The Team

Meet the team behind Traize.

Five co-founders with backgrounds in AI research, LLM engineering, IT security, and business strategy.

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Raphael Sauer

Co-CEO & Co-Founder

Leads strategy and partnerships. After roles in consulting and an M.Sc. in Organisational Innovation & Entrepreneurship, he drives the market direction of Traize.

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Theo Rabe

Co-CEO & Co-Founder

Leads product design and brand identity. With a background in business and the creative industries, he makes sure Traize feels the way modern software should today: clear, intuitive, trustworthy.

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Lukas Bierling

CTO & Co-Founder

Leads the technical architecture. As an M.Sc. student in Artificial Intelligence in Amsterdam and with several years of experience in machine learning engineering, he builds the retrieval algorithms that power the Traize knowledge graph.

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Adrian Henkel

CPO & Co-Founder

Leads the integration of the language models. With an M.Sc. in Bioinformatics from TUM, he ensures generative AI works reliably and transparently in an enterprise context.

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Dr. Johannes Köstler

CISO & Co-Founder

Leads security and data sovereignty. With a PhD in IT security, he builds the architecture that protects sensitive company knowledge — from the encryption concept to access control.

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