Why Mumo's Inn Is in the Boris™ App

Mumo’s Inn is listed in the Boris™ app as a Boris verified™ partner. The story behind that is a bit different from what you’d expect.

Cris is Ecuadorian-German. I’m Peruvian-Spanish. We’re migrants. We both went through the experience of arriving somewhere new, not speaking the language, not knowing how the culture works, and figuring it out from scratch. That’s the lens we bring to this.

We treat our guests the way we would have wanted to be treated when we arrived. That’s it. That’s the difference.

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Where Boris™ Came From

Cris is a maker. When he notices a problem that keeps repeating itself, he builds something for it.

A lot of the conversations that shaped Boris™ didn’t happen at a desk. They happened in our yard, over a glass of Lillet, when someone who’d just arrived in Germany had questions — not urgent ones, just the kind that pile up when you’re new somewhere and trying to figure out how things actually work here versus how they’re supposed to work.

Cris turned what he learned from those conversations into an app. Step-by-step PCS guidance, local businesses worth knowing, the financial and administrative side of a Germany move that tends to catch people off guard.

The principle he built it around: trust is the product. The app only works if what’s in it is honest. That’s the one thing he won’t compromise on.

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Almost None of It Is Ours

Nearly everything useful in that app came from someone who stayed here first.

Which form the finance office actually wants. What the housing office means by a word that isn’t in any dictionary. The neighborhood that looks fine on a map and isn’t. Which vet will see a dog on a Saturday. Every one of those arrived the same way — a family who had already made the mistake, telling us at the kitchen table so the next one wouldn’t have to.

They gave us that for nothing. Then their orders came through and they left, because in the KMC everybody eventually leaves.

Which leaves you with a debt and nobody to pay it to. The people you’d want to thank are already at their next duty station. It only goes one direction: forward, to whoever lands next.

Boris is us handing it forward. Same knowledge, written down, in the hands of the family arriving on Tuesday who doesn’t know any of it yet.

He’s named after our dog, who has spent years taking guest dogs under his wing while their owners are tied up on base — which is roughly the same idea, with less typing.

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Why It Isn’t Just for Our Guests

We could have locked it to people who book with us. It would make a good perk.

But that would take something families gave us freely and turn it into a reason to pay us, and it stops being a thank-you the moment it has a price attached.

So it’s open to anyone moving to or already in the KMC. It covers the PCS process by phase, the financial side of a Germany move, and a directory of local businesses worth knowing. Works offline. No account, no tracking.

If you land here and it saves you one bad afternoon, that’s the whole point — even if you never stay with us, and even if we never hear about it.

Download it before you land. Free on the App Store and Google Play.

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If you’re headed to the KMC — you know where we are.

— Irina