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Stealth Climate Startup

Stealth Climate Tech Startup
Batteries + AI + Web3

Forecastly AI

Advisory Board

BrightDay

BrightDay is an ecosystem of life enhancement apps https://brightday.app/
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Founder

PwC Norway

Outcomes
- Designed and run a ScaleUp program www.slingshot.no for the region
- Grew Innovation & Growth Offering to 7 figures

Innovation & Digital Director

Head of Innovation & Digital Delivery | Sr. Manager @ EEC PwC Stavanger

University of Stavanger

Imparting lessons on Design Thinking for Green Energy Transition at the University of Stavanger

Visiting Lecturer

Accenture Song

-> Leading the Digital Energy Hub for Accenture in Stavanger, Norway 
-> Inspiring business leaders with the latest trends in ways of working and technological disruption 
-> Design thinking workshops, brainstorming sessions, prototyping, value chain opportunity mapping, digital strategy roadmaps and product development sprints (1 day, 5 days and several weeks) 
-> Digital advisory & training to executives

Digital Hub Lead | Innovation and Digital Transformation Manager

Accenture

-> Leading the development of a Digital Hub for Accenture in Stavanger, Norway
-> Inspiring business leaders with latest trends in ways of working and technological disruption
-> Design thinking workshops, brainstorming sessions, prototyping, value chain opportunity mapping, digital strategy roadmaps and product development sprints (1 day, 5 days and several weeks)
-> Strategy Lead of a RPA (Robot Process Automation) program

Digital Hub Lead | Innovation Manager

Vertical Strategy

VERTICAL is a new breed of strategy advisors catalyzing growth for a fast paced future

- New venture digital product sprints
- New digital products concept development
- New business model and strategy development
- Corporate entrepreneurship
- Digital transformation / Digital roadmap for industrial clients
- Service design (UX/UI/Design Thinking Workshops)
- Idea generation and innovation workshops

Innovation Senior Consultant / In-house entrepreneur

martinhacks.com

Innovation coach @ youtube and writer (sci-fi, business)

Hi 👋 My name is Martin

As a management consultant, I built an Innovation Agency for a Big4 to 7 figures. I have consulted in nearly every industry, from disruptive Startups to fast-growing Scale-ups, B2C, B2B, and Enterprise SaaS, from The World Bank to Fortune500s, from shaping regulations in the US to implementing agile at a $60Bn revenue corporate, from designing battery tech spin-outs to medical tech IPO pitch decks.

If you are a scaleup CEO with annual revenues over 5 mUSD, feel free to reach out (DM) to discuss:

- Strategy execution
- Increasing margin play through revenueops (e.g. pricing) and cost optimization

I am an Entrepreneur (40%) and Management Consultant (60%).

As an entrepreneur, I run a portfolio of Life-enhancement apps (www.brightday.app), a digitally-driven Innovation Consulting and a stealth-mode climate startup. I do not invest at the moment.

There is a huge, dramatic shift coming to Consulting, the pyramid is collapsing!

- Gartner is pretty much about to collapse. AI research, Founders networks and niche advisory will eat it alive. 
- McKinsey fired 10% of workforce (more coming) and focus now on 2-3 people superteams focused mostly on AI implementation and 25% outcome based contracts. 
- Big4 reducing large graduate intakes, especially in the UK

All boring work like research, simple analysis and powerpoints are going to be leveled up. As well as much of the PMO and keep the wheel moving (meetings, note taking...)... that was the cash cow of all these firms.

Charging graduates at premium rates at corporates.

Now the pyramid is crumbling.

All those partners on their 50-60s have no clue how to do an AI workflow, deliver digital products and get hands dirty.

Martin Gallardo

"I vibe coded $1m in a night" is a pile of 💩. One of my best friends run a AI app growing 2x each week and this is the reality 👇🏼

Their AI first app is like TheFacebook in 2004 but AI

Students are going crazy over it

Week over week growth metrics are great!

Top tier retention for an app (97% of app can t create MRR over 1 month) and engagement scores.

But do you think they vide code it in one night?

