SAK
Sayed Amir Karim
CEO & Founder
Sole inventor on 25 USPTO filings across 6 tracks · 20-year cross-disciplinary engineering track (Bosch / BMW / Mercedes / Trumpf / OWIPEX / Jülich).
nextX AG
Swiss deep-tech,
founded 2022.
nextX AG builds AI infrastructure with three production-validated pillars and 25 USPTO patents — engineered for the next decade of regulated AI workloads.
SAK
Founder
Sayed Amir Karim
Sole inventor · 25 USPTO filings
BootstrappedSwiss-ownedNo VC dilution25 USPTO filingsFounder-led
Mission
We build the substrate beneath AI.
Deterministic, auditable, cross-vendor. The infrastructure that lets enterprises run AI workloads with the same confidence they run their banking core.
Founder
Sayed Amir Karim
CEO · Inventor · Sole Director
Sayed Amir Karim is the inventor of record on all 25 USPTO patent filings underlying the AQEA platform. Before founding nextX, he led engineering and innovation work across two decades of industrial automation, automotive R&D, and applied physics.
nextX is the integration of two decades of engineering discipline with a new theory of how information organises itself.
From 20 years before nextX — Engineering and innovation work at:
BoschBMWMercedes-BenzTrumpf LasertechnikBorgWarnerMieleBeruOWIPEXForschungszentrum Jülich
Team
A small, senior team.
VK
Vladislava Karim
Operations & Marketing · Finance & Bookkeeping
Co-founder · disclosed spouse of CEO.
HA
Helmut Adamski
Strategic Advisor
Chairman of the IP500 Alliance — the standardisation body for secure wireless IoT communication and a strategic partner of nextX AG. Brings deep IoT-standardisation and industry-governance experience to the advisory.
RB
Roman Birchler
Strategic Advisor & Board Observer
Governance and strategic counsel.
ES
Edgar Steinauer
Advisor
Back-office capacity via Steinauer Holding · related to STEINAUER Recycling partnership (disclosed under governance best-practice).
Avatars show initials until headshots ship in v1.1.
Timeline
From founding to 25 USPTO filings across six tracks.
2022-10-11
nextX AG founded
Swiss stock corporation, Hauptstrasse 20, Rothenthurm SZ. CHE-272.988.499. Bootstrapped from day one.
2024
Cortex Rust crate
290+ tests green, deterministic memory + audit-trail substrate. 9000-series proof-chain to production.
2025
Compress v1.0 to production
117× compression validated against LexGLUE, EDGAR, ContractNLIv2. AWS Marketplace prep.
2025 → early 2026
First USPTO filings
Initial provisionals plus a non-provisional utility (Aurora Quantum Encoding) anchor the substrate, encoder and reversibility tracks.
Q2 2026
End-to-end patent posture
25 USPTO filings across six tracks — substrate, encoder, cortex, embedding, governance and response-authorization. End-to-end stack patent-pending.
Q2 2026
Cognitive Loop v1 lands
Goal → Plan → Recall → Action integration. 309/309 tests green.
Q2 2026
Three-Pillar launch
Public Three-Pillar story (Enterprise Compress · AQEA Gen-5 Substrate · LLM Trust Governance) with the full patent posture behind it.
Values
Four working principles.
01
Determinism over probability
We ship results we can prove.
02
Audit over magic
Every operation has a trace.
03
Verification over trust
Customers run our benchmarks themselves.
04
Engineering over hype
We publish what we falsified — too.
nextX AG · Section
Partners & Early Customers (nextX AG)
Trusted partners across industry verticals.
IP500 Alliance
Strategic Partner · IoT Standardisation · Secure Wireless
Standardisation alliance for secure wireless IoT communication, headquartered in Germany. Strategic partner of nextX AG — its Chairman, Helmut Adamski, serves on the nextX advisory. Edge / IoT alignment for AQEA-Substrate deployments.
OWIPEX GmbH Schweiz
Industrial Water Technology · Sensors
Schweizer Mittelstand mit AI-Wasseraufbereitungs-Technologie. Founder-Track-Reference and active Swiss anchor-win for industrial sensor workloads.
EVALARM
Critical Alarm Management · Emergency Communication
Deutsches Alarmierungs- und Notfall-Kommunikations-System. Edge-/Alarming-Use-Case partner for deterministic, audit-grade event pipelines.
Roombanker
Banking · Financial Services Infrastructure
Banking-Infrastruktur-Partner — strong fit for the Enterprise-Compress story where deterministic compression meets regulated financial workloads.
STEINAUER Recycling Umweltservice AG
Industrial Recycling · Circular Economy
Schweizer Industrie-Recycling- und Kreislaufwirtschafts-Operations. Industrial operations partner. Governance-disclosed connection — see disclosure block below.
Additional partners and customers under NDA — full list available on request for qualified investors and strategic partners.
Governance Disclosure
STEINAUER Recycling partnership & advisor relationship
nextX AG maintains both a commercial partnership with STEINAUER Recycling (industrial operations partner) and a strategic-advisor relationship with Edgar Steinauer (effective May 2026, back-office capacity via Steinauer Holding).
We disclose both connections transparently as governance best-practice. The relationships are contractually independent; commercial terms with STEINAUER Recycling are at arm's length.
Capital
Bootstrapped · Swiss-owned ·
No VC dilution.
No venture capital. No bank debt. No SAFE notes. No convertible debt. Founder draws no salary. Burn ≈ 0.
Why Switzerland
Switzerland is no accident.
Sovereign cloud requirements, EU compliance neutrality, strong IP enforcement, and direct neighbour to Germany — the world's industrial-AI customer base. We are 90 min from Stuttgart, 60 min from Munich, and outside US export jurisdiction by design.
nextX AGHauptstrasse 20
6418 Rothenthurm SZ
Switzerland