The Minds Behind franconAI

Benedikt Herlt

CEO

"Ignoring AI today means falling behind tomorrow. It's not a tech toy, but the most effective lever to massively scale your core processes."

Track Record & Key Projects

Founder & Lead Architect

Privacy-first mobile platform with anonymous AI searches. Full-stack development and secure, anonymous AI system.

Lead Dev: LLM-based Graph Analysis

Interactive analysis and querying of complex graph structures using LLMs.

Research Contributor: AI for Supply Chains

AI-supported system to enhance supply chain stability using anonymized financial data.

Mahdi Mantash

Head of AI

"True AI innovation doesn't come from blindly applying models, but from understanding their mathematical limits. We build systems that don't hallucinate—they deliver."

Track Record & Key Projects

PhD: Explainable & Trustworthy LLMs

Developing custom loss functions that penalize incorrect reasoning, measurably increasing AI model reliability.

FAU Work Package: QuanTOR Project

Leading a cooperative research initiative; developing a pipeline for linguistic register analysis.

AI Specialist Imaging

Developing a U-Net pipeline for high-precision segmentation of bone fractures in X-ray images.

Supported by our Core Team

More than an agency. Your strategic partner.

Our Mission

Our mission is to make the value of AI accessible and actionable for companies of all sizes – from intelligent automation of recurring processes to custom research solutions that solve real, measurable problems.

Our Philosophy

We believe that the best AI solutions emerge from deep contextual understanding. We are not vendors, but technical partners. As a founder-led team, we dive deep into your challenges to build solutions that work at a fundamental level.

Our Approach

We work transparently, in a structured manner, and as a true partner. Together with our clients, we assess prerequisites, define clear objectives, and develop solutions that are technically robust and organizationally sustainable. Our focus is not on isolated code, but on systems that are understood, adopted, and operated long term.