Why we build

AI should make the world more truthful, greener, and more human. Not less.

DESTILL.ai builds systems whose results you don't have to believe, because you can verify them — and that use fewer resources, not more. Four product lines, one set of values, no outside funding so far.

Our DNA

Four values. Every product has to pass all four.

01

Truthfulness

A claim without a measurement is marketing. We publish what we measured, including the failures, and label what is still research. Our watermarks make science fraud visible; our receipts make an agent's work undeniable.

02

Fewer resources

We build AI to spend less, not more: deterministic solvers instead of brute-force generation, CPU before GPU, on-premise instead of a cloud round-trip. SILAS lets a planner see what a warehouse sized for the median day saves in energy and capital before a single rack is ordered.

03

Technology serves people

Explainable by construction: a decision you can follow step by step, a result you can audit without our help. Tools that make a planner, an underwriter, a scientist stronger — never a system that replaces their judgement or their dignity.

04

Sovereignty and privacy

Your data stays yours: EU-sovereign, offline-capable, zero data retention where the job allows it, and signatures that are already post-quantum (ML-DSA-65, FIPS 204). Security is a promise we make to partners, not a feature we sell back to them.

Where the values become products

Four lines. Pick yours.

Fortress — Deep dive: modes, clusters, Zeiss · NI-Stack (the engine behind POAW)

What we believe

Human first. By construction, not by slogan.

We believe in what is organic in a human being: judgement, conscience, the capacity to be wrong and to make it right. Tools should strengthen that, never replace it.

Technology is meant to serve people. The moment it starts to own them — their attention, their data, their decisions — it has failed. We build the other kind: checkable by the person it serves, running where they are, spending less of the planet than the status quo.

Who
Hagen Schmidt

Hagen Schmidt, founder

In intralogistics since 2013, inside SSI Schäfer. Inventor of the methods behind these four lines; core methods patent pending (provisionals filed 03–04/2026). Built to this point without outside funding — because the values come first, and funding has to fit them, not the other way round.

Partners, pilots, investors

Bootstrapped to here. Now we are talking to the people who want pilots, licences, or the IP.

Sovereign, verifiable AI. Vienna, EU. Core methods patent pending (provisionals 03–04/2026; non-provisional conversion due 2027). We do not claim “military-grade”, “unbreakable” or “AI-proof”.