About akeno

Why akeno exists.

Industries run on decisions. What to make, where and when, what to stock, what to buy, whether to invest.

Today those decisions are made in silos. Sales, production and supply chain each chase their own targets, while the operations run as one. Every change forces a choice, and no one sees what it costs everyone else.

akeno exists to make those decisions as one: tested together against reality, chosen with certainty and carried all the way into the schedule.

We believe

  • Autonomy is earned.

    One day, plants will decide for themselves. Not because someone flipped a switch, but because every decision before has proven itself. akeno earns that trust step by step: it sees, explains, proves every decision against a live model of your operations, then decides within your guardrails. Every plant. Every constraint. Every trade-off. Checked before it happens.

  • The next industrial evolution is a decision.

    Industry has evolved with every new machine. Every step made us faster. Not more certain. Supply, demand, energy, operations: the world has never been less predictable. Every plant is the sum of its decisions, and each one moves millions. One better decision can unlock more than any new machine.

Who we are.

We are engineers, researchers and industry insiders: people who have worked in the industries we serve, built optimization systems and shipped software that runs every day.

  • The team laughing over a game of table football in the Hamburg office
  • Engineers walking through code together on a large screen
  • The team with guests at an industry event
  • The team on a summer sailing trip in Hamburg
  • A team member unpacking a bottle from the Christmas gift box
  • A team member at work in the office, with production planning on the screen behind

Backed by

A world where every industrial decision is known to work before it is made.