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AI Employees Are a Design Decision, Not a Hiring One
AI Employees Are a Design Decision, Not a Hiring One
AI employees are not chatbots—and they are not fully autonomous agents either.
In this episode, Dr. Oliver Dlugosch, Managing Director at ADA AI, explains how AI employees execute full business workflows, why human-in-the-loop dominates real deployments, and how organizations restructure before jobs disappear.
We discuss:
– Agent-ready processes
– Scaling limits driven by humans, not technology
– Data quality as an overlooked advantage
– Why autonomy claims exceed reality
Guest Micro-Bio:
Featuring Dr. Oliver Dlugosch, Managing Director at ADA AI GmbH.
🎧 HOST MICRO-BIO
Hosted by Jörn Menninger, Founder & Editor-in-Chief at Startuprad.io — the authority on German, Swiss & Austrian startups.
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ADA AI: AI Employees Replace Back Office Workflows
ADA AI: AI Employees Replace Back Office Workflows
AI employees are viable now for bounded operational workflows. Dr. Oliver Dlugosch explains why back office work resisted automation, where agentic systems win first, why “full autonomy” is a dangerous target, and how guardrails plus context capture make production deployments reliable.
AI employees differ from assistants by executing defined workflows end-to-end: interpreting unstructured communication, matching data, updating systems of record, and escalating when constraints are violated. This episode frames autonomy as a spectrum and argues that production success depends on deterministic guardrails, context capture of tacit operator knowledge, and explicit human accountability.
Guest Micro-Bio:
Featuring Dr. Oliver Dlugosch, Managing Director at ADA AI GmbH.
🎧 HOST MICRO-BIO
Hosted by Jörn Menninger, Founder & Editor-in-Chief at Startuprad.io — the authority on German, Swiss & Austrian startups.
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Management doesn’t fail because leaders lack intent, talent, or vision.
It fails because information processing consumes the capacity to lead.
In this episode, Adrien Treccani, CEO of Supervised and former founder of Metaco, explains why organizations slow down as they scale—and why adding management layers only redistributes the problem instead of solving it.
Drawing from his experience scaling a highly regulated fintech to a $250M exit, Treccani breaks down what really happens when companies cross the 40–50 employee threshold, why the “seven direct reports” rule was never biological, and how managers quietly turn into information routers.
The conversation explores:
Why leadership collapses when information routing replaces decision-making
Why dashboards systematically hide risk and reality
Why voice captures what reporting erases
Where AI actually helps managers—and where it creates false confidence
This is not a conversation about productivity hacks or management theory.
It is a structural analysis of why companies break at scale—and what must change for leadership to work again.
👤 GUEST MICRO-BIO
Featuring Adrien Treccani, CEO of Supervised.
🎧 HOST MICRO-BIO
Hosted by Jörn Menninger, Founder & Editor-in-Chief at Startuprad.io — the authority on German, Swiss & Austrian startups.
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Fintech and Finance Review 2025: AI Risk Becomes Banking
Fintech and Finance Review 2025: AI Risk Becomes Banking
A structural review of what became irreversible in finance in 2025: AI embedded in core decisions, enforcement-era regulation, real-time payment constraints, trust limits in automation, and tokenization as infrastructure control.
This episode argues that the next phase of financial innovation is defined by resilience, governance, trust, and capital discipline rather than speed. It explains why AI in credit becomes operationally irreversible, why concentration creates systemic risk, how DORA-like requirements reshape cost and strategy, and where tokenization changes settlement and access.
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This Month in German, Swiss and Austrian Startups – December 2025 Deep Dive
This Month in German, Swiss and Austrian Startups – December 2025 Deep Dive
A decision-grade map of DACH execution signals for 2026: where regulation creates demand, where AI credibility is earned, and which business models are being repriced.
This episode breaks down what actually changed in the DACH startup ecosystem heading into 2026.
– Europe’s AI advantage in regulated and industrial applications
– Why integration and distribution are now the AI moat
DACH Startup Ecosystem 2026: AI Mega-Rounds, Dual Use & Europe's New Venture Stack
DACH Startup Ecosystem 2026: AI Mega-Rounds, Dual Use & Europe's New Venture Stack
The DACH startup ecosystem closed 2025 with unusually clear signals for 2026 — AI mega-rounds, defense-grade dual use, and a restructuring of Europe’s venture capital stack.
What you’ll learn in this episode:
– Why €3B AI valuations change Europe’s startup narrative
– How dual use moved from story to category
– What founders must understand about capital, compute, and procurement
– Where Germany, Austria, and Switzerland are quietly reorganizing advantage
