It was June 14, 2016. I was sitting on the couch at home, building Enehano’s first website. I put the name together from Hawaiian words for business and technology, “ohana” and “enehana.” Hawaii became part of Enehano before I’d ever been there. Six days later, on June 20, I signed the company registration certificate. Enehano existed.
At the time, I had one plan: to build a company that would be number one in Salesforce in the Czech Republic. To have more than 50 consultants. To exceed CZK 50 million in revenue. And if it worked out within five years, to take the whole company to Hawaii.
Today, we are more than 90 people. Enehano’s revenue has exceeded CZK 188 million, and as the Synequs holding, we crossed a quarter of a billion in 2025. And we made it to Hawaii. But let’s take it from the top.
In this article, you'll learn:
- what strategic decisions transformed Enehano from a website on a couch into a European holding
- why the expansion into the US and Sweden didn’t work out and what Enehano is doing differently in the Netherlands
- how the company weathered Covid without letting a single person go
- what the second decade means for Enehano and its bet on AI-first
Salesforce: Love at First Sight
Enehano didn’t come from a business plan. It came from a conviction that Salesforce was a platform missing from the Czech market. Michal Peška and I had seen it abroad. We saw what it could do for sales, marketing, and customer service at large companies and we knew there simply wasn’t a local partner with strong know-how.
The Early Years: From the Couch to ČSOB
The first customer was Equa Bank. We delivered the implementation, IBM awarded us the Partner of the Year 2016 title, and we knew we were on the right track.
Year three brought revenue above CZK 28 million and 248% growth. Kiwi.com, Zonky, and ČSOB Pojišťovna joined the portfolio. That was the first time we won a tender by beating out large international firms. And I took my first holiday in three years.
Year four was the hardest. Covid stopped projects overnight. Revenue dropped by a quarter in a single month. It looked like I was going to lose 10 people. We came together as a team and agreed to reduce hours. Management went to 50% salary. Nobody left.
In 2021, we crossed the CZK 100 million revenue threshold. For me personally, that was a number I had considered science fiction when I founded Enehano.
Expansions That Didn't Work Out. And One That Is.
I don’t like skipping over things that didn’t work. That’s why I’m writing about them.
The US expansion simply didn’t happen, but it was an experience for a lifetime. Americans weren’t interested in European references, the competition from India played on a completely different price level, and a nine-hour time difference destroyed any business momentum. The entry into Sweden ended the same way, Covid stopped the development before the market had a chance to get going.
Last year we launched activities in the Netherlands, and I’m knocking on wood. We’re growing there.
A Team-Building Trip to Hawaii: Were We Crazy?
In October 2022, we made good on the promise. 53 Enehano people flew to Hawaii with a stopover in San Francisco. Excursions alternated with parties, we spotted sea turtles in the ocean, and we watched the sunset from the Haleakalā volcano.
I was worried about whether 53 colleagues would handle two weeks together. The result? The team bonded in an incredible way that no team-building event in the Czech Republic could achieve. I fondly remember the surprise on the last evening, when they gave me a gift, a video in which each “traveller” recorded a short message with a single word: “Mahalo.” Thank you in Hawaiian.
We came back a different company.
From Number One in the Czech Republic to a Holding Across Europe
2023 brought the largest project in Enehano’s history. Česká Spořitelna entrusted us with the implementation of Salesforce Financial Services Cloud for their entire branch network. It was the largest Salesforce transformation in the CEE region. In April 2024, we launched the first branches into production. By the end of 2024, all retail advisors were using the system.
In parallel, in 2023 we established the Synequs holding. Enehano remained the backbone, but it was no longer the only company. We were joined by Qest, a custom software development specialist, and BeHive Data, focused on data quality.
Our customers
AI-First. What That Actually Means.
2024 was the year we stopped talking about AI and started acting. We transitioned to a three-business-unit model. We built an AI team. And in 2025, we launched the first production deployment of Agentforce. AI agents today manage parts of the sales process or customer service at our clients’ companies without any human operator involvement.
In June 2026, I’m taking over as CEO of Qest Technologies. The goal is for both companies to share not only clients and opportunities, but also their way of thinking about delivery. Agentic AI, AI-assisted development, AI in day-to-day project work.
Both companies are responding the same way: with production deployments spanning strategy, architecture, and integration. Qest under the Qest AI brand; Enehano through Agentforce and Data Cloud.
The Second Decade
Ten years is a number that surprises me. Not because so many things went differently than I planned. But because of what emerged from it. A company that keeps its word. A team unbroken by crises or a pandemic. A holding that represents end-to-end digital transformation for enterprise companies in the Czech Republic and beyond.
The second decade is beginning. I’m curious myself to see what it brings. I hope you’ll be here for it with me.
