Future viability

We transcribe meetings where nobody knows why they're there. We summarise emails that shouldn't have been written. That's not progress — that's pain relief. The real leverage isn't in the next tool, it's in asking whether we're treating symptoms or finally addressing root causes.

Using AI means sending customer data. Our MCP interceptor replaces names, addresses and IBANs with placeholders before anything reaches OpenAI or Anthropic. A second, locally running auditor continuously verifies the filter and feeds detected gaps back into it. Everything local, encrypted, deleted on defined schedules.

AI can do architecture, systems, orchestration, processes, products. The step to the dark factory is small. But fabricated software is not developed software. Agent farms take us back to the assembly line. The Ruhr Valley knows what comes after.

Digitalization often amplifies bureaucracy instead of reducing it. The way out is not standard software but tailored solutions that support how people really work. And thanks to AI, they are suddenly economically viable.

Agility is dead, perverted by Agilism & industrial structures. Root causes: incompetence, lack of business acumen & efficiency focus. Solution: intelligently reduce inertia in systems.