netzstrategen

We make AI work.

For people and the impact they want to create: we run AI as a permanent business function across marketing, sales and customer operations, from strategy to day-to-day operations.

30+ AI projects in the mid-market
16 yrs of digitalization in the DACH region
60 experts for digital success
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What is AI Operations?

Not another tool. An operating model for AI.

A useful analogy: everyone knows how to turn on a tap. Hardly anyone knows how the water gets there. Using AI is just as easy. Operating it reliably is the real achievement. AI Operations delivers exactly that: clear roles, processes and continuous optimization.

→ Deep dive: What is AI Operations? Definition and concept
AI Operations · Definition

AI Operations is the efficient, durable operation of structures and processes that are supported or executed by AI, in a deliberately designed, hybrid organization of humans and machines.

The problem

Pilots are easy. Operating AI is the discipline.

Every management team knows it: a workshop, a few GPT licenses, lots of enthusiasm. Three months later nobody asks whether the tools are actually used. The efficiency promises evaporate.

AI Operations is not a tooling question. It is the discipline of running AI across the organization in a lasting, measurably effective and secure way, with clear roles, processes and responsibilities.

→ Deep dive: The trillion-dollar paradox and why the Implementation Gap emerges
88%
of companies use AI in at least one business function
McKinsey, Global AI Survey, 2025
95%
of AI pilots show no measurable effect on the P&L
MIT NANDA, The State of AI in Business, 2025
60%
generate no tangible value despite AI investments
BCG, The Widening AI Value Gap, 2025
Our mission

“We guide digital superpowers with human reasoning to turn strategy into impact.”

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How much potential is in the company, in euros?

The AI Operations Self-Check delivers savings and revenue potential as conservative ranges in euros: no wishful numbers or optimistic estimates, but orders of magnitude a CFO takes seriously.

  • Calculated on the basis of renowned studies (McKinsey, BCG, Gartner)
  • Calibrated against 30+ of our own DACH mid-market engagements
  • A confidence score shows how reliable each result is
  • Methodology and sources fully disclosed
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Who is behind it

Two locations, one team.

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Behind AI Operations stands netzstrategen: around 60 strategists, since 2010, at home in Karlsruhe and in Barcelona, where our technology is built.

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One sign-up, three newsletters: the AI Insights Newsletter every week with the latest insights articles, the Digital Impact Longread Newsletter and the Digital Impact Update once a month each. Double opt-in, unsubscribe anytime.

Podcast

AI Operations as a podcast

Experts including André Hellmann, Christina D'Ilio, Christian Sattel, Sarah Stock and regular guests from practice: all AI Operations topics as audio for on the go.