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Maximilian Hess: Builder & Strategist

Where Web3, AI and attention converge:
I build the bridge.

I don't predict the future. I build the bridge to it.

Industrial engineer by training. 7+ years navigating the space between enterprise systems and decentralized infrastructure: building products, advising teams and writing The Convergence. Based in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

The Convergence

Ownership. Agency. Attention.

A structural signal instrument tracking the reorganization of the internet through three layers.

Ownership: The Structure

Who controls what. Decentralized protocols, digital identity, programmable trust, data sovereignty.

Is control moving toward individuals and protocols or consolidating in platforms?

Agency: The Actors

Who does the work. AI agents, autonomous workflows, human-AI delegation, intent-based architectures.

Is this expanding human leverage or replacing human judgment?

Attention: The Field Dynamics

What compounds. Signal vs. noise, feed architecture, trust loops, attention as the measurement function.

Does this compound signal and trust or extract attention for someone else's gain?
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About

The person behind h3ss.xyz

Maximilian Hess
  • LocationFrankfurt am Main
  • EducationM.Sc. Industrial Engineering @OVGU
  • FocusWeb3 · Agentic AI · Attention
  • ENSh3ss.xyz
  • StatusAvailable

I think in systems. I build at edges.

I started where things move: logistics, supply chains, industrial automation. Understanding how real-world systems create trust and deliver value under constraints. That training gave me a lens: every system has structure, actors and energy. When you see one, you see all three.

The signal came during a blockchain project at BMW: the infrastructure layer was being rewritten. I spent the next four years inside Deutsche Bahn bridging legacy systems and decentralized infrastructure: IT project management, self-sovereign identity, blockchain-based train routing. Three business units. Two worlds that don't speak the same language. I learned to translate.

Then I stopped translating for institutions and started building. The Convergence is the result: a framework for reading the structural reorganization of the internet through three layers: ownership, agency and attention. Not predicting the future. Making the present legible.

The internet is drowning in takes. What it lacks is structure. That's the gap I operate in.

Contact

Building something at the edge? Let's talk.

I work with founders, operators and institutions at the convergence of Web3, agentic AI and the attention economy. If you're building infrastructure, shipping products or investing in what comes next: let's connect.