Strategic advice before the market is clear
I advise founders, investors, family offices and institutions working with frontier technology.
I help them answer hard questions. What is real? What is early? Where is the risk? What must be built next? The work brings technology, capital, regulation, human behavior and culture into one clear view.
I take on a small number of senior-level mandates. Each one starts with a decision, not a presentation.
Where I am most useful
- A founder has strong technology but no clear venture thesis or category.
- An investor needs an independent view of a new sector, company or allocation.
- An organization must align technology, capital, institutions and adoption.
- A project crosses borders or disciplines and needs senior judgment before execution.
What I work on
- Frontier intelligence: weak signals, startup landscapes and second-order effects.
- Venture and investment theses: category, differentiation, opportunity and risk.
- System design: aligning founders, investors, scientists, institutions and operators.
- Positioning: turning complex ideas into language people can understand and act on.
- Cultural intelligence: reading creative signals and the human side of adoption.
- Cross-border projects: work that joins technology, finance, experience and culture.
Domains
Artificial intelligence and sovereign compute. Digital finance and stablecoin infrastructure. Biotech, longevity and neurotechnology. Human capability, sensing and robotics. Decentralized systems, experience design, cultural platforms and frontier capital.
Evidence of practice
- Building EMOTITECH — developing a new intelligence layer for human emotion from the European Alps.
- Proof of Culture — work across public art, perception science, affective technology and decentralized culture.
- Emotion Design in Vienna — an invited workshop on affective technology and artificial intelligence.
- TOKEN2049 Singapore — field intelligence from a major digital-finance network.
- Metro Urban Museum — a cultural platform built across public infrastructure, institutions and international artists.
My work and field research span Europe, the GCC, the United States and Asia. When a mandate needs it, I bring in founders, investors, scientists, operators and cultural leaders. I do not sell introductions. The work is judgment, positioning and execution.
Ways to work together
- Strategic advisory mandates
- Venture, company and investment-thesis reviews
- Focused working sessions and board-level briefings
- Positioning and narrative sprints
- Selected cross-border projects
A good fit
There should be an important decision, a serious technology or platform, access to the people who can act and a willingness to test assumptions.
I am not the right person for generic lead generation, paid endorsement or introductions without a real mandate.
How I think
The Sovereign Intelligence Manifesto sets out my view of progress, capability and human agency. Frontier Intelligence tracks the technologies and venture signals. Proof of Culture shows why adoption is also a cultural question.
Start a conversation
I am based in the Alps and work globally. Tell me who you are, what decision you face and when it matters.