About
We started Cladens because the mid-market deserved better than the two bad options.
Cladens exists to be the third option — a partner who starts from your objective, builds only what you can absorb, and stays with you as you grow into it.
The story, in four beats
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The two bad options
If you run a mid-sized industrial business, you've been offered two kinds of AI help: a transformation program priced and scoped for a Fortune 500, or a point tool that demos well and dies in production. Neither matches how a company your size actually moves.
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Why we map value before we build anything.
The hardest part of AI isn't the model — it's knowing where it's worth pointing. We built our method around that: trace the outcome you care about down to the specific levers AI can move, then sequence the build to what your organization can absorb. We'd rather tell you what not to do yet than sell you a pilot that fails. That discipline is the whole company.
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Builders first.
Our core strength is a technical team that has shipped real AI systems — 30+ of them — into real businesses: knowledge assistants, document pipelines, forecasting and workflow systems. We know what production looks like, what breaks, and how to keep it running. On the consulting side, we pair that with process and change expertise, so the technology lands in how your people actually work — not beside it.
30+
real AI systems shipped into production
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Skin in the game.
Cladens is a committed team working on a shared-upside model — we succeed when our clients' systems work and keep working, not when we bill the most hours. It also means we can offer founding clients real terms while we earn our first references. We're not trying to maximize a single engagement; we're trying to become the partner you call for the next ten steps.
The founder
[Founder name] — Founder · based in Germany
[Founder story — background, why mid-market industrials, why value-mapping. One human, specific paragraph.]
Our process and change consultants are based in the DACH region, and local-language delivery is expanding.
The promise
From AI "0 to 10" — we walk it with you.
Most of our clients aren't starting from a position of AI confidence, and that's fine. Think of it as learning to ride a bike: we hold the seat through the first wobbly steps, and we stay until you can ride on your own. First a real result, then the next — at a pace that holds.