When you talk to Urban Pevnik, the founder of HIPROJECT, you don’t hear a classic entrepreneur. You hear someone who built a company out of necessity. Not out of financial ambition, but out of a deep longing for a place where ideas breathe and where people don’t work ‘for company’, but with it.
“My greatest achievement is not a project, not a number. It is that I work with people who are not materialists. Who vibrate with me. We are a community that breathes together.”
Today, HIPROJECT is not just about projects, but about strong and long-term relationships. In a few years we have grown from nothing to a technology integrator working in the aerospace, automotive and steel industries. Our focus is on intelligent automation, energy efficiency and a human approach, even where technology is seemingly cold.
Critical situations? Pevnik goes to the very centre.
Companies call us when it really matters. When contract parameters are at risk. When equipment is not working. When the team is tired, the technology is old and no one believes there is a solution anymore. “We know how to go to the heart of the problem. We don’t put out the fire, we find the causes. Even under pressure, we don’t lose focus, and that’s what life has taught us.”
This is not rhetoric. It is the first thing HIPROJECT partners say after a project is finished: ‘Finally, someone who is not bluffing us. Who tells us what it is going to be and then sticks to it.”
Industry’s fear: What if it doesn’t work?
The customers with whom HIPROJECT works have high responsibilities and, on the other hand, real fears:
What if it doesn’t work?
What if we waste money on a system that will be obsolete in 2 years?
What if the boss says we “fell short” on an investment?
That’s why reliability, honesty and vision are of paramount importance to us. Customers don’t want to buy a solution. They want to be part of a story they understand and are proud to share.
Visionary approach as a competitive advantage
At HIPROJECT, we don’t sell boxes, we sell authentic experiences. When we come to a customer, we don’t just talk about the status quo. We show what the production hall will look like in six months’ time. Three years from now. And how that will impact on achieving and exceeding KPIs.
“When a customer sees a virtual product before it physically exists, that’s when they start to believe. In the solution. In us. In their own decision,” said Urban Pevnik.
Mistakes that industry (too) often makes:
Not having a vision. Management does not give clear instructions, the team stagnates.
Fears new technologies. Thinks they bring more problems than solutions.
It only does remediation without a long-term plan.
Can’t retain knowledge, people leave and new people don’t come.
HIPROJECT enters as a partner. Not as a contractor. With a guarantee. With maintenance. With 24/7 responsiveness. And with a sense for the human aspect of production.
And again: it’s the journey that counts.
“You can work for 30 years and get there – and you’re burnt out. I have succeeded in something else: my work has become my success. But that doesn’t come without downs. And without people breathing with you,” says Pevnik.
If you’re a leader who wants not just a ‘solution’ but a development partner … if you’re tired of empty promises … if you’re looking for a story that will convince your boss:
HIPROJECT is not just a solution. It is an alliance with people who understand your concerns and know how to translate them into a working future.
Contact the team: info@hiproject.si
