Which AI companies are there in OWL and NRW?
In short: The overview lists 634 AI providers with a documented location in North Rhine-Westphalia, 303 of them in East Westphalia-Lippe across 51 places and 331 elsewhere in NRW. Within OWL, Bielefeld (84) and Paderborn district (82) lead. Most entries fall under enterprise AI & integration (187), industry, engineering & robotics (67) and AI strategy, adoption & governance (63). Every entry rests on the providers' own sources, last compared on 20 October 2026.
Across East Westphalia-Lippe and the rest of North Rhine-Westphalia, software houses, AI agencies and other AI service providers, consultancies and product vendors offer artificial intelligence (AI) to businesses; this register lists 634 of them with location and sources, 303 of which are in OWL.
Disclosure: The publisher is T-NEX GmbH, which offers AI software itself and has its own entry in the register. The authors, Andreas Unruh and Christoph Gembruch, are its managing directors. The register describes publicly offered services as the providers' own sources present them and is neither a ranking nor a product test. It is not complete either. We disclose relationships between T-NEX or the authors and listed providers in this box and on the provider's row, and those entries follow the same criteria as every other.
2DC is a customer of T-NEX: for A5Hub, a brand of 2DC GmbH, T-NEX has worked on an application for project portfolio management. One of the co-authors previously had a project relationship with OPTIMAITE. Co-author Christoph Gembruch worked at Sopra Steria Next until July 2026.
Which companies does the register include?
- An official company page describes an AI offering for customers, whether a product, project work or consulting. Companies that mention AI only as an internal development tool are not included.
- A location in North Rhine-Westphalia is documented by the legal notice (Impressum), the commercial register or an official location page, and each row states its type. Registered office means the seat entered in the register. Business address is the address from the legal notice where no register entry cited on the row confirms the seat there. Branch means that the head office is in another town.
- Each company counts once. Company, product and former brand names are reconciled, and each entry has exactly one primary focus and one offering form.
- Pure research institutions and location landing pages without evidence of a location are left out. Entries whose source could no longer be reached at the latest check are held back until they have been checked again.
In this register, OWL means the Detmold administrative region: the city of Bielefeld and the districts of Gütersloh, Herford, Höxter, Lippe, Minden-Lübbecke and Paderborn. All other entries belong to the rest of NRW and are grouped by administrative region. What counts is the documented location in North Rhine-Westphalia; where a company's head office is outside the state, its row says so.
AI tools assisted with research, source matching and translation; an entry is released only after human review, following the rules on our editorial standards and responsibility page.
Which task should AI take on?
The providers are spread over seven pages, ordered by the task for which they describe their offering. Each entry appears exactly once, under its primary focus.
Production and logistics (89)
89 providers, 44 of them in OWL
89 AI providers in NRW, 44 of them in OWL, for visual inspection, machine settings, robotics, maintenance, purchasing, stock and routes, with sources.
- Industry, engineering & robotics (67 providers, 35 in OWL): Which machine, inspection task or technical decision is at the centre?
- Procurement, logistics & supply chains (22 providers, 9 in OWL): Who makes the final call on quantities, delivery dates or transport once the software has prepared them?
Customer service, marketing and sales (93)
93 providers, 51 of them in OWL
Phone and chat assistants, service desks, ads and translation, visibility in AI answers and shop search come from 93 providers, including 51 in OWL.
- Customer service & dialogue (39 providers, 24 in OWL): Up to what point does the application resolve requests on its own before a person takes over?
- Marketing, media & content (30 providers, 16 in OWL): What content or audiences are involved, and who reviews quality before publication?
- Sales & ecommerce (24 providers, 11 in OWL): At which step of the purchasing journey, or for which sales decision, should the application help?
Documents, data and administration (87)
87 providers, 28 of them in OWL
Anyone who wants AI to read documents, search company knowledge, run forecasts, screen applications or check receipts finds 87 providers, 28 in OWL.
- Knowledge & documents (37 providers, 13 in OWL): Which document types and sources must the solution handle, and who may see which content?
- Analytics & forecasting (18 providers, 2 in OWL): Which decision should the model improve, and which data support the forecast?
- People, learning & collaboration (16 providers, 7 in OWL): In which HR or learning process does the application help, and what does a person still decide?
- Finance, legal & compliance (16 providers, 6 in OWL): Which domain rules apply, and who reviews or approves the result?
Energy, buildings and health (86)
86 providers, 20 of them in OWL
From battery storage and heating control through geodata to care documentation, image analysis and bioinformatics: 86 entries, 20 from OWL.
- Energy, buildings & environment (54 providers, 11 in OWL): Which operational decision should improve, and with which measurement and operating data?
- Healthcare, care & life sciences (32 providers, 9 in OWL): Which specialist workflow and setting is the offering intended for: hospital, practice, care home or laboratory?
Strategy, platforms and security (92)
92 providers, 57 of them in OWL
AI adoption with workshops, policies and external AI officers, plus local language models and attack protection: 92 providers, 57 of them in OWL.
- AI strategy, adoption & governance (63 providers, 43 in OWL): Which decisions and capabilities will concretely be in place in the company after the engagement?
