Software with the receipts still attached.
m3r is a small, independent software company from Denmark. It runs one platform — Tally, Sally and Olly — for companies that are too small for enterprise software and too busy for another spreadsheet.
How it started
Not with a product plan. With a hardware startup, a growing team, and the usual pile of spreadsheets: hours in one file, customers in another, the org chart in a slide deck that was out of date the day it was made.
The off-the-shelf answers were all built for bigger companies and priced accordingly — a fee per person per month for features nobody in a five-person company will ever open. For problems that aren't actually very hard, that's a lot of money and a lot of ceremony.
So the tools got written instead. Tally first, because payroll needed real numbers. Then Sally, because a promising conversation had gone cold and nobody remembered whose turn it was. Then Olly, because the funding plan and the org chart kept disagreeing. They were used every day, and they got better the way things do when the people who build them also have to live with them.
m3r exists to run those same tools for other small companies — properly hosted, kept up to date, and at a price that doesn't need a business case.
What m3r is
- A small Danish company behind one platform, not five
- Hosted in Europe, under Danish ownership
- Small tools, done properly, priced low
- Reachable by email, answered by a person who knows the product
What m3r isn't
- A venture-funded platform that must grow tenfold or die
- An agency with a sales team and a discovery process
- Enterprise software that needs a consultant to configure
- A service that makes it hard to leave with your own data
Four things we won't compromise on
Your data is yours
We host it; we don't own it. It stays in Europe, it's never sold or mined, and it walks out of the door with you as CSV, Excel and JSON the day you decide to leave.
Small on purpose
Fewer features, chosen carefully, beats a hundred you never open. A screen that loads instantly and does one thing is worth more than a configurable one nobody understands.
Built from real days
Features come from things that went wrong on an actual Tuesday: an entry that didn't add up, a call nobody made, a certificate that quietly expired.
You talk to the people who build it
No ticket queue, no first-line script. The people answering your email are the ones who write the code and run the servers — and who can change either.
Who's behind it
m3r is a Danish company, founded by engineers who build physical products for a living. That's where the habits come from: work out what the thing has to do, make it do that reliably, and don't add a part you can't service. Software gets the same treatment — including the part where somebody has to keep it running afterwards.
We're deliberately small. That means you get answers from people who know the product rather than a queue — and it means we take on customers at a pace where we can actually look after them.
Working together
Three ways it usually goes:
- Use the platform as it is — a demo, a workspace set up for you, a free trial, then a small monthly bill.
- Use it and bend it — your fields, your report, your terminology. Small changes are days, not quarters, and useful ones reach every customer.
- Something else entirely — a tool that only your company needs, built and hosted the same way.
Curious whether this fits your company?
The quickest way to find out is to describe your Tuesday. Write a few lines about what's annoying and we'll answer honestly — including if the answer is "keep your spreadsheet".