per form, per seat and per integration. AabenForms does not.
Built on Drupal and Nuxt and designed to run on infrastructure you control, it keeps citizen data in the EU and under your governance. You own the platform, the forms and the data, not a vendor.
Intranet for municipalities and organisations
AabenIntra
The intranet your team will actually open.
Eleven custom modules, thirteen contrib dependencies, two languages. From 7,500 DKK a month, hosting and maintenance included.
AabenIntra is an open source intranet on Drupal 11: one place for news, documents, people and the everyday tools your team relies on. A personal dashboard, targeted news, a directory with real organisational structure, and a recognition wall that makes colleagues' work visible.
It draws on years of intranet and employee-experience work, including an award-winning Danish workplace recognised for employee satisfaction. An intranet only earns its cost when people open it, so that is exactly what it is designed for. Danish and English from day one, for Nordic teams and international workplaces alike.
Cases
Open archives, built to last.
South African History Online
Free, open history for the next generation.
South African History Online is one of the largest free history archives on the continent, and it has stayed free. Mads has been its technical lead since 2010, now in his sixteenth year of using Drupal to keep the archive in front of the public, while Phoenix leads its ongoing digital transformation.
The work is about reach: making sure the archive lands with the next generation of readers, students and activists, not only the researchers who already know it is there. We renew and reinforce founder Omar Badsha's vision: no paygate, no subscription, history and information freely available to every learner and researcher.
Open source is what keeps that promise affordable. Drupal, self-hosted infrastructure and no per-user licensing let the archive grow without a growing bill, and without ever putting knowledge behind a wall.
Who we are
Two people. No handoffs.
Phoenix
Phoenix has spent fifteen years building things that actually ship. Creative productions with SoldierMuse in Cape Town. Supply chain operations at Hummel International in Denmark. Now leading the digital transformation of South African History Online from Skanderborg.
The consistent thread: closing the gap between what a project promises and what it delivers. SCRUM certified, experienced with distributed international teams, comfortable where creative direction and operational precision meet.
English native, Danish conversational. Denmark-based, available anywhere.
Mads
Senior developer and DevOps engineer. Self-taught, fifteen years building on Drupal, PHP, Docker and Linux. Senior developer and DevOps engineer at Eksponent, a Danish development agency. Technical lead for South African History Online since 2010.
Today he runs self-hosted infrastructure across European servers, the same move off expensive cloud that Fenix brings to its clients. Comfortable at every layer of the stack, from containers and CI/CD to headless CMS and frontend, he builds the systems that make delivery reliable and independence practical.
Skanderborg, Denmark.
Fenix Nordic is a small, hands-on consultancy. You work directly with the people building your project. No account managers, no handoffs. Every engagement starts with a shared definition of done.
Contact
Tell us about your project, or your cloud bill.
We reply within one business day.