- AI platforms, IT & security (29 providers, 14 in OWL): What exactly does the provider supply on the technical side, and which operational and security responsibilities does it take on?
Enterprise AI & integration (187)
187 providers, 103 in OWL
Common questions about AI providers in OWL and NRW
Which AI companies are there in Paderborn?
After Bielefeld, the city of Paderborn has the most OWL entries in the register, and further providers come from towns across the district such as Büren and Salzkotten. The city counts 59 entries, the district as a whole 82. The largest group consists of firms that connect several workflows through their own applications and interfaces (Enterprise AI & integration). All names appear in the OWL section under Paderborn district, sorted by town; the full entries are on the task pages. Note the location type. A business address or branch in Paderborn does not mean that the company's registered office is there.
Which AI providers are there in Bielefeld?
Bielefeld has more entries than any other town in the register, ahead of Cologne and Paderborn: 84 entries against 82 and 59. Integration and AI strategy are represented as well as industry and engineering, and ready-made AI products are the most common offering form. The OWL section lists their names under Bielefeld. Towns in the surrounding area such as Gütersloh or Herford appear under their own districts, since Bielefeld is an independent city.
How do I find the right AI provider?
Start with the task that AI is meant to take on in the business; the seven task pages group the entries by it. Every candidate on your shortlist then gets the same workflow with sample data and an intended result. Only after that is it worth comparing functions, interfaces, review, operations, recurring costs and handover, and the project brief in the selection guide collects the information you need. How the system copes with your exceptions only becomes clear with your own data.
How can I tell whether an AI provider is reputable?
An entry in this register is not a seal of quality; it only shows a described offering and a documented location. Check the legal notice and the commercial register yourself to see who is liable and where the registered office is. Ask for references you may call. A demo should run on your own data. Before signing, clarify where data are processed, which models and subcontractors are involved and whether a data processing agreement under Article 28 GDPR is in place. Be wary of fixed accuracy figures quoted without a test on your data.
How current is the register, and how often is it checked?
All entries have been checked against the providers' sources; the most recent check dates from 20 October 2026, and the review date appears on each row and in the download. Whenever the register is updated, the affected entries are checked again, as is any entry for which someone reports an error. We do not commit to a fixed schedule. Offerings, names and locations can change between checks, so with an older review date it is worth looking at the linked source. New entries are added with a dated note.
How does a company get into the register, and how is an entry corrected?
Meeting the criteria above is all it takes: an AI offering for customers described on the company's own pages and a documented location in NRW. No application is needed, and payment or a business relationship plays no part. Reports of errors or missing companies go to the contact page for companies; a link to the source helps with the check. The row is then updated and given a new review date.
How do I get from the register to a shortlist?
A useful shortlist comes from making every candidate show what it can do on the same workflow. Demos on the vendor's own data help little here, because your data and exceptions do not appear in them. The table matches typical starting points with an entry route. Next to each is the question that should be answered before you commission anyone, so that nobody finds out mid-project that the chosen route does not fit.
| Starting point | Suitable entry | Clarify before ordering |
|---|---|---|
| A clearly defined standard need, such as translation or appointment booking | Evaluate a product | Can the product handle your cases, and how do data get in and out? |
| Several existing systems with manual handovers between them | Integration and automation | Which handovers will run automatically, and who steps in when a case stalls? |
| Custom business logic, specific roles or permissions | Custom development | Does the proposal state which functions are delivered, how acceptance works and who maintains the code afterwards? |
| Plenty of ideas but no assessed use case yet | Consulting or a focused pilot | Which result on the trial workflow decides between expanding and stopping? |
Product, integration or custom development
- Standard product: A product for the task already exists. The work is mostly configuration of your roles and workflows, with little development, and this holds as long as your cases stay within the limits the vendor has designed for.
- Integration: The systems are in place, but the workflow breaks between them. Interfaces and data matching connect the steps, approvals included, and an AI function often sits exactly where someone currently retypes data.
- Custom development: If neither a product nor an integration covers the requirements, an application is built for the specific business process. Acceptance and maintenance then belong in the contract from the start, as does handover of the code. The routes can also be combined.
What belongs in the project brief
- Workflow: A typical case and an exception, each with the intended result and described in the language of the business team.
- Data and sources: Sample data, how current they are and who may access them. Whether the data may be used for this purpose needs settling in advance.
- Connections: Source and target systems with the data fields involved, plus the feedback a system needs once processing is done.
- Review and approval: How do you recognise a correct result? Who checks it, and what happens when it is wrong?
- Operations and ownership: Hosting, models and services used, maintenance and support. Plus a named contact on both sides.
- Cost and handover: What setup and ongoing operation cost and how much input is needed from your side. Also record how data or the system will later pass to you or another provider.
In the podcast Back to the Future of AI, Felix Schlenther, founder of the AI consultancy AI FIRST, describes many small use cases his team had built, each of which solved one task well. The team then realised that the efficiency gain seeps away again when the process contains a gate. Such a gate can be a recurring meeting where a decision has to be made before the next step can go ahead. With clients, his team currently breaks the process down into individual steps and reassembles it.
