
Starting Point
Poor master data quality leads to wrong decisions, process costs and high maintenance effort.
Enterprise software makes operational decisions every day based on master data. In real ERP systems, however, this data emerges over years through manual inputs, migrations and workarounds.
The result is inconsistent, duplicate or incomplete records. Manual maintenance and purely rule-based checks are maintenance-heavy, not scalable and often fix only simple errors. This is exactly where SherpAI comes in as a learning data quality layer.
Letters of Intent
validated data domains
team members
months in the EXIST phase
Innovation
Orchestrated AI modules instead of purely rule-based data maintenance
SherpAI combines several AI paradigms in a modular, orchestrable architecture: structure identification, semantic interpretation, deterministic correction and self-adaptive learning.
The foundation consists of containerised AI modules, AI-CPS building blocks and customer-specific fine-tuning per installation. This creates not a rigid rule engine, but a learning infrastructure component that can adapt to different data contexts and organisation-specific error patterns.

Value Proposition
Data Analysis, Data Cleaning and Data Enrichment in one solution
Data Analysis
Faulty data structures, duplicates, inconsistencies and incomplete information are detected automatically and interpreted in their specific data context.
Data Cleaning
Simple and complex data errors are corrected contextually. Deterministic system logic ensures reproducible changes in the source systems.
Data Enrichment
Missing information can be enriched and organisation-specific error profiles can evolve continuously. Each installation improves the system's capabilities.
Current Stage
From pre-seed through EXIST to partner sales
SherpAI is being developed out of the University of Potsdam as a white-label-ready infrastructure component for data quality.
Pre-seed / Prototype
- deduplication and error detection
- model-based data correction
- demonstration with Gebauer GmbH
- not yet generalisable without adaptation
EXIST funding phase
- systematisation via AI-CPS
- pre-release integration into TimelineERP
- beta release after feedback loop
- pilot integration with additional users
Market entry & partners
- focus on SME ERP vendors
- 3 Letters of Intent
- planned ERP integration
- later expansion into further software systems