2 years ago they started with another idea

They pivoted XYZ times to different AI verticals and use cases

Burn a good bunch of investors money just for a small team to live ok and work harder in New York

He uses AI ALL THE TIME, yet 

He works his ass off, codes so much that literally gets burritos to his doors to continue coding. Hit the gym, say no to girl dates, focus on shipping.

It took him 15 years of entrepreneurship to arrive where he is today.

People will say: "Oh a new AI app with massive growth must be vibe coded"

Most of the great stuff on AI is hard core engineering. 

Vibe coding is good for landing pages, and super simple consumer SaaS (ditch lovable and use Bubble btw)

Nothing great will come out of fast. There is no clickbait to greatness

Disclaimer: I am on of their investors. Happy to intro for upcoming round.

"How is it to live in Poland?"
September. 30C. Beaching. 
Not bad at all

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Someone also seriously dissapointed by MS Copilot? It is pretty useless.
This is how I choose all other different AIs over the course of the day:

- ChatGPT: Overall the best all-tracks AI in my view. Most of my personal chats, and key projects are there. Never click Share! It would have solved my query on few seconds, as opposed to CoPilot.

- OpenAI API: I use the API often for any workflow. API docs are very easy, response has decent latency. Easy to build vector stores, and assistants. 

- Claude: General coding, and general life questions and information. Also rewriting, as Claude feels more humanly. Latest move on the privacy side makes me be much more cautious

- Grok: When I need horsepower, most common, large pieces of code, entire html, css and js, that I can dump and QA/Find errors/uplift. Massive token window. Low latency due to the fact that they run inference differently. They started with projects folders lately. The speed of development at Grok is impressive. More and more I rely on Grok.

- Image: Nano-banana without a doubt beats the rest. Probably accessing it via API going forward.

Looking into the next ones:

- Replicate: One common points for all models and API
- Higgsfield AI: Amazing for video

If you are a Consultant, Fractional or going to Start a new Executive Job. Do yourself a favour and read this book The First 90 Days by Michael Watkins
Well, not read it, actually do it. Helped me a lot in my career.

I am implementing AI at a Global 100 Fintech. AI short term will dissapoint you if you want 3 months outcomes, but it will be the backbone of your company going forward. First 3 months do not overcomplicate, do this 3 things:

- AI customer support. Off the shelf with a RAG/vector from all your company knowledge. I recommend Gleap and Anthropic latest Claude models

- Let people use AI. Seems stupid but let them use it. Promote it. Just make clear not adding company data or sensitive info. 

- Hire a bunch of design thinkers or top consultants and find the most important bottleneck of your company. Maybe you don t even need AI, for example, pricing optimization using psychology, typically has 15x ROI. Maybe you just need a better funnel, maybe payment methods, maybe you jist need to focus on Inbound or sales qualification

I have thousands of top consultants in my network. You need to stop and WATCH THIS NOW!

Co-founder @ Ghost Team | Scaling Companies with AI Growth Systems 👉 ghostteam.ai | AI Agents & Automations | Ex-Capgemini Invent

So... Claude now creates PowerPoint decks & Excel models DIRECTLY in chat.

I just created a full investor presentation in 5 minutes. 


Most teams are still:
- Exporting AI content to PowerPoint, then manually formatting
- Copy-pasting between ChatGPT and Excel for hours
- Jumping between 10 tools to create one proposal
- Waiting days for consultants to update decks

But here what Claude's new file creation feature, you can: 
- Edit documents directly in the chat - no exports needed
- Generate complete presentations, excel models and word doc that sync to Google Drive


Here's what it mean:

🔸 Consultants
Client asks for a deck update during the meeting. You literally update it while they're talking. No "I'll send that over tomorrow." The Excel model adjusts scenarios on the fly. Your proposals pull from the entire conversation context.


🔸 Investment analysts 
→ Board presentations with live data 
→ Financial models that actually work (formulas intact!) 
→ Investment memos created from your research conversations - not starting from scratch


🔸 Agencies 
This is your unfair advantage. You use to have to spend HOURS customising pitch decks. I've been there myself. Now you can customised each pitch decks to your clients context and industry, with their exact pain points addressed. But now the time spent? 15 minutes tops.


