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EU AI Act: The Omnibus Reprieve - What the Postponed High-Risk Deadline Really Changes for the Mittelstand
AI Compliance

EU AI Act: The Omnibus Reprieve - What the Postponed High-Risk Deadline Really Changes for the Mittelstand

The Digital Omnibus pushed Annex III high-risk obligations to December 2027, but Article 50 transparency, deployer duties, and AI literacy still apply now. What the Mittelstand must keep doing despite the reprieve, and why a deferred deadline is a trap if you stop preparing.

Henri Jung Henri Jung · 31 min read
AI in Recruiting: How the Mittelstand Sources, Screens, and Schedules Against a 391,000-Worker Shortage
AI in HR

AI in Recruiting: How the Mittelstand Sources, Screens, and Schedules Against a 391,000-Worker Shortage

A practical guide for German HR leaders on deploying an AI recruiting agent across the whole funnel - active sourcing, application screening, candidate ranking, interview scheduling and candidate comms - against the 391,000-worker shortage. Covers AGG, the EU AI Act high-risk classification (Annex III), DSGVO and Betriebsrat, a build-vs-buy view against Personio, SmartRecruiters, HeyJobs and Paradox, and a 90-day pilot.

Henri Jung Henri Jung · 34 min read
How to Onboard Your Team When AI Employees Join the Workflow
AI Strategy

How to Onboard Your Team When AI Employees Join the Workflow

The hard part of deploying an AI employee is not the agent, it is the team. A practical playbook: what changes, where resistance comes from, the Betriebsrat and EU AI Act, role design, supervision, AI literacy, and a 90-day ramp.

Henri Jung Henri Jung · 28 min read
Unstructured Data: The 80% of Company Knowledge Your Systems Cannot Read
AI Strategy

Unstructured Data: The 80% of Company Knowledge Your Systems Cannot Read

An estimated 80-90% of company data is unstructured: emails, PDFs, contracts, images. Why it was a dead asset, how AI finally reads it, the GDPR and GoBD traps, and a 90-day path.

Henri Jung Henri Jung · 30 min read
The Org Chart With AI Employees On It: Where Agents Sit in the Team
AI Strategy

The Org Chart With AI Employees On It: Where Agents Sit in the Team

AI agents are joining the team. Where they sit on the org chart, who manages them, how reporting lines and accountability change, and what the German Betriebsrat and EU AI Act demand.

Henri Jung Henri Jung · 32 min read
Sovereign Company Brain: Running Your Knowledge Layer on EU Soil Without Sending It to the US
AI Strategy

Sovereign Company Brain: Running Your Knowledge Layer on EU Soil Without Sending It to the US

Your company brain is the most sensitive system you will ever build. How to run it end to end under EU jurisdiction: leak points, CLOUD Act risk, the European stack, three topologies, and a 90-day build.

Henri Jung Henri Jung · 31 min read
AI in German Staffing and Temporary Work: Matching, Disposition, and Candidate Service Platforms
AI in Staffing

AI in German Staffing and Temporary Work: Matching, Disposition, and Candidate Service Platforms

A practical guide for German staffing agencies and Personaldienstleister. AI agents across the three layers where staffing work happens: matching (CV parsing, candidate-to-order ranking, bias-controlled screening), disposition (AUEG and equal-pay rule-checking, live re-planning), and the candidate service platform (instant multichannel response, onboarding, re-engagement). Ten platforms reviewed (Bullhorn, Textkernel, SmartRecruiters, HeyJobs, zvoove, Prosoft, Personio, SAP SuccessFactors, Paradox, Sense), build vs buy, the EU AI Act high-risk question, AUEG, AGG and DSGVO, and a 90-day pilot.

Henri Jung Henri Jung · 38 min read
AI for Injection Moulders: Cutting Scrap, Mastering Process Parameters, and Capturing Tooling Knowledge in the Plastics Mittelstand
AI in Manufacturing

AI for Injection Moulders: Cutting Scrap, Mastering Process Parameters, and Capturing Tooling Knowledge in the Plastics Mittelstand

How German injection moulders use AI to cut scrap, hold process parameters, capture setter and tooling knowledge, and lower energy cost per good part.

Henri Jung Henri Jung · 28 min read
AI for Insurance Brokers: How German Brokerages Speed Up Claims, Quote Comparison, and Policy Admin With Custom AI Agents
AI in Insurance

AI for Insurance Brokers: How German Brokerages Speed Up Claims, Quote Comparison, and Policy Admin With Custom AI Agents

How German insurance brokers use AI agents to speed up claims, quote comparison and policy admin while staying compliant with IDD, GDPR and the EU AI Act.

Henri Jung Henri Jung · 27 min read
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