Panenco

Name: Panenco
Address: Hyphen One Kolonel Begaultlaan 1A/51, Leuven, 3012, BE
Telephone: +32497863605

We’re a boutique product studio in Belgium.

We work shoulder-to-shoulder with our clients on next-gen B2B SaaS products and enterprise AI solutions, in a spirit of joint entrepreneurship.

05/08/2026

We're proud to announce our collaboration with argenx!

Founded in Ghent, argenx has grown into a global immunology leader with Belgian roots, dedicated to improving the lives of people living with severe autoimmune diseases. We're excited to support argenx's growth and ability to scale with custom-built software and AI solutions.

Many thanks to Loes Bresseleers, Steven Van Broeck, Alessandro Fazio and the entire argenx team for the trust. Looking forward to everything we'll build together!

03/08/2026

We're launching a pragmatic, side-by-side program to help software teams actually build with AI agents and safely speed up development. No slides, just hands-on in the codebase. We sit directly with your developers, pair-program, set up agent-ready repos, and ship production code together.

Some of the core principles we set up:
- Agent-ready repositories: standardized rules, prompt configs, and guardrails built directly into and adapted to your repos.
- Centralized context: linking docs, tickets, codebases, error logs all together so AI agents have the exact context they need at any time in development.
- Pair programming: on-site coding sessions to upskill your team by doing it together, not just watching.
- Upfront specs, prototypes, PRDs: shifting focus to writing crystal-clear specs, PRDs, and functional prototypes before production development.
- AI review agents & E2E tests: automated testing and review workflows to keep quality high while accelerating output, and to avoid a bottleneck in PR reviews.

Ready to modernize and speed up your development workflows? Let's talk!

28/07/2026

Welcome to the team, Eray!
We’re glad to officially introduce Eray as a Software Engineer here at Panenco. Following a successful internship with us, he’s now joining the team full-time.

From his first weeks already, Eray has been shipping some seriously complex features to production. He has an extremely pragmatic mindset, can-do mentality and true passion for all things software, a perfect match with our values, so we're super glad to have him on board!

Let's continue building together!

13/07/2026

At Panenco, we built an internal Claude Code plugin. One install pushes our engineering rules and a library of custom workflows into every developer's session. The shared rules are enforced automatically: naming and commit conventions, a PR size limit, and a plan-first workflow before any code gets written.

Everyone also gets the same ready-made skills:
- /create-pr takes you from branch to PR to board update in one step
- /grill-me stress-tests your plan before you write a line of code
- A Slack bot that chases down stale PRs

We treat our AI tooling like a product. Versioned, shared, and shipped to the whole team, so everyone follows consistent rules for how we develop, from code review to delivery.

08/07/2026

Join us in welcoming our newest Panenco teammates! We’re welcoming 5 talented interns from KU Leuven this summer who will be getting their first product management & software engineering experiences. Welcome aboard Milan De Vlieger , Marta Toca Carballo , Chloe Mansibang, Linus Josef Pettersson, Romano Mancini

Great to have you all on board, let's build 🚀

PS: we're still actively hiring for full-time positions and interns in AI/software engineering and product management. Hit us up if you want to have a chat!

06/07/2026

For one of our clients in the medical space, we faced the challenge that the browser can't interface with clinical hardware, which was needed to cover the end-to-end user flow. To resolve this, we're building a Go service that runs in the background on clinic computers and bridges physical hardware into a web application.

For complex data input (RS-232/serial input from optometry machines), the service forwards raw data to our API where it is parsed, logged, and can be fetched by the web application. Keeping complex logic on the API means we can extend support for new device types or fix parsing without any action required from the clinic.

Simpler data however (Belgian eID card via PC/SC) can be fetched directly by the web application from a local server the Go service exposes. Reception staff insert a card, click a button, and the patient registration form is pre-filled automatically.

One installation, multiple hardware integrations, new devices supported without reinstallation!

01/07/2026

Say hi to Fred Versyck, the next face in our Meet the team series and Product Manager in Antwerp.

We love how Fred works. While most are still talking through an idea, he's already built a rough first version of it. Putting something real on the table is how he gets a room behind a direction, and it keeps our roadmap grounded in what people actually want rather than what sounds good in a meeting.

Swipe through to get to know him and how he keeps the product roadmaps honest. Glad to have you on the team, Fred.

29/06/2026

Throughout the year, we again had the pleasure of guiding students at the Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) at KU Leuven on a year-long capstone course project. The objective of the course was to conceptualize & build a functioning AI-native SaaS application for the real estate market; all the way from conducting user interviews, defining GTM strategies, prototyping and eventually building the MVP of the actual application with AI coding tools. We gave them maximal freedom & agency to build and steer, along with the proper guidelines on optimal usage, benefits and caveats of working with coding agents.

Genuinely impressive to see what some students were able to achieve when knowing how to use the right tools effectively and being able to perform well in a high-agency setup like this. Thanks Jochen De Weerdt for the collaboration again!

24/06/2026

At Panenco, we treat user data & privacy as an absolute priority.
We build software across various fields: health, biotech, finance, audit, industrial, and more. The data those products touch ranges from everyday details to highly sensitive records. Our approach to privacy doesn't.

Privacy is a set of defaults baked into every layer from day one:
- Everything stays in the EU, including the AI we call, with data sharing and model training switched off
- Sensitive data is encrypted twice over, and stripped of identity before any model sees it
- We keep only what's needed, log every access, and support full data-subject rights

No single measure carries the weight on its own. The protection comes from stacking them, so if one control fails, the data behind it stays covered in any case.

17/06/2026

Most developers know Playwright as an end-to-end testing framework. We've also started using it for driving local development.

When we build a new end-to-end feature, the whole system is already running locally: supporting services in Docker containers (e.g., emulators), a database we can query and the full app (frontend + backend). Instead of clicking through the flow by hand, we point Claude Code at the Playwright MCP server and let it walk the entire flow in a real browser.

Claude can then check that the UI renders and also read the browser console, the application logs, the logs from each Docker container and the resulting database state. A failure three layers deep gets caught, traced, and often fixed in the same loop.

This is not a replacement for a classical test suite, which still guards against regressions. It's a development accelerator: a fast, full-stack feedback loop that catches integration bugs while you're still building.

Another great new use case for a tool we already trusted before.

Adres

Hyphen One Kolonel Begaultlaan 1A/51
Leuven
3012

Telefoon

+32497863605

Website

http://www.panenco.com/

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