Germany has a partner for everything. We work with the few we would trust our own clients to: reputable, competent, and measured on how well they treat you. We say what they charge, and you book through us, so someone you can reach in English stays responsible.
We started with three: tecis for finance, Athaus.ai for housing and Founders Night for community. Each passed the criteria below before it went on the list. More join as they pass: tax, legal and jobs are in conversation. We would rather add slowly than add wrong.
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Founding partner: finance
Tecis Finanzdienstleistungen AG
Insurance, investments and pensions: advice and setup through Tecis
Insurance, investments and pensions run through tecis Finanzdienstleistungen AG, a Swiss Life company advising across Germany since 1986. Around 250 insurers, banks and fund providers are compared for every recommendation, and the reasoning goes in writing. You deal with us; a tecis advisor who works in English takes it from there.
Athaus is a German real-estate marketplace with an AI brokerage behind it. One search covers the whole German market instead of five portals, and when you find a place, Athaus applies on your behalf. Buyers pay nothing; sellers pay a commission only on a completed sale. We chose it because the newcomer disadvantage in a flat search is mostly speed and paperwork, and that is exactly what it removes.
Founders Night is the monthly evening in Berlin where founders at every stage meet, from first idea to exit. Free, and the community carries on between editions in the WhatsApp group.
Only partners that are reputable, competent, and measured on your satisfaction.
Every partner is used by someone on our team first. Then six things are checked before we say yes, and kept under review for as long as we work together. What each one means for you, and how we check it:
Your feedback decides who stays
After every introduction we ask you how it went: speed, clarity, whether you felt looked after. Your answer counts more than the partner's pitch.
How we check it Two poor experiences in a row and the partner leaves the list, whatever it would have paid us.
Service quality reviewed every quarter
Good on day one is not enough. You get the same standard in month twelve, because we keep measuring it.
How we check it Response times, outcomes and complaints, reviewed with each partner every three months.
A reputation we can verify
Established, regulated where regulation applies, with a track record serving people from all over the world. No experiments with your money or your home.
How we check it Public reviews, register and licence checks, references from clients who arrived from abroad.
Efficient, and honest about time
Clear turnaround times, one contact, no chasing. A flat application, a policy or a grant file moves at the speed you were promised.
How we check it Turnaround commitments in writing; if a partner slips, you hear it from us before you feel it.
English all the way to the small print
Documents, contracts, support and the terms you actually sign, readable by someone who arrived last month.
How we check it We read the client-facing documents ourselves before we say yes.
Transparent fees, zero pressure
You know what a partner charges and what, if anything, they pay us, in one sentence. You can compare, pause or walk away at any point.
How we check it No exclusivity clauses, no hard-sell scripts, and we stay reachable for the whole process.
If a partner stops meeting the bar, they leave the list. That is why it is short.
Going to a partner through us costs you nothing extra. We do not hand you over: you get someone who speaks your language, knows your whole situation, and is still responsible when the paperwork gets strange.
One contact for the whole picture
Housing, financing, insurance and taxes affect each other. One person who sees all of it beats five who see a slice.
Someone to escalate to
If a partner drops the ball, you tell us, and we sort it or find another route.
Partner perks, when they exist
Where a partner offers Unlock Germany members better terms, you get them by coming through us. We announce them on the community page as they land.
For providers
Offer a service to people from all over the world?
We add partners slowly, and only after they pass the criteria above. If you think you would, tell us what you do and we will come back to you.
Free, no sign-up to start
Need a partner for something else?
Take the free check and tell us what you are trying to sort. If we do not have a partner we trust for it yet, we will say so, and point you somewhere honest.
