13th November 2025
Increasing regulatory pressure and a growing number of compliance queries from partner companies are creating an immense burden for the industry. This effort leads to noticeable productivity losses and becomes a genuine barrier to innovation. Companies are forced to hire additional staff who do not add value but are solely dedicated to handling administrative tasks.
Today, we are incredibly proud to announce that we have completed our pre-seed funding led by Uplift Ventures. This partnership advances our mission to put the compliance response process on autopilot. Our technology is already successfully in use at over 20 leading industrial companies and more are joining us every day.
When manual inquiries stifle productivity
The idea for turnus.ai arose through collaboration with our strategic partner, Jungheinrich AG. We identified that subject matter experts were increasingly hindered by manual inquiry requests and quickly realised that this issue recurred across industries. The manual response to the complex compliance questionnaires is time-consuming and complicated by the fact that the necessary information is often spread across various departments, ERP systems, PDFs, and Excel lists.
Manually responding to the complex compliance questionnaires is time-consuming and further complicated by the fact that the necessary information is often spread across various departments, ERP systems, PDFs, and Excel spreadsheets.
"Industrial companies face the challenge of having to respond to an increasing number of very specific customer inquiries. An increasing amount of specialist resources are tied up with these inquiries without a noticeable added value for their own business," says Tobias Seidel, Co-Founder and CEO at turnus.ai.
turnus.ai understands documents like an expert
We have developed an AI solution that automates this entire workflow. turnus.ai simplifies work through AI-supported text analysis and context recognition.
The system supports industry experts in areas such as product compliance inquiries like REACH or RoHS, sustainability and supply chain like LkSG or ESG, and IT security certifications like NIS2 or DORA. Most importantly, with turnus.ai, we eliminate the manual search and transfer of data. We achieve this by combining the advantages of modern Large Language Models with GDPR-compliant data processing and encrypted communication to ensure the protection of sensitive corporate data.
"For the first time, our solution provides a centralized and transparent data base, making all quality and sustainability-related information instantly accessible across the company," says Ferdinand Heck, Co-Founder and CPO.
Strong validation by leading industry companies
During a multi-month pilot phase with our strategic partner, Jungheinrich AG, the solution was successfully validated. The response time to complex inquiries was reduced by up to 90%, returning valuable time to the professional staff for strategic tasks.
With the pre-seed funding, turnus.ai will cater to the growing market demand and further integrate the system into existing corporate processes. We take our role as a compliance autopilot for our clients seriously and see the greatest opportunity in connecting the diverse requirements of quality, compliance, and sustainability managers in a single central system.
AI enthusiasts wanted!
We are a small team with a significant impact and are rapidly expanding to meet customer demand. We are hiring across various sectors. If you want to work with leading technology that has a measurable impact, we look forward to meeting you!
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