The AI Operating Partner · DACH

AI tools alone don't scale.

Your team uses AI — but the tools don't compound. The AI Operating System is a methodology that turns isolated AI activity into measurable operating leverage. 2-week Discovery, 6-week Accelerator, or 13-week full build. You choose the pace.

12 questions · 6 dimensions · DSGVO-safe

Free ebook · 38 pages · 2-field email gate

2–13 wks Discovery to full OS4 + 1,800 core team + delivery network€5K credit Discovery → any follow-on

Companies who trust the methodology

AI ops · 60% cost reduction
PIM process optimization
Field management tooling
Legacy modernization
AI readiness · L3 roadmap

02 / Industries

AI-native operating models for regulated, operations-dense industries.

Insurance

Claims, underwriting, and back-office.

Where rule-based automation stalled and judgment work still eats senior FTEs. The loop gets rebuilt end-to-end — one workflow, one KPI.

Active design partner · DACH insurance2026

Read the insurance case →

E-mobility & energy

Charging operations, billing, field ops.

Network-heavy operations with thin margins. The highest-leverage seam — usually billing reconciliation or fault triage — becomes one production workflow in 6–12 weeks.

Active engagement · DACH e-mobilityConfidential

Read the e-mobility case →

Industrial

Modernization that doesn't break the line.

Legacy stacks, audited processes, real risk. Stabilize first, then rebuild AI-native — measured one workflow at a time.

Active engagement · DACH industrialConfidential

Read the industrial case →

Retail & E-commerce

Catalog, service, returns — at Mittelstand scale.

High-volume operations where manual classification and routing eat margin. The highest-leverage workflow ships in 6 weeks — with a KPI your CFO can defend.

Delivered · Leading DACH e-commerce group60% cost reduction

See the engagement →

03 / One path · three plans

Start where you are. Every plan builds on the last.

Discovery is the starting point for every new client. Plan 2 and Plan 3 continue where Plan 1 left off — no restart, no redundancy. The €5K Discovery credit moves with you.

Plan 1 · Discovery

Find where AI creates the most leverage.

You know AI matters but you don't know where the real leverage sits. Two weeks to the answer.

DIWM€10,0002 weeks

LocalizationWhere AI creates leverage in your operations.
DistinctionWhich use cases are real vs. noise.
DirectionA prioritised action plan with ROI estimates.

€5K credit. €5K credited toward Plan 2 or 3 if you continue within 60 days.

Open Plan 1 →

Most common follow-on

Plan 2 · Accelerator

Ship one workflow to production.

You've found the use case. Build it, test it, run it — one workflow live in six weeks, KPI attached.

DIWM€30,0006 weeks

DIFM€50,0006 weeks

One production workflowLive and measured. Not a prototype.
KPI dashboard + runbookThe metric you defend at the board.
30-day supportTeam training + escalation path.

Open Plan 2 →

Plan 3 · OS Build

The full programme, installed.

13 weeks. The complete operating system from the book — six components, governance baseline in place.

DIWM€80,00013 weeks

DIFM€150,00013 weeks

Complete operating systemContext layer, workflows, agents, governance.
Founder as named leadFor DIFM cohorts. Senior partner on every call.
Documentation + handoffYour team owns it after week 13.

Open Plan 3 →

Choose your mode

Do It With Me (DIWM)Your team implements with our coaching, frameworks, and weekly sessions. You build internal capability as you go.

Do It For Me (DIFM)Remote Native specialists build, configure, deliver. You review and approve. Faster, hands-off, higher investment.

● Legacy systems blocking AI adoption? AI-Native Modernization → runs in parallel with Plan 2 or Plan 3, or as a follow-on engagement.

04 / The 13 weeks · stacked

Each plan continues where the last left off.

Plan 2 is Plan 1 + 4 weeks. Plan 3 is Plan 1 + Plan 2 + 7 weeks. No restart between plans — a Plan 2 client picks up where Discovery ended, a Plan 3 client picks up where the Accelerator ended.

13-week build · how the three plans stack

continuation · shared with prior plan active build plan ships

W10

W11

W12

W13

DiscoveryPlan 1 · 2 wks

Audit · interviews

Plan 1 ends

AcceleratorPlan 2 · +4 wks

Plan 1 (shared)

Design · build · integrate

Plan 2 ends

OS BuildPlan 3 · +7 wks

Plan 1 (shared)

Plan 2 (shared)

Context layer

Decision arch

Agentic

Integration

Plan 3 ends

Cumulative, not parallelEvery plan continues where the last left off. No restart, no redundancy. €5K Discovery credit moves with you.

Board-defensible KPIPlan 2 locks one metric at week 6. Plan 3 governs it across the full OS by week 13.

Senior team, named leadA dedicated team delivers every plan. The founder leads Plan 3 DIFM personally — same team start to finish, no rotation.

05 / The throughput model

Same four people. 3× the shipped work.

What changes when AI sits inside the delivery loop — not bolted onto it.

06 / The book + diagnostic

Four doors to the methodology. Pick the one that fits.

Same methodology, four commitment levels. The free ebook for read-first; the 10-minute Diagnostic for know-my-score; the signed hardcover for DACH C-suite who'd rather hold the book before booking the call; or buy the full 310 pages on Amazon.

01 · The free ebook — 38 pagesThree levels, six dimensions, the 90-minute version. 2-field email gate. Get it →
02 · The diagnostic — 10 minutes12 questions across 6 dimensions. Score + personalised next move emailed to you.
03 · Founder's Copies — 50 / monthSigned hardcover, handwritten note, shipped. CEO/Vorstand/GF, DACH €15M+. Request →

Sample question · 03 / 12DISCOVERY · COMPONENT 02

Q3How clearly can you name the workflow that, if rebuilt AI-native, would reclaim the most operator hours next quarter?

1 — no idea. 10 — we have it scoped, costed, and on the board's agenda.

Couldn't name itScoped & costed

3 of 12 questions

07 / Methodology

Three levels of leverage. Eight components.

From the book. Most companies buy AI at Level 01 — a tool here, a copilot there. The compounding gain lives at Level 03, in how the operating system is wired across the eight components.

Read the chapter →

L3AI as OperatorOperating system. How decisions, work, and capital flow. Where AI compounds.
Highest leverage
L2AI as SpecialistThe eight components — Direction, Context, Decision, Workflow, Delegation, Review, Learning, Governance.
Where it compounds
L1AI as ToolThe visible AI layer. Where most companies start — and stall.
Where pilots live

08 / Cases

What the AI Operating System delivers across three DACH sectors.

Three engagements — each anchored in a different sector and plan level. The methodology from the book, applied to real operating constraints.

01 · InsuranceDACH · Plan 2 AcceleratorConfidential

Andreas — founder, named delivery lead

An operator wrote the methodology. An operator runs the build.

25 years shipping software for operators. The core team stays small (four senior) by design and scales per engagement through a 1,800-engineer delivery network. The founder leads Plan 3 DIFM personally — but the methodology runs independently of any single person.

25years shipping for operators
4 + 1,800core team + vetted delivery network
Namedlead on every engagement · no rotation

10 / Start

Find out where AI creates the most leverage
in your business.

Take the 10-minute Readiness Diagnostic. You'll get a scored snapshot across six dimensions of the AI Operating System and three concrete next moves. Or book a 20-minute Fit Call.

Reply in < 24 hours
Senior partner on the first call
€5K Discovery credit toward Plan 2 or 3

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