schoonnect
Why schoonnect

The power of enterprises. Built for small and mid-sized companies.

We build the team of tomorrow — and stand by you today.

Behind schoonnect stands a team of former enterprise leaders, senior consultants and engineers with 20+ years of practice in IT, management, finance, engineering and AI. What counts isn't a certificate — it's the experience to step into any role, spot potential and act on it now. We make that experience affordable and effective for small and medium-sized enterprises.

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Who we are

Enterprise experience, that gets things done.

Our core and network combine backgrounds that only corporations can usually afford — we make them accessible for SMEs.

Former enterprise leadersSenior consultants (Big Four & boutique)Practice over paper — mindset over diplomas20+ years IT & software engineering20+ years management & financeProven in corporations, effective for SMEs

Industry expertise:

Retail & e-commerceHealthcare & medicineFinance & bankingInsuranceEducationIndustry & logisticsLegal & consultingPublic sector
Team & network

Founders, consultants, engineers, partners — one signature.

schoonnect is intentionally lean at the core and strong in its network: we bring exactly the competence each engagement needs — and nothing more.

Der Kern ist bewusst klein: Geschäftsführung, Beratung, Umsetzung — drei Rollen, die bei jedem Auftrag dabei sind. Alles Weitere kommt aus dem Netzwerk und wird je Mandat hinzugezogen: Juristinnen und Juristen, Steuerberatung, Wirtschaftsprüfung, Medizin und Pädagogik, Hochschulen. Das ist der Unterschied zu einem Systemhaus, das Ihnen die Leute berechnet, die es gerade nicht auslasten kann. Sie zahlen die Fachkompetenz, die Ihr Fall braucht — und nicht die, die zufällig auf der Bank sitzt.
Management

Maksim Pushkarev

Managing Director

  • Sole Managing Director of Schoonnect UG (haftungsbeschränkt)
  • Responsible for strategy and company leadership
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Consulting

Senior partners & consultants

  • Experience from Big Four and strategy consultancies
  • Transformation and compliance projects (GDPR, EU AI Act, KRITIS)
  • Advice on equal footing — through experience, not certificates
Delivery

Engineering, AI & robotics

  • Software and AI engineers with 15–25 years of practice
  • Local LLMs, agentic workflows, RAG and MLOps
  • Robotics integration and Industry 4.0 experience
Network

Domain & industry partners

  • Lawyers, tax advisors, auditors, medics and educators
  • University and research contacts for applied AI
  • Trusted partners for regulated industries
Our story

Why we built schoonnect — and for whom.

For decades we delivered large-scale transformations in corporations, banks, insurers, healthcare, education and retail. We know the rules of the game: in-house data teams, AI labs, compliance departments, budgets an SME wouldn't spend in a year.

That asymmetry is what we wanted to dissolve. The Mittelstand is the backbone of the economy — and without AI, automation and data sovereignty it will fall behind in the coming years. Not because technology is lacking, but because guidance, delivery and enablement are.

What counts with us isn't the certificate on the wall. It's the experience to step into your role, think from your perspective and spot the potential you can't see yet. Our approach is shaped by a mindset that doesn't ask "how could we?" but says "now." — pragmatic, clear and effective immediately.

We build the team of tomorrow — and stand by you today.

What sets us apart

Six principles — that apply to every project.

Only large corporations can afford in-house experts, know-how and constant updates. We close that gap.

Enablement over dependency

Pedagogical and technological background: your team works independently afterwards — we make ourselves redundant.

How to verify it

Ask in the intro call what stays with you after the project: documentation, a training record per role with date, duration and content, and the name of the person who runs the process without us. The real test comes later on its own — when your team makes the first change alone, without asking us.

Data sovereignty

Your data, your models, your control — fully on your own infrastructure if you wish.

How to verify it

Ask to be shown the processing chain: which service processes what, where the servers stand, who the sub-processors are. That belongs in the data processing agreement under Art. 28 GDPR, together with scope and retention period — and so does the contractual exclusion of training models on your data. What exists only in the slide deck exists nowhere.

No lock-in

Open standards, portable architectures. Your data remains exportable at all times.

How to verify it

Have the export demonstrated before you sign: in which format, how often, and who can trigger it without us. Also ask which model sits behind a given feature and what switching to another one involves. Where the abstraction layer is missing, “open standard” is just a word.

Human-in-the-Loop

A human decides at the critical point. Automation stays controllable and auditable.

How to verify it

Ask for the list before anything is built: which steps run through, which need an approval, who grants it. Our line is that routine without legal consequence runs; anything affecting a contract, a claim or a person gets an approval gate. And have it shown to you that the audit log records the approval.

Mittelstand first

Affordable, pragmatic, fast — the 80 % solution today over 100 % in six months.

How to verify it

Verifiable by the sequence: for solutions we build, scope, architecture and fixed price are settled in a paid specification phase before anything is built; in ongoing support the hourly allowance is stated openly. Also ask what will be running on the last day of the project. If the answer is a document and not a function, it was the 100 % solution in six months after all.

Systems thinking

We think in systems, not silos — every solution contributes to the whole.

How to verify it

The readiness check rates six dimensions: strategy, use cases, data, team, processes, governance. Hold every proposal against them — whatever touches only one of them builds an island. And the order stands: process first, tool second. Whoever has not described their workflows only automates their chaos.

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