Senior Care Operations on Open Mercato

About this build

Senior Care Operations on Open Mercato is a demo application for German non-medical senior care providers. It shows how Open Mercato can become the foundation for a vertical operations system covering clients, teams, caregivers, care orders, schedules, and service confirmations.

What it does

The demo adds a manager dashboard with active clients, active care orders, today’s visits, and a weekly care schedule. It also includes care order management, scheduling, and a service-confirmations workflow with draft, pending-signature, disputed, signed, and validated states. Managers coordinate visits — mobility support, medication assistance, full body care, morning hygiene assistance, and companionship — from one operational surface.

Why it matters

German senior care operators work with large distributed teams, many part-time caregivers, thousands of patients, and multiple regional branches. Their workflows are regulated, especially when services are financed through Krankenkasse processes. Spreadsheets break when schedules change, branches grow, or service confirmations must be checked later, and existing tools often add high licence costs, high total cost of ownership, and rigid interfaces. This demo shows a more flexible path: a tailored operations system without rebuilding the foundation from zero.

Built on Open Mercato

Open Mercato provided the AI-Engineering Foundation Framework: authentication, UI structure, navigation, data layer, events, search, and scheduling primitives. Our team built the senior-care layer on top — care orders, manager dashboards, weekly schedules, service-confirmation states, shift validation, and signed confirmation workflows. In the hackathon build, roughly 97% of the product foundation was reusable Open Mercato core and around 3% was custom senior-care logic, so the team could focus on the care domain instead of platform plumbing.

Open source, full control, zero vendor lock-in.