A warehouse worker packing boxes at one bench with a humanoid robot and a mobile robot arm.

One safety and procedure infrastructure,so that humans and robotscan work side by side.

Where physical work is going. What stands in the way. What we build to clear it.

Our vision

Humans and robots will work side by side.

The forecast rests on one thing that does not exist yet: robots working next to people, outside a cage.

202520302035204020452050€228B€6T

BCG robotics forecast (2030), Citi GPS (2050).

A packing hall where five robots and two workers share one line, with no fencing between them.

What has to happen first

The robot has to leave the cage.

Today robots are supervised by people, behind safety cages. Two forces are pushing them out.

Operational pull

Robots pay off on complex work next to people.

An uncaged robot has to follow the local safety rules and work instructions of that site. Not the lab's. This one's.

Regulatory push

From 2027, safety has to be auditable.

The EU Machinery Regulation, mandatory from January 2027, and ISO 25785-1, expected from 2028, demand auditable safety for robots outside a cage.

A robot walking out through the open gate of a green safety cage toward a bench where a worker is packing boxes.

  1. Today

    Caged or supervised

  2. 2027

    EU Machinery Regulation

  3. 2028

    ISO 25785-1 expected

  4. 2030

    €228B robot market

The gap

A robot needs complete and correct data to learn a site's rules.

A humanoid robot leaning over an open procedure binder at a green bench.

Work instructions are written for people, not machines.

  • No numbers: how hard, how fast, how precise.
  • Decisions hidden in long text.
  • Exceptions left to someone's judgment.
A camera on a tripod filming a worker at a bench while a humanoid robot watches.

Cameras can't tell right from wrong.

  • Many sites can't be filmed.
  • The dangerous moments rarely get recorded.
  • Unsafe shortcuts get recorded as the right way.

When the instruction is missing, people wait or skip the standard.

€1.2T

lost to unplanned downtime every year at Fortune Global 500 companies, while people wait for someone who knows.

Siemens / Senseye, The True Cost of Downtime 2024.

€2.6T

in injury and illness costs every year, worldwide, when they stop waiting and guess.

ILO, EU-OSHA and ISSA.

A worker, a humanoid robot and a mobile robot arm packing boxes side by side at one bench in a bright warehouse.

The solution

Akdo is the safety and procedure infrastructure for humans and robots. One control plane for all frontline operations.

One source per site

Every procedure, approved and versioned, always current.

Approved by people

Supervisors approve every draft. AI never approves.

Read by both

Precise enough for a robot, clear enough for a person.

The architecture behind it

One connected system, continuously improved by real-world work.

Sources

  • Procedures, incident reports, work orders
  • Cameras and sensors
  • Regulations and standards
  • What only the veterans know

01Capture

Takes in documents, systems, rules, voice, video and sensors.

02Approve

Supervisors approve every draft. AI never approves.

Procedure Intelligence Graph

One approved, versioned source per site. Rules, past incidents, recovery steps, and the know-how nobody wrote down.

03Transform

One procedure, every format: video, training, chatbot, API.

04Deliver

Frontline workers

Procedures, training, answers on the job.

Robots

Machine instructions via API, and the proof they learned them.

05Learn

Floor observations come back as drafts. Every change stays on the record.

NowNext2027

The market we capture

Frontline budgets already exist. Robot safety opens a new market.

  1. Now

    Software, training and safety for frontline people

    Paid for out of HSE and production budgets today. This is our revenue.

  2. Next

    Safety and procedure infrastructure for robots

    Every robot deployed into a plant needs the plant's rules. We already hold them.

  3. 2027

    Compliance proof for every robot outside a cage

    The EU Machinery Regulation and ISO 25785-1 turn auditable safety from an advantage into a requirement.

How we bring it to life

Land with one use case. Expand across sites and robots.

14

large enterprise customers

5

Forbes Global 2000 companies

6-figure

land deals

Who we sell to

VPs of HSE or Production at enterprises with 10,000+ employees. They own the safety budget and the downtime.

How we win them

Direct sales, partners like consultancies and marketplaces, and customers who refer us to the next plant.

Why they buy

Frontline teams get value in the first week. The VP gets one control plane for workers and robots.

Y Combinator lists this problem in its Requests for Startups. Read the RFS

Trusted by teams at

Siemens EnergyKraft HeinzHenkelAir LiquideJTI
EssityHuhtamakiAdapaHarmony Gold
A night shift: one worker, a humanoid robot and a mobile robot arm at one bench under a single lamp.

Akdo builds the safety and procedure infrastructure the robot economy runs on.

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We are hiring engineers, and people who have spent real time on a factory floor. Work remote, or with us in Munich.

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  • Bootstrapped
  • Live in enterprise production
  • Forbes Global 2000 customers
  • Munich, Germany