RoboConnect MVP — matchmaking platform for industrial automation

(From the left: Andreas Ulvund | Full-Stack developer / CRM developer, Abbas Rezaey | AI Chatbot & Full-Stack developer, Elisabet Witsø | Founder og CEO)

RoboConnect is built to reduce risk in the pre-investment phase for industrial companies considering automation, and to make it easier to find the right system integrator in a fragmented market. The platform is two-sided — industrial companies describe their needs, and qualified actors (system integrators, suppliers and R&D partners) signal interest against anonymised projects.

WOLLUM is building the MVP from the ground up on a modern stack chosen to last for years, not just through launch. The frontend runs on Next.js via Vercel, delivering fast load times for users anywhere in the world – a concrete advantage when the platform later expands into international markets. The backend is built on Supabase (Postgres with built-in authentication and row-level access control), ensuring that industrial companies, integrators, and suppliers only see the data they're entitled to. Prisma manages the database structure so that changes can be rolled out in a controlled way as the platform evolves. Stripe handles match fee payments with full traceability and receipts, and Resend delivers transactional emails (confirmations, notifications, reminders) with high deliverability. The existing prototype is replaced entirely – the architecture is chosen with global scalability as a premise, allowing the platform to grow without requiring a rewrite.

The delivery covers everything RoboConnect needs to launch with real pilot customers. Four user types – industrial company, systems integrator, supplier, and R&D – each get their own registration flow and profile page tailored to how they participate on the platform. Industrial companies can create anonymized projects describing the need without revealing identity, and qualified actors can express interest. A rule-based unlock mechanism controls when contact information is released – typically after the match fee is paid – ensuring RoboConnect earns on every successful match. Contract reporting makes it possible to track agreements actually signed between the parties, and an operational admin dashboard gives RoboConnect the day-to-day oversight needed to run the platform: who has registered, which projects are active, and which payments are outstanding per customer. The project is delivered in five fixed-price phases with full ownership transfer to RoboConnect AS at final handover – no license lock-in, no dependency on WOLLUM for ongoing operations.