Czech problems worth solving

Many small firms don't even know the law covers them, and the first deadlines hit in late 2026. A firm that misses its deadline can be fined up to 2% of its turnover (which is A LOT of money).

Suggested Build a small security agency that does the security work, and writes EU grant applications for the towns that qualify.

Good for Someone with cybersecurity skills who's interested in grants and public-sector sales.

Since January 2026 a law requires 60% of the city buses they buy to be clean, half with zero emissions. In 2023 an electric bus cost 14M CZK against 6M for diesel, and a late one can cost the grant.

Suggested Build a company that finances electric buses and their batteries and builds and runs the depot chargers, charging city bus companies a fee per bus, as 2 companies already do in 2 other countries.

Good for People who can raise large sums and sell to city bus companies through tenders.

From 1 January 2027 every Czech e-shop must show a button for withdrawing from a contract, and a shop without one commits an offence. Inspectors caught 639 e-shops last year, with fines averaging about 20,000 CZK.

Suggested Build an e-shop add-on that scans a shop's checkout and "eco" claims weekly and sends the owner a fix list.

Good for Someone who'd like to work with small online shops and consumer law.

Ministries, hospitals and universities that miss the date risk a fine. This summer 19 public bodies tendered for records software.

Suggested Build a migration service that moves a public body's records into certified software, every file and its history intact.

Good for Someone who can migrate office data and sell through public tenders.

Hospital after hospital is buying its own software to share patient data, for up to 190M CZK. State auditors found the national version years behind.

Suggested Build integration software that plugs into a hospital's systems and links them to other providers, as 2 companies already do in 2 other countries.

Good for Engineers who know hospital software and can wait out long public tenders.

Doctors type reports as free text, then other staff re-read them by hand. Two state grants pay named hospitals to upgrade, but both close to applications in December.

Suggested Build report templates that doctors fill in inside the hospital's own software, so staff only confirm the codes, as companies in Germany already do.

Good for Developers who can plug into hospital software.

Each bill depends on the size of every roof and road, and today owners mostly fill that in themselves. Measuring the surfaces of just one town has cost over 1M CZK (which is way too much!).

Suggested Build a service that measures roofs and paving from aerial photos and gives sewer operators a ready billing file, as 2 companies already do in Germany.

Good for Someone who can map from aerial photos and would like to work with sewer operators.

Social workers write up their home visits and client meetings by hand, and paperwork takes more of their time than almost anything else. Child-protection offices would need 20–30% more staff to keep up.

Suggested Build an app that records a social worker's visit, with the client's consent, and drafts the note in the office's own case-file software for the worker to check, as 2 companies already do in 2 other countries.

Good for Developers who handle sensitive data and can sell to town halls.

Each hospital buys medicine on its own. A state audit found one paying over 3 times what another paid for the same antibiotic.

Suggested Build a price-comparison service where hospital pharmacies share what they paid.

Good for Someone who'd like to work with hospitals and price data.

One Czech energy community charges schools and care homes an admin fee 3 times the electricity price. It covers billing, but also accounting and legal advice.

Suggested Build billing software that pulls sharing data from the national hub and bills each member, as 1 company already does in Switzerland.

Good for Someone who builds software and would like to work with energy communities.

Counselling centres assess pupils who need extra help at school, and families wait around half a year, up to 18 months in places. The number of pupils getting that help rose 20% in a year.

Suggested Build a service that gives small schools a psychologist and a special educator over video, so pupils get first help while they wait for an assessment, as 2 companies already do in the United States.

Good for Someone with a psychology or special-education team who can sell to schools.

The EU has started proceedings against Czechia for missing its deadline, so Czech rules are coming. Owners with many buildings will have to decide which to fix first, and at what cost.

Suggested Build software that reads an owner's energy data and ranks which building to renovate first and at what cost, as 3 companies already do in 2 other countries.

Good for Someone who understands building energy use and can sell to hospitals and towns through tenders.

Every renewal or job change means a new file, prepared case by case. The ministry got 3,518 complaints in 2024 that foreigners' cases sat untouched.

Suggested Build software for employers and their agencies that prepares work-permit files, tracks each case and warns before permits expire.

Good for Someone who'd like to work with employers who hire foreign workers.

