Frequently asked
questions.

We work with quarterly retainers instead of three-year contracts. What an initiative costs is determined by its scope. You keep full investment control and decide again after every phase. The entry point is the Executive 360° Blueprint. In the first conversation we tell you openly what level of investment is realistic for your plans.

The Executive 360° Blueprint delivers first results within two weeks, based on your real data, not on a demo data set. We often identify quick wins in the very first week.

No. SIMO is designed precisely for companies that do not have a twenty-person data science team. We work with the team you already have and enable it to run on data.

Yes, built in from the ground up rather than added on. We offer on-premises, EU cloud (Hetzner, OVH, IONOS, T-Systems) or hybrid deployment. No US cloud contract required. Art. 6, Art. 22, the Art. 28 data processing agreement and the Art. 35 data protection impact assessment are part of our standard setup.

An IT consultancy asks which system you need. We ask first which decision you have to be able to make, and derive from that what technology it takes. You notice the difference on the invoice: we earn on the advice, not on licences and not on operations. That is why we can also tell you which technology you do not need. We supervise delivery and stand behind the result, but we do not sell you a platform. And we talk to managing directors about euros and cents, not to IT about interfaces.

We are LLM agnostic: Claude, GPT-4/5, Mistral, Llama, on-premises models. You choose. No vendor lock-in. Which model fits depends on your requirements for data protection, performance and cost.

A quarterly retainer, cancelable at the end of every quarter. No three-year contracts, no hidden costs. If SIMO does not deliver value, you walk away, no discussion.

Yes. Andreas Oliver Schwan, our Managing Director for Technology, brings more than 20 years of experience in tier-one banks in Germany and abroad. We do not disclose client names for data protection and confidentiality reasons. The data problems are the same in a mid-sized company and in a corporate group, only the scale differs.

Yes. Data and contracts stay in the EU, and entirely on your own infrastructure if you want them there. We earn nothing on licences, hardware or operations, so we have no reason to move you into a US cloud whose provider is subject to the CLOUD Act. And the result of the Executive 360° Blueprint belongs to you, not to us — your data and its results stay in your hands.

Most likely, yes. The EU AI Act requires you to classify an AI system by its risk before it goes live, and the classification decides which obligations apply. We settle the classification for your specific initiative and build the evidence trail so the answer holds when a regulator, internal audit or the external auditor asks where a decision came from. What this means for your industry is set out in full on our EU AI Act page.

Yes, in an orderly and auditable way. Before anything is switched off, we settle the scope, build a transition architecture and reconcile at every handover, so nothing business-critical is lost. At the end there is an opening-balance statement and an auditable archive, so the retirement holds up even when internal audit or the external auditor asks. The most common trigger is a legacy platform whose dependencies nobody can account for any more.

Thirty minutes, free of charge, no strings attached. We listen, we ask questions and we give you an honest assessment. No pitch deck, no sales pressure. If SIMO is not the right fit, we say so.