Munich Startup: What does your startup do? What problem do you solve?
Kevin Bauer, founder and managing director: The blue light school is Germany’s first and leading learning app specifically for operational personnel, including police, customs, law trainees and increasingly security services. Our solution is a learning platform that combines legal knowledge with operational reality. It works with real case examples, a playful reward system and AI-powered tools such as a digital operational companion or a definition trainer.
The whole thing is complemented by Germany’s first knowledge duel for operational personnel, which trains expert knowledge under time pressure. With over 40,000 users, the blue light school is now in use nationwide – from police trainees to security services. Our goal: maximum legal certainty where it matters – in practice.
The blue light school fills a market gap
Munich Startup: Doesn’t something like that already exist?
Kevin Bauer: This niche was ignored for a long time. There is not a single platform that imparts legal knowledge specifically for police, customs, justice and security services in a practice-oriented, playful and legally secure manner. We come from the field ourselves – and that’s exactly why we know what matters.
The blue light school is Germany’s first digital learning platform founded and developed by operational personnel themselves. Germany’s largest police union served as an exclusive cooperation partner with nationwide reach right from the start. Around 80 percent of our users are active or prospective operational personnel.
Munich Startup: What’s your founding story?
Kevin Bauer: The idea for the blue light school arose about ten years ago during my own police training. After a complicated upper arm fracture, I was unfit for duty for weeks. With copies, folders and scripts, I was supposed to somehow prepare myself for exams. Back then, there was practically nothing digital.
In the following years, I experienced in various units how great the need for practice-oriented, digital training really is. Together with colleagues from all over Germany, we finally began to develop exactly what we ourselves had lacked. What began as frustration back then is now our mission. A learning platform from practice for operational use.
Sound experience from practice
Munich Startup: What have been your biggest challenges so far?
Kevin Bauer: Building the blue light school during my active time in the police service was one of my biggest challenges. In addition to the daily operational work in a special unit of the Bavarian police, I developed the technical fundamentals and at the same time helped develop the entire platform. In terms of content, it was particularly demanding to digitalize legal topics in a way that makes them understandable, practical and motivating for operational personnel. It became particularly complex with the integration of artificial intelligence. In the legal field, an imprecise formulation can have far-reaching consequences. Our standard was therefore from the outset to consistently listen to user feedback, continuously improve content and develop a method that has now proven itself thousands of times.
Munich Startup: Where do you want to stand in one year, where in five years?
Kevin Bauer: We know that our learning concept is currently unique, especially because it imparts legal and operationally relevant knowledge in a practice-oriented, playful and AI-supported manner. That is why our clear goal is to significantly expand the areas of application, wherever case-based and operationally relevant learning is needed.
In five years, we see the blue light school as a standard solution for complex knowledge transfer. From criminal law for operational personnel to compliance training in companies or training and continuing education in security firms. Our vision is clear: we are building the first scalable learning platform that combines subject-specific learning with gamification and legal precision. We do this by working with strong partners who want to digitalize, scale and future-proof their content with us.
Munich’s location advantage: The legal environment
Munich Startup: How have you experienced the startup location Munich so far?
Kevin Bauer: What I particularly appreciate about Munich is the legal environment. Some of Germany’s most renowned law firms, specialist publishers and legal experts are based here. For a project like the blue light school, which operates at the interface of law, education and digitalization, that’s a real location advantage. Apart from that, I know Munich less from the classic startup perspective with pitches, networking events and trade fairs, but rather from my active time as a police officer.
Munich Startup: Outsource or do it yourself?
Kevin Bauer: I think the question is hard to answer in general without context. What business task are we talking about? What stage are you in? How tight are resources? How long would it take to acquire the necessary expertise yourself, and would that be worthwhile in the long term? One-off, clearly defined tasks can often be outsourced efficiently. However, when it comes to the core of our product – including the learning logic, the didactic concept and the user experience – I am convinced that these components must be developed internally. Only if we shape these building blocks ourselves can we remain flexible, learn iteratively and create real added value for our target audience.
