Maik Hummel, founder and Managing Director
Know who you are letting in.
You would be the one letting an unknown firm into production, so here is the record, and here is the person who reads the mail. I left a Head of AI Strategy role in February 2026 because I had had enough of recommendations that never ship. We ship instead.
Older than the firm.
The firm was registered in June 2018. The container images are older: the oldest repository dates from August 2015, and a cron still rebuilds it every day. Every tag is on GitHub, so you can read them without asking us.
Twelve years in production software.
This is the record the firm was built on: my roles, and the firm's own public work, newest first. No client appears here. One overlap needs saying: Kickgeist's first commit was December 2025, while I still held the Head of AI Strategy role. It went global that March, after I left.
now
Beevelop
Managing Director
Launched Kickgeist globally and operated it through the 2026 World Cup; a second product is pre-launch.
Parloa GmbH, New York City and Berlin
Head of AI Strategy, previously Principal AI Evangelist
Core member of the Series C team; led the US launch from New York.
Parloa GmbH, Berlin
Team Lead Engineering, then Staff Software Engineer
Led the Conversation Platform initiative.
Kauz GmbH, Düsseldorf
CTO
Platform ran 140+ chatbots at 15,000+ daily requests; moved the infrastructure to cloud-agnostic Kubernetes.
Neohelden GmbH, Karlsruhe
Founder & CTO
Built a conversational AI platform on a cloud-agnostic backend for privacy-sensitive enterprise workloads. The 2021 exit to msg systems AG was an asset deal covering core technology and brand.
NTT DATA Deutschland, Frankfurt
Technical Consultant
Altemista Cloud team, building an enterprise hybrid-cloud platform.
mangowerk UG, Berlin
Co-founder & CTO
Completed a Berlin accelerator programme; secured investment.
now
Beevelop
Container image publisher
31 public images across five repositories, rebuilt daily; 14,970,732 pulls, measured 2026-08-06.
NTT DATA Deutschland, Frankfurt and Ettlingen
Business Informatics student, dual programme
Dual programme with the DHBW: B.Sc. Business Informatics, study alternating with placements.
Tippster Media Production UG, Karlsruhe
CTO
Social betting platform for Bundesliga, the European Championship and the NFL; built on Ionic, Node.js, Feathers, MySQL and AWS.
Two awards, no dates.
- EXIST-Gründerstipendium, Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action
- 1st Prize, Jugend forscht, Baden-Württemberg state level
Everything here is public record.
15 Customer Experience Predictions For 2025
Quoted on voice returning as a dominant customer engagement channel.
Transforming Contact Centers with GPT-4o Multi-Agent Crews and Human-in-the-Loop
Community Spotlight session at DevDay in London; recording published by OpenAI.
One mail. No form.
Tell us what is in the way.
Say what you're building and where it stopped.
Copy it into your mail client if that is easier.
The draft opens with
- What you are building
- What is in the way
- The stack
- When you want to start
The contact page says who answers, and what the reply contains.