Und aus diesem neu zusammengebauten Prozess dann verschiedene Use Cases rausziehen und schauen, wie kriegt man die mit der Zeit verbunden.
Translation: And then, from this newly reassembled process, pull out different use cases and see how you get them connected over time.
So ask each provider on your shortlist to demonstrate a complete case, from the data source through review of the result to the next step in the workflow. That shows whether a product is enough, an integration is missing or something has to be built.
About the publisher: when is T-NEX an option?
T-NEX mainly suits projects where a standard function on its own is not enough, because a chatbot or knowledge search needs to be connected to existing systems, extended with your own business logic or built into a workflow with approvals. If a specialist product already covers your need in full, it is usually the shorter route. The task pages show who offers such products. A focused AI pilot fits when a use case first needs testing; its criteria for expanding or stopping are agreed in advance.
Five T-NEX offers fit almost every task in this guide: custom software development, workflow automation, AI chatbot, AI knowledge management and AI reporting. What they do for the tasks of a page is set out there in the About the publisher box after the entries, together with the offers that suit only those tasks, such as social media AI for customer service or document AI for documents and administration.
T-NEX GmbH, with its registered office in Horn-Bad Meinberg in the district of Lippe and an office in Paderborn, publishes this register and is listed in it, in alphabetical order under Enterprise AI & integration. It develops software for companies. Its own AI solutions include an AI chatbot that answers from your own content with source references, AI knowledge management and AI reporting, which turns a natural-language question into a dashboard on the connected data; all three are available. The software for inspection services is in use with its first customer, AP Prüfservice, and workflow automation with approvals exists as a concept with a demo.
- AI chatbot Available, solution built from components
- AI knowledge management Available, solution built from components
- AI reporting Available, platform module
- Software for inspection services In use, standard product, with first customer AP Prüfservice
- Workflow automation Concept/demo, solution built from components
- Custom software development Service
- AI pilot Service
- Projects and references Overview
All providers by region and town
This list names every provider once: first the 303 companies in OWL by subregion and town, then the 331 from the rest of NRW. The short label in brackets after each name stands for its primary focus; clicking a name opens the full entry with offering and sources on the task page for that focus area.
Bielefeld (84)
2DC (customer service) · 4BioCell (health) · aconso (people) · act.Valora (logistics) · Advellence (integration) · AI WORX (integration) · ai4one (audiomarketeers) (customer service) · Ailio (analytics) · Antrieb 2.0 (integration) · barrierefrAI (knowledge and documents) · BICOS (integration) · bitvox (industry) · bluecue (strategy) · bpi solutions (knowledge and documents) · BST (industry) · büscher (industry) · c-trace (energy and buildings) · Caaise (integration) · Canfield Scientific (health) · Ceres Vision (industry) · Ceyoniq (knowledge and documents) · CGI (integration) · comspace (marketing) · consenso Consulting (logistics) · Credular (industry) · DI.UNIT (knowledge and documents) · dialsmart (customer service) · Diamant Software (finance and legal) · DMG MORI (industry) · DOST-IT (integration) · easimo (energy and buildings) · Enhancing Technologies (strategy) · Eulah IT (integration) · expert international (industry) · GEDOPLAN (strategy) · greenique (integration) · insensiv (energy and buildings) · InSys (strategy) · intedia / morayne (sales) · Interrogare (marketing) · KI-Zentrum (integration) · Klara (Aramaz Digital) (people) · klarshift (strategy) · Kundenpilot (customer service) · Label Software (integration) · lowcloud (integration) · Mate Software (marketing) · medienreich Training (strategy) · Mercury.ai (customer service) · mindsquare (integration) · mirasu (energy and buildings) · Netgate-IT (industry) · NTT DATA Business Solutions (integration) · OEDIV (platforms and IT) · Ohja.ai (integration) · Ole (industry) · ordrisAI (logistics) · paddy (DigitalErleben) (people) · PHAINA (sales) · Prodaso (Forterro) (industry) · Puraite (health) · REILING ECM (integration) · SecData (strategy) · seitenweise (marketing) · Semalytix (health) · SHIFT to AI (strategy) · Siemens (industry) · slashwhy (integration) · Smartsquare (industry) · stagewise (platforms and IT) · Sustaind (finance and legal) · SUTSCHE (marketing) · synavision (energy and buildings) · Tentris (platforms and IT) · tomorrow bird (strategy) · TransformifAI (strategy) · u+i interact (integration) · Unfuture (strategy) · Valuedesk (analytics) · VisionAI (sales) · WAPP (knowledge and documents) · Weber Data Service (HHD Software) (logistics) · wonk.ai (integration) · Yolution (integration)
