For companies
Introducing AI – on a foundation that holds.
Your team is great – but everyone is drowning in work: lists in Excel, data copied from one system to the next, information gathered by hand. Some of the digitalisation never happened, and now AI is supposed to help as well. It can. And you don’t have to rebuild everything before you start.
I start where it hurts most: one workflow, the data it needs, the systems it touches – and on top an application that takes the manual work off your team. Where ChatGPT, Copilot and the like can’t go any further. Every step pays off right away and lays the foundation for the next ones.
An example from practice
From days of matching to minutes.
A mid-sized medical supplies retailer wins new customers by showing them in black and white what they save by switching. For that, a prospect may hand in 30 receipts with up to 80 products, each of which has to be matched against the retailer’s own range – and of course the previous supplier calls them something else.
Before
Days
Sales went through the receipts line by line, looked up the matching product in their own catalogue for each item, compared prices and finally sent the comparison out as an Excel sheet. Days per prospect – and the result didn’t exactly impress the customer.
Today
Minutes
A switching analysis does the legwork. AI is used only where it really helps: it reads the items from the receipts and finds the matching product in the own catalogue – even when it is called something else there. Merging duplicate items, looking up, calculating and comparing prices is done by classic software, traceable and the same every time. The team reviews and approves, and the prospect receives an electronic quote they can accept right away. The foundation: a data warehouse connected to the ERP.
How we work together
Four steps, each with a clear result.
Intro call
30 minutes · free
Tell me where things are stuck. I’ll tell you honestly whether an off-the-shelf tool will do, whether it takes more – or whether AI isn’t the answer at all.
Assessment
Data & systems · fixed price
I look at your workflows, systems and data – in conversations and, where it helps, in a workshop. You get two or three projects worth doing, with effort and benefit – and also the ones that aren’t worth it.
First step
The first workflow · fixed price
We build one workflow so that it really runs day to day: bring together the data it needs, connect systems, use AI where it helps. Small enough to test quickly with real data – built with everything that comes after in mind.
Building on
Ongoing
Whatever comes next builds on what already runs – so the foundation grows piece by piece. I look after it and keep building, and because I know your business by then, I bring in my own ideas where the next step pays off.
AI assistants for your team. Run EU-sovereign.
Everyone on your team gets their own assistant – right where you already work together, for example in Microsoft Teams. On top come team assistants with their own name who work alongside you like colleagues.
- EU-sovereign
- Hosted by an EU provider
- Free choice of AI model
- Connected to your systems
Team assistants
Know your workflows, products and documents and answer questions in the chat – or take over a fixed workflow, such as sorting requests or writing the weekly report.
Today
9:05
Mara, Mr Krause from the general contractor wrote about Hafenstraße. Check the emails: what does he need by when?
MaraAI assistant9:05
The pressure test for drinking water and heating on the 3rd floor by Friday – drywall closes the walls on Monday. According to the work schedule, Tom and Svenja are free on Thursday.
Svenja9:08
Mara fine, book us in. And send us the plans for the 3rd floor.
MaraAI assistant9:08
Done: you’re booked for Thursday from 7 am, the plans and test record are here in the chat. The confirmation to Mr Krause is ready for approval.
Personal assistants
Gather information, prepare emails, summaries and minutes, and keep tasks and deadlines in view – and get in touch on their own when something is due.
Today
Your assistantAI7:30
Good morning! Your briefing for today:
• 3 meetings, the first at 9 am
• 2 emails need you
Important: Mr Krause ordered two pieces of extra work by email – €14,800, no change order yet.
7:41
Draft me a change order for it.
Your assistantAI7:41
The draft is in the trade software, with prices taken from the main quote. Can you check the quantities?
I don’t reinvent the assistants: I rely on a proven, freely available open-source solution that adapts flexibly to your business – and I work with it myself every day. My assistant keeps an eye on new project requests, sends me an overview every morning and has access to accounting, time tracking, calendar and documents.
How I work
- Start small, build properly: every step pays off right away and lays the foundation for the next ones.
- AI where judgement is needed – classic software where reliability and cost matter.
- Your people stay in charge: they review, approve and keep improving the solution with their knowledge.
- Everything runs in your own accounts, data and AI fully in the EU on request.
- I’ll also tell you when AI isn’t the answer.
- For policies, governance and compliance as well as rolling out AI platforms, I work with experienced AI consultants.
Who I am
Jost Künzel
More than 20 years of software engineering, several of them leading teams – in gaming, finance, real estate and the circular economy. I can sit down with management and the team, understand how your business runs and turn that into software that improves the workflow – instead of yet another tool nobody uses.
I build things to last: fault-tolerant, cost-efficient and able to grow. The AI consultants I work with make sure AI is introduced at your company in an orderly way – I make sure it can reach your data and systems.
Let’s talk.
30 minutes, free, honest – what’s possible for you?