Why we’re building havl.
havl is a Stockholm-based technology company built around a simple idea: as AI becomes more capable and autonomous, there will still be decisions that benefit from human judgment. We’re building for that future.
It started
with healthcare.
The idea behind havl came from medical AI.
Our early work focused on the human verification of AI-generated medical results, including work with healthcare organizations such as Asklepios in Germany and Capio in Sweden.
Healthcare gave us a very practical view of what AI is good at and where its limits begin. It can process large amounts of information, identify patterns and make existing processes considerably faster. But not every result should be treated the same way. Some require experience, context or simply another pair of eyes before they can be trusted.
That was the problem we initially set out to solve.
Working in healthcare also changed the way we thought about automation more broadly. As AI became more capable, it became clear that the underlying challenge wasn't specific to medicine. The same questions would eventually appear wherever AI was given more responsibility.
What happens when a system is uncertain? When something falls outside the expected pattern? Or when a decision is simply important enough that someone should check it?
Those questions became the foundation for havl.
Built in
Stockholm.
havl was founded in Stockholm by Robin Henriksson and Paul Maack, following their work with medical AI and human verification.
What began as a solution for a specific problem in healthcare gradually developed into a much broader idea. AI was moving quickly from a tool that primarily assisted people toward systems capable of making decisions and taking actions more independently.
We saw an opportunity to build something around the relationship between those systems and people.
Today, havl AB is based in Stockholm, Sweden. From here, we're building a technology company around a straightforward idea: technological progress and human involvement don't have to move in opposite directions.
We want AI to become more capable and useful. At the same time, we believe people should remain part of the equation when their judgment genuinely adds value.
For us, those two ideas belong together.
What we
believe.
We're optimistic about AI and automation.
The technology will continue to improve, and many things that require human involvement today will eventually happen automatically. That's a good thing. Better automation can save time, remove repetitive work and allow people to focus on problems where they can contribute more.
But we don't think the logical conclusion is a world where every decision is automated.
There will always be situations where context matters, where information is incomplete or where the consequences of a wrong decision justify another pair of eyes. As AI systems become more independent, knowing when to involve a person may become just as important as making the systems themselves more capable.
We think that should be considered when today's autonomous systems are being built, rather than added as an afterthought later.
That's why we're building havl.
Machines act.
Humans verify.