AI for the businesses that built Austria
A free 30-min audit names the bottleneck. A weekend workshop in Linz teaches you to remove it. Locally-hosted AI agents do the work you've been doing manually. Your data stays inside your network.
Locally hosted means your data stays on hardware you control — or in our own EU infrastructure. Never with a third party without your written sign-off.
About
Daniel Kruger
Technical Functional Architect · Linz, Austria
Hi — I'm Daniel. I've spent thirty years writing software for places that can't afford downtime: track-building machines at Plasser & Theurer, the new P40 charging unit in Keba Group's energy-automation team, eight years at CompuGroup Medical helping cancer hospitals stop typing the same data twice. AssistanceManager is the same work, smaller scale: I sit next to your existing systems and remove the parts that eat your week. I live in Linz. Came here from South Africa — the outsider's eye for how an Austrian SME actually runs is the edge nobody else brings.
What that means for you
- You hold the kill-switch. Sandboxed agents pause before every irreversible action and wait for your yes. Audit trail of every move. Worst case: nothing happens until you say go.
- You choose where it lives. Local on your hardware, or in our own EU-hosted cloud that we run ourselves. Nothing reaches a third party without your written sign-off.
- You're the user, not the engineer. Built for the Geschäftsführer, the family-business successor, the solo professional whose Tuesday morning is eaten by admin.
What we're building
Four ways into the AssistanceManager process.
Top of funnel is free; the deeper work opens through 2026. Pick the entry that matches where you are.
Courses · Free for now
Subscribe to hear when the next cohort opens.
Six weekly live sessions on Zoom. Topics include: how to revive dormant clients with one auto-mail sequence, the website refresh checklist nobody runs, and the three SME automations that always pay for themselves. We email when the next cohort starts.
Boundaries
What we don't do
Senior buyers trust what their providers refuse. Here's our list.
- We don't sell ChatGPT subscriptions.
- We don't send your data to OpenAI by default. Locally hosted is the default; cloud is opt-in with your written consent.
- We don't run generic prompt-engineering courses. Every workshop is built around your operations.
- We don't work with crypto schemes, MLM, gambling, or dark-pattern UX.
- We don't promise revenue numbers. Time-back hours, yes. Sales lifts, no — those depend on your market, not our agent.
FAQ
Honest answers to the obvious questions
Seven things people ask before they book. If you have an eighth, write to dan@assistancemanager.com — Daniel reads every mail himself.
Are you taking paying clients yet?
The free 30-minute audit is open now. Weekend workshops and the Agent-as-a-Service pilot open later in 2026 — join the list and you'll get the first slot.
Where does my data live?
Locally hosted by default. Agents run on hardware you control — your laptop, your office server, or your VPS — inside an isolated sandbox. Your data doesn't leave your network unless you sign off on a specific cloud integration in writing.
Will you sign an NDA?
Yes, before the prep email goes out. Standard one-pager, mutual. We keep zero copies of your data after the engagement ends.
Are you a one-person shop or a team?
Daniel is the only engineer. A native-speaker co-host joins workshops for German-language client work. For larger AaaS deployments, we bring in vetted Linz-based engineers on a per-project basis — small, deliberately.
I'm 25 and my parent owns a business. Can I bring them?
Yes — actively encouraged. Workshops are designed so a 25-year-old and a 55-year-old leave with the same skills. Two seats from one family is one of the highest-leverage uses of a workshop slot.
What does it cost when you do launch?
Workshops, full audits, and the AaaS pilot all have planned pricing. Subscribe to the launch list and you'll see the price the day each one opens, with a meaningful first-clients discount built in.
Why trust an IT person I've never heard of?
Don't trust yet — verify. 30 years building production systems inside Plasser & Theurer, Keba Group, and CompuGroup Medical, with real audit trails. LinkedIn is linked next to the headshot above and in the footer below. The free audit is the verification step; workshops are the commitment step.