Paderborn district (82)
Paderborn (59): 3ZB IT (integration) · acceptIT (customer service) · acto (sales) · agentbase (integration) · Aquantico (integration) · Arineo (integration) · asaia (customer service) · assemblean (logistics) · Atos (integration) · Avendoo (Magh und Boppert) (people) · Barricadix (energy and buildings) · BrycLabs (energy and buildings) · code-x (strategy) · codegiganten (sales) · Connext (health) · COSMO CONSULT (integration) · David Kogan (integration) · Diebold Nixdorf (sales) · DIPOVEL (strategy) · DIXENO (integration) · dSPACE (industry) · enpit (integration) · Gipfelstürmer Agentur (integration) · GSG-IT (customer service) · Hadoco (sales) · Haus iT (customer service) · ImageScale (customer service) · INCONY (marketing) · ITEK (knowledge and documents) · KERNBLICK (strategy) · KI-Marktplatz (AI Marketplace) (industry) · Labvanced (health) · MAI leonex (customer service) · Mentor Consulting (strategy) · metamorphosis (health) · neam (strategy) · Net at Work (integration) · netfellows (integration) · OPTANO (logistics) · OPTIMAITE (knowledge and documents) · ORDIX (platforms and IT) · paiqo (integration) · S&N Group / S&N Invent (integration) · savvytec (integration) · ScaleUnit (people) · SERVICE 1 (industry) · Skyhigh Security (platforms and IT) · Sparkybit (customer service) · SVA (integration) · TEAM GmbH (integration) · TenderFlow (sales) · TH Consulting (integration) · TMC Amplio (marketing) · TONDEX (customer service) · Unchained Robotics (industry) · unilab (strategy) · UWS Business Solutions (integration) · verlinked (industry) · Werk & Wandel (sales)
Büren (5): DIGITEG (integration) · myview systems (marketing) · Smart Mechatronics (industry) · TJCreate (integration) · UNITY (strategy)
Salzkotten (5): esacom (integration) · gravityshift (integration) · Gutwerker (strategy) · myconsult (strategy) · Reineke Technik (platforms and IT)
Bad Lippspringe (4): Ausbildung24 (people) · Daniel Kroh (integration) · iplus1 (platforms and IT) · RTB (energy and buildings)
Borchen (3): CARMA Media (integration) · CircoVision (industry) · medacom (health)
Delbrück (3): gotoMEDIA (customer service) · itmcw (strategy) · NovoDrills (people)
Bad Wünnenberg (2): BITsic (strategy) · INREMA (integration)
Lichtenau (1): IABG (industry)
Gütersloh district (39)
Gütersloh (18): 4ALLPORTAL (marketing) · Aivori (integration) · Arvato SE (finance and legal) · Arvato Systems (integration) · AZ Direct (marketing) · Bechtle (integration) · cross media IT (strategy) · DAITEC (integration) · IT-Systems Strauss (platforms and IT) · KJP Consulting (strategy) · Libuda Digital (integration) · MeyerSolutions (integration) · MODUS Consult (integration) · PLUSAGENTUR. (customer service) · Reply (integration) · RufJulia (customer service) · TellTale Consulting (MR IT Innovations) (finance and legal) · W² Automation (knowledge and documents)
Halle (Westfalen) (4): ho.Systeme (strategy) · logunion (logistics) · QANNA Consulting (integration) · Smart Forward Minds / Aufbruch KI (strategy)
Herzebrock-Clarholz (3): Formaeon Systems (integration) · HOMAG (industry) · STEINEL (energy and buildings)
Verl (3): 42grad (integration) · Beckhoff (industry) · SocialAI (customer service)
Harsewinkel (2): BRT HARTNER (energy and buildings) · CLAAS (industry)
Schloß Holte-Stukenbrock (2): KI Giganten (sales) · RENCORET AI (integration)
Versmold (2): M&S Solutions (strategy) · S3-Schmelz smart solutions (industry)
Borgholzhausen (1): dlick / Dirk Lickschat (marketing)
Rheda-Wiedenbrück (1): Werkstatt für Kundenorientierung (strategy)
Rietberg (1): Raumtänzer (industry)
Steinhagen (1): KaBaKa Innovations (integration)
Werther (1): HDNET (integration)
Lippe district (33)
Detmold (9): engel & aziz (energy and buildings) · geckIT (knowledge and documents) · LOUIS INTERNET (customer service) · medianetx (customer service) · orangefluid (integration) · Patentraum (finance and legal) · VAUNIT (integration) · Weidmüller (industry) · Wepp.ai (marketing)
Bad Salzuflen (8): AKAIA (Alphos-Services) (platforms and IT) · BANALITY (KMD Medien) (integration) · BREVIKO (strategy) · Coolblack (customer service) · Diestelkamp Consulting (platforms and IT) · Isaak Data Labs (integration) · KATI (integration) · NATIMA (integration)
