# AssistanceManager

> AI workshops, audits, and locally-hosted agents for the people running real businesses across Upper Austria — Mittelstand owners, family-business successors, solo professionals, and the next generation deploying AI for their organisations. Founded by Pieter Daniel Kruger, a 30-year IT veteran. Business status: officially registered in Austria as of 2026-06-19; free webinars, free 30-minute discovery audits, free 1-hour business audits, workshops, Agent-as-a-Service pilots, and the launch-list newsletter are the active commercial funnel.

## Contact

- Founder: Pieter Daniel Kruger
- Address: Spazenhofstrasse 22, 4040 Linz, Austria
- Email: dan@assistancemanager.com
- Phone: +43 677 6441 7074
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nielkruger/
- Languages: English (fluent), German (B1), Afrikaans (native)

## What we do

- **3-Day Efficiency Intensive workshops** (Fri Audit / Sat Build / Sun Security). 12 seats. Launching 2026.
- **Free 30-minute AI Audits.** Identify one administrative bottleneck. No obligation, no pitch deck.
- **Agent-as-a-Service (AaaS).** Locally-hosted AI agents on hardened infrastructure; built on Hermes Bot + OpenClaw frameworks. Sandboxed, human-in-the-loop on all irreversible actions, EU-AI-Act-aligned, tamper-evident audit trails.

## Differentiation

- Founder is an IT veteran of 30 years (Plasser & Theurer Global Product Owner, Keba Group Requirements Engineer, CompuGroup Medical Product Owner) — speaks the language of established business, not the influencer scene.
- **Locally-hosted** option: client-proprietary data never leaves the client's boundary.
- **Security-first by default:** sandboxed agents, deny-by-default permissions, EU-AI-Act-aligned audit trails.
- Embedded in the Linz innovation ecosystem (WKO, Grand Garage).

## Target audience

Business owners, directors, family-business successors, solo professionals, and the AI-translating next generation in Upper Austria. Pain points: AI overwhelm, data privacy concerns, fragmented legacy systems, administrative bloat (2–10 hours/week reclaimable per role).

## Compliance & status

- Officially registered Austrian business as of 2026-06-19. The previous AMS UGP no-revenue/pre-approval framing is retired.
- GDPR + Austrian DSG compliant.
- Operating address required for §5 ECG / §63 GewO / §25 MedienG (Austrian Impressumspflicht).

## Key links

- [Free 30-min AI Audit](https://assistancemanager.com/#audit)
- [Launch list signup](https://assistancemanager.com/#newsletter)
- [About Daniel](https://assistancemanager.com/#about)
- [Privacy](https://assistancemanager.com/datenschutz)
- [Imprint](https://assistancemanager.com/impressum)

## Guides & writing

- [DigitalPlus26 & Austrian digitalisation grants — a plain guide](https://assistancemanager.com/blog/digitalplus26-austria-digitalisation-grants) — What DIGITAL.PLUS 26 (WKO Oberösterreich + Land OÖ), KMU.DIGITAL, aws and FFG actually fund for Upper-Austrian SMEs, and how a free audit helps you pick the automation worth applying for. Per the official WKO OÖ page (accessed 2026-06-17): DIGITAL.PLUS 26 grants up to 35% of eligible costs, capped at €7,000, for projects of at least €12,000, applications 1 June–2 November 2026. Figures change — always verify on the official page. EN + de-AT.
- [What happens after a free AI audit (illustrative)](https://assistancemanager.com/blog/what-happens-after-ai-audit-linz) — a start-to-finish example of a free process audit, told through one Upper-Austrian restaurant.
- [Why we teach you to fish](https://assistancemanager.com/blog/teaching-beats-doing-it-for-you) — why we teach the framework instead of only doing the work, with a real testimonial.

## Optional

- Sister project: **Linz Hostel — The Social Impact Hub** (linzhostel.com). 90-bed hospitality + community project. AI workshops will be hosted at the hostel's "Flow Zone" once both projects open.
- Forthcoming book by founder: "Temet Nosce: The Art of Knowing Oneself" (2026).