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30+ observations on the greatest opportunities for enterprises adopting AI right now: 1. The biggest AI opportunity in enterprise is not replacing people. It is removing the 30 percent of work nobody should have been doing manually in the first place. 2. Most enterprises do not have an AI problem. They have a context problem. The model is good enough. The issue is that the company’s knowledge is buried in Slack, SharePoint, PDFs, tickets, CRM notes, email threads, spreadsheets, and people’s heads. 3. The first enterprise AI winners will not be the companies with the most tools. They will be the companies with the cleanest internal context layer. 4. Every enterprise needs an AI operating model. Who can build agents? Who approves them? Who owns them? Who monitors them? Who kills them when they stop being useful? Most companies cannot answer this yet. 5. Shadow AI is already here. Employees are using ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Cursor, Copilot, and random browser extensions to do real company work. The question is no longer whether AI is inside the organization. It is whether leadership can see it. 6. “No sensitive data in AI tools” is not a strategy. It is a sentence people write in a policy document before everyone ignores it. 7. The most important AI hire in many enterprises will not be a prompt engineer. It will be someone who understands business process, data access, compliance, security, and change management well enough to make AI usable safely. 8. The enterprise AI team should not sit only in IT. It needs business owners, legal, compliance, security, data, operations, and actual frontline users. Otherwise you get impressive demos and zero adoption. 9. Most AI pilots fail because they start with the model. The better question is: what business process is painful, repetitive, measurable, and full of unstructured information? 10. The best first AI use cases are usually boring. Internal search. Proposal drafting. Ticket triage. Compliance checks. Meeting follow-ups. Knowledge base updates. Invoice review. Contract summaries. These are not sexy, but they compound. 11. The AI roadmap should not be organized by department. It should be organized by workflow. Sales-to-contract. Ticket-to-resolution. Incident-to-root-cause. Lead-to-customer. Hire-to-onboarding. Month-end-close. That is where the value sits. 12. Enterprises keep asking, “Which AI tool should we buy?” The better question is, “Which workflows are we willing to redesign?” 13. AI adoption without workflow redesign is just a faster way to create more drafts nobody uses. More in the carousel 👇 Everyone spent 2024 and 2025 asking, “What can AI do?” The better question for enterprises now is: “What are we willing to change to make AI work for us?” -- Follow if you want to see more content like this. ♻️ Like and share if you found this helpful.

I asked Frederik Raspé from Acquirepad how AI is impacting the Real Estate and Proptech space. Here is his take 👇 AI is changing which parts of a real estate job can finally be automated. For years: someone reads a document, pulls the key info, repackages it into a memo or deck, then hands it off. Who repeats the same process. Lease agreements. Rent rolls. TSAs. Investment memorandums. All unstructured. Computers were never great at reading them. RPA automated clicks. Traditional ML pulled fields. Neither understood a document well enough to use it. AI can do this now (relatively) cheaply. This reduces the read, restructure, forward cycle time between teams. Leads to better deal flow, cleaner docs, faster decisions. Full link to the episode in the comments.

I asked Dirk Sahlmer whether he thinks AI is an opportunity or a threat. He compared AI to what AWS did to the internet. Cloud didn’t kill software. It made software cheaper to build. AWS captured a huge market share. Then Azure followed. The cloud providers established their place as some of the biggest companies on earth. In the meantime thousands of SaaS companies were launched, scaled, and sold because the infrastructure finally existed. LLMs are bound to be in a similar trajectory. The model companies are capturing huge revenue. So are chip producers and data centre operators. Underneath that though, the cost of building software products has collapsed. What used to need a large team, serious capital, and 18 months of runway can now be tested in weeks. This has really opened up the game for early founders and small teams. It does not mean every "AI wrapper" will win. Most, in fact, won’t. But it allows the best founders to move faster, test cheaper, and build products that were not possible three years ago. The doomer take is that the big models will eat everything below them. History says something different. Infrastructure wins first. Then the builders who use it well create the next wave of valuable companies. That's where I’d be focusing on. It's easy to be scared at what AI replaces, whether people or software. It's much harder to see what becomes possible because of it.

📢 Announcement Alert 📢 A new chapter begins for Softup Technologies GmbH. We’re excited to partner with NEKOD on our very first venture collaboration. We have been supporting Antigoni Kourou for the past 2 years, in her journey to make NEKOD the go-to QA solution for vibe coded apps. Throughout her journey as a solo founder she has shown time and time again her true entreprenurial colors; persistence, resilience and grit. She honestly became an inspiration and someone we had to join forces with 💪. Also the problem she is going after something we live and breathe with founders every day. NEKOD is the QA layer for vibe-coded apps. AI has made it easier than ever to build software fast. But fast is not the same as safe, realiable or production-ready. NEKOD helps founders, builders, and teams check whether AI-built products are ready for the real world. Security. Data handling. Code quality. Compliance. Production readiness. And more... A monumental thank you goes to the people who believed in NEKOD and Antigoni Kourou from Day 1: Allard Luchsinger from Techstars and Sebastien Stanley-Jones from Flippa.com. And also to the team that was working relentlessly to make the Launch Event the success it turned out to be: Suzanna Mettelman, Simone P., Sebastian Sawicki and to all the people involved our in AMS Tech Week. The launch was a huge success by any metric. 70+ attendees, 34 tech audits and counting Also tremedous reception and feedback! But this is just the beginning. We we will on a roadshow across Europe. Collaborating and working closely with Lovable, Claude and other vibe coding communities. If you are vibe coding something, you will need to ensure that your app is safe eventually. That is where NEKOD has you covered. ✈️Our next stop is Berlin June 29th 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM If you are a founder in Berlin you should not miss this! A typical security scan goes for up to €500. We will be doing as many FREE scans we physically can. The venue is limited to 30 spots. And it's first come, first serve. (Link to event in the comments)

