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Most founders spend 6–9 months and €80,000+ building an AI product that never reaches users. The problem isn't the technology — it's the process. Here's what's broken and how structured AI sprints fix it.
Sam Bay
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Most founders spend 6–9 months and €80,000+ building an AI product that never reaches users. The problem isn't the technology — it's the process. Here's what's broken and how structured AI sprints fix it.
Sam Bay
A European skincare brand was spending €38 per qualified lead with a team of 3 managing campaigns manually. Within 11 days of deploying an AI-powered inbound system, cost-per-lead dropped to €9. Here's the exact breakdown.
JA Welt Team
Most founders default to GPT-4o for everything. It's the safe choice. It's also often the expensive, slow, and over-engineered choice. Here's how to match the right model to the right task — and what it actually costs when you get it wrong.
Sam Bay
The average B2B company loses 67% of qualified leads between first contact and proposal. CRMs track the leak but don't stop it. AI-powered pipeline automation does. Here's how we rebuilt a SaaS company's sales motion and recovered €180,000 in lost pipeline.
JA Welt Team
You paid €120,000 to build an AI product. You think you own it. But buried in the contract is a clause that means you can't modify it without going back to the agency. Here's what full IP ownership actually looks like — and why it matters for your valuation.
Sam Bay
Our partner iBrain Academy LAB is developing Passion Pi — a neuro shield designed to convert real-time EEG signals into early Alzheimer's warnings. Launching June 2026, this is AI built to protect human dignity.
JA Welt Team
At Slush 2024, we spoke with 60+ founders building AI products. Almost all of them were asking "which AI model should I use?" The right question is different — and the answer changes everything about how you build.
Sam BayProven sprint methodologies that compress 6-month roadmaps into 4-week delivery cycles. Built from real client engagements, not theory.
Detailed post-mortems on real client projects — what worked, what didn't, and the exact metrics that moved the needle.
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