Sveglio BV · Based in the EU

Wide awake to what's next in software and brand.

Three things, done with care: managing software companies, speaking on graphics at scale, and building software that holds up.

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Activities

Three ways Sveglio shows up.

Each one feeds the other two. Running a company teaches what to say on stage. Speaking sharpens what to build. Building keeps the management honest.

Company management

Executive and board-level management of software companies: from the founding idea through product strategy, go-to-market and the daily work of scaling a team.

  • Co-founder and executive roles in B2B software
  • Product, revenue enablement and operations under one roof
  • Hands-on with the technology, not just the spreadsheet

Public speaking

Keynotes and conference talks on one subject: creating graphics at scale, on brand. How design, data and automation meet when one artwork has to become thousands.

  • Design for automation: templates, components, variable data
  • Brand governance when nobody can review every output
  • From a graphic-arts and printing background to AI-driven production

Software solutions

Design and build of software that connects systems: SDK and API integrations, automation pipelines and AI-assisted tooling that fits into how a team already works.

  • SDKs, REST APIs and integration work
  • AI agents, MCP servers and agentic workflows
  • Small, well-made tools over large, fragile platforms

Track record

Companies founded, built and sold.

Nearly thirty years of building, from a one-person trading name to a scale-up. Two companies sold in the same year; the third is still being built.

  1. 1997 – 2000
    Prego

    Self-employed designer and developer under the Prego name, started straight after graduating in 1997. Ended in 2000 when the activity moved into Thisconnect BV.

    Ended
  2. 2000 – 2012
    Thisconnect BV

    Software building and consulting, the successor to Prego. Founded early 2000, sold in 2012.

    Sold
  3. 2003 – 2012
    Geboortelijst.be

    Online baby-gift registry for the Belgian market. Founded 2003, sold in 2012.

    Sold
  4. 2010 – today
    CHILI publish NV

    Creative automation software for brands and their agencies. Co-founded in 2010; still active as co-founder and Head of Enablement.

    Active

About

Trained on a printing press. Fluent in APIs.

sveglio adjective, Italian awake; alert, quick-witted.

Sveglio BV is run by Bram Verniest, an EU-based founder and engineer. Bram trained in graphic arts, learning both design and how to run a press with CMYK inks, and started programming in C at sixteen. He graduated in 1997, the year the internet opened up to everyone, and has worked at the point where design, software and business meet ever since.

He started out self-employed under the name Prego in 1997, folded that into Thisconnect in 2000, founded Geboortelijst.be in 2003, sold both companies in 2012, and co-founded CHILI publish in 2010, where he is still active today. Sveglio BV is the vehicle for everything around and beyond that.

The name says what the company stands for: being awake to what is coming, and alert enough to build for it before it arrives.

Contact

A question, a stage, or a problem to solve?

One address reaches Bram directly. Replies come from a person, not a pipeline.