Prof. Dr. Volker Kronenberg
Chair of the Advisory Board, political scientist at the University of Bonn
Mission
Our mission. Your own data. A secure space.
At neuland.ai, we develop trustworthy AI “Made in Germany” that enables business, politics, and science to work with artificial intelligence with sovereignty and security.
With deep expertise from digital transformation and numerous AI projects, we have created the neuland.ai HUB, a patent-pending platform technology that brings security and quality to AI responses: it is a protected space for context-sensitive, traceable, and responsible use of AI.
Our mission is to make AI reliable, transparent, and productive in Germany and Europe, so that organizations can take advantage of AI opportunities without compromising on security, compliance, or control.
The neuland.ai AI manifesto
How we see AI. In five sentences.
AI is not just another tool.
Single AI tools help here and there. Organizations need a platform that connects work, knowledge and processes.
AI becomes the new core of the organization.
It works where decisions are prepared, processes are handled and resources are steered.
AI without context is arbitrary.
Without domain knowledge, data, roles, rules and process logic, AI gives generic answers. Context is what makes it productive.
AI needs deep integration.
Into line-of-business systems, ERP and CRM, Office and document management, production planning and supply chain, wikis, databases and the entire existing IT landscape.
Enterprise AI Management & Orchestration becomes a must.
If you want to use AI safely and effectively, you steer agents, workflows, models, data and governance from one place.
Founders
Two founders: one knows the enterprise world, the other builds the platform.
Together they lead the Executive Board of neuland AI AG in Cologne.
Karl-Heinz Land
Founder and board member
Karl-Heinz Land is an insider of digital transformation. He has experienced and shaped digitalization, the topic closest to his heart, for more than 40 years, including in leadership positions at international companies such as Oracle, BusinessObjects (SAP) and MicroStrategy.
In 2023 he founded neuland.ai AG, a leading “Enterprise AI Management & Orchestration Platform” that enables companies and public authorities to develop and operate AI applications securely and with data sovereignty.
He is a serial entrepreneur and the author of several books, including Digitaler Darwinismus, Dematerialisierung, ERDE 5.0, Die Zukunft provozieren and more.
The World Economic Forum (WEF) and Time Magazine honored Land with the “Technology Pioneer Award” as early as 2006.
Yunus Uyargil
Co-founder and CTO
Yunus Uyargil is an entrepreneur, software architect and digital transformation expert with a particular focus on artificial intelligence and scalable platform solutions.
Early on, he worked intensively with artificial intelligence and, at Volkswagen, worked on an AI-powered fatigue detection system for the vehicle environment. Practical work on safety-critical applications continues to shape his view of the responsible use of AI to this day.
As co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of the eHealth company heartbeat medical, he built a digital platform that makes the quality of medical treatment measurable and supports healthcare organizations with the data-driven optimization of their processes.
Today, alongside Karl-Heinz Land, he is co-founder, board member and Chief Technology Officer of neuland.ai AG. There, he is responsible for the overall technology architecture, product development and the implementation of scalable, legally compliant AI solutions for companies and organizations.
Yunus Uyargil represents a new generation of technology entrepreneurs who combine deep technical understanding with entrepreneurial clarity, with the aim of integrating artificial intelligence into companies and organizations in a practical, responsible and effective way.
Team
More than 50 people, one location on the Rhine.
Development, Customer Success, sales and other teams work under one roof in Cologne. We are looking for people who bring AI into regulated industries.
Future Advisory Board
The Future Advisory Board keeps a critical eye on our work. From research, ethics, medicine, politics and business.
13 members today. Their profiles and a quote from the chair, Prof. Dr. Volker Kronenberg, are on the Future Advisory Board page.
Karsten Schwanke
Meteorologist and ARD weather presenter
Prof. Dr. med. Axel Ekkernkamp
Trauma surgeon, Medical Director of Unfallkrankenhaus Berlin until 2025
Prof. Dr. Armin Falk
Economist at the University of Bonn, Head of the BonnEconLab
Björn Franken MdL (CDU)
NRW State Parliament, Chair of the Commission of Inquiry on Artificial Intelligence
Dieter Härthe
Chairman of the Executive Board of the Senate of Economy International
Prof. Dr. Hans Jörg Hennecke
Political scientist at the University of Rostock
Prof. Dr. Dirk Lanzerath
Director of the German Reference Centre for Ethics in the Life Sciences, Bonn
Prof. Dr. Dr. Jochen Sautermeister
Moral theologian at the University of Bonn, member of the German Ethics Council
Prof. Dr. Hans Uszkoreit
Scientific Director at DFKI in Berlin
Prof. Dr. Christiane Woopen
Professor of Life Ethics at the University of Bonn
Prof. Dr. Feiyu Xu
Professor of Industrial AI, supervisory board member
Prof. Dr. Andreas Meyer-Falcke
Occupational physician, former CIO of the NRW state government
Sovereignty
You decide where your AI runs. Documented in the DPA.
Deployment, contracts and certificates, exactly as your vendor assessment asks for them.
TrainingExcludedYour data is never used to train language models and stays within your company context.
DeploymentEU or on-premisesYou choose between EU data centers and your own data center, without switching platforms.
ContractsDPA and TOMsDPA under Art. 28 GDPR with named subprocessors, documented technical and organizational measures (TOMs), plus the supplementary agreements DORA for the financial sector and BRAO for professions bound by professional secrecy.
CertificatesISO 27001, ISO 9001Information security and quality management, both TÜV-certified since March 2026.
FAQ
What procurement and IT leadership ask before awarding a contract.
neuland AI AG, headquartered in Cologne and registered in the commercial register under HRB 116796. The Executive Board consists of Karl-Heinz Land and Yunus Uyargil, the company's founders.
ISO/IEC 27001:2022 and ISO 9001:2015, both TÜV-certified since March 2026, plus the DPA, TOMs and the DORA and BRAO addenda, among others. Download all documents in the Trust Center and attach them directly to your vendor assessment.
The subprocessors are named in the DPA; which of them are used depends on the deployment model and the connected systems. Processing takes place primarily in Germany and the EU, optionally in the US under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. In on-premises operation, your own data center does the processing.
Maxim Ciebiera of DATATINO, named as the external data protection officer in the privacy policy. Your data protection officers can review the DPA and TOMs in advance in the Trust Center.
Customers include Rödl, where the neuland.ai HUB runs worldwide in advisory and audit, Griesemann Gruppe with around 300 heavy users, CiS electronic in customer service and manufacturing, and SVT in its bidding process. The case studies are under Case Studies.
Our partners include Schwarz Digits Cloud (STACKIT) for sovereign operation, 4P Consulting for public administration, banks and savings banks, and Climb Channel Solutions for DACH sales and AI training. For a partnership of your own, Julian Hinz, Head of Partnerships, is your contact. The partners are listed under Partners.
In Cologne, at the headquarters of neuland AI AG. More than 50 employees develop the neuland.ai HUB; it runs on systems subject to European regulations.
No. Your data is never used to train language models and stays within your company context.
The Future Advisory Board, an independent body of 13 members from research, ethics, medicine, politics and business. It is chaired by Prof. Dr. Volker Kronenberg. More under Future Advisory Board.
A member of our sales team in Cologne, currently Alexander Friesen, Tobias Kipp or Luis Oesterreich, contacts you personally. Send your request via Contact.
Send us your questionnaire. We answer with evidence.
We document our headquarters and ISO 27001 in our first reply. Your IT leadership talks to the people who build the neuland.ai HUB, in Cologne or at your site.