kloftlabs.io · Cologne
Automate the boring tasks. On-site in Cologne.
I bring a self-built open-source lab straight into your company and within a few days test which manual processes can meaningfully be simplified with AI, automation, and pragmatic IT.
For small and mid-sized teams in and around Cologne without an in-house IT department.
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10 years of IT security experience
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Security built in from the start
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Open source instead of expensive lock-in
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On-site in Cologne
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Pilot instead of slides
How it works
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Understand
identify repetitive bottlenecks
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Pilot
test on-site with the mobile server lab
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Hand over
working workflow + next-step recommendations
Use cases
Email & request automation
Sort, reply, and route inbound requests without manual copy-paste loops.
Document workflows
Put PDFs, contracts, and forms where they belong with clear approvals.
Internal knowledge search with AI
Answers from your docs, not from memory — controlled and traceable.
Reporting & follow-ups
Automate recurring reports and nudges so nothing slips through.
Open-source replacements for tool chaos
Practical alternatives to expensive single-vendor stacks that fit together.
Simple approval workflows
Short chains: who approves what — with clear status instead of email ping-pong.
No day-rate model — just a fair pilot where what counts is whether it genuinely helped you move forward.
Pay what you want.
You decide what the pilot was worth.
Income is meant to help fund the Cologne makerspace over time — a place where open-source automation ideas get built, tried, and shared locally.
About
Kloft Labs was built on the idea that smaller businesses deserve better IT and automation too — without heavyweight consulting projects, bloated tool stacks, or unnecessary complexity.
With around 10 years in IT security, the approach combines pragmatic automation with a clear focus on solutions that are understandable, sustainable, and secure from the start — intentionally not a classic consultancy model, but someone who shows up on-site to build and test with you.
Contact
Tell me which workflow is wasting the most time right now. I’ll reply with an honest view on whether it makes sense as a pilot.