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Apuna. Always at hand.

We build bespoke AI applications for the industrial Mittelstand and stay at hand to keep them running — open-source core, on your infrastructure, your data. The AI is the reinforcement that augments you; you stay in command.

As little as possible, as much as needed.

Open source · Apache-2.0Runs on your infrastructureA person decides — by design
Whitepaper

Open by Default, Reliable by Subscription — how we build AI you can audit.

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01 — How we work

Four prepositions. One way of working.

AI isn’t our pitch — it’s our posture. We work through it, with it, because of it, and in full awareness of where it has to stop.

Through AI

AI as the medium.

Tools, infrastructure, platforms — the plumbing that makes everything else fast.

With AI

AI as the partner.

Human and model, co-working. We pair judgment with generation — never one without the other.

Because of AI

AI as the enabler.

New businesses, new roles, new speed. Work that simply wasn’t possible a year ago.

Despite AI

AI as the friction.

What stays human, stays human. We’re deliberate about where models don’t belong.

We don’t work in silos — we work in postures. And we don’t hire individuals — we assemble generations.

02 — Services

Three disciplines, one operating system for your AI.

03 — The model

Open by default. Reliable by subscription.

We build a bespoke application for you. You own it. We keep it running. The open-source licence removes the lock-in; the subscription delivers the reliability.

Apuna Build

We design and build the application for your specific operation. It runs on your infrastructure — not ours. When we hand it over, it is yours.

Open source

The core we deliver — @apuna/core and all the software underneath it — is licensed under Apache-2.0. No proprietary cage. You can read, audit, and keep every line of what we build.

Apuna Care

We stay at hand and keep it running after handover: maintenance, patches, security updates, and defined response times — delivered as a subscription, not a project.

Assurance

You pay for assurance, not code: the certainty that the system stays reliable, secure, and compliant — not a licence fee.

04 — Apuna Care

Three tiers. No prices here — talk to an engineer.

Apuna Care — our operation subscription — covers every application we build. Choose the level of assurance that fits your team and your operations.

Community

Self-service: documentation and the open-source core, with best-effort community support. The right fit for teams who want to run it themselves.

Standard

Managed maintenance: patches, security updates, and business-hours support with defined response times. Every incident gets a defined response — not a generic queue.

Premium

Full assurance: everything in Standard, plus priority incident response across extended European hours (currently around GMT±1), a ~1-hour response target on critical issues within those hours, proactive monitoring, and a named contact who knows your system.

What we commit to is response time — when a specialist starts work, not a guaranteed fix clock, because real systems vary. What we promise is fast, continuous, documented effort.

Issues are triaged by severity — critical / high / medium / low — so the right problem gets the right urgency.

Honest hours now — following the sun as we grow.

Today, Premium incident response runs across extended Central-European hours — roughly GMT±1. Our aim is genuine follow-the-sun coverage, and we extend it one time zone at a time as the team grows. We would rather tell you exactly what we cover now than promise a round-the-clock we cannot yet honour.

Follow-the-sun — the direction

Today: dependable incident response across European hours (≈ GMT±1). As we grow into new time zones, the covered window grows with us — stated as an aim, not a promise we can’t keep yet.

Direct incident channel

A dedicated, time-stamped channel routes critical issues straight to the on-call specialist — not a support queue, not a generic inbox. Routing is immediate; the record is permanent.

We tell you the hours we cover — and we’re widening them as we grow.

05 — Trust & accountability

Clear lines. No ambiguity about who is responsible for what.

We are accountable for the software we build and operate. You stay in command of how AI outputs are used. That line is by design — and it matters.

A person decides — by design

A person stays in control of every decision that matters. The AI assists; it does not decide unsupervised. The guardrail lives in the architecture, not the policy document.

Clean accountability

Apuna is accountable for the system we build and keep running; you stay in command of how AI outputs are used. This split mirrors the roles the EU AI Act describes — provider and deployer — and it is how we build every engagement.

You decide. We stay at hand.

06 — Why us

Why Apuna.

Domain depth

We know industrial Mittelstand operations — the constraints, the vocabulary, the decision cycles. We don’t arrive needing to learn your sector.

We built it, so we know it

The team that designs your system keeps it running. No handoff to a separate support tier — the people who understand the architecture are the ones who answer the phone.

No lock-in

The code is yours under Apache-2.0. The moat is the relationship and the reliability, not a contract clause. You can leave any time — most don’t, because the expensive part of switching is replacing the people who know your system.

07 — The Assembly

Meet the Apuna

A distributed collective of independent specialists, spanning generations — senior systems architecture and a proven closer alongside a tech-native team for build, delivery, platform, security, and legacy modernisation, backed by a seasoned investor. No central office; the team is where the work is.