Borrowers take lenders to the state's financial arbiter, mostly saying nobody checked they could repay. Every case needs documents and a legal answer written by hand, and this year is heading for about 20,000.

Suggested Build case software for lenders that pulls the loan file, drafts the reply to the arbiter and tracks deadlines.

Good for Someone who can build legal software and sell to banks and lenders.

The competition office looked at 488 food buyers and found spoken orders still common, and fruit collection points buying with no contract at all. From 19 August 2028 every farm delivery needs a written contract agreed first.

Suggested Build software inside a produce buyer's own trading and weighing system that writes each delivery contract with the price rule the law wants, sends it for electronic signature before the load moves and files it, as 3 companies already do in 2 other countries.

Good for Someone who knows how grain and produce are bought and can sell to traders.

Criminals copy a known Czech shop's site and take people's money, and the real shop then fields thousands of refund demands. Its reports to the platforms, the inspectors and the police went weeks without a result.

Suggested Build software that watches marketplaces, adverts and new web addresses for copies of a Czech shop's name and pages, collects the proof and files each removal request itself, as 5 companies already do in 4 other countries.

Good for Someone who can build web crawlers and is comfortable dealing with lawyers and marketplaces.

A Prague café owner pulled the wifi, saying a guest can turn a table into an office for 5 hours on one coffee.

Suggested Build a booking app where cafés, hotels and gyms sell their quiet hours as work seats by the hour, as 3 companies already do in 3 other countries.

Good for Someone who enjoys signing up cafés and hotels one by one, street by street.

From July 2027, an EU rulebook replaces much of Czech anti-money-laundering law, so firms it covers must update client checks and policies. That comes on top of the central bank's paperwork.

Suggested Build compliance software for advice networks that records why an investment suits each client and files central-bank reports.

Good for Someone who'd like to work with financial advisers and their compliance officers.

Czechia is late on the EU rules, and its draft would make every employer set pay by a written system. Applicants would learn the minimum pay, and firms with 150+ staff would report their pay gap by April 2028.

Suggested Build software that reads a company's payroll export and produces the pay-gap report the draft law would require.

Good for Someone who knows HR and payroll and can sell to larger employers.

Hosts send the same guest details to the foreign police, the town and the statistics office, each in its own way. A bill would replace this with one state register from January 2028.

Suggested Build an online guest check-in that files each guest once to the foreign police, the town's fee records and the statistics office, and later to the new register, as 1 company already does in Spain.

Good for Someone who can connect software to state systems and likes working with hosts.

Some lenders take borrowers at their word on what they spend, and non-bank lenders were fined 19M CZK last year. From February 2027 a bill would add the check when shoppers pay in instalments or in one payment later.

Suggested Build a service that reads a borrower's bank transactions, with consent, and gives the lender a documented check that the borrower can afford to repay, as 2 companies already do in 2 other countries.

Good for Someone who knows credit risk and bank data and can sell to lenders.

Czech marketplaces and forums must handle reports of illegal posts and explain each removal to the user. Nobody can fine them yet, but a bill awaiting its last lower-house vote would allow fines up to 6% of turnover.

Suggested Build Czech-language software that logs reports of illegal posts, sends users the reason for each removal, files it in the EU database and writes the yearly report, as 2 companies already do in 2 other countries.

Good for Developers who know content moderation and can sell to Czech marketplaces and forums.

Engineers preparing one chase opinions from many offices and utility companies, each on its own deadline. The state has cut red tape 4 times since 2022, with little effect.

Suggested Build software for design offices that sends permit requests and tracks every answer deadline.

Good for Someone who knows Czech building permits and can sell to design offices.

Every home keeps its own waiting list, so families put their parent on list after list. By 2030 Czechia will have 690,000 people over 80, nearly half more than in 2023, so even more families will be searching.

Suggested Build a placement service that finds free care-home beds and applies for families, as 2 companies already do in 2 other countries.

Good for Someone who'd like to work with care homes and families.

More than half of surveyed Czech care services report being short of workers. Shift apps only offer spare shifts to a home's own staff, and agencies fill jobs, not shifts.

Suggested Build an app where vetted nurses and carers pick up single shifts at care homes, as 2 companies already do in 2 other countries.

Good for Someone ready to recruit carers and handle Czech employment rules.

