By day, we build the process ontologies that agents need to stop guessing and start working — extracted from the real, unstructured chaos of how enterprises actually operate. This weekend, we get to push past it.
We’re a team from aiio GmbH in Magdeburg, Germany. Our daily work lives at the intersection of human, ai agents and real industrial processes — turning unstructured enterprise reality into structured ground truth that humans AND agents can actually act on.


The challenge that brought us here
Building the ontology is one thing. Letting humans navigate it is another problem entirely.
When you give people a system that captures process knowledge at real enterprise scale — multi-stakeholder, multi-source, versioned, governed — the interface becomes the bottleneck. Tree views collapse under the weight. Graph views look impressive and explain nothing. Chat interfaces hide structure behind a prompt. None of the conventional UI patterns were built for this: humans and agents collaborating on a living, structured representation of how an organization actually works.
That’s the wall we kept hitting. And it’s exactly where AG-UI and A2UI come in.


What we’re working on
We see AG-UI and A2UI as the missing layer — the first serious attempt at a protocol where agent state and human interface are designed for each other rather than bolted together after the fact. Our goal for the hackathon is to use that layer to prototype a new kind of interface: one where users can steer agents through complex, structured knowledge without drowning in it, and where agents can surface, propose, and execute changes that humans can review at the right level of abstraction.
Less “chatbot over a graph.” More control surface for human-agent processes.


How others can contribute
We’re looking for collaborators who are excited about:

• AG-UI / A2UI protocol depth — anyone who’s been in the spec and wants to push its edges
• Frontend craft — React / TypeScript folks who care about information density and interaction design, not just shipping another dashboard
• Agent orchestration — multi-agent patterns, streaming state, human-in-the-loop flows
• Knowledge representation & UX — graph UX, ontology navigation, structured editing
• Skeptics — people who’ll tell us when our “next-gen UI” is just an old pattern in a new font
  If any of that sounds like your kind of weekend, come say hi.
  Autonomy needs a control surface. We brought ours — and we’re here to push it further.
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_{* LeitWerk (German) — literally “guidance works” or “control assembly.” In aviation, the Leitwerk is the tail assembly of an aircraft: the rudder, elevators, and stabilizers that keep the plane on course. It doesn’t generate thrust — the engines do that. It steers. That’s exactly the role we see for the next generation of UI in agentic systems: the agents provide the power, the interface provides the control surface that lets humans keep the whole thing on course.}