NEKOD officially launched this week at Canal Clubhouse, during AMS Tech Week. Around 70 people showed up, exactly the ones who we love building for. From solo builders shaping their first product, to founders running small teams, and people inside companies trying to push AI-built projects through internal governance. Before the event, we ran technical scans on a few vibe coded projects, and people saw NEKOD findings on their own apps for the first time. Some of it was useful. Some of it was learnings. All of it gave us feedback that's going straight into our backlog and roadmap. Thank you for sharing your thoughts! Christoph, Bob, Ali, Torben, Jochem, Bram, Julio . Allard Luchsinger from Techstars and Sebastien Stanley-Jones from Flippa joined me on stage for a conversation about vibe coding, on what gets accelerator backing and what gets acquired on (early) exits. We also shared more on our existing partnership with Softup Technologies GmbH, we have been working together for more than 2 years now so it was about time that Daniel Kazani and Kristi Kristo join our founding team. We're just getting started. On a thank you note, Suzanna Mettelman, Simone P., Kevin Haxhi, Endi Selmanaj you made this happen by working operations, product and tech, what matters most. Sebastian Sawicki thank you for hosting us in your special venue and Tulip for being our co-organizers. To everyone who showed up, someone told me after the event "this felt like a community." You are the community. Thank you for building, for pushing through every day, and for letting us be part of your journey. What's next. NEKOD is now live at app.nekod.ai - you can run a scan anytime, give it a try! The event inspired us so much, that we've decided to do it again... and again. More on that very soon, yet Berlin is our next stop for GITEX AI EUROPE - Europe's Leading Tech & AI Event. Plug and Play Europe

IT IS AMSTERDAM TECH WEEK. 🇳🇱 100+ events. From morning founder runs, to deep dives and workshops to late-night parties. This city is more alive than ever this week. Huge kudos to Giovanni Antonelli, Chingiskhan Kazakhstan 🤠, and Horia Ghiban for organizing this, and the collaboration with Tulip, Philipp Greiner, Lorinc K. Varga. The energy was so high, that we HAD to host our own event. In collaboration with our investors ABN AMRO + Techstars Future of Finance Accelerator and Plug and Play Europe, we are hosting our launch event on Wednesday. That means NEKOD is open for everyone to run a QA scan on their vibe coded apps. Bring your AI built app, we'll scan it on the spot. Only 6 spots left: https://luma.com/hr7cgffm. Join us, we've got an amazing location proper Amsterdam at Canal Clubhouse, Sebastian Sawicki 🙏🙏 Some other events I'm personally excited about: The YC Meetup with Anelya Grant and Robert Gaal. Robert supports the Dutch tech scene in more ways than most people realize, Vliegwiel is one of them. Worth joining! On Thursday, I'm attending Startup Apero for female founders and investors, hosted by Julia Mitereva (Founders Mesh) and Michelle ter Laak from Arches Capital. These are the rooms that actually matter, especially for the lonely world of female founders. And of course, the closing party on Friday by SOUS and Neno Technology, the accounting partner for the modern day companies. I'm happy client and recommend them. Well done Nick Knuppe, Maggie Minton. And for those who'd rather code than socialize this weekend: TAG BRINGS YOU THE MEGATHON, The biggest hackathon pushing real breakthroughs in AI, from Tijs Nieuwboer and Tea Elezi! Don't sleep on it. See you in the city. 🙌

A a CRM vendor told Dr. Adam Link, CFP® to stop integrating with their API. So he built his own instead. Adam found a new AI-focused CRM he wanted to try. He had their documentation, wrote a Python wrapper around their API to plug it into his existing workflow. Their response? "We don't want you writing a Python wrapper around our API." And they shut off his access. That was Friday. By Monday, Adam had vibe-coded a fully custom CRM, built exactly the way he wanted it. He emailed them to cancel his trial. He didn't need it anymore. He cut a recurring cost from his P&L. No monthly fee. No vendor dependency. No developer retainer to maintain it. Hosting costs only. I'm not saying you can vibe-code your way into the next unicorn. But you can for sure replace an expensive or frustrating Saas that will fit your needs better. Full conversation on Disrupt or Defend. 🎙️