Lage (3): Bajorat Media (integration) · FabStack (integration) · handwerk.ki (integration)
Lemgo (3): Burchard Consulting (integration) · Kaeding Anderson (strategy) · KI Trainingszentrum (strategy)
Lügde (2): Brendel Software (integration) · KI-42 (integration)
Barntrup (1): KEB Automation (industry)
Blomberg (1): Phoenix Contact (industry)
Extertal (1): Conrath AI (strategy)
Horn-Bad Meinberg (1): T-NEX (integration) · Publisher's own offering
Leopoldshöhe (1): DripBack (integration)
Oerlinghausen (1): DriveLink Solutions (integration)
Schieder-Schwalenberg (1): OptiCost.KI (finance and legal)
Schlangen (1): Thorsten Ising (strategy)
Minden-Lübbecke district (30)
Minden (11): GTIT Service Bücker (strategy) · hueske.digital (knowledge and documents) · HZWEIA (integration) · michael wessel (integration) · Midland IT (integration) · Minden Robotics (industry) · OWL Software (knowledge and documents) · QUIKK Software (knowledge and documents) · WAGO (industry) · wecredo (customer service) · Ziebarth Consulting (strategy)
Bad Oeynhausen (9): 3grow (sales) · 40komma6 (strategy) · Deltatec Computer (integration) · Frank Michna / team M. (strategy) · KlassenMedia (marketing) · Marvin Herkt (customer service) · MATIK / KI-Zentrum NRW (integration) · Orangize Digital (integration) · partimus (integration)
Rahden (4): Adamcom (integration) · DK IT & Cloud (integration) · Patrick Hilker (integration) · SUCCESSBOOSTR! (marketing)
Lübbecke (3): diginea (integration) · IMA Schelling (industry) · IT-Commander (platforms and IT)
Espelkamp (2): innoME / zenCELL owl (health) · mittwald (marketing)
Porta Westfalica (1): webks (integration)
Herford district (27)
Herford (16): APPOYNT (customer service) · Barron Media (integration) · createrr.studio (integration) · DTS Systeme (integration) · Emmet Software Labs (marketing) · findIQ (industry) · ForePath (platforms and IT) · HOLAGIL (strategy) · Inovra (integration) · mendex.ai (modeco) (integration) · NetCorp (platforms and IT) · Resolto (industry) · snutig (integration) · Strategic IT (integration) · XH Group (integration) · xpertour (Ferrucci Software and Consulting) (logistics)
Bünde (5): BetStup (integration) · DH Studio Consulting (strategy) · SCI Systems (knowledge and documents) · SichtbarkeitsHelden (integration) · SonneAI Consulting (integration)
Löhne (4): Remmert (logistics) · Schlomann Digital (strategy) · Signo Media (customer service) · Terra Robotics (industry)
Kirchlengern (1): OdysseeKI (integration)
Rödinghausen (1): Matthias Schulz (platforms and IT)
Höxter district (8)
Brakel (3): ONE WARE (industry) · vectano (strategy) · ZIGLA (integration)
Bad Driburg (1): Software-Architektur Amelunxen (integration)
Beverungen (1): Schübeler Consulting (strategy)
Borgentreich (1): Vizuo (strategy)
Höxter (1): Overcut Consulting (integration)
Warburg (1): nexantera AI (integration)
Rest of NRW by administrative region
331 providers have their documented location outside OWL. They are grouped by administrative region and, within each, by town.
Cologne region (144)
Köln (82): ACCURIDS (health) · aedifion (energy and buildings) · aiconver (sales) · AIDGEN (futurest) (integration) · AMA Xpert Eye (industry) · anny (customer service) · areto (analytics) · automaited (aiConomix) (logistics) · Avenga (integration) · bitside (integration) · Brainbridge (knowledge and documents) · BRICKMAKERS (integration) · BriteLoom / mulios (knowledge and documents) · brixl (sales) · Buynomics (sales) · candidate select (people) · Chemical Computing Group (health) · Cologne Intelligence (integration) · comdaily (marketing) · comevis (customer service) · Compelling (sales) · Convit (marketing) · Copernicus Autonomous Control Systems (industry) · dataMatters (energy and buildings) · datasolut (integration) · DeepL (marketing) · DeepVA (Aben DeepVA) (marketing) · denkwerk (integration) · dexter health (health) · DIVISIO (integration) · ENLYZE (industry) · envelio (energy and buildings) · epilot (energy and buildings) · Evy Solutions (knowledge and documents) · experial (marketing) · foodforecast (logistics) · Fynn (finance and legal) · GreenPocket (energy and buildings) · Gridty (energy and buildings) · Hottgenroth Software (energy and buildings) · inovex (integration) · KI performance (integration) · Lime Connect (Userlike) (customer service) · lise (knowledge and documents) · Luure (energy and buildings) · m.Doc (health) · MAIQ (finance and legal) · Mandelbaum.ai (sales) · MC-Netzwerke (strategy) · Microsoft Deutschland (integration) · milia.io (finance and legal) · msg (integration) · nandu.ai (analytics) · NetCologne (strategy) · neuland.ai (integration) · Nuromedia (integration) · NXT Spectra (ChemInnovation) (industry) · octonomy (knowledge and documents) · ODOSCOPE (sales) · ONIQ (industry) · OpenAdvo (integration) · PARES (finance and legal) · Placetel (Gamma Placetel) (customer service) · plusserver (platforms and IT) · Qimia (integration) · Qvest (marketing) · rheindata (analytics) · rhenag (energy and buildings) · ROOVER (strategy) · scieneers (analytics) · Sidestream (integration) · skulio (marketing) · Soforce (integration) · solimi.ai (integration) · Sopra Steria (integration) · SoSafe (platforms and IT) · TENIOS (customer service) · ThinkOwl (customer service) · Thoughtworks (integration) · Unlock AI (marketing) · VisualMakers (integration) · xarvio (BASF Digital Farming) (energy and buildings)
