Simon Tuechelmann

I accidentally built an AI platform (local ai server with local llm & workflows) for a friend's business that powers workflows and agents. It's working so well that I have to explore this further. Today is the start of this journey. Since I love to follow founders that share their journey, I am trying this myself. @DominiqueCAPaul thanks for the inspiration! I believe most companies are just scratching the surface of AI with simple chatbots and make/n8n workflows. The real value is in deep, core automation - tackling the complex "AI Plumbing" to achieve massive efficiency gains My long-term vision is to build the company that enables this for businesses, especially in Europe, to tackle our demographic and cost challenges. But for now, I'm in listening mode. I want to understand how business leaders are thinking about this. The goal for September ​​​​🍁 - Talk to business leaders about implementing AI - Find a niche to bring value fast - Build a network for what's next Currently, I am mainly contacting my network of founders and business owners to get to meetings. This is fine for now, but I need to develop some sort of ideal customer profile in order to prospect more specifically. I hope that the next couple of meetings help me develop this. Progress: ✅ 1 meeting done 🗓️ 1 meeting scheduled

@chrija 100% agree. Huge opportunity for new players to reimagine the workflows.

Spending lots of time with Claude Code in the last months (+ OpenClaw more recently) has made it abundantly clear to me that every piece of SaaS hugely benefits from being infused with AI. All not new, this has become clear soon after the ChatGPT moment... but it's become a lot more tangible to me recently. Pretty much everything needs to be reimagined from the ground up. Here's a quick (Claude generated) summary. Only looking at the past, recent past, and near-term future here. Not even mentioning the mid/long-term, in which AI agents will do the majority of the actual work.

@mayukh_panja Confirmed

@simtue Ah 7 is it?? 7 should be insane!

At 37 she was a housewife living in California supporting her husband and raising two children. Her political career only took off in her 40s. You can just do things.

Some people recommended to check cognee.ai.

Anyone in my network that can help me with Knowledge Graphs. @DominiqueCAPaul I am sure you might know someone that can help me out.

@DominiqueCAPaul @leolerach Well said.

Not a bad take, but it's clear that we can't just copy what works in China and expect it to work here or even better. We need to find our own approach and that's the responsibility of entrepreneurs, while it's the responsibility of politics to get out of the way and reduce barriers.

Das Problem ist fehlendes Können, nicht Wollen

@DominiqueCAPaul @mayukh_panja @DominiqueCAPaul thanks! @mayukh_panja happy to help!

@mayukh_panja @simtue is your guy

I am really curious about how much German mittelstands are adopting AI into their processes. If you own/ are associated / have connections with a mittelstand please do reach out, would really love to have a chat.

"Hello World" for Agentic Workflows. 👋 Yesterday was a quiet breakthrough for Sophia, but a loud one for our architecture. We successfully ran our first end-to-end Agentic Action on the platform. The Stack: Local LLM Local MCP (Model Context Protocol) Local Supabase Database The Use Case: We instructed the LLM to update a specific database entry (marking an email as done). Instead of hitting a pre-coded endpoint, the agent: Understood the intent. - Searched its available tools. - Pulled the schema. - Executed the update securely. This creates a user experience similar to autonomous browser agents, but constrained within our application's specific security guardrails. Why this matters: It allows us to move away from hard-coding hundreds of specific features and buttons. Instead of predicting every user need, we give them a controlled environment to execute tasks using natural language. For me, this shifts the focus from "building features" to "building guardrails." It’s a completely different way of thinking about software design. Happy to exchange ideas with anyone else building with MCP right now!

@DominiqueCAPaul @gdb Same for basically every machine in the world 🙈😜🤌

@gdb I feel the same with my 3d printer.

feels like such a wasted opportunity every moment your agents aren't running

@DominiqueCAPaul Exactly.

@simtue Oh nice. In Freiburg?

Building in the heart of the Black Forest this week - in good company!

@DominiqueCAPaul My office is in the same building

@simtue Did you visit BFL today or coincidence passing by?

@DominiqueCAPaul Long Europe

The gap between what a small team can achieve and what a large organisation can respond with has never been wider. Ironically, SMEs are in one of the best positions to benefit from this shift. They sell products that cannot simply be spun up overnight and often compete against incumbents that are slow to adopt tools like OpenClaw for sales. I would not be surprised to see decades-old SMEs show start-up-like growth over the next few years, as AI gives them access to markets they previously lacked the sales and customer-support capacity to reach.

