Prague is the only Czech city for us where we don't have to start with "we haven't actually delivered here yet." Our delivered project `ecommerce-headless-replatform` from 2025 is a pure software delivery — migration of a monolithic e-commerce platform to a headless stack — and exactly the type of work decided in a Prague office regardless of where containers, tills or warehouses then physically run.
Prague as a decision-making centre, not a place of execution
The capital city of Prague carries a gravity similar in composition to Bratislava and Bucharest. Bank HQs (ČSOB, Komerční banka — Société Générale, Česká spořitelna — Erste), the domestic cybersecurity leader (Avast / Gen Digital, Microsoft Development Centre Prague), telecoms (T-Mobile CZ, Vodafone CZ, O2 CZ) and R&D branches of industrial giants (Honeywell ACS Prague — global control centre for industrial automation, ČEZ Group managing all Czech nuclear and coal plants). A client with a Prague address is in 90 percent of cases the place of decision and signing — physical realisation goes to Mladá Boleslav, Kvasiny, Nošovice or Dukovany.
This distinction is important because it defines the type of documentation expected from a supplier in Prague. The spec meeting happens in Vinohrady or Karlín, the audit passes through a global QMS HQ (mostly Honeywell SPS, ČEZ-IMS or IATF 16949 for the Škoda supplier orbit), and deliverables are judged by metrics that make sense to an American or German parent company.
Our Prague project — headless commerce in practice
`ecommerce-headless-replatform` (2025) was a complete e-commerce replatform from a monolithic CMS to a Next.js + Medusa.js stack with Algolia as the search index, Stripe as the payment gateway and Klaviyo as the marketing layer. For the client that meant: three months of shadow-running the old and new stacks in parallel, gradual migration cut-over by category (first the least traffic-heavy, ultimately the main page and checkout), and a six-week A/B test of conversion rate between the two platforms. For us it meant: a sustained Monday-to-Friday in Prague during the commissioning phase, accommodation in Karlín, daily stand-ups with the client's engineering team.
That's exactly the type of project that in Prague will first ask: "can you show us production traffic already running on a similar stack?" Yes, we can — and besides `ecommerce-headless-replatform` we also have `ai-agent-firm-insurance` from Frankfurt (LangGraph + vLLM + Qdrant + Unsloth) and `ai-cluster-research-lab` from Cluj-Napoca (NVIDIA Blackwell + Mellanox NDR + Slurm), which are technologically closest to what Prague R&D branches are now scaling.
IT cluster and data centres
Prague is technically the second-largest data centre hub in Central Europe (after Frankfurt). T-Mobile DC4 in Malešice, Master Internet in Brno-Černovice (technically South Moravia, but catchment-wise Prague), GTS Centrum Praha, ČD-Telematika in Karlín. Tier III or Tier IV with millisecond SLAs, PUE 1.2 as the target, integration into global routing nodes via Telia Carrier, Cogent and Hurricane Electric.
For infrastructure work (cooling design for racks above 30 kW, rear-door HX or direct DLC, UPS sizing for Eaton 93PM, DCIM via EcoStruxure IT or Sunbird dcTrack), Prague is a client that doesn't ask "can you do it?" but "how exactly will you do it under our SLA?" That means: documentation from the first meeting, change-management process under ITIL 4, and auditable runbooks for every change in a rack.
Automotive via the Central Bohemia Region
Prague is administratively a separate region, but industrially it sits in the gravitational field of the Central Bohemia Region — Škoda Auto Mladá Boleslav (60 km north-east), Toyota Kolín TPCA (60 km east), Lego Production Kladno (25 km west). For the supplier orbit of these plants, decisions are made in Prague, the physical work happens outside the regional boundary. That's important for a supplier: if you arrive with an offer for Škoda Auto, the first meetings have an address at Prague's Senovážné náměstí (Volkswagen Group Services), even if the hall itself is in MB.
Cross-border regime and commute
From Prešov to Prague is 6.5 hours' drive on the D1 via Brno. For Prague we maintain Monday-to-Friday mode with accommodation, mostly in Karlín or Holešovice. By air via Krakow (KRK → PRG, 65 minutes) when the slot is more favourable.
Cross-border admin is trivial — A1 from Slovak Social Insurance + worker-posting notification to ÚP ČR 14 days in advance. VAT via § 92e ZDPH (reverse charge, no VAT with the note "daň odvede zákazník"). No language barriers, no cultural friction. For a Slovak supplier, Prague is the simplest cross-border market — closer than Vienna in admin terms, cheaper than Bratislava in accommodation costs, compatible by regulation (ČSN 33 2000 ≈ STN 33 2000).
Which pillars fit best
For Prague specifically — **Software/AI + Data Centres**. Here we have active references, active client relationships, and active delivery capacity. Headless commerce, AI agent infrastructure, AI compute clusters, custom backend modernisation. Our specialisation in Next.js, FastAPI, Medusa.js, LangGraph and vLLM meets exactly what the Prague IT segment is now scaling.
For the supplier orbit of Škoda Mladá Boleslav, Toyota Kolín and Lego Kladno (administratively in the Central Bohemia Region) — **Industry + Automation**. Sondermaschinenbau, robotic integration (KUKA, FANUC, Yaskawa), MES integration via Apriso or Critical Manufacturing. Here the Prague decision-maker arrives with "how fast can you deliver a special-purpose machine for the new Kodiaq variant?" — the answer is in weeks, not months.
Conclusion
Prague is for us the most favourable Czech city to work in. We have a delivered project here, an active client relationship, and a stack appreciated in the local IT segment. For new contracts in Prague there's no need to ask us whether we're capable — better to come straight with a spec list and expect a response within 72 hours.