DAFTPath
DAFTPath turns the Dutch-American Friendship Treaty visa into a dated, step-by-step plan, for a fraction of what a lawyer charges.
DesktopAdventurers need it, so we built it: DAFTPath
DAFTPath is an online planner for self-employed Americans moving to the Netherlands under the Dutch-American Friendship Treaty. It is a Wicked Code product from start to finish. We conceived it, built it and run it.
The DAFT route is well within reach of a self-employed American, but the path is hard to see. The steps span Dutch immigration, the chamber of commerce, city hall, banks, notaries and US document offices, and many of them have to happen in a specific order with long lead times. Lawyers charge thousands of dollars to manage it. Free guides explain the process but leave people to build their own project plan. And the fees, forms and processing times keep changing.
A visitor answers a short set of questions about citizenship, self-employment, savings, household and move date, and learns whether they qualify and which business structure suits them, a sole proprietorship or a Dutch limited company.
From there, the paid plan becomes a personal project schedule. Every task is counted back from the move date and linked to the official source, so users always know what to do this week and why. The plan syncs to their calendar, sends a Monday email with the week’s tasks, and can be adjusted as their circumstances change.
The tool also does much of the paperwork. It pre-fills the immigration application form from the user’s answers, drafts a business plan, and writes introduction letters for landlords and estate agents. It includes scripts for appointments, a timeline for getting documents apostilled, and a secure vault for keeping everything together. For those forming a limited company, it adds a notary checklist, a share capital guide and templates for the steps that follow.
Behind the scenes, the system checks official sources every week and updates each user’s plan when a fee, form or rule changes. Payment is a simple one-time purchase with a 14-day refund.
The result is a complete product, built and launched by a two-person team, that replaces a multi-thousand-dollar service with a guided plan anyone can follow. It also shows what Wicked Code does today. We take a complicated real-world process, structure it, and turn it into software people can use.
DAFTPath Dashboard
DAFTPath Smart Forms
DAFTPath Account ScreenAI wrote most of the code. Thirty years decided what to write.
The difference from a "vibe-coded" app is everything after step one.
Spec first, with AI as a sparring partner
We wrote the product spec and data model with AI, pressure-testing edge cases (what counts as a closure? what about partial hours? where does the data come from?) before a line of code existed.
AI-assisted build, engineer-reviewed
Features generated with AI coding tools, then read, tested and corrected by us. Every commit reviewed by a human who has shipped production software since 1997.
Deployed on our managed hosting
Monitoring, backups and patching on the same hosting we offer clients. Built in weeks, not months, and still ours to run and improve.
What AI did. What we did.
AI
- Generated the bulk of the application code
- Wrote first-pass tests and documentation
- Produced UI variants to choose from
Wicked Code
- Decided what to build and what to leave out
- Reviewed, corrected and hardened every piece
- Designed the data validation and failure modes
- Hosting, monitoring, and answering the phone
We'll build your product the same way.
AI-assisted from the spec onward, reviewed and hosted by people who've done this for three decades. Tell us the problem; we'll tell you honestly whether AI belongs in the answer.
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