💯 ads in llm agents is super dangerous and stupid! Should not be allowed.

@chrija Next US entry will be tough for you 😂

Only outdone by Trump in his second term.

@bcherny Makes so much sense and mirrors user behavior

Now in Claude Code: when you accept a plan, Claude automatically clears your context, so your plan gets a fresh context window. We found this helps keep Claude on track longer, and significantly improves plan adherence. If you prefer not to clear your context when accepting a plan, that option is still available too.

I am in BCN every year since 2010 as a tourist and never had any issues. Most crime is probably around pickpocketing in areas where you anyways would not go as a resident like Las Ramblas etc. Plus the surrounding of bcn (Girona, Costa Brava) is the best in the Mediterranean and super safe.

barcelona people: how bad is the barcelona crime situation? pls only report if you have real experience it's on our shortlist to try out in the next months, but the crime stuff make me feel a bit uneasy with a small baby

@zebulgar how did you ever got clean of the running addiction?

No peptides and no real plan or intention But somehow dropped 22 lbs last year? Probably getting re-addicted to running helped

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐛𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐝𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐭𝐲. 𝐈 𝐚𝐦 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐅𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐅𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞. The hardest problem in B2B AI right now isn't the model - it's the deployment. Competitors rely on massive service teams to implement their software. At 𝐒𝐨𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐚 𝐀𝐈, we are building the opposite: 𝐒𝐨𝐟𝐭𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐲𝐬 𝐢𝐭𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟. Manufacturing SMBs are currently drowning in complexity. Every day, critical data is lost in a flood of emails, phone calls, and manual spreadsheets that try to bridge the gap between accounting, supply chain, and production. Sophia AI builds the platform that ends this chaos. We don't just digitize processes; we automate them, driving immediate improvements in revenue and efficiency. Why is this hard? We are solving the problem of fully self-serve AI. Our technical breakthrough is an interface where users correct and guide agents just as they would a junior employee - turning complex prompt engineering into natural, human feedback. 𝐂𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐬: ✅ 𝟏 𝐂𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 ✅ 𝟐 𝐎𝐧𝐛𝐨𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 ✅ 𝐏𝐌𝐅 𝐒𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐚𝐥: 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠 I am looking for a 𝐁𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐧𝐝 + 𝐀𝐈-𝐅𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐅𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐫 to own the architecture connecting LLMs to real-world business processes. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐨𝐥𝐞: 𝐒𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐃𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐲: Idea to production in hours, not weeks. 𝐎𝐰𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐎𝐮𝐭𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞: If an agent fails, you don't just fix the bug; you build the eval system so it never happens again. 𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡 𝐔𝐩𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞: €100k+ Salary + 5-10% Equity. 𝐌𝐲 𝐏𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐨𝐩𝐡𝐲: I’ve spent 12 years in manufacturing and tech. I know that Speed is the Moat. We don't hire "managers." We hire builders who want to be in the room with the customer, iterating in tight loops. 𝑃ℎ𝑜𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑜𝑤 𝑖𝑠 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑍𝑒𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑡 𝑈𝑙𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑘𝑠 𝟜𝟡𝑘𝑚 𝑖𝑛 𝐴𝑢𝑔𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝟚𝟘𝟚𝟝. 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑟𝑜𝑙𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑎 𝑗𝑜𝑔 𝑜𝑛 𝑎 𝑝𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑑 𝑟𝑜𝑎𝑑. 𝑊𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑛𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑔𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑒𝑐ℎ𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙, ℎ𝑖𝑔ℎ-𝑎𝑙𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑑𝑒 𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑛 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑧𝑒𝑟𝑜 𝑔𝑢𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑙𝑠. 𝐼𝑡’𝑠 𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑒𝑝, 𝑖𝑡’𝑠 𝑟𝑜𝑐𝑘𝑦, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑡 𝑟𝑒𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑠 𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒. 𝐵𝑢𝑡 𝑖𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢’𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑦𝑝𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑏𝑢𝑖𝑙𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑙𝑠, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑜𝑝 𝑖𝑠 𝑔𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑙𝑒𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑟𝑦. 📍 𝐋𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐢𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐠 (𝐇𝐲𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐝/𝐎𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐞) ⚡ 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬: 𝟒 𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐩𝐬. 𝟓 𝐝𝐚𝐲𝐬. 𝐍𝐨 𝐋𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐂𝐨𝐝𝐞. Drop a comment or send your GitHub/projects to hello@gosophia.ai. Let's build. 💸 €5,000 Referral Bonus: Know a cracked engineer who belongs here? Send them my way. If I hire them, the bonus is yours.