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Christoph J. Sorg — Systems need ground.

For companies, developers and regions that want to think timber construction, AI and water as one system. I connect what usually runs side by side — and help build it until it carries.

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Bregenzerwald · Austria · Issue № 01
Christoph J. Sorg in front of a timber building in the mountains

Who writes here

Christoph J.Sorg.

Trained forester, studied mechatronics, twenty years of building systems: charging technology for electric mobility, innovation in a construction holding, a platform for forty companies, regenerative value creation.

Today I lead sales and AI transformation at WoodRocks and myblock in industrial timber construction — in the Bregenzerwald, where the forest starts right behind the factory.

  • Timber in series
  • AI in construction
  • Water & soil
  • Open innovation
Podcast in German · Host Der Holzweg. Latest episode · Folge 3: Zukunft baut auf Veränderung. · 59 min
01New things grow at the edge.

Where forest meets meadow, more species live than in either system alone. I have worked at edges like this for twenty years: timber construction and AI, economy and ecology, forty companies that otherwise only meet as competitors. More about me →

02Stop thinking. Start.

We have one planet. What counts in the end is not what we understood, but what runs differently from tomorrow. Two lists — and the first one is harder, because nobody gets an award for it. Both lists (German) →

Stop

Building new where buildings already stand.

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Start

Treating buildings as material banks.

Read both lists (German)
12buildings in twelve months
40+companies around one table
90people led in projects
18,000follow on LinkedIn

Five times from zero

Case studies (German)
seit 2025Connecting sales and AI transformation in timber constructionA timber builder becomes a data- and technology-driven solution provider. 2018–2023Founding an infrastructure for cross-industry innovationIndividual industrial companies became a shared open-innovation platform for Vorarlberg. 2017–2023Building innovation inside a construction holdingBetween corporation and start-up — joint ventures and corporate start-ups as a way to actually build new things. 2011–2015Building a new business for electric mobilityWhen there was hardly any charging infrastructure and no established market, a business unit for onboard charging systems emerged. 2023–2024Regenerative value creation as an entrepreneurial taskNot doing business less badly, but developing business models that strengthen relationships and livelihoods.

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A field nobody is working on yet — or a system that is reaching its limits? I listen first, then ask what you have already tried.

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