AI consulting & software development · Vienna · since 2009

accelerating AI technology.

We help companies integrate technology into their operations, and we build the open-source and enterprise tools we wish existed while doing it.

Austrian Staatspreis Consulting 20224 patents · full-stack AIrho/* open source · Apache-2.0
01 · Consulting

Four phases, one team.

From first workshop to the moment your team runs it on their own.

Discovery

Workshops with your team to understand the problem, check what's technically possible, and estimate cost and return.

Prototype

We build a prototype that actually runs on your real data, not on a demo set. You can evaluate it before we commit to scale. Vision, language, or forecasting.

Production

We ship it live with monitoring, alerts, and fallback plans. Runs on your servers, in our EU cloud, or worldwide on request.

Knowledge transfer

Full handover of the system: architecture, decisions, runbooks, and the reasoning behind each. We stay available as long as you need.

AI without the marketing Austrian Staatspreis Consulting 2022, a sub auspiciis PhD in AI, and one of the first AI-assisted lectures in Austria. Backed by four shipped patents and production deployments running since 2009.

Recent examples we can share publicly:

Cybersecurity · active defense

Cybertrap

bds421 built the AI inside Cybertrap's deception mesh. Our models detect intruders early, profile each attacker's skill and intent, and adapt the decoy environment in real time. Every intrusion feeds a temporal knowledge graph so the next trap is smarter than the last.

EngagementProduction · 2025
Industrial · vision

Brantner B-AIR

An in-house bds421 neural network, "Hawkeye". First shipped on waste-collection trucks, then scaled to sorting-plant conveyors, where it detects 32 interfering materials in real time and judges each load's purity. The camera hardware is commodity smartphones, cheap and fast to replace. Robot-arm control to pull valuables off the belt automatically is the next phase of the project.

EngagementProduction · 2022IP4 patents
Retail & logistics · first AI rollout

MTH-Gruppeformer MTB group

Austrian conglomerate spanning retail, industry, and print & publishing. Their first production AI. Logistics optimisation and real-time data analysis for the retail chains Libro and Pagro. The system ingests sales, inventory, and logistics signals across the chains' store network and central warehouses. Built in 2018 under the MTB group era.

EngagementProduction · 2018Taus2015–2019
02 · Products

Software we build for everyone, and software we build for enterprise.

Two product lines, same engineering.
ρ (rho) is the open-source family, Apache-2.0 on GitHub.
σ (sigma) is the enterprise line: full systems supported by the team that built them, deployed on-prem, in eu-central-1, or worldwide on request.

ρ
Open source
rho/*

Inspired by the pi/llm adapter, reimplemented in Go. Production-grade, Apache-2.0. The building blocks we use on every consulting project.

  • rho/llmMulti-provider LLM client in Go. 15 providers, streaming, tool use, failover.stable
  • rho/llm-tutorial22-lesson course that tests API, cloud and on-prem LLMs end-to-end.public
  • rho/kitBoilerplate Go service toolkit. Logging, health, DB, JWT, messaging.stable
  • rho/tkgTemporal knowledge graph. Reasoning over time-indexed facts.soon
github.com/bds421 →
σ
Enterprise
sigma/*

Full systems for regulated and mission-critical environments. Deployed on-prem, in eu-central-1, or worldwide on request. Supported by the team that built them.

  • sigma/tkgdFull temporal-AI system. Reasoning over knowledge graphs. Productised rho/tkg.GA
  • sigma/recruitingEnd-to-end AI recruiting workflow. Sourcing, screening, scheduling.GA
  • sigma/visionObject detection & persistent multi-object tracking. Camera-to-action latency in ms.GA
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Across major LLMs, hallucination rates range from 3% to 23% under optimal conditions, and in 80–96% of cases where they should admit uncertainty, they answer anyway. datAInsights is built differently: every answer runs through Tyla, datAInsights' own reasoning engine with a temporal-first data model, and is verified before it reaches you. Not as a target but by construction, hallucination drops to almost zero. The formal foundations trace back to Datalog research at the University of Oxford and TU Wien (paper); the temporal-first extension to Markus Nissl's PhD.

Verified, not estimatedLLMs produce plausible text. Our AI produces provable answers. If it cannot be verified against known facts, it is not given. Hallucination drops to almost zero, not through better prompting, but through architecture.
Symbolic, not statisticaldatAInsights is a neuro-symbolic AI: symbolic reasoning over verified facts is the default execution path, with neural components used only where formal methods cannot reach. Answers come from logic, not from pattern-matching.
Native temporal reasoningNo LLM knows what was true in 2021 versus today. datAInsights tracks facts over time and answers correctly at any point. Starting from a known knowledge cutoff, it reasons forward to tell you which model currently fits your parameters best.
Full provenanceEvery answer shows its working: which facts it used, where they came from, and when they were valid. The full history is hash-versioned, so you can audit any fact at any point in time. Every claim is checkable before you act on it.
03 · Where we work

Four industries. One team.

Different domains, same engineering. Vision, LLM, forecasting, active defense. Applied wherever the problem surfaces. One team, many roles: PhDs, engineers, software architects, UI/UX experts, programmers, art directors.

01Cybersecurity & cyberdefenseActive defense, deception, intrusion detection
02Industrial & manufacturingVision, robotics, factory-line integration
03Print & publishingDAM, layout classification, defect detection
04Public sector & regulatedForecasting, compliance, on-prem deployments
04 · References

Clients and recognition.

Trusted by
Award of the Republic
Staatspreis.
BMWET · WKÖ UBIT
Hofburg / Wien

Staatspreis Consulting 2022

Austria's national prize for outstanding, export-capable consulting. Awarded annually by the Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Wirtschaft together with the WKÖ Fachverband UBIT. Presented at the 20th IT- und Beratertag, Hofburg Vienna, September 2022.

Project
Brantner AI and Robotic (B-AIR)
Category
Unternehmensberatung und Informationstechnologie
Selection
1 of 6 finalists · from 191 submissions
Awarded by
BMAW · WKÖ UBIT
Ministry press release →