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About PLANET AI

Vision

“Imagine your documents working for you:
precise, reliable, and intelligent.”

Mission

“AI that does not just read documents but understands them and acts on them: precise, sovereign, and proven in practice.”

The people who built this AI are still here.

Welf Wustlich and Jesper Kleinjohann working together at a laptop
Welf Wustlich (CTO, left) and Jesper Kleinjohann (CEO)

For more than 30 years we have been teaching machines to read, extract and understand documents, from award-winning character recognition to the AI colleagues of today. From Rostock, on the German Baltic coast.

Around 50 people. Management that was responsible for the core technology back then and still works hands-on today. Since 2023 part of the Bechtle Group.

Milestones

Europe's AI pioneer. Since 1992.

  1. 2026
    DCA moves into JAIDE The DCA technology now powers the JAIDE applications. What is DCA? →
  2. 2023
    Part of the Bechtle Group
  3. 2015
    PLANET AI founded The subsidiary in Rostock.
  4. 1993
    IDA research project begins Intelligent Document Analysis, the core to this day.
  5. 1992
    PLANET founded PLanning and Application of NEural Technologies.
Team

The people behind PLANET AI.

Our team works together in our office at Rostock City Harbour. Many of us come from AI research, with roots that reach back to 1992. Team workshops, shared events and a summer party keep us close beyond day-to-day work.

Yousif Hashisho presenting his poster at MIDL 2026 in TaipeiOur team at the PLANET AI stand with IDA Archiv at Archivistica 2026A colleague presents at the flip chart in a workshopA colleague smiling while working at his screenPLANET AI shirts, mugs and folding rulers at the standClaudia Korb running in the PLANET AI shirt at the 2026 company run in RostockCanoe trip at the 2026 team workshop
Careers

Work on award-winning document AI. In Rostock.

We are always looking for talented people who want to enrich our team.