Our digital business model, Virtual Plant (VP), is essential for securing the future competitiveness and sustainability of NRW and the entire German industry. Although industry was born in Germany, it now struggles with lagging digitalization, risking its global competitiveness and sustainability. Digital twins have traditionally been expensive luxuries, limiting their adoption. We have developed a truly disruptive solution—an affordable, practical, and agile digital twin platform leveraging AI and point cloud data. With VP, we democratize advanced digital technologies, enabling German industry to reclaim leadership in Industry 4.0. We proudly position ourselves as one of Germany’s unique industrial deep-tech startups driving the digital transformation.