We are three founders with backgrounds in AI, mechanical engineering and entrepreneurship, and we build KoAssist because project knowledge is too valuable to lose in spreadsheets and inboxes.
KoAssist is the project memory for machine and plant builders. It reads the specification, emails and minutes and records for every project which requirements apply, what has been agreed and what is still open. Every item is backed by a source in the documents.
KoAssist is developed by Soneo AI. We founded the company in Vienna in 2025 and have been building the product as a team of three ever since, in close exchange with project managers and engineers from the industry. Our goal is that a project's knowledge stays, even when people change.
Andreas is responsible for strategy and product. He talks with project managers and engineers about where KoAssist helps in daily project work and brings that into development. His background is in mechatronics and artificial intelligence.
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Lukas is responsible for technology and architecture, meaning how KoAssist reads documents, backs up every item and runs securely. He also supports the technical connection at the customer. His background is in computer science with a focus on AI and IT security.
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Yanik is responsible for sales and partnerships. He has the first conversations with companies that want to get to know KoAssist and shows them the demo with their own documents. His background is in entrepreneurship and international business.
LinkedInProject managers and engineers spend a lot of time pulling the project status together from Excel, OneNote and emails and keeping it current. We want to change that, but not at any price.
That is why KoAssist is built only for machine and plant builders, hosted in German data centres and without training on your data.
Your project documents belong to you, and that stays that way.
KoAssist makes suggestions, the team makes the decision. What goes into the project status is approved by someone on the project. That is how we wanted it from day one.
Part of that is that every item shows where it comes from, with file and passage. Anyone who wants to check something sees the source right next to it.
That is what we build KoAssist for.
employees in German machine building will retire in the next ten years, about a quarter.
IW Köln for the Impuls-Stiftung, November 2024skilled workers will be missing by 2034, because only about 118,000 will follow.
IW Köln for the Impuls-Stiftung, November 2024open positions in mechanical and automotive engineering for every 100 unemployed.
VDI/IW Ingenieurmonitor, Q3 2026With every change in the team, project knowledge is lost when it only lives in heads, inboxes and Excel lists. KoAssist keeps it in the project.
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