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I Built It Right. It Still Destroyed Me.
Fair salaries. A great team. Zero shortcuts. Then my largest client left — and I learned that doing everything right is not enough when revenue depends on one name.
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Ecosystem Curator · Interim PMO · AI & Data Strategy · M&A Sourcing
I build the business infrastructure that tech communities don't deliver.
Your agency is growing but cash is bleeding. Your supply chain breaks the same way every quarter. Your AI vendor promises everything and delivers PowerPoint. I fix the business side — so you can focus on building.
Ex-Roland Berger · Gartner Cool Vendor Exit · 24 mandates across 8 industries
0Years consulting & leadership
€1.5BLargest PMO mandate (EBIT improvement)
0Years Roland Berger
0Companies founded
0Languages
Tired of systemic failures that directly impact your business?
You've said it a thousand times. Nothing changes. The supply chain breaks the same way every quarter. The client pays late again. The team hits the same wall.
Here's the uncomfortable truth: A system that cannot change is a perfect business model — for someone who knows how to work within it.
The question isn't whether the system will change. It's whether you'll keep absorbing the damage or start building around it.
Talk to me. 30 minutes. No slides.Four perspectives — one consultant
Choose the perspective that fits your problem.
For AI agencies in the growth trap
You win projects, but cash never stretches. Your developers are busy, but margins don't add up. You don't need another growth hack — you need someone who understands the business side.
- Working Capital Transformation
- External Commercial Manager (Pricing, Pipeline, Retention)
- Referral network build & Ecosystem curation
- Cash-flow forecasting & napkin math
- Board-level sparring & founder coaching
Looking for development partners with sector overlap?
If you run a dev shop, an offshore team, or a specialist agency and are looking for deal flow, co-delivery, or strategic alignment — let's talk. I connect builders with mandates, not job boards.
Explore partnership →Why I can do this
I founded a company that Gartner named a Cool Vendor — and then lost it to cash mismanagement. I won't make that mistake again. And neither will you.
References: References: DataVirtuality (Founder/CFO), Roland Berger (4 years), DeepMetis (AI Automation), CGT Snapshot (own product)
Insights
Themen & Artikel
Community integration layer
Not competing. Not replacing. Building on top.
The ecosystem model
Tech communities like Ea's Guardians, Uplink and Unicorns in Tech deliver strong horizontal networking: peer exchange, jobs, events, belonging.
What they don't deliver: the vertical business infrastructure that appears when a freelancer becomes an agency, when a dev team suddenly has to manage cashflow, when a project becomes a product.
That's where I come in — as an optional upgrade when the time is right. No lock-in. No membership fee. Only value when you need it.
Free
Content & frameworks
LinkedIn posts, napkin math, cash-flow templates. Free for all community members. Contributing, not extracting.
Flexible
Sparring & quick checks
90-minute cash check, pricing review, vendor comparison. Bookable individually via cal.com. No contract, no minimum term.
Engagement
Ecosystem curation
Ongoing collaboration: commercial management, working capital transformation, board-level sparring. For agencies with 5+ staff who are serious about scaling.
Selected projects
From the semiconductor crisis to AI agents.
2025 – presentAI & Tech
Senior AI Strategy & Engineering Oversight
Deepmetis / Metis_AI
Technical oversight for e-commerce/dropshipping platform. AI-powered SKU recognition pipeline (88% reduction in manual rework). Identified critical €85k currency error in first week. Offshore team management, developer utilisation pipeline.
AI StrategyPythonEngineering OpsTeam Lead
2024 – presentConsumer & Retail
Interim Managing Director & Digitalisation
BottleAd MEDIA GmbH
De-facto interim MD after co-CEO departure. Cleared 3 years of billing backlog, built automated invoicing (4 weeks FTE → 3h). DOOH footprint expansion, device management evaluation, geographic scaling model.
Interim MDDOOHBilling AutomationScaling
2025Own Ventures
Belgium CGT Snapshot — Own Product
cgtsnapshot.be
Conceived, developed and launched an IC quantification tool for Belgian capital gains tax. Full-stack: strategy, regulatory analysis, dev, analytics, SEO. Live product with calculator and expert booking.
Intellectual CapitalIAS 38Product LaunchFull-Stack
2025Space & EU
FIERCE EU Programme — ESP Partnership
N3XTCODER / ESA BIC
External Service Provider positioning for EU-funded satellite data integration. Connecting SMEs with space technology for supply chain monitoring and ESG compliance.
EU FundingSatellite DataESGDPP
2025AI & Tech
CRM & ERP System Implementation
LEOGANT
Implemented ZOHO Books as integrated CRM/ERP solution. End-to-end process design from lead generation to invoicing. Change management, user training, integrated reporting.
CRMERPZOHOProcess Design
2025IoT & Data
Data-Driven Real Estate Analysis
JACASA
Python-based analysis and Tableau visualisation of purchase/rental prices across 7 German cities. Web scraping, quantitative value driver hypotheses, investment opportunity identification.
PythonTableauData AnalysisReal Estate
2025AI & Tech
Content Strategy & Analytics
Animals Around the Globe
Strategic consulting for international digital media publisher. Content performance analysis, SEO optimisation, monetisation strategies.
Content StrategySEOAnalyticsMedia
2025AI & Tech
Lead Generation & Platform Strategy
Dragamo / Leadtransformer
Go-to-market consulting for SaaS platform in automated lead generation. Product positioning, sales strategy, competitive analysis.
GTMSaaSLead GenSales Strategy
2024 – 2025Consumer & Retail
Business Development & Market Entry
Airbeauty
Market entry strategy and business development for beauty-tech startup. Competitive analysis, partnership models, scaling planning.
Market EntryBDStartup Advisory
Trusted by teams at
Roland Berger · VW Group · Porsche Consulting · ZF · BSH · Kearney · Publicis Sapient · Viessmann · L'Oréal
Let's talk.
No sales pitch, no slide deck. An honest conversation about where you are and whether I can help. 30 minutes, free.
Numbers over promises
No buzzword bingo. Ask me for the napkin math.
48Projects documented
6Languages (DE, ES, EN, FR, IT, PT)
4Years Tier-1 consulting
2Companies founded