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Hyperize receives the BSFZ seal for in-house R&D.

Hyperize started with a research question: how do AI agents decide which brands they trust? Germany's BSFZ has now formally recognized the work behind our platform as in-house research and development.

Marc Seefelder 2 min read
State-certified R&D · 2026

In August 2026, MING Labs GmbH, the company behind Hyperize, received the red BSFZ seal [S4]. In plain English: an official assessment concluded that the work behind Hyperize is not a content playbook dressed up as innovation. It qualifies as research and development [S1].

We have spent the past years studying how AI agents find, evaluate, and use brand information. That research became the Agent Success Score, our measurement fleet, and the Evidence Layer we build for clients.

For our clients, the seal answers a simple question: is there real research behind this methodology? Yes.

The BSFZ assesses projects for novelty, scientific or technical uncertainty, and a systematic approach [S2]. Its work is supervised by Germany's Federal Ministry for Research, Technology and Space.

We made the seal machine-readable too, because a credential for the agentic internet should be understandable by agents as well as people.

Sources

Evidence and provenance.

S1

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Das BSFZ-Siegel (official seal page)

Bescheinigungsstelle Forschungszulage (BSFZ) · 2026

https://www.bescheinigung-forschungszulage.de/bsfz-siegel

  • Seal variants (red = R&D at least partly in-house) and eligibility: at least one positive BSFZ decision.

S2

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Über uns / assessment criteria

BSFZ · 2026

https://www.bescheinigung-forschungszulage.de/ueber-uns

  • The BSFZ operates under legal and technical supervision of the Federal Ministry for Research, Technology and Space; assessment criteria: novelty, scientific or technical uncertainty, systematic plan.

S3

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§ 6 Forschungszulagengesetz (FZulG)

Bundesministerium der Justiz (gesetze-im-internet.de) · in force since 2020

https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/fzulg/__6.html

  • The certification decision is issued per R&D project.

S4

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Bescheid for the R&D project behind the Hyperize platform, issued to MING Labs GmbH

BSFZ / DLR Projektträger · 2026-08-10

Official administrative decision, on file.

  • Holder, project, date, and the positive certification.
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