Aachen (24): ACCURE (energy and buildings) · aiXbrain (industry) · aiXopt (industry) · amber (knowledge and documents) · anbit (integration) · ANTICIPATE (industry) · Bauer + Kirch (strategy) · Clinomic (health) · CodePlan (energy and buildings) · FEV (industry) · FloodWaive (energy and buildings) · GeoLegalTech (energy and buildings) · giftGRÜN (strategy) · heatbeat (energy and buildings) · INFORM (analytics) · Innoloft (platforms and IT) · Maintastic (industry) · nevisQ (health) · OSPHIM (industry) · SONAH (energy and buildings) · tl;dv (knowledge and documents) · Trianel (energy and buildings) · VS-Apps (integration) · WDW Consulting (strategy)
Bonn (22): BusinessCode (analytics) · Comma Soft (knowledge and documents) · conet (integration) · cronn (integration) · datavance (sales) · DeepUp (energy and buildings) · Doxis (knowledge and documents) · ENTENDIX (energy and buildings) · General Evidence (marketing) · kiresult (logistics) · Laramate (integration) · Lefebvre Stollfuß (finance and legal) · LIFE & BRAIN (health) · mundialis (energy and buildings) · Objektkultur (integration) · pagent (marketing) · Petanux (integration) · Recogizer (energy and buildings) · Scopevisio (finance and legal) · SISTRIX (marketing) · synalis (strategy) · Telekom Deutschland (knowledge and documents)
Bergisch Gladbach (2): aimed analytics (health) · heatbrAIn (energy and buildings)
Hürth (2): niologic (strategy) · SKOPOS ELEMENTS (analytics)
Würselen (2): 1CTec Group (integration) · SIMCON (industry)
Brühl (1): SCALARA (energy and buildings)
Erftstadt (1): flow³ (health)
Gummersbach (1): FERCHAU (strategy)
Heinsberg (1): KI Agentur (Sequator) (integration)
Kerpen (1): nursIT Institute (health)
Leverkusen (1): LOX Solutions (integration)
Pulheim (1): ImmoApp (energy and buildings)
Sankt Augustin (1): adiutaByte (logistics)
Wachtberg (1): evolutionID (platforms and IT)
Wiehl (1): Unitechnik (logistics)
Düsseldorf region (71)
Düsseldorf (28): Aitonomi Automation (logistics) · b.telligent (analytics) · Bion Analytics (analytics) · Capgemini (integration) · Cassini Consulting (strategy) · chunkx (people) · CLOUDYRION (platforms and IT) · Conclusion Intelligence (Mediaan Deutschland) (analytics) · DABBEL (energy and buildings) · Deeplify (industry) · Finokapi (finance and legal) · FoxBase (sales) · GE HealthCare (health) · iteratec (platforms and IT) · Kauz (integration) · MONDAY.ROCKS (people) · NiCE Cognigy (customer service) · Panos AI (strategy) · Peopleware (people) · PRODYNA (integration) · RIIICO (industry) · Rockwell Automation (industry) · Schneider Electric (energy and buildings) · sipgate (customer service) · Skleo (health) · Stepstone (people) · Synnous (strategy) · Vathos (industry)
Essen (11): BITMARCK (health) · easy software (conrizon) (knowledge and documents) · EDGITAL (energy and buildings) · fuseki (integration) · Greenflash (energy and buildings) · ITS.nrw (integration) · PLEdoc (energy and buildings) · Staige (platforms and IT) · TamedAI (knowledge and documents) · Unigy (energy and buildings) · Your Easy AI (customer service)
Wuppertal (5): Böhme & Weihs (industry) · docunite (energy and buildings) · flixxstore (PVH FUTURE LAB) (sales) · Inproma (knowledge and documents) · neoscript.ai (health)
Duisburg (4): inHaus (health) · KROHNE (energy and buildings) · prodot (integration) · Shimadzu Deutschland (health)
Krefeld (3): Exaris Solutions (sales) · GOB (integration) · Jobasoft (knowledge and documents)
Meerbusch (3): ALOS (knowledge and documents) · ImmIQ (flaiu) (energy and buildings) · ORAYLIS (integration)
Monheim am Rhein (3): Bayer CropScience / MagicTrap (energy and buildings) · INNOQ (integration) · Plotdesk (integration)
Hilden (2): IKS (integration) · QIAGEN (health)
Langenfeld (2): ControlExpert (finance and legal) · Omron Electronics (industry)
Neuss (2): bimanu (analytics) · Canon Medical Systems (health)
Ratingen (2): FUJIFILM Europe (health) · Mitsubishi Electric (industry)
Dormagen (1): BasePeak (platforms and IT)
Goch (1): Fink & Partner (integration)
Mülheim an der Ruhr (1): SYNAXUS (analytics)
Oberhausen (1): SOLANIUS (strategy)
