About INOP — The Decision Intelligence Layer

We believe workforce decisions deserve the same rigour as every other capital allocation decision a company makes.

Understand Your Workforce. Build What's Next.

What we believe

The workforce is the biggest driver of whether strategy succeeds or fails. Yet it remains the least rigorously managed asset in most organisations.

The business moves on capital allocation decisions. Workforce decisions rarely arrive in that language, so they sit in a slide deck while capital goes elsewhere. INOP was built to change that. To give CHROs the financial language that moves boards, and to give CEOs and investors the execution certainty they need to act.

The governance gap

Investors are asking. Boards cannot answer.

What are your critical capability gaps? What is your AI exposure? What is the financial consequence of your talent risks? Most boards cannot answer with any rigour.

The cadence gap

Boards govern finance quarterly. Workforce annually.

If your strategy changes quarterly, your workforce intelligence needs to keep pace. INOP is a live layer, not a point-in-time report.

What AI made possible

What took 12 weeks now takes 48 hours.

Board-grade workforce analysis that once required months of consulting work now runs on a platform in 48 hours.

In our first major engagement, the CEO wanted to know whether the organisation could execute a large-scale offshore wind programme. INOP identified €100M+ of previously unquantified execution exposure, and projected that the investment required to close the capability gaps would generate an 11x return. The client had no visibility of this risk from any existing report or planning process.

Enterprise client, energy sector, Germany

How we work

Purposeful AI. Human oversight. Full transparency.

We are deliberate about where AI is used and where it is not. Every layer of the INOP platform has a clear purpose, and a clear boundary.

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Purposeful AI

ML, NLP, and LLM where they add value, trained on INOP's own proprietary workforce, role, skills, and market data. Generative AI only at the output layer.

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The analytical engine

Domain scoring, financial modelling, and BBRA recommendations run on INOP's own deterministic models. No third-party AI in the analytical layer.

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Human oversight throughout

Every engagement is guided by an advisory lead. Intelligence without human judgement is just data.

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Transparent and auditable

Confidence scoring, source attribution, and full methodology trace on every output. Built to withstand board challenge, regulatory scrutiny, and investor examination.

INOP Decision Engine — three layers
Layer 1 — Data & Inference

Extracting, inferring, and contextualising.

Client data ingested via upload or API. External market signals layered on. ML extracts and classifies. NLP processes unstructured data. LLMs contextualise and enrich.

Layer 2 — Analytical Engine

Deterministic models. No third-party AI.

Six domains scored through INOP's own models. Financial modelling, BBRA path pricing, execution materiality. Explainable and auditable at every step.

Layer 3 — Generative Output

AI enters here. Persona-ready narratives.

Structured findings translated into written narrative for each audience: CHRO, CEO/CFO, board, PE partner. Source-attributed and audit-ready.

What drives us

The purpose, mission, and vision that guide everything we build.

Our Mission

To help leaders understand their workforce, uncover the material risks and opportunities within it, and make investment decisions where they will have the greatest impact.

Our Vision

A world where workforce and capability intelligence sits at the heart of every strategic and financial decision.

Our values

What we stand for.

Integrity
Our outputs are explainable, attributable, and audit-ready. We say what the data shows, not what people want to hear.
Rigour
Every recommendation is grounded in evidence. Financial consequences are real numbers, not estimates dressed as precision.
Empathy
We build for leaders making hard decisions under pressure. We understand what is at stake for them and for the people affected.
Ambition
Workforce intelligence is the last major business discipline without a proper decision layer. We are building it.
See INOP in action

What is INOP?

A short introduction to INOP and how it transforms workforce data into capital allocation decisions.

Podcast

INOP in conversation.

Talent Acquisition and Workforce Planning, Aniel Mahabier in conversation with Volker Schrank.

Team & leadership

Built by people who have sat in the room where these decisions get made.

A diverse and experienced team dedicated to building the decision intelligence layer that workforce strategy has always needed.

Leadership & Team

Aniel Mahabier
Aniel Mahabier
Founder & CEO
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Founder
Otteran Ludachris
Otteran Ludachris
Tech Lead & Data Scientist
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Technology
Apostolos Praftsiotis
Apostolos Praftsiotis
Back-end & Data Engineer
Athens, Greece
Platform
Farbod Khorramvatan
Farbod Khorramvatan
Data Engineer
Messina, Italy
Platform
Evelyn Theodorou
Evelyn Theodorou
Digital Marketeer
Athens, Greece
Marketing
Siavosh Taheri
Siavosh Taheri
SEO Specialist
Messina, Italy
Marketing
Edna Elbazar
Edna Elbazar
Fractional Research Lead
Research

Advisory Board

Giannis Zaoudis
Giannis Zaoudis
Chief Innovation Officer
Dimos Chios, Greece
Advisory Board
Hein Knaapen
Hein J.M. Knaapen
Managing Partner, CEO.works
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Advisory Board
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We work with a focused set of organisations navigating complex workforce decisions. If that sounds like you, we'd like to hear from you.