# AssistanceManager

> AI workshops, audits, and locally-hosted agents for the people running real businesses across Upper Austria — Mittelstand owners, family-business successors, solo professionals, and the next generation deploying AI for their organisations. Founded by Pieter Daniel Kruger, a 30-year IT veteran. Project status: in preparation under AMS Unternehmensgründungsprogramm — no commercial activity yet; free webinars, free 30-minute discovery audits, free 1-hour business audits, and a launch-list newsletter are live.

## Contact

- Founder: Pieter Daniel Kruger
- Address: Spazenhofstrasse 22, 4040 Linz, Austria
- Email: dan@assistancemanager.com
- Phone: +43 677 6441 7074
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nielkruger/
- Languages: English (fluent), German (B1), Afrikaans (native)

## What we do

- **3-Day Efficiency Intensive workshops** (Fri Audit / Sat Build / Sun Security). 12 seats. Launching 2026.
- **Free 30-minute AI Audits.** Identify one administrative bottleneck. No obligation, no pitch deck.
- **Agent-as-a-Service (AaaS).** Locally-hosted AI agents on hardened infrastructure; built on Hermes Bot + OpenClaw frameworks. Sandboxed, human-in-the-loop on all irreversible actions, EU-AI-Act-aligned, tamper-evident audit trails.

## Differentiation

- Founder is an IT veteran of 30 years (Plasser & Theurer Global Product Owner, Keba Group Requirements Engineer, CompuGroup Medical Product Owner) — speaks the language of established business, not the influencer scene.
- **Locally-hosted** option: client-proprietary data never leaves the client's boundary.
- **Security-first by default:** sandboxed agents, deny-by-default permissions, EU-AI-Act-aligned audit trails.
- Embedded in the Linz innovation ecosystem (WKO, Grand Garage).

## Target audience

Business owners, directors, family-business successors, solo professionals, and the AI-translating next generation in Upper Austria. Pain points: AI overwhelm, data privacy concerns, fragmented legacy systems, administrative bloat (2–10 hours/week reclaimable per role).

## Compliance & status

- AMS UGP (Unternehmensgründungsprogramm) pre-approval phase. No revenue allowed. All offers framed as "launching 2026 / express interest."
- GDPR + Austrian DSG compliant.
- Operating address required for §5 ECG / §63 GewO / §25 MedienG (Austrian Impressumspflicht).

## Key links

- [Free 30-min AI Audit](https://assistancemanager.com/#audit)
- [Launch list signup](https://assistancemanager.com/#newsletter)
- [About Daniel](https://assistancemanager.com/#about)
- [Privacy](https://assistancemanager.com/datenschutz)
- [Imprint](https://assistancemanager.com/impressum)

## Optional

- Sister project: **Linz Hostel — The Social Impact Hub** (linzhostel.com). 90-bed hospitality + community project. AI workshops will be hosted at the hostel's "Flow Zone" once both projects open.
- Forthcoming book by founder: "Temet Nosce: The Art of Knowing Oneself" (2026).