The roof often goes to one firm and the walls to another, each surveying and pricing the house. Then comes the energy assessment and subsidy application, which a homeowner can pay a firm to handle.

Suggested Build an insulation company whose own crews insulate the whole house at one fixed price and handle the subsidy, as 3 companies already do in Germany.

Good for Someone who can run building crews and handle state subsidy paperwork.

When a court decides an adult can't manage alone and nobody else can help, their town or village is made responsible. In a village with no staff, the mayor does it, which can mean signing hospital consents at weekends.

Suggested Build case-management software for the town offices that take on this work, with a file per person, their money and the yearly accounts for the court, as 1 company already does in Sweden.

Good for Someone who can sell software to town halls and understands social work.

Since June 2026, state heating and insulation grants go only to poorer households, and a renovation pass is now required. Installers handle that paperwork while sizing and pricing each job.

Suggested Build an app for heat-pump and solar installers that sizes the system, prices the job and fills in the subsidy forms.

Good for Someone who'd like to work with heat-pump and solar installers.

A home visit sets the grade, and one grade higher can pay over 4 times as much a month. Guides describe the process as bureaucratic and opaque.

Suggested Build an online service that files a family's care-allowance claim, prepares them for the home visit and handles any appeal.

Good for Someone who'd like to help families caring for a sick or elderly relative.

Czech employers listed 2,313 new building-worker vacancies in a single month. Contractors who need crews with papers in order can lease them from agencies or use websites that check no documents.

Suggested Build an online marketplace where contractors hire building crews with checked papers, then handle their documents and pay.

Good for Someone who'd like to work with builders and building crews.

AI-made content must now be labelled too. Yet the Czech law naming who checks and fines firms is still a draft, past the EU's deadline.

Suggested Build an online check that scans a small firm's website for chatbots and AI-made content that must be disclosed.

Good for Someone who'd like to help small firms follow the new AI rules.

A dispatcher takes each load by phone, and the office runs delivery papers and invoices through e-mail and old dispatch software. From July 2027, authorities can't demand paper if a certified digital record exists.

Suggested Build a phone-and-web app for small trucking firms that reads delivery papers and turns them into invoices.

Good for Someone who'd like to work with small trucking firms.

Agencies book, move and confirm visits by phone, while Czech employers posted 380 new nurse vacancies in one month. Care services may now also help with medicines and stoma bags.

Suggested Build a Czech-speaking phone assistant that books, moves and confirms visits in the home-care agency's own scheduling software.

Good for Someone who'd like to work with home-care agencies.

Every town writes its own tender for the same thing: panels on a public roof. Some towns ran the same tender again, one of them 3 times in 10 weeks.

Suggested Build a buying service that pools many towns' solar roofs into one tender, as 1 company already does in the Netherlands.

Good for Someone who knows public tenders and likes working with towns on solar.

Czechia launches the app at the end of 2026. Banks, phone companies and big platforms will have to accept it when customers prove who they are, and each needs a way to check it.

Suggested Build a service inside a bank's customer sign-up that checks the EU digital ID app, as 2 companies already do in 2 other countries.

Good for Engineers who know digital identity and can sell to banks.

Unlicensed firms must hand their customers' coins and cash to a licensed firm or back to the customer. Those that keep trading risk fines above 100M CZK.

Suggested Build a fixed-price service that winds down an unlicensed crypto firm: tells customers, moves their coins and cash, closes the records.

Good for Someone who knows crypto wallets and exchanges and likes careful paperwork.

Payroll offices already had to rework their software this year for a new monthly report. The planned law would also change the software firms keep their books on.

Suggested Build an accounting firm where software reads client documents and licensed accountants check the work, starting with payroll.

Good for Accountants who like software, or engineers with an accountant co-founder.

Czechia has hundreds of water utilities, and those fitting smart meters buy the meters, radio readers and software alone. This summer 7 signed or tendered separate deals.

Suggested Build a service that fits smart meters for small water utilities and reads them remotely, as Czech firms already do.

Good for Someone who can run meter-fitting crews and win water utility tenders.

Orders reach Czech wholesalers as e-mails, PDFs and spreadsheets, and staff type each line into their accounting software.

Suggested Build software that reads orders arriving by e-mail, PDF or Excel and enters them into the wholesaler's accounting system.

Good for Someone who'd like to work with wholesalers and their accounting software.