# Open Formation

> Hamburg's engineering studio for digital products and agentic AI. We make your AI transformation a good one.

Canonical page: https://openformation.io/

We build digital products and the agents that run inside them, with the guardrails and engineering that two decades of high-scale systems taught us. The goal is simple: AI that makes your work better, not busier.

## Why we work the way we do

Software that acts on your behalf needs even better engineering than software that waits for your input.

Staying curious is how we ended up spending two decades with high-scale distributed systems: building them, consulting on them, and training the engineering teams that run them. All of that comes in handy now that agents need guardrails.

Evaluation, observability, least privilege and human checkpoints are not extras we add at the end. They are the work. We build our own tools this way, and every agent we put into production for you gets the same treatment.

## Partners

From enterprise groups to the platforms the field runs on, we work with teams who take engineering as seriously as we do. Some are long-standing clients, some we build alongside. We are based in Hamburg and work on site, remotely, or a mix of both, whichever fits how your company already runs.

- [OpenAI](https://openai.com)
- [Amazon AGI Labs](https://www.amazon.science)
- [Expand AI](https://expand.ai)
- [bonprix](https://bonprix.de)
- [Otto Group](https://www.ottogroup.com)
- [priorist](https://priorist.com)

## Services

We love to deeply connect with your vision to create astonishing digital products. We combine decades of hands-on experience in building digital products with a state of the art iterative agile approach, without being dogmatic, but highly pragmatic.

### Agentic AI audit

We start by listening. With your teams, we map the repetitive tasks that take up creative time and find where agents genuinely make work better, not busier. You get a prioritized automation map, not a hype deck.

### Agent engineering and guardrails

We build agents that act observably and safely, evaluated, sandboxed, and integrated into the infrastructure you already run.

### Shaping and strategy

We pave the path from idea to product. We combine modern ideation methods with design-driven domain techniques to understand your business requirements fully before anything is built. That way you can move quickly without being careless.

### Cloud infrastructure and scalability

A successful digital product needs infrastructure that scales when demand increases. You deserve an architecture that is easy to modify as your business changes, and infrastructure that handles growing traffic without growing costs.

### User interface and UX design

Great software is nothing without a touchpoint that is easy to use. We design interfaces that look good on the devices your customers use, and a user experience they will love.

### Software architecture and engineering

We build software end to end. The boundaries between backend and frontend are clear, but we design and implement the whole system, guided by domain-driven design and an implementation strategy that fits your project.

## How we work: From listening to scale.

1. **Listen**: We start with your teams, your systems and your constraints, not with a solution. What we learn decides what gets built, and what does not.
2. **Shape**: Together we turn that into a plan: scope, architecture, and the first slice worth shipping. Clear enough to move fast, honest about the trade-offs.
3. **Build**: We ship in small increments and get them in front of real users. Testing, observability and security come with the work, not after it.
4. **Scale**: From first release to the system your business runs on, handed over so your team can operate and change it without us.

## AI agents for recurring work

For companies that lose hours every week to spreadsheet work (quotes, invoice matching, reporting, inbox, master data), we build agents that take it over, with your team's approval: [English](https://openformation.io/en/agents.md), [Deutsch](https://openformation.io/de/agenten.md).

## Team

- [André König](https://openformation.io/andre/), Founder & CEO: andre.koenig@openformation.io ([vCard](https://openformation.io/andre/akoenig.vcf))

## Contact

Whether it is a first idea or a system already running in production, we would love to hear about it. Send us a few lines and we will come back with our thoughts and a time to talk.

- Email: hello@openformation.io
- Phone: +49 40 80812245
- Address: Gluckstraße 57, 22081 Hamburg, Germany

## Company

- Open Formation GmbH
- Gluckstraße 57, 22081 Hamburg, Germany
- Commercial register: Amtsgericht Hamburg, HRB 161379
- [Imprint](https://openformation.io/imprint/)
- [Privacy policy](https://openformation.io/privacy/)