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Leadership & TeamsFractional CTPO vs CTO and CPO
When one combined head owning product and engineering beats hiring a fractional CTO and CPO separately, the eight-engineer split point, and the single-point-of-failure trade-off.
Product & MVPTechnical Due Diligence for AI MVPs Before Funding
What investors check beyond the demo: evals, model and prompt versioning, inference economics, data rights, and the handover artifacts that keep your valuation when diligence starts.
Delivery & QAThe Vibe-Code Production-Readiness Checklist
A standalone, scannable checklist to run on any AI-generated app before real users touch it. Ten checks ordered by how often they bite, sorted into blocker, high, and cleanup.
Delivery & QAWhat It Costs to Make a Vibe-Coded App Production-Ready
Effort bands by product type, where the time actually goes, and what an audit typically finds, framed as money and timelines. The hardening is the spend; the audit tells you its size first.
Leadership & TeamsFractional CPO vs Senior PM
What a fractional CPO, a senior PM, and hiring nobody yet each actually own. The PM-to-CPO progression and why most early-stage founders need none of them.
Leadership & TeamsWhen to Hire a Fractional CPO
The honest framework. The post-PMF trigger, founder readiness to delegate the product call, when it backfires, and the freier Dienstvertrag contract shape.
Business & RegulationThe One-Page AI Policy for a DACH Company
A 5 to 50 person company does not need a 27-page manual, just one page that gets read: approved tools, data rules, a human-review rule, one owner. With a copy-ready template.
AI & AgentsHow to Cut LLM Token Costs in 2026
Token prices collapsed, but agentic products still run up big bills. The playbook we apply in order, caching, batching, routing, the right model including the Chinese open-weight frontier, and context compression.
AI & AgentsAI Agent Pilot in 30/60/90 Days
A serious production rollout plan for Austrian SMEs: scope and de-risk, build and shadow, then limited production and handover. The hard parts are permissions, approvals, evals, and a clean handover, not the model.
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