Since 2012, mamarx GmbH has been creating software for startups and mid-sized companies, guiding them on their journey into the digital future. Today, that journey has a clear destination: the AI transformation of the Mittelstand. Our conviction is simple: artificial intelligence should not remain an experiment; it belongs in the heart of everyday business. We build AI workflows, agents, and applications that connect to the systems a company already relies on, from ERP to CRM, rather than replacing them. The foundation of this work is the SOTA architecture, a vendor-neutral reference architecture that maps the building blocks an organization needs to run AI productively. And with sota.io, we offer living proof: our own platform, on which AI applications are hosted and deployed entirely on European infrastructure, with data sovereignty and GDPR compliance as architectural principles rather than afterthoughts. Based in Berlin, we remain committed to what has guided us from the beginning: combining innovative technology with sustainable value, whether we are transforming established companies or helping new ones come to life.
Malte Marx has spent more than twenty-five years building digital products, and the thread running through his career has always been the same: turning technology into something a business can genuinely rely on. Trained in industrial engineering and management, he merges deep technical knowledge with strategic business acumen. In 2012 he co-founded the company from which today's mamarx GmbH emerged, and he now leads it as sole shareholder and managing director. His path has taken him through leadership roles as CDO and CTO, including at a mid-sized B2B distribution company, where he has built and operated AI workflows in live business operations himself: automated order and quotation processing, and agents that prepare analyses and reports. It is this hands-on experience that shapes his view of AI in the Mittelstand. He knows where projects truly fail, in permissions, operational maturity, legacy systems, and questions of responsibility, and he created the SOTA architecture and the sota.io platform as his answer: he does not stop at the blueprint, he builds the house and lives in it. Today, that same approach carries further: as an entrepreneur, he builds ventures in which AI is at the core from day one, taking products from first prototype to market readiness in weeks rather than years. He shares this perspective in talks and workshops for executives and investors, and stands out for his ability to distinguish essentials from non-essentials.