The portfolio
Twenty-five years of building. Still building.
These are the companies I run, across AI, growth, and conscious leadership. They're the vehicles that deliver the work I write about. Interested in any of them? Reach out and I'm happy to introduce you to the founder or key person on the team.
- 25+
- Years in the arena
- 13
- Companies built
- 500+
- People across the teams
- 2
- Exits
Current focus
Relote, and the stack it runs on.
Where most of my energy goes right now: rebuilding companies around AI. We proved it on our own portfolio first, then built the products to do it for others.
Relote
Helping you forge an AI-native company. We rebuild businesses around AI, workflow by workflow: an assessment, a six-month transformation, and a Context Engine you own. Built by operators who rebuilt their own portfolio first, and got so excited by the results we now do it for others.
Context Engine
Your company's permanent memory. A single-tenant, self-hostable context layer for AI that captures your emails, calls, documents, and decisions and serves them to any MCP-capable tool or agent, so your AI already knows your world without endless re-briefing. Sold standalone at contextengine.com; part of the Relote stack.
Daimon
The ambient agent in the Relote stack. It sits quietly inside the chats where your team already works, remembers what matters (decisions, commitments, blockers, open loops), and surfaces the intelligence on demand. No new app to adopt, no runaway automation.
Relote Cloud
Your engines, run for you, never read by us. A fully managed service that provisions, operates, and maintains your context engines and daimons on servers you own. Least-privilege by design: the operator can run and repair your instances but cannot read what is inside them.
Active
The rest of the portfolio.
Love Not Fear
The operating system for conscious leadership and purposeful living. A four-pillar framework: purpose, values, vision, habits. Helps students find their calling and entrepreneurs build what matters.
upcoach
An all-in-one coaching platform that lets program creators build, sell, and run structured group coaching programs, with built-in payments, progress tracking, and client management.
Sendloop
An email marketing platform built for high-volume senders, offering drag-and-drop campaign creation, advanced segmentation, and transactional email delivery for businesses and agencies.
Octeth
A self-hosted email marketing platform that lets agencies own their email infrastructure, with full white-labeling, unlimited clients, and major savings over SaaS alternatives.
LTVplus
Customer service outsourcing that combines AI efficiency with dedicated human agents, delivering 24/7 omnichannel support for eCommerce and SaaS brands.
WinbackEngine
A customer win-back service that uses AI-powered omnichannel outreach, including real phone calls by trained agents, to reactivate lapsed customers with a guaranteed 5x ROI.
RecoverPayments
A done-for-you failed payment recovery service that helps subscription businesses recover lost revenue through human-led dunning campaigns and personalized outreach.
Shortlist
A revenue-first marketing agency that guarantees ROI on SEO and content, focusing on bottom-of-funnel keywords and conversion-optimized strategies that drive actual revenue.
LNF People
An offshore talent recruitment agency that uses the Love Not Fear hiring method to match purpose-aligned candidates to values-driven companies, with a 95%+ retention rate.
TaskDrive
A global talent recruitment service that helps businesses hire remote professionals aligned with their mission, vision, and culture. One-time fee model.
Koala Krunch
A healthy snack brand offering 100% fruit snacks with nothing else: no sugar, no additives. Vegan, gluten-free, and packed with vitamins and fiber.
Dünyam Village
An exclusive retreat center in Bodrum, Turkey offering whole-place bookings for leadership teams and groups of up to 12. Transformative experiences in nature.
Exits & earlier
What came before.
MaxCDN
The content delivery network I co-founded in Los Angeles. We grew it into a global CDN serving millions of sites, then exited, the outcome that funded everything since.
12moons
One of a small portfolio of German e-commerce brands I built and sold together, my second exit, alongside Aroma Tee (tea) and 1a-Teppich (rugs).
Emma
A small retail chain, four stores across Germany selling home accessories and furniture.
RMS
Rhein-Main Support. One of my very first ventures, maintaining the in-house servers of local businesses back when servers still lived in company basements.