getAdvantage · Independent by design

The independent digital permitfor physical AI.

AI can act. You stay in control. We identify and build industrial AI workflows, with a reusable permission layer before every action.

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Progress without loss of control

“Factories are not waiting for better AI. They are waiting for a safe way to let AI act.”

Dr. Syed Fawad Ali Co-founder & CTO
  • 01Less downtime
  • 02Faster decisions
  • 03Productive physical AI
  • 04Scale with control

01 The operating floor

The next step is ready.
The permission is missing.

Illustrative maintenance workflow

An alarm goes off. The agent understands the problem and prepares the next step. Then it stops. The intelligence is there. The authority to act is not.

Turn written limits into a digital permit. Let permitted work move, and route exceptions to the right person.

Before the next move

A clear yes.
Before AI acts.

Limits set by the plant. Permission before action.

02 What the permit does

Written limits.
A clear decision.

The plant sets the limits. Each request gets a yes, a hold for a person, or a stop.

Explore a permitIllustrative example

Agent request

Draft a maintenance work order

Written limit

Drafting is allowed. Release requires a named approver.

Permit decision

Yes

The request is within the written limit.

The draft returns to the existing maintenance system.

Limits

The plant writes what the agent may do alone, what a person must sign, and what is stopped.

Request

The agent asks to act. One request, one check.

Permit

Every request gets a clear decision before execution: permitted, held for human approval, or stopped.

Act

We build your selected AI workflow or connect one you already use. Your systems execute the permitted action under operator-defined controls.

Record

The request, decision, approval and execution result form a traceable record for your operations and assurance teams.

03 The people behind the permit

Enterprise experience.
Product ambition.

Product · Engineering · Growth

Co-founder & CEO

Benjamin Hellmich

16+ years in enterprise transformation and AI. Director of Data and AI at BearingPoint, seven years at Accenture. Two hundred use cases in twenty countries. He built the first permit check himself.

Co-founder & CTO

Dr. Syed Fawad Ali

15+ years in data and AI engineering. Head of Data Engineering at NEOM. Data & AI Engineering at Accenture DACH; Technical Leader AI at IBM EMEA; Data Platform Engineering at trivago.

Co-founder & Chief Growth Officer (CGO)

Marc Lindner

13+ years building brands and driving growth. Director of Strategy & Consulting at headspace. Led positioning, market-entry, and global communications mandates for P&G, Coty, The Estée Lauder Companies, Norwegian Cruise Line and Suntory Global Spirits.

04 Independent by design

The yes has to be independent

Your operators define the rules. The same permission layer checks workflows built by us, your team or your technology partners. The agent cannot approve its own exception. One reusable platform connects use cases across your systems and sites. Your team retains control.

Robotics

Sovereign stacks

Automation

Permit
Your agents
Your systems

Agent, then permit, then the plant.

Your first deployment

Your first
AI use case.

No existing AI solution needed. We help identify a valuable opportunity, build the selected workflow and connect it to your operations through the getAdvantage permission layer.

Week 01

Identify & prioritize

Choose one use case in one operating domain, with a business owner, success measures and agreed scope.

Weeks 02–06

Build & validate

Develop the workflow, connect the agreed systems, configure permissions and validate with your team.

Then scale

Reuse across your operations

Extend the platform to further workflows and sites. Scope, pricing and rollout are agreed in your tailored proposal.

Earlier interest. Earlier review. We review deployment requests in the order received. Dates depend on fit, scope and available capacity. No payment or purchase commitment to get started.

Benjamin Hellmich

Meet the founder

Good ideas start
with a conversation.

Bring an operational challenge. We’ll discuss where AI can help and what a first deployment could look like.

Benjamin HellmichCo-founder & CEO, getAdvantage

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