Rapid Resilience

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“Listen to your supporters, but don’t listen to doubters. People told me: ‘AI can’t be used for rain mitigation’ or ‘The weather business is dead.’ Now I’m close to my first sales - cheers to the doubters!”

       Jan Boeckmann

Fast, affordable, and accessible insights for heavy-rain management

 

Mission & Vision

Rapid Resilience empowers municipalities to prepare for future heavy-rain events with clarity and confidence. The team develops a full-featured web application that generates rain-hazard maps on demand. It automatically connects to the necessary data sources and transforming them into actionable insights. The goal: enable cities and towns to plan precautionary measures and resilient urban development without requiring engineering or IT expertise.

 

How It All Started?

The idea emerged during founder Jan Boeckmann’s PhD research at TUM Campus Straubing, where he analyzed optimal locations for flood-mitigation measures. Through countless interviews with municipalities, Jan uncovered the real bottleneck: not the computation itself, but the lack of awareness and accessible tools to understand the destructive potential of heavy rainfall. This gap between available data and actionable knowledge sparked the foundation of Rapid Resilience.

 

Key Milestones

  • EURO Prize for OR for the Common Good (2024) - awarded for the foundational research conducted during Jan’s PhD.
  • Bayerischer Klimaschutzpreis (2025) - honored for the societal relevance and climate-resilience potential of Rapid Resilience
  • Early customer trust and visibility supported by these recognitions, including an initial budget to move toward company formation.

Navigating the public-sector landscape with its long decision-making cycles remains one of the key early-stage challenges for Rapid Resilience. Yet the venture starts from a strong position — a research-validated prototype and a digital product designed for low-maintenance deployment. With the support of the TUM Venture Labs ecosystem, Rapid Resilience stands ready to access to a strong network of climate-tech and resilience experts, and visibility for the early prototype.