Solingen (1): codecentric (integration)
Wesel (1): Media8 (integration)
Arnsberg region (58)
Dortmund (21): adesso (integration) · Conciso (integration) · Dataciders (analytics) · divis intelligent solutions (analytics) · IANUS Simulation (industry) · itemis (integration) · logarithmo (energy and buildings) · Loopario (Logistikbude) (logistics) · Materna (integration) · MotionMiners (industry) · Nulara (knowledge and documents) · nunq (integration) · oneAgent (oneLake) (analytics) · point8 (industry) · PSI Software (industry) · SIMUFORM (industry) · SMYCLES (people) · souveraign (strategy) · Valoon (energy and buildings) · Viada (platforms and IT) · Ziya (knowledge and documents)
Bochum (15): A2Genesis (integration) · BO-I-T (integration) · contec (strategy) · Deyan7 (integration) · Edgeless Systems (platforms and IT) · ENTRYZERO (platforms and IT) · Fluint Health (health) · G DATA CyberDefense (platforms and IT) · GBTEC (integration) · LABS.ruhr (integration) · Okeanos (energy and buildings) · sentin (industry) · SNAP (industry) · VISUS Health IT (health) · Yesterday AI (integration)
Lippstadt (3): AGENTUR 10 (integration) · BitPointer (integration) · MAGNELLI (integration)
Unna (3): Mindbrain (strategy) · NEXCEL AI (integration) · VaTo24 (integration)
Hamm (2): Growth Media Solution (integration) · KAGON (integration)
Neunkirchen (2): HVNH AI (integration) · Ing. Büro Roth (industry)
Siegen (2): DATASEC (knowledge and documents) · NEUROLOGIQ (industry)
Freudenberg (1): Lachmann & Rink (industry)
Geseke (1): HEIDI Technologies (marketing)
Herne (1): NWB Verlag (finance and legal)
Kamen (1): Solventum (health)
Kierspe (1): UPBITS (integration)
Netphen (1): INVERS (industry)
Olpe (1): Humanizing Technologies (customer service)
Schwerte (1): CodeCell (integration)
Soest (1): vorsprung.digital (integration)
Wilnsdorf (1): clesk (integration)
Münster region (58)
Münster (35): 1648 Factory (integration) · ADWERK (marketing) · anaptis (integration) · Bausicht (energy and buildings) · better bites (logistics) · Blackbox Innovation (integration) · Buildsimple (ISR) (knowledge and documents) · busitec (integration) · con terra (energy and buildings) · DMI (health) · Echometer (people) · edyoucated (people) · energielenker solutions (energy and buildings) · FoodTracks (logistics) · GWS (integration) · JaStech (integration) · kaitos (industry) · KI CREW (interface medien) (knowledge and documents) · lab25 (strategy) · LoyJoy (customer service) · MODELYZR (sales) · MünsterlandKI (strategy) · noventum (strategy) · nxvnt / BigHoot AI (marketing) · pacemaker.ai (logistics) · PEQY (qodev) (platforms and IT) · Phronora (knowledge and documents) · RechnungsWächter (logistics) · regulaid (strategy) · syte (energy and buildings) · TariffPilot (finance and legal) · TSMONDO (integration) · viadee (platforms and IT) · Web Computing (customer service) · Zweitag (knowledge and documents)
Warendorf (3): GML (sales) · KUWEZU AI (integration) · Marketport (integration)
Ahaus (2): amexus (analytics) · Tobit.Software (platforms and IT)
Beckum (2): BEUMER Group (logistics) · e7n Systemhaus (knowledge and documents)
Gescher (2): d.velop (knowledge and documents) · group24 (integration)
Vreden (2): Datacake (energy and buildings) · SCAFFOLD OS (energy and buildings)
Ahlen (1): SNcom (customer service)
Dorsten (1): MonaHilft (customer service)
Dülmen (1): IT-Büdchen (integration)
Greven (1): LIS (logistics)
Haltern am See (1): Percol (integration)
Havixbeck (1): Zauberzeug (industry)
Ibbenbüren (1): siemon.marketing / Lena (customer service)
Nottuln (1): SVEE IT (integration)
Recklinghausen (1): GDEXA (people)
Sassenberg (1): NOLO (integration)
Schöppingen (1): Shopware (sales)
Westerkappeln (1): DigElite (integration)
Enterprise AI & integration
187 providers, 103 in OWL
Rather than solving a single specialist task, the providers in this focus area connect several workflows through their own applications, AI agents and interfaces to ERP, CRM or document storage. The focus area also takes in every provider that describes several fields of use with equal weight. With 187 entries, 103 of them in OWL, it is the largest focus area in the register and is therefore split alphabetically across two pages. Specialist applications, for example for accounting or machine maintenance, are listed under their own field instead.
Selection question: Which systems and workflows are connected, and who operates the overall solution once the project is complete?
For the demo or the offer:
- Which interfaces to our systems already exist, which will only be built during the project, and who adapts them when a system version changes?
- Who notices a case that gets stuck between two systems, and where is it logged?
