Consulting
Consultants who sit with your team and turn intent into architecture. We provide advisory and software-based technical services around every solution we deliver.
AI-Native Startup in Frankfurt
Welcome to The Sixth Edge
We develop, operate, distribute, and market software and software-based services, with a focus on artificial intelligence and digital products for business customers and end consumers.
Our primary goal is to automate the entire operation of the business wherever possible, while keeping a human in the loop for the decisions that matter.
$ sixedge status
✔ ai-native operations
online
✔ human-in-the-loop
enabled
✔ automation coverage
expanding
→ B2B & B2C · Frankfurt · est. 2026
By humans, with AI, for humans
Services
What we do
Conception, design, development, operation, distribution, and marketing of software solutions, plus the consulting and technical services that surround them.
AI-Native Solutions
Artificial intelligence as the substrate, not a bolt-on feature. Systems designed from the first line to think, act, and escalate to a human when it counts.
Web Services
Web applications, mobile applications, and APIs: conceived, designed, built, and then actually operated. We stay on after launch.
Automation
We automate our own operations first, then yours. Repetitive work gets handed to machines so people can spend their hours on judgement.
E-commerce
Digital products and storefronts built to sell, from the checkout path to the operational machinery humming quietly behind it.
SaaS
Software as a service, run as a service: self-sustaining products we develop, operate, distribute, and market end to end.
Philosophy
Automate everything.
Automate everything.
Keep a human in the loop.
Being AI-Native isn't a label we wear: it's how the company is wired. Operations run themselves wherever that's the right call, and a person steps in wherever it isn't.
Human in the loop. Machines handle the volume. People own the decisions that carry weight, and that line is drawn deliberately, not by accident.
Primary operating goals
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Build awesome software.
Craft is the product. Everything else follows from it.
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Automate tasks across all business operations.
Not just engineering: every function, end to end.
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Run the company with extreme efficiency.
A micro enterprise with the output of something much larger.
Leadership
The people behind it
A small team by design: two founders and a digital familiar.
AB
Alex Barker
Co-founder & Software Architect
20 years of deep industry experience across Energy, Finance, and Automotive. Leads software architecture, system design, and engineering execution.
KC
Kieran Chart
Co-founder & designer
Highly creative leader with 12+ years across Executive Search, recruiting operations, technology, and organizational infrastructure. Specialized in AI tools for building software and application design, gained within an AI Incubator at a global pharmaceutical company focused on R&D AI support.
Quinn
Digital Familiar & AI Brother
A core member of the SIXEDGE family, managing tooling, background automations, integrations, and continuous system support.
Let's build something.
Whether it's consulting, an AI-native product, or automating the work that's quietly eating your week, we'd like to hear about it.