We don't just advise. We build, optimize, and secure the infrastructure that powers sovereign AI. Our leadership team delivers production-ready systems and AI skills from research to deployment.
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We engineer what doesn't exist yet.
You need to trust the people you're hiring. Most AI consultants have never built a complete production system. Most engineers have never done research. We live at the intersection of both.
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Software engineering meets fundamental research
Sonja Strothmann
Managing Director
When AI wrappers are everywhere, depth matters. 15+ years in digital transformation, from IFH research to Namics consulting to Victorinox operations to Berlin Fire Department digitization. Now leading Palaimon's operations, she translates AI capabilities into operational systems that work under pressure.
Academic: M.Sc. International Business Strategic Marketing (Maastricht, Top 10%). IFH/ECC Köln research in e-commerce project management.
Industrial: >€6M in research grants secured. Berlin Fire Department, Victorinox AG, Namics AG. Public sector partnerships with BMVI, Hessen Mobil, Autobahn GmbH.
Dr. Immanuel Bayer
Head of R&D
In a field crowded with surface-level AI, depth is what sets real work apart. 10+ years focused on AI, from GSOC stipend for scikit-learn and 1st place at the ECML PKDD competition, to MLSS CMU and DFG Spring School stipend recipient. Deep research across world-class labs. Now leading Palaimon's R&D, building production AI systems that ship.
Academic: Dipl.-Ing. (RWTH Aachen), PhD (Uni Konstanz). Led 8+ R&D projects as principal investigator. €1.6M+ in grants secured.
Industrial: Lead Architect of autoVI, autoStreams, and loombox. AI solutions at Google Research, Swiss Re, Bayer AG, and New Yorker. fastFM (1.1k+ stars).
Felix Schönenberger
Head of Engineering & Infrastructure Architecture
Generic AI claims are cheap. Infrastructure depth isn't. He builds the infrastructure that powers Palaimon's systems, from real-time IoT platforms and Kubernetes migrations to firmware. Handles everything from extreme hardware tuning to production deployment.
Academic: M.Sc. Information Engineering (Grade 1.0). PhD research at ETH Zürich (Brandes group). Research at University of Konstanz.
Industrial: IoT platforms for agricultural sprayers (farmunited). Kubernetes migrations, real-time telemetry processing. visone open-source maintainer.
Why our expertise matters
The Expertise Premium
Against a sea of generic AI wrappers, our team brings architectural insight to deep-tech challenges. We are called in when IT teams hit a wall with performance-tuning, data sovereignty, or complex implementation on-premise.
We combine research depth with low-level engineering to navigate the technical uncertainty in deep-tech projects, with a degree of certainty that generalist vendors cannot provide.