Philipp Herkelmann

We develop agentic AI Assistants for SMEs to save time on admin workflows in procurement, sales, customer service, and quality management - the impact: 80% less manual work.

At KREATIZE our vision is to accelerate innovation that changes the world. We want to enable the Karl Benzes and Frank Whittles of our times to bring their inventions to market and scale production as seamless as possible. Manufacturing is so beautiful yet for all innovative companies, its a hassle. You either operate your own machines which is a huge investment and you are stuck with a given technology and if you decide to outsource you are stuck with tedious procurement processes that make the process longer and engineers are not able to get all the manufacturing information they need to develop and design the best product. This is why our mission is to deliver manufacturing the world loves. We strive to make it easier, elastic, transparent, sustainable, and at the lowest cost. For consumers that means better products, produced in a sustainable way at a high pace of innovation. For engineers it means getting all the necessary manufacturing information at hand to design the best products and for companies to bring products to market and scale production seamlessly.

Freeing up operators and experts time to think & tinker more in an AI first economy. Our mission is to create the worlds best Interfaces between artificial intelligence, mathematical optimisation and human experts. We translate repeated decisions and tasks into abstract models and enable AI and mathematical optimisation to drive optimal decisions under human supervision and development.

We develop agentic AI Assistants for SMEs to save time on admin workflows in procurement, sales, customer service, and quality management - the impact: 80% less manual work.

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