Case Study

Qorelo

Qorelo automates the functional work inside SAP S/4HANA migrations. We built the brand, the website and the sales material it uses to reach enterprise buyers. In that market a startup gets one meeting and has to sound like it has been there before.

Industry
Enterprise AI, SAP S/4HANA migration, ERP transformation
Location
Berlin
Year
2026
Round
Seed, $3.5M
HPI Ventures, Caesar Ventures
Result
Brand and website live in under a month
Deliverables‍
Brand strategy
Visual identity
Website
Motion
Sales collateral
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qorelo.com ↗︎
The problem

SAP has told its customers to move to S/4HANA by 2027. Around 35,000 companies are within that deadline.

Only 8% of these migrations finish on time, and more than 60% run past budget or schedule because the work depends on scarce functional consultants doing slow, manual analysis.

Qorelo automates that layer. The founders knew the problem from the inside: one had run SAP projects at Deloitte before founding the company. The positioning challenge was specific.

Qorelo sells into programs run by Accenture, Deloitte, and SAP's own delivery arm, to buyers who have watched vendors overpromise for two decades. A company five months old, selling AI into that room, has two ways to fail: look like a startup and get filtered out, or imitate a system integrator and lose the reason anyone would switch.

Positioning

Capacity, not replacement

The obvious move was to position Qorelo against the system integrators. We did not, because it would have cost the company half its market.

Qorelo sells to both sides of an SAP program: the enterprise running it and the consultancy delivering it. Their bottleneck is the same. There are not enough functional consultants in the world to move 35,000 companies by 2027, and most of their hours go into repetitive discovery, scoping, and documentation rather than judgment.

So the brand was built on throughput rather than substitution. The same people, working several times faster, with the decisions still theirs. For an enterprise, that is a migration that does not stall while waiting for a specialist to free up. For a consultancy, it is the same team across more programs, with senior people spending their hours on the work clients are actually paying senior rates for.

Holding that distinction was a tone problem as much as a copy problem. Anything that read as AI replacing consultants would have made Qorelo unsellable through the partner channel, and the partner channel is how enterprise software reaches enterprises in the first place.

Identity

The mark is built from circles in motion: bodies on their own orbits that read as a single system. It carries the two things the product sells: speed, and processes running in parallel without collision.

The blue is deliberate. SAP blue is the most recognized color in enterprise software, and every partner in the ecosystem borrows it. Qorelo's is a step up in saturation and clarity: close enough to signal fluency in the ecosystem, far enough to avoid reading as another badge in a partner directory.

Typography and layout were designed to hold dense functional content, from SAP Activate phases to fit-gap tables and scope matrices, without becoming a data dump.

Website

A large site rather than a launch page, because enterprise buyers research before they talk. Separate paths for enterprises and for consulting partners, each with its own argument.

Most of the site is product, not description. We built interactive components that let a visitor watch the platform work before requesting a demonstration: a working demonstration of the fit-gap agent, an animated project timeline, a process diagram covering the six SAP Activate phases, and a live chat block ported from the product prototype.

Copy across the enterprise and insights sections was written in SAP's own vocabulary. In this market, a wrong term costs more credibility than a weak headline.

Clarity

A few interactive blocks explain the product faster than a 20-slide deck.

We built several of them into the site, and some run on connected AI models. Below is the fit-gap agent at work. It takes an SAP requirement, checks it against SAP Best Practices, flags what needs mapping and drafts a solution proposal for review.

A buyer sees what Qorelo does before the first call.

Motion and sales material

A promotional video for the SAP Store listing, where the product sits next to established vendors and has seconds to establish that it belongs.

Pitch decks for fundraising and enterprise sales, built from the same argument as the site, so the story does not change between a landing page and a boardroom.

Where it went

Qorelo closed a $3.5M seed round in June 2026, five months after the company was founded. HPI Ventures and Caesar Ventures co-led, with participation from 10x Founders, Antler, Adesso Ventures and Angel Invest. Mercedes-Benz is a named customer.


We had a launch date and no brand. Less than a month later we had a brand and a website, and the team was on call day and night so nothing broke.
QoreloLouis Schmidlin
Louis Schmidlin
Qorelo

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