Services · For leadership

In four hours you know where AI helps your company first.

In the AI Strategy Workshop, your leadership team works through one real decision. In the Company Brain Sprint, our forward-deployed engineers set up the Company Brain for one team or area. 30 days, workshop included.

30 minutes with a founder. Bring one important decision.

Simon ScheurerMarc Gasser

Run by Simon Scheurer and Marc Gasser – in person, start to finish.

Experience

Experience from previous mandates.

Companies the founders have worked for in advisory mandates, across four segments. No statement about their use of the Teklens software.

Software & AI

  • CMI logo
  • Axon Vibe logo
  • Skribble logo
  • Wingtra logo
  • Octopus logo
  • Craftview logo
  • Embedl logo
  • Createq logo
  • Xorlab logo
  • Certifaction logo
  • BlueReport (Cognita) logo
  • Algrano logo

Enterprise & Scaleups

  • Siemens Healthineers logo
  • DHL logo
  • Raiffeisen logo
  • United Security Providers logo
  • Emporix logo
  • Axel Springer Corporate Solutions logo
  • adesso logo
  • Entris Banking logo
  • mylife Diabetescare logo

Venture Capital

  • Swiss Founders Fund logo
  • Founderful logo

Sales Trainers & Growth Consultants

  • SalesPlaybook logo
  • Venturize
  • Meridium logo
  • Peakora logo
  • scaleup logo
  • USA Launching Pad logo

A selection of mandates of the founders’ firms Contem GmbH and Pedalix GmbH.

Lots of AI initiatives. No shared direction.

  • Every team tests its own AI tools. Nobody knows what works.
  • Leadership decisions reach the teams late or distorted.
  • The board asks for results. There are mostly pilots.

Before you buy the next tool, you need one answer: where does AI really help your company now?

Who this is for.

A fit if

  • you are a technology company in Switzerland, Germany or Austria,
  • you have 50 to 500 employees, or more with a dedicated AI lead,
  • your leadership wants to decide for itself instead of handing the topic to IT.

Not a fit if

  • you want a strategy on slides and nothing implemented afterwards,
  • you need a plain tool training,
  • you have no product or engineering of your own yet.

The offer

Decide first. Then implement.

Entry

AI Strategy Workshop

One shared AI direction for your leadership team.

For
For the CEO and leadership team
Duration
Four hours. Bookable alone, included in the Sprint

What you get

  • A baseline beforehand, based on the AI Monitor
  • Four hours on one real decision, trying AI yourselves
  • A first lever you choose together, with documented next steps

You know where AI helps first, and what you deliberately leave out.

All details on the workshop

Implementation

Company Brain Sprint

Your biggest bottleneck, fixed in 30 days.

For
For your leadership team and a small core team
Duration
30 days, workshop included

What you get

  • Find the bottleneck: AI Monitor benchmark, interviews, one real workflow and the workshop
  • Set up the Company Brain: our forward-deployed engineers connect two of your systems, for one team or area
  • Improve and test the workflow: approvals in place, changes tested at the source, a results report with a 90-day recommendation

One real workflow works better. You know the results and the next steps.

All details on the sprint

Price

Fixed price by scope

The workshop is bookable alone or included in the Sprint. Price, your team's involvement and the results are agreed before the start. Running Teklens after the Sprint is agreed separately.

Meet the Company Brain

How it works.

  1. 01

    Meet the Company Brain

    30 minutes with a founder. You bring one important decision, we tell you honestly whether we can help.

  2. 02

    AI Strategy Workshop

    Four hours with your leadership team on one real decision. You know where to start.

  3. 03

    Company Brain Sprint

    30 days. Bottleneck fixed, Company Brain set up, workflow tested. Running it afterwards is agreed separately.

Client voices

What clients say.

Voices from the founders’ previous mandates.