Sales

Germany
TM

Presales Consultant

Freelancer

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Development

Germany
3P

Advanced Solutions Architect

Freelancer

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Cameroon
YNot

Informatics Specialist

Freelancer

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Germany
SZ

Cloud Platform Product Owner

Freelancer

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Germany
GDI

Penetration Tester

Freelancer

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Germany
FW

Application Developer

Freelancer

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Germany
KT

Embedded Systems Engineer

Freelancer

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Germany
OW

Embedded Hardware Engineer

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Germany
JG

AI Agent Wrangler

Freelancer

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France
JTO

Writer & Philosopher

Freelancer

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schatzinsel.app

Operations

Kosovo
AD

Scrum Master & Delivery Lead

Freelancer

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Germany
RH

DevOps Engineer

Freelancer

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Germany
SR

Delivery & Project Manager

Freelancer

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Leadership

Germany
T2

Chief Business Architect

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Germany
TH

Sales & Client Partnership

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Investors & Advisors

Switzerland
TF

Investor & Advisor

Investor

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USA
JJ

Agile Hardware & Cybernetics

Advisor

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Now hiring — open postures

We hire for the seat the team is missing, not for a résumé. Two postures are open (m/w/d).

We’re hiring

Marketing & Brand

Growth & storytelling · m/w/d

The voice that travels. Turns real engineering substance into a story the market repeats — demand, content, and a brand that compound, measured in pipeline, not impressions.

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We’re hiring

Sales Partner

Full-cycle closer · m/w/d

The closer who carries both the number and the relationship. Runs the full cycle in B2B IT and cloud sales — prospecting, complex deals, and long-term accounts — and is drawn to modern SaaS and cloud and how they help clients scale. Owns mid-market growth alongside our senior partner.

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OUR AI AGENTS

And the AI crew we build with

The Chairwoman is the constant — continuity and the long view; the working crew drafts, designs, engineers, and pressure-tests, with an advisor who keeps the circle wide. A human makes every call.

🇬🇧EIIR

Queen Elizabeth II

The Chairwoman

AI agent
🇩🇪

Albert Einstein

The CEO

AI agent
🇮🇹

Eleonora di Toledo

The CFO

AI agent
🇺🇸

Steve Jobs

The Leader

AI agent
🇬🇧

David Ogilvy

The Artist

AI agent
🇩🇪

Dieter Rams

The Designer

AI agent
🇺🇸

Richard Feynman

The Scientist

AI agent
🇫🇮

Linus Torvalds

The Engineer

AI agent
🇿🇦

Nelson Mandela

The Inclusion Advisor

AI agent
🇩🇪

Kurt Krömer

The GDPR Advisor

AI agent

Languages

Client-ready in English, German, and French, with Mandarin Chinese and Portuguese in active study.

Certifications

Certified Agile Scrum Master and Product Owner — every engagement runs as disciplined, iterative sprints.

What we’re buildingIn development

Bespoke AI tools, built to order.

Paste your company website: we run deep research and build a small application around the decision you actually need to make, handed back as a live dashboard. We’ve delivered this for clients as a service — and we’re building it into a self-serve platform. Here’s the shape of it, and the first tool.

  1. 01

    Paste your website

    Your company URL is the whole brief. No forms, no kick-off deck.

  2. 02

    Deep Research

    Anthropic’s Claude studies your business, your market, and the data that moves it.

  3. 03

    A bespoke build

    Claude assembles a small, focused application around your real decision — nothing you don’t need.

  4. 04

    A live dashboard

    It ships as a live Grafana dashboard — yours to watch.

First tool

Commodity Intelligence

Automatically surfaces the five commodities that matter most in your direct purchasing, weighted by value added, then tracks spot and futures markets so you can time buying and hedging with evidence — not gut feel.

Decision support for procurement teams — not financial advice.

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Second tool

Hardware Bring-Up

Name a component and optionally supply a product page URL. We fetch the docs, resolve the exact variant, and ground every wiring, config, and code claim in what was actually found — with explicit refusals where the documentation is missing.

Experimental · free models · verify against the manufacturer's datasheet before wiring.

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How it rolls out

Three tiers, opened in sequence — as the team and skillset grow.

We do not promise a tier before we can stand behind it. Each one opens as we grow into it.

  1. First01

    Community

    Run it yourself — the open-source core, your own keys and domain. Apuna takes nothing.

  2. Then02

    Standard

    Managed for you — we provide the infrastructure and keys at cost, plus hours with a human in the loop.

  3. Finally03

    Premium

    The full package — custom features and priority support, once the skillset runs that deep.

08 — Contact

Let’s scope your AI initiative.

Tell us where you are today and where you want to be. We’ll respond with a concrete plan, not a sales deck.

hello@apuna.dev
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