Most AI use cases never deploy.
The blockers aren’t the technology — they sit between the decision to act and a working system. That’s where I work.
I co-founded two companies — one was later acquired, the other became standard at a federal ministry — raised ~$80M along the way, and went through Y Combinator. Some of it worked, plenty didn't. That's where most of what I know about shipping was learned.
Now I lead AI & Innovation in the place most initiatives die: between the moment leadership decides to act and the moment a system actually runs. Most recently as head of AI & Innovation at EMCO. Currently setting up an innovation team at HSBC in London.
The work is simple in shape and hard in execution: understand the real constraint, build the smallest useful thing, put it in front of people early, and make it survive the system and sceptical people around it.
Based between Munich, Vienna, and London.
I prefer shipping over polishing. My time at Y Combinator taught me that most ideas fail because they are built in isolation.
The goal here is simple: get rough concepts in front of real users as early as possible to see what actually works in the market. Some of these prototypes grow into real products, others are just quietly discarded.
I have a long list of concepts and problems that I believe are worth solving. My only constraint is time, and I’d rather see a good idea built by someone else than have it sit in a drawer.
If you’re a builder looking for your next project and something here resonates with you, I’m more than happy to open my notes, brainstorm, and share my thoughts to help you get started.