Blacklynx · EU-ready
The rules apply the moment EU customers buy from you, with or without an office here. Germany enforces them hardest: consent, data transfers, VAT, product safety, AI, accessibility. We make your digital operations pass, from Germany, since 2017.
Where are you today?
Already selling to Europe
You ship or sell to EU customers from the US, without an entity. GDPR, VAT and product rules already apply, with or without an office here.
Planning a launch
You want to open the European market. We make sure day one passes in the strictest country, so every next market is an extension, not a rebuild.
Already in Germany
You have a German subsidiary or team, while tools and decisions come from the US. We turn EU rules into changes your stack can actually ship.
Selling to Europe
11 things we fix in almost every audit, sorted by business model. None of them is about your product. All of them cost trust, rankings or money.
With or without an EU entity. These apply the moment EU customers use your site or product.
01
US tag setups fire Google Analytics and Meta before anyone clicks. In Germany that invites an Abmahnung, a paid cease-and-desist letter from competitors or associations. We run cookieless analytics and a consent layer that blocks by default.
02
US hosting, US CRM, US analytics: every transfer needs a legal basis and a paper trail. We host in Germany and keep the data flows inside the EU.
03
Companies without an EU entity need a representative under Art. 27 GDPR. Most US companies selling to Europe do not know this. Our legal partners provide one.
04
Every German-facing site needs a legal notice with a physical address and a responsible person. No Impressum, no trust, and a fine.
05
Selling to EU consumers means EU VAT, usually through the One-Stop-Shop. We connect shop, invoicing and bookkeeping so the numbers match.
06
German B2B customers must be able to receive structured e-invoices since 2025, and issuing becomes mandatory for German businesses from 2027. Your German customers will expect them. We connect your invoicing to German-compliant tools and archives.
Digital products and services used by people in the EU.
07
If your product uses AI and EU users touch it, the AI Act applies: transparency when people talk to a machine, AI literacy for staff, and far more for high-risk uses. We map your AI features and implement what is required.
08
The European Accessibility Act applies to online shops and many consumer-facing digital services since June 2025. We build to it from the start, not as a retrofit.
Anything you ship to a customer in the EU.
09
Right of withdrawal, price display rules, payment methods Germans expect. Shopify defaults are not enough.
10
Since December 2024 the GPSR requires an EU-based responsible person for consumer products. Marketplaces block listings without one.
11
Packaging registration in LUCID before the first shipment, plus WEEE and battery registration for anything with a plug or a cell. Unregistered goods may not be sold.
The way in
Start with the audit. Everything after it is a decision you make with numbers on the table.
01
Ten days. We go through website, tracking, forms, hosting, mail, CRM, invoicing and AI use, and hand you a traffic-light report with a prioritised list. Fixed price, quoted in the call.
02
Your website or shop for the first European market, usually Germany: EU hosting, consent, cookieless analytics, legal texts and EU representative through our partners, CRM and bookkeeping connected, first landing pages for ads.
03
AI agents for your European operations: qualify German inquiries, draft offers and invoices, answer support in the local language, all inside Microsoft 365 or on our servers, under EU rules.
04
We stay. Hosting, updates, legal texts kept current, monitoring, monthly reports and a contact in the European time zone. We work while you sleep.
Fixed-price audit, project quote within ten days of the audit. We do not publish prices, because no two market entries are alike.
Why Blacklynx
Hamburg, Germany. Eight years of building for German rules. That is the whole pitch.
We are not a compliance consultancy. We are the team that has built websites, shops and automations under the strictest rules in Europe for eight years.
Servers in Germany, our own analytics, our own mail archive, our own AI agents. What we recommend to you, we run ourselves.
We implement the technical and content requirements. For the legal part we bring partners: lawyers, data protection officers, EU representatives. One package, one contact.
Every launch comes with cookieless analytics and a monthly report. You see which channel brings inquiries and revenue in Europe.
Proof
Our clients are German companies. Their setup is exactly what a US company needs to pass in Europe.
Websites, camper configurator and online shop for a Ford dealership group: 96 configurator inquiries in 30 days, cookieless analytics from day one, shop connected to the ERP.
Two annual conference platforms with brochures, exhibitor pages, participant login and yearly content cycle, hosted and maintained by us.
Our own operations run on the agents we sell: time tracking, invoicing, inbox triage and monthly analytics reports inside Microsoft 365.
What we do not do
Blacklynx implements the technical and content requirements of the German and EU market. Lawyers, external data protection officers and EU representatives are part of the package through partners we work with, billed through us, so you still have one contact.
Questions US companies ask
Yes. GDPR, consumer law, VAT and product rules apply as soon as you sell to or collect data from people in the EU, whether or not you have an office here. Without an EU entity you usually also need an EU representative under Art. 27 GDPR.
No. You need a legal notice, an EU representative if you have no EU establishment, compliant shop and privacy setup, and a way to invoice correctly. We implement all of that and bring the legal partners.
If EU users interact with AI in your product, or your AI output is used in the EU, most likely yes. Chatbots must say they are machines, staff using AI need basic training, and high-risk uses carry heavy duties. We map your AI features in the audit and implement what applies.
If you sell to EU consumers, you owe VAT in the customer country. The One-Stop-Shop lets you file for all EU countries in one return instead of registering in each. B2B sales usually shift VAT to the customer. Your tax advisor confirms the setup, we build it into shop and invoicing.
Since December 2024, consumer products sold in the EU need an economic operator based in the EU who is responsible for product safety. Without one, marketplaces like Amazon block your listings. Our partners can take on the role.
GDPR and most digital rules apply across all 27 member states. Germany adds the strictest enforcement and a few extras (Impressum, packaging registration). We start with Germany because passing here means passing everywhere, then add markets as extensions.
No. We implement the technical and content requirements and bring lawyers, data protection officers and EU representatives into the package where the law requires them. You get one contact and one invoice.
The audit takes ten days. A launch for the first market typically takes six to ten weeks, depending on translation and shop complexity. Automation runs in parallel or after.
On our servers in Germany (Hetzner, ISO 27001) or inside Microsoft 365 with EU data residency. Analytics run cookieless on our own Matomo instance. Nothing is sent to US ad platforms unless you decide so, with consent.
German by native speakers first. Further EU languages through partner translators. Our AI agents answer in the language of the customer.
30 minutes, Monday to Friday, 8 am to 8 pm Central European Time (2 am to 2 pm Eastern, 11 pm to 11 am Pacific). You describe your plans, we tell you what it takes and what the audit covers.
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