- Do the code, configuration and prompts belong to us once the project ends, and how would a handover to another provider work?
The entries are on two pages: Integration, 0 to I (93) · Integration, J to Z (94)
How was the register compiled?
For each entry, the provider's sources were used to check whether an AI offering for customers is described, where the location is and what type it is, and whether the register text claims only what the source supports. Offering pages, legal notices, the commercial register and official location pages count as sources. Press reports, directories and other third-party pages are not treated as primary sources; where used, they appear on the row as a third-party source with their domain.
The entries of the first edition were researched and checked against their sources on 14 and 15 October 2026. A second check followed, up to 19 October 2026. Among other things, it found a relocated registered office and business addresses presented as registered offices; those rows have been corrected. Further providers were added on 19 and 20 October 2026, researched by the same criteria and checked against their sources; the most recent check dates from 20 October 2026. Where a company has since merged, its website can no longer be reached or its offering can no longer be documented, we hold the entry back until it has been checked again.
Which primary focus a provider receives depends on the purpose of the documented offering, not on the AI technique behind it. An assistant for machine service therefore belongs to Industry, engineering & robotics, even if it uses the same language model as a customer service chatbot. Providers that describe several fields of use with equal weight are listed under Enterprise AI & integration. Separately, each entry has one offering form: custom AI software, AI products, process automation or consulting and adoption. The classification is an editorial decision. It says nothing about a provider's other capabilities.
Quality, price, security and delivery capacity of an offering are not measured here, and neither revenue nor headcount is counted. The descriptions reflect what providers publish about themselves. T-NEX has not tested the products. Deliberately excluded are pure research institutions and companies that use AI only internally. Gaps also remain wherever a provider does not describe its offering publicly or did not turn up in the research.
For young companies, startup directories and regional founder networks were searched as well: startups.nrw, Startbase, StartupBlink, garage33 and TecUP, Founders Foundation, Scale-up.NRW, Digital Hub münsterLAND, Campus-Start-ups.NRW and STARTPLATZ. A directory listing was only a lead; a startup was included only once it met the criteria above, namely an AI offering for customers described on its own pages and a documented location. Founding location, business address and branch are kept apart. With young products, it pays to ask what is available today, meaning functions, reference applications, support and data export; the roadmap comes second.
Any current or past customer or project relationship between T-NEX and a listed provider is disclosed, as is any case where one of the authors worked there or on a project with it. The note appears in the disclosure box above and briefly on the provider's row. Inclusion, classification and description follow the same rules for these providers. Being listed is not a recommendation, and a business relationship neither helps nor hinders inclusion.
Report errors, outdated details or a missing company via our contact page for companies, ideally with the name of the entry and a link to the source. We check the report against the source, update the row and set a new review date; new entries receive a dated note. Anyone named in the register as a person, as a sole trader or in a description, can object to being named under Article 21 GDPR in the same way.
The register in numbers
These figures describe the register, not the market. Each provider is counted once per dimension, that is separately by focus area, region and offering form. These counts cannot be added together. A low count in a district does not indicate a gap in supply, because the composition also depends on how the research found companies.
| Primary focus | Total | OWL | Elsewhere in NRW |
|---|---|---|---|
| Enterprise AI & integration | 187 | 103 | 84 |
| Industry, engineering & robotics | 67 | 35 | 32 |
| AI strategy, adoption & governance | 63 | 43 | 20 |
| Energy, buildings & environment | 54 | 11 | 43 |
| Customer service & dialogue | 39 | 24 | 15 |
| Knowledge & documents | 37 | 13 | 24 |
| Healthcare, care & life sciences | 32 | 9 | 23 |
| Marketing, media & content | 30 | 16 | 14 |
| AI platforms, IT & security | 29 | 14 | 15 |
| Sales & ecommerce | 24 | 11 | 13 |
| Procurement, logistics & supply chains | 22 | 9 | 13 |
| Analytics & forecasting | 18 | 2 | 16 |
| People, learning & collaboration | 16 | 7 | 9 |
| Finance, legal & compliance | 16 | 6 | 10 |
| District in OWL | Providers | Share of OWL |
|---|---|---|
| Bielefeld | 84 | 27.7% |
| Paderborn district | 82 | 27.1% |
| Gütersloh district | 39 | 12.9% |
| Lippe district | 33 | 10.9% |
| Minden-Lübbecke district | 30 | 9.9% |
| Herford district | 27 | 8.9% |
| Höxter district | 8 | 2.6% |
| Offering form | OWL | Elsewhere in NRW | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Custom AI software | 70 | 83 | 153 |
| Process automation | 87 | 29 | 116 |
| AI products | 95 | 194 | 289 |
| Consulting and adoption | 51 | 25 | 76 |
Download the data
The full register is available for download as a CSV file in German, a CSV file in English and a JSON file with both languages. Each row contains an ID and page URL, town and location type, primary focus, offering form, description, sources with their type, the review date and the fields for publisher and disclosure.
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Authors and sources
Authors: Andreas Unruh and Christoph Gembruch, managing directors of T-NEX GmbH. Publisher: T-NEX GmbH.