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AI For Technical Businesses,
Built By Engineers,
Not Salespeople.

Strategy, engineering, and deployment - end to end.
By engineers who actually understand what the businesses do.

Every Engagement Starts Here

Our Process

Most AI pilots look great on slides but fail in the real world: no adoption, no ROI, just expensive experiments. We fix that.
Our methodology eliminates wasteful AI investments by validating before building, so every engagement delivers measurable business impact, not just another proof-of-concept.

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AI Readiness Assessment

Five-dimensional evaluation across strategy, data, technology, people, and governance, before you invest.

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Use Case Definition

Nine-question canvas to validate every AI idea with real metrics before development begins.

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Prioritisation & Sequencing

Impact-feasibility mapping so quick wins build momentum and resources go where they count.

Engineering Depth, Not Just Strategy

We are engineers who also strategize, not strategists who occasionally engineer. Having built and shipped production AI products ourselves - from visual AI platforms to cross-language RAG systems - we bring hands-on expertise that pure consulting firms can't replicate. That's how real AI transformation happens.

What We Do

Full-Spectrum AI Capabilities

From strategy through deployment, every capability backed by our own production experience building and shipping AI systems, by engineers, for technical businesses.

AI Strategy & Roadmapping

We define actionable AI strategies anchored to your business objectives - starting with AI readiness assessments, use-case definition, and rigorous prioritisation and sequencing. Every initiative is ranked by feasibility, impact, and time-to-value so you invest where it counts.

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Agentic AI Systems

We design and deploy autonomous AI agents that interact dynamically with your systems, automating complex multi-step workflows while maintaining reliability and control.

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AI Knowledge Hub

Contracts, manuals, case files, wikis: your company's entire collected knowledge becomes queryable in seconds – plain language, cited sources, synthesized across documents. Your team saves hours of digging every week. Built on our own platform awRAG.io – deployable on-premise or on isolated servers.

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AI-Enhanced Process Automation

We build digital automations that connect your tools and remove repetitive manual work, and we upgrade existing workflows with agentic AI where it counts. That gives classic automations case-by-case classification and decision-making: rigid if-this-then-that chains become flows that also handle the exceptions that used to require a human.

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AI-Enabled Growth Systems

We architect AI-powered systems that directly drive revenue, retention, and operational efficiency - from intelligent chatbots and conversational interfaces to complete customer management and success platforms. Turning AI from a cost center into a measurable growth engine for your business.

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Data Engineering & Pipelines

We architect data pipelines that ingest, transform, and structure data from multiple sources - ensuring your AI systems operate on clean, reliable, well-governed data.

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NRW.BANK.Impuls KI funding programme
Up to 50% grant

50% funding for your AI project in NRW

Small and medium-sized companies in NRW receive up to €25,000 in funding for AI concept consulting and test prototypes. We support you free of charge with the application and prepare your approvable proposal.

  • 50% grant (up to €25,000 funded by the State of NRW)
  • Free support throughout the application process
  • From potential analysis to a working AI prototype

For SMEs based in NRW

50 %

up to €25,000 grant

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The Team

Three Minds. One Mission.

We're engineers first, which means we speak your language before we speak AI.
Three leaders with a combined 35+ years across enterprise technology, AI product development, and digital transformation - from Bosch to Liberty Mutual, from AWS infrastructure to production GenAI platforms.

Muhammed Alp

Muhammed Alp

Founder & AI Strategist

Muhammed is an energy systems and thermodynamics engineer, not another AI agency salesperson. He graduated from the University of Stuttgart with an M.Sc. (Dipl.-Ing.) in Thermodynamics and Energy Systems from the Aerospace Engineering Institute, and spent over 15 years working at Bosch and Turkish Aerospace, at the intersection of engineering and innovation. Since 2019, he's been building AI hands-on: computer vision, digital twins, and production GenAI systems using LLM and RAG architectures. Speaking the language of classical thermo-fluid and industrial engineering, he helps technical businesses implement AI that works in practice, not AI theater sold by people who've never touched their industry.

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Qanit Al-Syed

Qanit Al-Syed

Technology Strategy Advisor

He earned a Master's in Information Technology from Harvard University in the United States, along with degrees from INCEIF University in Malaysia, the University of Michigan in the United States, and Technische Universität Berlin in Germany. A technologist with 15+ years across multiple markets and positions, spanning from developer to Regional CTO, specializing in digital transformation, M&A integration architecture, and deploying AI-enabled engineering workflows for regulated clients.

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Muhammad Muhaimin

Muhammad Muhaimin

Director of Data & IT

He holds an MSc in Computing Science (Big Data) from Simon Fraser University in Canada and a Bachelor's in Computing Science from Queen's University in Canada. As Director of Data & IT at ME SOLshare, he led a multidisciplinary team of 12, defined roadmaps for data infrastructure modernization, and deployed ML-based classification capabilities into production. Previously as CTO at PropCloud, he architected Airflow-based ETL pipelines on AWS, introduced Terraform-driven infrastructure as code, and engineered CI/CD pipelines for FastAPI-based ML model deployment.

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Cutting through the noise of AI hype, our mission is clear: strategize and deliver reliable AI technology that survives the real world. Grounded in governance principles, designed to scale, and measured by tangible business impact - that's what we bring to every engagement.

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Schedule a discovery call. We'll discuss your AI initiatives, assess where you are, and outline a path forward - informed by real production experience.

Tell us about your AI goals: we'll get back to you within 24 hours.

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