Author, founder, and practitioner
Co-Founder and CEO, MD
Maximilian Betz is offgen’s CEO, a serial entrepreneur, former management consultant, and TÜV-certified Data Protection Officer. He combines enterprise transformation experience with the practical work of building, financing, and scaling B2B technology companies.
Professional profile
Co-Founder and CEO
Leads company strategy, sales, and the enterprise operating model for secure presentation automation.
CEO and Founder
Built an IoT platform for digital gas-cylinder ordering and monitoring from idea through series production.
CEO and Founder
Built a multinational IT and consulting company spanning Germany, Cameroon, and Pakistan.
In-house Management Consultant
Worked on service-centre setup, digital-product initiatives, and operational restructuring.
Articles start with a concrete professional task and separate automation from accountable judgment. Primary sources support legal, regulatory, and security claims. The named author owns the practical perspective and final editorial approval; specialist review is identified where a topic requires it.
This author is a founder and executive of offgen. Articles discussing offgen distinguish product claims from general guidance and disclose where the product fits.
Where AI helps in bank presentation workflows, where it must not go, and the governance a supervised institution needs: source authority, access, DORA and human release.
Where AI helps across an M&A process, where confidentiality makes it unacceptable, and the workflow controls a deal team needs before anything touches the data room.
How AI fits a pharmaceutical presentation workflow without breaking medical, legal and regulatory review: claim substantiation, approved copy, reference linking and audit trail.
AI presentation governance defines what an AI system may read, generate, change and release in your slide production. Here is the framework we use with enterprise teams.
A procurement checklist for public sector buyers of AI presentation software: records requirements, accessibility, security classification, supplier risk, NIS2 and exit.
Insurance presentation workflows span regulated reporting, actuarial analysis, distribution material and claims. Here is how to govern AI across all four without one blanket rule.
A structured way to answer whether specific deal material may go into a specific AI tool, covering NDAs, inside information, personal data, the processing chain and deletion.
DORA has applied since 17 January 2025. A practical checklist for assessing AI presentation software as an ICT third party service: contracts, register, testing, exit.
A buyer's checklist for AI presentation software in 2026: data processing, permissions, output format, brand control, auditability, contracts and exit. 60 questions.
Article 4 has applied since 2 February 2025. A practical AI literacy programme for professional teams: role based tiers, content, evidence, and how to keep it current.
A deployer checklist for the EU AI Act as it stands in 2026: what applies now, what the Digital Omnibus deferred, and the obligations most organisations have missed.
Human review only works when the reviewer has time, evidence, authority and a checklist. Here is how to design a review gate for AI generated decks that actually catches things.
A working GDPR checklist for AI presentations from a certified DPO: lawful basis, minimization, vendors, transfers, retention, security, and human release.