about aigude
the register, and the team that keeps it honest.
aigude is the public, continuously-enriched record of the AI ecosystem of Hesse, built and maintained by hessian.AI, the Hessian Center for Artificial Intelligence.
mission
make the ecosystem legible.
Hesse does world-class AI research and builds real deep-tech companies from it, but the connections between the two have lived in scattered databases, press releases, and people’s heads.
aigude is one place that holds the whole picture: the startups, the researchers behind them, the universities that connect them, and the live signals that show where the ecosystem is moving. It exists so an investor, a founder, a researcher, or a journalist can answer “who is doing X in Hesse?” in one query instead of ten.
It is a public good first: built and maintained by hessian.AI, free for ecosystem participants to be listed and found. We publish what we can stand behind, and we mark clearly what is still being built.
methodology
how the register is built.
Every profile is assembled from public sources and enriched continuously. We don’t sell placement, and we don’t publish numbers we can’t source.
Company register, funding and team signals, cross-checked against company sites.
Papers, authors and affiliations, filtered to the 13 consortium institutions.
Company logos, attributed. No scraping of private or gated material.
The principles we hold
What is live is shown as live. Anything still being built is marked as such and never dressed up as complete.
If we don’t track something, the desk says so rather than guessing.
Personal contact details are never exposed. Warm introductions are routed through the hessian.AI office, not published.
Research ingest is filtered by the verified institutional identifiers (ROR) of the 13 consortium universities and of hessian.AI itself, not by a hand-kept list of names, so coverage is consistent and auditable.
Anything wrong can be fixed, through the correction form or by writing to aisr@hessian.ai, and we correct it at the source.
team
who maintains it.
aigude is run by a small team at hessian.AI.
The pipeline: ingest, the ROR filter, deduplication and enrichment.
The link to the 13 universities and the routing of warm introductions.
partners
the consortium.
hessian.AI is a consortium of 13 Hessian universities. Research coverage is scoped to their verified institutional identifiers, listed below.
ROR identifiers verified against the ROR registry. Works carrying a hessian.AI affiliation (ror.org/014ybqb54) are included as well.
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