About Us
Proven by Humans. Driven by Purpose.
Since 2010, innobu has built the structures that make AI-driven organisations actually work.
"In 2026, energy providers face simultaneous statutory deadlines: §14a EnWG, the smart-meter rollout, NIS2/KRITIS, Redispatch 2.0, market communication and CSRD. The project landscape is fragmented, strategy and delivery drift apart. We close that gap: regulation, architecture, portfolio and delivery in one place. AI is not a tool here, it's an organisational model that carries this work."
Niels Schuldt, Founder & CEO
Driven by Purpose
The purpose isn't abstract. It's the energy transition. The grids have to absorb decentralised generation, new consumers and new market roles, within a regulatory framework that moves faster than most programmes. That's what we work on. Not slides about it.
Niels Schuldt
Founder & CEO
innobu GmbH
Where strategy meets execution
Most consultants do either strategy or execution. Niels Schuldt does both. Not sequentially. At the same time.
He can develop enterprise target architectures, structure multi-year programmes, define Jira and Confluence setups, design capability maps, orchestrate AI agents, and ship working prototypes. All while keeping steering committee discussions calm and grounded.
That's a specific combination. Most organisations never find it in one person.
In practice
innobu runs multi-year transformation programmes for energy providers and grid operators: grid transformation, smart-meter/metering programmes, connection and customer portals, and the overarching portfolio across the grid domain. As external programme and portfolio leadership, not point consulting.
Digital Colleagues: AI with a job title
In delivery we work with role-based AI orchestration: AI agents take on concrete roles within the programme and handle clearly bounded tasks, while the human stays the decision-maker.
Where we work, and how far the discipline carries
The work is different in each sector. The discipline behind it isn't.
Energy & municipal utilities: our core sector
The largest part of innobu's work happens here. Not as an IT consultant at the edge of a project, but as portfolio manager, structure-giver and translator between legislator, operations and IT.
At the centre stands the infrastructure of the energy transition: grid transformation, smart metering and metering operations, regulatory implementation programmes and overarching portfolio management, often in parallel at the same client.
Where the same discipline also carries
The work differs in every sector, the discipline behind it doesn't: translating regulatory pressure into programme structures, keeping AI auditable, ordering fragmented initiatives. The same methods apply wherever governance mistakes get expensive: Financial services & insurance, public sector & municipalities, healthcare & life sciences, industry & manufacturing.
What we build and deliver
Ten concrete service building blocks. Each one is a distinct deliverable, not a category name.
Transformation Roadmaps
Phased plans from current state to target, with milestones you can actually track.
Capability Maps
A visual picture of what your organisation can do today and where the gaps are.
Enterprise Target Architectures
Future-state designs that give multi-year programmes a clear direction to build towards.
Governance Structures
Who decides what, how escalation works, RACI models that people actually follow.
Portfolio Architecture
Cross-programme logic, priority decisions and dependency maps across the full portfolio.
Regulatory Translation
Energy regulation, EU AI Act, DSGVO, BSI translated into concrete programme and architecture requirements.
Cloud Process Automation
Automating repetitive processes on modern cloud infrastructure. Less manual work, more consistency.
AI Work Architectures
Operating models where AI agents take on defined roles alongside your team using the Digital Colleagues framework.
Iterative Delivery
Sprint-based releases with clear KPIs. Value ships before the programme ends.
Prototyping
Working code in days, not weeks. Built to prove ideas before committing to a full build.
How engagements work
Typical roles
- External Programme Lead
- Portfolio Manager for network and grid programmes
- Structural lead for transformation programmes
- Translator between regulation, business and IT
- Governance and decision architect
What clients get
- Order in initiative landscapes that have grown fragmented
- Roadmaps with a clear direction, not just a list of workstreams
- Decision spaces where the right people can actually decide
- Delivery that moves from pilot to scale without losing structure
- Less organisational complexity to manage