Made in Germany Founder-led Built for SMEs

No anonymous SaaS.
Real people stand behind 9brains.

Your dedicated point of contact — from the very first user.

Stephan Häuslschmid

Founder & Managing Director

"I founded 9brains because mid-sized companies deserve the same powerful technology as large corporations — without compromises on data protection, without huge IT budgets and without anonymous support hotlines. We're based in Chiemgau, deeply rooted in the region, and we work with Bavarian groundedness on the digital sovereignty of Europe. My promise to you: at 9brains you are never an anonymous ticket number. I am your dedicated point of contact — from the very first user. No bot, no call centre, just real human-to-human help."

Matthias Clauß

Co-founder

"Europe needs more courage in its own strength! That is exactly where 9brains came from: the drive to make sovereign AI possible for SMEs across the DACH region. AI today is about as mature as my first 14,400 modem back then, meaning we are still only at the beginning of a revolution whose effects we can hardly comprehend. AI is IT, and IT is a people business. That is why I believe AI only truly works when it empowers people and strengthens teams. That is why we are not just consultants, but thinkers, builders and doers. From Bavaria, with heart."

Fiona Maier

Strategy & Operations

"I work at 9brains because I’m excited by the idea of not only building sovereign AI for SMEs, but making it genuinely useful in day-to-day work. The founders bring the vision, the energy and many strong impulses, and I make sure that these turn into structure, clarity and a shared direction. I support both of them strategically and organisationally, keep the topics aligned, prioritise and create order so that many good ideas become a product that truly delivers impact. It is exactly this combination of vision, product and reliable execution that makes 9brains special to me."

Nature has already invented the best architecture for artificial intelligence.

An octopus is one of the most intelligent creatures on our planet. Its most fascinating feature: it has nine brains. One central brain in its head and eight independent, highly developed brains in its arms. This is exactly how 9brains works:

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The central brain

Our platform: A secure, centrally managed entry point. Through a single, intuitive interface, your team taps into the world's leading AI models from Anthropic, OpenAI and Google. Fully GDPR-compliant, hosted in Germany, and with the guarantee that your data is never used to train external models.

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The eight arm brains

Our agents and integrations: The platform's distributed thinkers. They connect to your existing tools like Microsoft 365, Brevo, Lexware, HubSpot or your ERP system. They tap precisely into your internal company knowledge, run complex workflows and work in the background to free your team from routine tasks.

From secure chat to the connected brain of your business.

When we started out as Octopus AI, our mission was simple: give SMEs a GDPR-compliant alternative to ChatGPT to solve the growing problem of "shadow AI" (employees using unsecured private accounts for sensitive company data).

But we quickly learned that a pure chat window is only the beginning.

Companies across the DACH region face a new problem today: they are drowning in a sprawling tool zoo of countless expensive point solutions that don't talk to each other. That wastes time, wastes money and blocks the real potential of modern AI.

That's why we evolved. Octopus AI became 9brains. We don't just offer a secure chat — we offer a real, connected operating system for AI in your company. We bundle all the models, secure your internal knowledge management and automate workflows directly in the systems your team already uses every day.