Team

    Deliberately small. Senior throughout.

    The person in the call builds your system afterwards.

    Voyage Digital is deliberately small: six people, led by founder Andreas Hartenfels, with a fixed partner network behind it. Small does not mean thin. Every critical function is covered twice. No pitch team that disappears after the signature, no delivery juniors taking over after the first call.

    The team

    Six people carry every engagement. Plain-language roles, fixed responsibilities, reachable from the first call through to the handover and beyond. Move your cursor over a portrait for the stone-bust morph.

    Andreas Hartenfels, Steinbüste

    Andreas Hartenfels · Founder & Operator

    Runs the conversations, designs the systems and builds alongside the team. More than ten years of digital execution, self-employed since 2023, Voyage Digital since 2025. Before that, roles as an employed operator, among others at Scholz & Volkmer and Avantgarde. The person in the first call carries the responsibility for the result afterwards.

    Benni Rodopian, Steinbüste

    Benni Rodopian · Web design & web development

    Owns concept, screen design and the build of websites and frontends. Design and build come from one hand, with no friction between the design file and the working site.

    Caspar Kjær, Steinbüste

    Caspar Kjær · Team

    Part of the core team, a reliable point of contact in the day-to-day of engagements.

    Jonas Maier, Steinbüste

    Jonas Maier · AI Software Engineer

    Builds the technical systems behind the engagements: AI workflows, automations and product stacks from architecture to operation. Stays reachable, even after the handover.

    Tim Saffnauer, Steinbüste

    Tim Saffnauer · Team

    Part of the core team, carries responsibility for ongoing engagements day to day.

    Laura Mangold, Steinbüste

    Laura Mangold · Executive assistance & client account management

    Keeps the operation structured: scheduling, coordination and the ongoing care of clients. Your first point of contact in day-to-day work, reliable answers, clear dates.

    How we work

    Why small is reliable here.

    Voyage Digital deliberately runs a small, six-person team with a fixed partner network, so that no engagement rests on a single person. Three things make that work.

    01

    AI-first as leverage

    Agents, automations and models are everyday tools here, in every engagement, not a label. That lets a small team ship the output that would take a department elsewhere.

    02

    Clear ownership per engagement

    Every engagement has a fixed owner inside the team. You always know who stands behind your result, and you speak to that person directly.

    03

    Fixed partners for scale

    When an engagement needs more capacity than the team carries, the network steps in. The steering and the responsibility stay with Voyage Digital.

    In the conversation: Andreas. In the build: the team. In scaling: the network as needed.

    Background

    How Andreas got here.

    From the first job to founding the studio: the stations that led to Voyage Digital, in a timeline.

    More from the Studio: how we work and our values.

    Trust

    Directly from people we've worked with

    Alicia Brandt — Decathlon GermanyJoshua Wenzel — Decathlon GermanyTristan Hain — Decathlon GermanyMerle Walter — Decathlon GermanySebastian Schermer — digitalforceJohannes Auffermann — AstralJonny Crawford — Project KnightEric Lehmann — Constantin FilmCihan Erben — Erben BauKonstantin Doerr — Decathlon GermanySarah Krone — KroneinkDavid Solk — SOLKMarvin Burmester — Growing ForwardSolveig Schmerer — Decathlon GermanyDeni Panknin — AviandoMichael Bauer — Decathlon Germany
    Network

    Fixed partners. Not a freelancer pool.

    Behind the team stands a curated network. Every partnership has a fixed anchor person Voyage Digital has known for years. The responsibility for direction and result stays with Voyage.

    digitalforce

    Engineering
    Delivery

    The engineering axis for larger engagements. digitalforce (Munich) delivers architecture, DACH delivery and project steering. Anchored by co-founder Sebastian Schermer, with a shared track record from an IT build-out since 2022. Steps in when an engagement needs more engineering than the team carries. The project steering stays with Voyage Digital.

    Itekako

    Nearshore Engineering

    Itekako (Belgrade and San Francisco) brings nearshore capacity with more than 150 engineers, on the market since 2006. Senior-level teams with project ownership that step in when an engagement needs more delivery power than the core team carries.

    YER

    Talent

    Recruiting partner for IT and online-marketing talent in the DACH region, formerly Avantgarde Experts, part of the international YER Group since 2025. Anchored by Maximilian Doron, Principal Consultant IT Contracting, in contact since 2021. When an engagement needs permanent hires or freelancers, it runs through this channel.

    Astral

    Design

    A studio for high-end digital design: brand, websites, 3D and digital brand experiences. Anchored by Johannes Auffermann, co-founder. Steps in when a project should go beyond the usual on the design side.

    Growing Forward

    Strategy

    Consulting at the intersection of product, data and marketing. Anchored by Marvin Burmester, founder, with a track record at Decathlon and Telefónica among others. Steps in when the strategy needs sharpening before the build.

    Aviando

    CRM & Salesforce

    Salesforce-focused CRM consultancy from Heidelberg, a certified Salesforce partner. System integration, automation and business intelligence around Salesforce. Anchored by Thorsten Winkels, co-founder and sales director. Steps in when an engagement reaches deep into the Salesforce and CRM world.

    Now you know who builds. If you want to talk directly, email Andreas or book a conversation.

    Voyage Digital grows with its engagements and looks for reinforcement selectively, not by the batch.

    Conversation, not pitch

    Understand first, then decide. We take time for an initial conversation, without sales pressure, without obligation.

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