  • «Pedalix played a decisive part in carrying United Security Providers' internal expertise outwards and in enriching our CRM data. Being able not only to reach our audience but to sustain a genuinely valuable dialogue with them has strengthened our market presence considerably.»
    Yves-Alain Gueggi
    Yves-Alain Gueggi
  • «Working with Marc and Valentin was highly professional throughout, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I can recommend Pedalix to other companies looking for innovative routes in B2B marketing.»
    Eberhardt Weber
    Eberhardt Weber
    Founder & CEO, Emporix
  • «Teklens delivered a fast and detailed technical due diligence. The ability to turn complex technical matters into clear insights was instrumental to our decision.»
    Pascal Mathis
    Pascal Mathis
    Founding Partner, Founderful
  • «Teklens delivered impressive results in record time. The AI-based solution was fully operational with minimal input from our side. Exactly what we needed.»
    Heiner Grüter
    Heiner Grüter
    Founder & Managing Partner, Meridium
  • «Simon manages to combine a deeply technical and current perspective with a thorough understanding of business fundamentals. An outstanding consulting talent.»
    Jean-Jacques Pittet
    Jean-Jacques Pittet
    Head of CIO Advisory, adesso
  • «Simon combines a unique blend of entrepreneurial energy, sharp problem-solving, and years of experience. Such deep expertise in technology, product, and leadership — all in one person.»
    Youssef Demitri
    Youssef Demitri
    VP Engineering, Wingtra
  • «With Pedalix we found a way to get in touch with a large number of B2B companies. We can now proactively share our expertise and knowledge, position ourselves and lay the groundwork for future business relationships.»
    Reto Baumgartner
    Reto Baumgartner
    CEO, MySign
  • «Marc Gasser works with us and our clients regularly. He shows them how to identify bottlenecks in the buyer journey, build a qualified pipeline effectively and recognise buying signals. His clear strategies and hands-on workshops have already moved many of our clients forward.»
    Lutz Thalmann
    Lutz Thalmann
  • «Thanks to Pedalix we have improved our sales pipeline considerably. Pedalix is outstanding support for our sales department, full of enthusiasm and efficiency.»
    Torsten Sabel
    Torsten Sabel
  • «Pedalix gave us some great best practices and a convincing implementation framework. Combining their expertise with our internal delivery strength lets us scale faster and better.»
    Benoît Henry
    Benoît Henry
  • «Marc and Valentin helped us grow with best practices and an effective execution plan. Working with them had an ROI in under 2 months! The biggest impact was on our team's productivity and the sales pipeline.»
    Adrian Kyburz
    Adrian Kyburz
    Head of Revenue, Xorlab
  • «Teklens was really committed and improved the quality of the project, and code, while actively contributing with new features and ideas. I would definitely work with Teklens again.»
    Filip Maertens
    Filip Maertens
    Venture Builder, AI Veteran, Forbes Technology Council

Ratings out of 5 from the founders’ mandate archive; not every voice carries a rating. Some quotes translated from the German originals.

Who is in the room

Two entrepreneurs run every mandate themselves. No consulting pyramid.

No junior with a slide deck, no partner who disappears after the kickoff. Simon Scheurer and Marc Gasser lead the workshop and the Sprint themselves, from the first question to the decision. Our forward-deployed engineers set up the Company Brain with you.

  • Simon Scheurer

    Simon Scheurer

    Serial Founder · AI & Tech

    LinkedIn
    Focus

    Technology, product and engineering teams

    • Serial entrepreneur and former CTO: built, scaled and sold tech companies
    • Makes engineering teams gen-AI-native – tools, workflows, quality gates
    • Assesses the real state of software, AI and deep-tech products
  • Marc Gasser

    Marc Gasser

    Software Entrepreneur · Product × GTM × AI

    LinkedIn
    Focus

    Go-to-market, revenue and automation

    • Product × GTM × AI: builds B2B software companies with humans + agents
    • Built Astina, Aioma and Localina, sold Localina CRM to Swisscom, co-led a company of several hundred people as CCO
    • Innosuisse expert, Springer Gabler author, lecturer at HWZ, ZHAW and FHNW; publisher of the Marketing Automation & AI Readiness Report (AI Monitor)

Both are co-founders of Teklens, working out of Zurich. In German or English.

No risk

You decide one step at a time.

  • The call carries no obligation. You book a conversation, not a contract.
  • Fixed price by scope: you know the price before the Sprint starts.
  • After the Sprint you decide for yourselves. No automatic advisory mandate. Running Teklens is agreed separately.

Before the first call.

Is this technical training?

No. You try AI yourselves to judge its opportunities and limits. The focus is decisions, priorities and leadership. No programming knowledge needed.

Do we have to use the Teklens software?

In the Sprint we set up the Company Brain for one team or area and connect two of your systems. Whether you keep running Teklens afterwards is your separate decision. Your data and systems of record stay with you.

How do we handle confidential data?

We agree sources, access rights and data handling before the start. You share only approved material or scoped access. Teklens runs in a dedicated cloud environment (Secured Cloud) or on your own servers (Self-hosted).

Bring one important decision.

In 30 minutes with Marc or Simon, we clarify whether we can help and which way in fits. Pick your time directly in the calendar.

With a founder. No obligation.