About us · Munich · Est. 2024
Backed by
CDTM, the Center for Digital Technology and Management, behind one in four German unicorn companies.
UnternehmerTUM, the number one startup incubator in Europe.
Open-source pedigree
We sit very low on the AI stack. Our team created the Universal Tool Calling Protocol, an open alternative to Anthropic's Model Context Protocol, championed by engineers at AWS, Adobe, Royal Bank of Canada and MuleSoft. UTCP and Code Mode play a central role in Bevel OS and Hexis.
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Thank you very much for building UTCP. It's incredibly helpful for multi-tenant agentic AI applications, where MCP isn't always the best fit. I was actually reverting MCP servers back to hardcoded tool descriptions for my agentic AI systems when I came across UTCP, and I think it's fantastic to finally have a universal standard for this. I fully support UTCP, as I see big value in it for building scalable, multi-tenant AI applications.
UTCP is a great addition to the agent-tooling space as an alternative to MCP. What I appreciate about UTCP is that it doesn't ask you to rebuild anything. You describe the tools you already have, and agents call them natively, with no proxy server in the middle, no extra hop to operate and secure. It turns “integrate AI with our APIs” from a project into a description.
Research
With Technical University of Munich. Making sure agents and people only ever see the parts of a company knowledge graph they're allowed to see: how to do it fast, at scale, and staying correct as permissions change.
Thought leadership
Here's a collection of talks where we shared our ideas on enterprise AI.
Featured talk · AI Context Hamburg · Sep 3, 2026
Ali Raza and Razvan Radulescu on why agents, context, skills, tools and permissions belong in infrastructure the company owns, not inside a vendor's harness, and what it takes to scale AI across an enterprise on those terms. At AI Context Hamburg, co-located with ContainerDays.
Event detailsEssay · Bevel blog. Challenges that come with distributing skills to hundreds of people across the org, why GitHub is a great place to start and where it fails. Ali Raza · Co-Founder & CEO.
MIT Startup Exchange · Cambridge, MA. UTCP: Integrate LLMs and agents securely in your organization. Juan Viera Garcia · Co-Founder & CPO.
AI Accelerator Institute · Berlin. UTCP and the case for a scalable tool-calling standard. Bevel team.
Schematical · Podcast. A chat with the founder of the Universal Tool Calling Protocol. Razvan Radulescu · Co-Founder & CTO.
Online session. Rethinking Tool Calling: Beyond MCP & A2A Towards a Scalable Standard. Razvan Ion Radulescu · Co-Founder & CTO.
Munich. Rethinking Tool Calling: beyond MCP towards a scalable standard. Razvan Ion Radulescu · Co-Founder & CTO.
Munich. UTCP agentic use demo and MCP code comparison. Razvan Ion Radulescu · Co-Founder & CTO.
appliedAI Institute · Munich. Rethinking Tool Calling: Beyond MCP & A2A Towards a Scalable Standard. Razvan Ion Radulescu · Co-Founder & CTO.
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