Area 13 · Data, AI and advisory

Artificial intelligence

Nobody doubts any more that a language model can dazzle in a demo. The questions worth asking are duller: which chore disappears from your team's week, what does that cost per month, and whose servers hold the information you hand over? We help SMEs, law and tax firms, medical practices, hotels and online retailers answer those three with evidence. Together we shortlist tasks that repay the effort, trial them safely, run models and document stores in EU data centres and show employees how to question what a tool tells them. Every step happens over video calls and secure remote access.

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AI offerings grouped under this heading
One workflow
at a time, judged against a metric set up front
EU
hosting in Austria and elsewhere in the EU when information is sensitive
€110
hourly plus VAT, alternatively a fixed project quote

Tasks where AI often pays its way

Promising tasks share three traits: they recur several times weekly, an occasional error is cheap, and a human reviews the result before clients or the ledger see it. Should one trait be absent, you will hear that from us before any quote exists.

Incoming invoices at a tax advisory firm

Staff only check the fields flagged as uncertain. Supplier, VAT ID, date, net figure, tax rate and gross total come out of a PDF or smartphone snapshot and reach BMD or RZL as a proposed booking.

“Where is my parcel?” in an online shop

Nothing goes out until someone approves it. Incoming mail gets linked to its order, Austrian Post or DPD tracking is looked up, and the prepared answer gives the actual delivery status.

Internal procedures in a medical practice

Each answer shows where it came from. Assistants at the practice look up the hygiene plan or the rule for short-notice cancellations, and the tool cites the matching passage from in-house documentation. It never offers a diagnosis.

Guest enquiries at a hotel in Tyrol

Reception still has the final say. Messages in German, English, Dutch or Italian are sorted, checked against free rooms and package deals, and prepared as a reply in the guest's own language.

Product copy for marketplaces

Nothing is published unchecked. A technical data sheet becomes a first draft shaped for Amazon, Kaufland.at or MediaMarkt Marktplatz, each following its own length and attribute rules.

Customer data has no business in a free chatbot opened with a personal account. Ahead of every trial we settle with you what may travel to an external vendor and what remains within Microsoft 365 or a dedicated EU-hosted environment. Personal data brings paperwork: a data processing agreement, a line in the processing register and, in some cases, an impact assessment. We document every decision so your data protection officer has solid grounds should the Austrian Data Protection Authority (DSB) ever ask. General guidance on the AI Act is available from the RTR's AI service desk.

Your first AI project, step by step

A brief pilot on live data always comes before any rollout. Workshops, configuration and testing take place in video meetings, Monday to Friday, 8:00-17:00 Austrian time (CET/CEST).

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Measure the baseline

We time how long the task takes today and agree a success criterion with you, for instance “nine emails out of ten reach the right department with no manual correction”.

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Try it on real work

A small group uses the tool on the day's actual cases for an agreed period. A person reviews every result, and we log hits and minutes saved.

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Let the figures decide

We compare the results with the baseline. If the criterion is missed, you hear it straight and the pilot closes. A failed trial costs far less than a rollout nobody uses.

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Widen it with clear rules

The tool is opened up to everyone else, backed by a short usage policy, regular spot checks and the paperwork your data protection officer will ask for.

Frequently asked questions

Model developers are not the only audience of the EU AI Act. Which obligations apply depends on what a system is used for and what role your organisation plays. One duty affects virtually every business that deploys AI: making sure staff have sufficient AI literacy. We stick to the hands-on part. We list which tools are used, for what and with which data, and help you draft internal rules. The legal assessment of your situation remains with your lawyer or data protection officer.

You choose, within the limits a given vendor sets. Microsoft Azure, AWS and Google Cloud all offer EU regions, and there are European options such as Exoscale in Vienna, Hetzner, IONOS or OVHcloud. Wherever possible we choose services whose business terms pin processing to the EU and rule out training on your content. Because those terms change, we read them again before each project starts.

Yes, though not by pasting it into a free service. You need a legal basis, a defined purpose, a data processing agreement with the provider, an entry in your processing record and, where required, an impact assessment. Under Article 9 GDPR, health information counts as a special category, so we recommend a dedicated environment for it. Frequently the easiest remedy is transmitting less: sorting a complaint needs only an order reference and the reason, never a name or home address.

For drafting, summarising and searching your own files, sometimes yes, and we will tell you if that is the case. Bear in mind that Copilot sees everything the signed-in user is allowed to see. If SharePoint and Teams permissions have sprawled over the years, it will surface documents never meant for everyone. So tidy the sharing settings and brief the team first. Tasks tied to BMD, your ERP or the web shop usually call for something built to measure.

A pilot concentrates on one process and is charged as a fixed project fee or at €110 per hour plus VAT, with a ceiling agreed in advance. Model usage comes on top and is billed by the provider according to consumption: we estimate it beforehand and monitor it throughout. If you prefer an ongoing arrangement, AI work can sit inside a Start, Business or Premium plan. A dedicated team is quoted per project.

Let's find the task where AI genuinely pays off

Tell us which job your team repeats every day and which program it happens in. We will look at the data available and suggest a pilot with a measurable goal.

Availability
Monday to Friday, 8:00-17:00 Austrian time (CET/CEST), reply within one working day
Meetings
By video on Microsoft Teams or Google Meet

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