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The founding team of Syntriq writes here about using AI in mid-sized companies. Every article is published in German and English.
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One Policy That Applies Everywhere: How We Made More Than 300 AI Tools Governable
More than 300 individual AI tools sound like a loss of control. We decided early that the rules live in exactly one place: one organization-wide policy per tool, enforced on every call, whether it comes from chat, from an agent, or from a workflow.
From Question to Cited Report: How Our Research Mode Works
A web search returns a title, a URL and a snippet, and for a real question that is not enough. We walk through one complete run of our research mode: from the visible plan through parallel search and exactly one reflection round to the report with numbered citations.
The AI Only Sees What You're Allowed to See: How We Mirror Permissions into Retrieval
In our article on Copilot's sovereignty gap, the intern got the salary answer from a forgotten file, and building our own retrieval across 19 connectors confronted us with exactly the same question. Why we rejected post-hoc filtering and instead mirror source permissions into the retrieval query itself.
TheroAI, Microsoft Copilot and Langdock: criteria for your comparison
Compare data sources, permissions, deployment and total costs against your own use case.
AI pilots: how to evaluate value, data access and implementation
A guide to a verifiable AI pilot with real tasks, tested permissions and a complete cost assessment.
AI for mid-sized companies: choose a solution around your tasks
Questions to settle before buying an AI platform: tasks, data, responsibilities and costs.
The Public Sector in Transition: Why Open Source Becomes Mandatory (And Microsoft Isn't the Answer)
Germany has a goal: digital sovereignty. But reality in government offices often looks different. Dependencies on US vendors paralyze administration. TheroAI is the bridge to sovereign AI in government.
AI for Tax Advisors & Lawyers: Real Automation Despite § 203 StGB
It's the sword of Damocles hanging over every German law firm: § 203 StGB. While the free market uses AI, professionals often stand still out of fear. We solve this dilemma with local inference technology.
Onboarding on Autopilot: "The New Colleague Asks the AI Now"
Remember your first day of work? The excitement. All the new faces. And most importantly: the fear of asking "stupid questions". Onboarding is still often inefficient and frustrating.
The "Brain Drain" Is Here: How to Digitally Preserve Knowledge of Retiring Boomers
In the next five years, more experienced employees will retire than young talent will replace. When Herbert leaves after 35 years, he takes your department's operating system with him. We call it the "Brain Drain".
Cloud vs. On-Premise vs. Hybrid: The Architecture Decision for 2026
For years the dogma was 'Cloud First'. But in 2025/2026 the wind is turning. Facing AI regulation and exploding cloud costs, own infrastructure is experiencing a renaissance – the so-called 'Cloud Repatriation'.
"German Bureaucracy Agents": How We Tame Administrative Monsters
We have AI models that pass the Turing test, but German offices still have highly qualified specialists typing invoice numbers into spreadsheets. The reason? Most AIs are chatbots. What we need are agents.
RAG Instead of Fine-Tuning: Why You Shouldn't Train Your AI Model
"We need to build our own AI and train it with our company data." This sentence comes up in almost every first conversation. It's an understandable impulse, but in enterprise IT, it's often the beginning of an expensive misunderstanding.
EU AI Act & GDPR 2025: Is Your AI Strategy Actually Legal?
The grace period is over. Since mid-2025, the strict rules of the EU AI Act for "General Purpose AI" have been in full force. Combined with stricter GDPR interpretation, German executives face a new reality.
The "Sovereignty Gap": Why Microsoft Copilot Isn't Enough for German SMEs
Microsoft Copilot is here. The colorful button in Word and Excel promises magical productivity. But for German executives, a dangerous gap opens up: The "Sovereignty Gap".
Shadow AI: The Silent Security Gap on Your Employees' Laptops
It's Friday, 4:30 PM. Your sales manager urgently needs to finalize the proposal for a major client. He opens the browser and copies confidential data into a public AI tool...
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