For German-owned industrial companies with 30–500 employees in the US

Your plant is growing.
Your back office isn't.

We help German manufacturers run their U.S. operations without building a larger back office.

Book a 30-minute call or read the brochure first

No slides. We'll ask one question: what does your team retype by hand?

88%

plan to grow their U.S. workforce by 2029

86%

report negative effects from U.S. tariffs on their business

Growth is expected. Every cost position is under review. Administrative headcount is the one you can avoid.

The bottleneck is rarely the shop floor

Intake

Everything arrives differently

Mail, email, PDF, scan. Someone opens each one, renames it, decides where it belongs and files it. Every day, for every document.

Transfer

The same data, typed twice

Once into the ERP, once into a spreadsheet that has grown for years and now runs a part of your operation.

Approval

Waiting in an inbox

Nothing moves until someone remembers. The delay stays invisible until a customer asks where their order is.

None of this shows up in your production numbers. Together it costs you a full-time position — one you can't fill anyway.

We automate the process, not the person

Most AI projects hand your staff a chat assistant and hope they use it. The process stays exactly as it was. We do the opposite: the work moves without anyone having to start it.

Capture

Read, classified, named

Documents are processed automatically — including scans and photographed paper.

Check

A proposal, not a blank form

Your team reviews what the system suggests instead of typing it from scratch.

Release

One click, by a person

Nothing is filed, sent or booked without a human decision. Control stays where it is today.

One test tells the two apart: if the tool were switched off tomorrow, would your people work slower — or would work stop?

Why a German firm

We know the other side of your reporting line

ERP conventions, documentation standards and what the parent company expects at month-end — we've worked inside them.

Two languages, one project

German with your managing director, English with your plant. Nothing gets lost in the handover.

We connect what no vendor connects

On-premise mail servers, legacy document systems, shared drives, the spreadsheet nobody dares to touch. That's where the work actually sits.

Our sister company in Germany, Adoption-X KI Technologie UG, does the same work for manufacturers there. That site is in German.

Where to start

Two defined engagements. The first has a fixed price. It sets the fixed price for the second — nothing is open-ended, nothing is billed by the hour.

Step one · 2 weeks

Back-office Automation Assessment

We map one real process on-site, with the people who run it
We measure volume, handling time and error rate — actual numbers, not estimates
You get a target process, a business case and a build estimate
Written, in English and German
Travel from Germany included — nothing billed on top

$9,500 fixed

Step two · 6 to 10 weeks

Production Automation Sprint

One process, live in production — not a prototype
Integrated with the systems you already run
Human approval before anything is filed, sent or booked
Agreed success metrics, measured against the assessment baseline
Scope and price follow the complexity of your systems — not a rate card

from $35,000 fixed

Talk about the assessment

No day rates. If we cannot name the effect up front, the project should not start.

Who you'll be working with

Joerg Boehlkau

Founder · Adoption-X AI Technologies LLC

28 years in IT, 24 of them at Avanade — the joint venture between Microsoft and Accenture. Most recently Head of IT Infrastructure and Cloud Advisory in Frankfurt, where I built and led a 30-person cloud and AI team and advised boards across industry, retail and the public sector.

Program budgets up to €20 million under end-to-end responsibility. 6,000 applications modernized in a single remediation program.

I spent two decades watching AI projects die between strategy decks, steering committees and budget rounds — long before they reached anyone's desk. That is the gap this company exists to close.

You will not be handed to a delivery team. The person you speak with is the person who builds it.

Worth a conversation?

Tell us what your team retypes by hand. 30 minutes, no preparation needed, and you'll know within the call whether there is something here.

hello@adoption-x.ai +1 (864) 735-1333

We work from Germany and travel to you — travel is included in the price. Our morning overlaps yours, and that is when we pick up.

Download the brochure · PDF, 11 pages · no form to fill in

Your plant is growing.Your back office isn't.