Small and deliberate: founder-led, early-stage, German-founded, with Heidi herself doing the work of a much larger team. You are buying from a company at the start of its curve, and the product is the argument that small plus a brain outbuilds big.
Small is disclosed, not hidden, because it cuts both ways honestly: you get founder attention, fast fixes, and real answers, and you accept the maturity curve on certifications and process that any young vendor has.
The mitigation for vendor risk is structural: your data exports completely, the surfaces are open standards, REST, MCP, A2A, and nothing about your brain is locked to Falkster's continued goodwill.