ISTARIUM

ISTARIUM — smart solutions

AI that brings real value to a mid-sized company: realistic, profitable, in daily use.

scroll

What we stand for

AI in mid-sized companies that brings real value.

AI is a powerful tool, and we are enthusiastic about it ourselves. At its core, an AI venture in a mid-sized company is above all one thing: a process project. Understand the processes, define them properly, improve them and then automate.

Two key factors determine success. The first is the architecture of the application. This is where depth pays off: does the process fit the workflow? Is the data thought through to the end? Does the design follow the rules that are meant to apply in your company? The second factor is the people. Transformation and change management make sure a solution is genuinely used day to day, and it is that daily use which turns an investment into a return.

A solution has to be profitable and bring real value. That is how we measure a project: for the employees, for the company and for the shareholders.

Digital sovereignty, to us, is more than the question of where data is stored and processed. Sovereignty is built on knowledge: what AI can do, how it is built and what a decision actually means. That knowledge belongs in the boardroom and in management, that is where architecture, effort and value are decided. Which is exactly what our programmes are for.

All from one house

Solution and advisory from one house.

  • Products and knowledge

    AI solutions and the knowledge that teaches senior leaders to judge AI for themselves.

    istarium.eu

  • Advisory and rollout

    Architecture, transformation, AI adoption and rollout in mid-sized companies and manufacturing.

    mai-advisory.com

AI Enabled Executive

Knowledge as the basis of digital sovereignty.

Executive education for owners, managing directors and senior managers who want to judge AI themselves rather than delegate the decision. Not a mere lecture: you work in your own test environment, with your own AI access. Knowledge experienced interactively, guided live by a tutor. It comes in two formats.

  • AI Intensive Workshop

    One or two days · from € 890

    A day for decision-makers who delegate and still want to be in the substance. In your own test environment, with your own AI access, you experience the limits and the potential of AI for yourself. On request as a closed event for your leadership team.

    See the AI Intensive Workshop

  • AI Practice Programme

    Eight practice days in eight weeks · from € 4,900

    For decision-makers and doers who want to go deeper: over eight weeks, on your own AI venture, with your own data and on your own AI server, you experience how a solution takes shape, gets debated and gets decided together. What stays is the knowledge you gained first-hand.

    See the AI Practice Programme

Both formats side by side, with all the questions: aiee.eu

In development

Our projects.

Examples from live client projects are at MAI Advisory Partners.

  • Central connection intelligence for executives.
  • The machine that speaks. Nothing leaves the plant.
  • A PMO that holds: oversight, reporting, one voice.

Our team

The people behind it.

Our roots are not in AI: a good twenty years of industry, operations and aftersales on one side, finance and processes on the other, plus data science and software development. We taught ourselves AI from the ground up — and today we build solutions from it that hold up in day-to-day business.

  • Michael Mai
    Michael MaiSenior AI Solution ExpertInitiator and Coach AIEE

    Munich, married, 2 children
    Over 20 years in transformation and operations
    Focus: AI solutions that create value in aftersales

  • Tillmann Gmelin
    Tillmann GmelinSenior AI Solution ExpertAIEE Coach

    Munich, married, 3 children
    Over 15 years in finance and operations
    Focus: AI for cost, margins and financial KPIs

  • Leon Geerdink
    Leon GeerdinkSenior Data Science Expert

    Munich, married, 1 child
    Over 10 years in data science and software development
    Focus: data and automation as the foundation for AI

Our technology suppliers

  • HetznerThe servers behind our products and programmes run at Hetzner: data centres in Germany, ISO/IEC 27001, BSI C5 Type 2.
  • STACKITWe source our European AI services through STACKIT, the cloud of Schwarz Digits, with data centres in Germany, BSI C5 Type 2 attestation covering AI Model Serving.

Contact

We look forward to an open exchange, with no strings attached.

Juggle ideas, sound out potential, align on initiatives: we look forward to every discussion. Write to us about whatever is on your mind right now.

Michael Mai, Managing Director of ISTARIUM, in Munich's old town

Michael Mai

Managing Director

Expert in AI adoption, transformation and industrial production.

Contact details are shown to humans only, verified via Cloudflare Turnstile.