Built from experience. Made for responsibility.

LEVEL 1 · THE PERSONAL STORY

A Life of Responsibility and New Beginnings

Günther Schöffmann - A personal introduction

Much of my working life unfolded far from Austria. I spent around fourteen years in Asia, nearly twelve of them in China. Those years shaped more than my career. They taught me that trust is not built by what people promise, but by how they act when responsibility is real, time is short and different cultures meet.

I started out in mechanical engineering, and that profession soon took me into international industrial and plant-engineering projects across the world. China became the longest chapter, where I worked in quality management. Quality was never a line in a presentation. It was the difference between a commitment and a result people could rely on. I learned to look carefully, remain composed and take ownership when things became difficult.

When the pandemic brought the world to a standstill, I returned to Austria with my daughter in 2020. We were not stepping back into a life that had been waiting for us. We were starting again - one decision at a time, with the particular responsibility that comes from knowing you are not deciding for yourself alone.

I turned to areas where I could take responsibility for the outcome myself: property, rentals, financing and new business projects. The aim was never to invent a spectacular story. It was to build a foundation - to speak with banks, understand contracts, establish a company and show my daughter that a new beginning does not have to mean the end of a story.

Some journeys are made alone. The important ones rarely are. Gerald Schwarzenbacher has been my closest friend and the person I trust most for around forty years. Neither my years abroad nor the long distance to China changed that. Gerald brings his own depth of professional and life experience, technical understanding, structure and a practical instinct for turning ideas into workable solutions. Today we are building Aveliqa GmbH and our projects together - out of friendship, responsibility and the belief that experience does not have to be a conclusion; it can be the beginning of something new. Much of the work bears my handwriting, but this is a road we are building together.

When artificial intelligence became part of my daily work, I did not approach it as a programmer. I approached it as someone who had spent a lifetime learning that a convincing answer is not necessarily a correct one. I was fascinated by what had suddenly become possible. At the same time, I knew that progress should never make the human being smaller. It should give something back.

My perspective today grew from all these years: from success and detours, from international responsibility and from a deeply personal new beginning. KI-Architekturen is part of that journey. It was not conceived as a quick business idea, but as a continuation of something I have always believed: good work requires experience, trust takes time and every development must prove itself in real life.

My name is Günther Schöffmann. My life has carried me across countries, major projects and more than one new beginning. What remained constant were the people I trust, my responsibility to my daughter and the determination to turn experience into something worthwhile for the future. To me, success is therefore more than numbers. It should give life direction, security and freedom. That is when success stays in our hands - and becomes something we can truly feel.

Günther Schöffmann | Managing Director, Aveliqa GmbH