🔸 Sales teams
Your prospect mentions a specific use case on the discovery call. You generate a custom proposal addressing that exact scenario while you're still on Zoom. 


The wildest part? This isn't some complex setup. It's literally just Claude creating actual .pptx and .xlsx files you can download or sync.


In my demo: 
1. Asked Claude to analyse the AI agents competitive landscape 
2. Claude did deep market research automatically 
3. Generated a complete investor presentation 
4. Saved directly to Google Slides - ready to present

Total time: 5 minutes for what usually takes days.

This isn't just about faster document creation. It's about turning every knowledge worker into a powerhouse who can deliver consultant-level work instantly.


I'm building a prompt library for different document types:
> Investor decks
> Sales proposals
> Financial models
> Strategy presentations

Drop a comment with the document type you create most often - I'll build and share the prompts.

Everyone is getting hooked on 300 steps hypercomplex n8n workflows.
Instead, focus on doing simple things that work... and then scale.
Like Getting Email Deliverability Failures back to your CRM!

Everyone, even me, click on those fancy n8n workflows with the promise of an entire sales team in one workflow.

The reality, seldom those posts include actual business results. 
They are a massive clickbait. I went the rabbit hole few times now.

So what happens, you "save" 10s of posts per week, comment, get a link where you need to subscribe to a mailing list, pay for the full template or jump on a call or demo... so they upsell you automation services.

Instead, do 1 thing that works.
Learn it.
Apply to yourself.

Simply go through your daily work and find these gems of value.

Eventually, after 50-100 of them, something clicks in your brain

What if I do this... and then that.

My customer gave me a challenge, process 1000 onboardings this month, fully automated process.

It is not going to be ONE BEAUTIFUL WORKFLOW, as Trump would say.

It is going to be a value chain, and a combination of different small automations (Attio CRM, n8n, Outlook, Fillout, Brevo, Twilio), built for stability, traceability and easy finding when something breaks and why.

This is real implementation at a extremely complex customer.

So, next time, 

Save 100 n8n posts on Linkedin
Or, 
Build 1 that you own and it works, and it saves you time.

95% of AI Pilots fail? APIs... easy. Noone is talking about that the real job with AI is Change Management. This is the real hard job.

Anyone selling anything in B2B. KNOW YOUR CUSTOMER.
Love the concept  of my friend Prateek Sanjay and design by Kat Espinosa

Kat Espinosa and I worked on this document.

It comes from answering that annoying eternal question:

"So what do you do exactly?!"

Any answer you give is never a simple enough.

I was a grant writer in Norway for 2 years. None of my local Norwegian friends understood what I did. I said things like:

"I fill government forms for companies and government sends them money."
"You type things and submit them. You wait. Money appears. It goes to others. Then it goes to you."
"Instead of asking a rich guy to give you money for owning your business, government gives you free money. I help with that."

Everyone still said, "But what do you DO exactly?"

NO ONE UNDERSTOOD! AT ALL! They thought I worked as an IT expert or software engineer. I am not even joking. It was frustrating!

5 years later, I now realize: my friends were not dumb. They had a way of absorbing any info based on the walk of life they came from.

All of us are like this.

Know this. It will make your life easier.

5 customer archetypes

FOUNDERS. I came across this secret tool, just Vibe Business your idea or startup with all the must-have documents for your type of business, country and language. Access? Comment "Vibe" and I ll DM you. 

By the way, any document are they missing there? 
Anything else you would like to get done for your business via AI?

CEOs are talking about firing. 
Leaders are talking about upskilling.

2025 State of Vibe Coding. 
No explanations needed.

I recently sold NVIDIA. Reason? 👇🏼 I ll buy again at better price for long term holding

Chief Investment Officer & Member of the Executive Committee at Syz Group ¦ 240,000+ followers

⚠️ Interesting stat. 
➡️ The cash position of the big 5 is now below zero as they continue to pour money into #AI #datacenters.  
Where are the trillions going to come from to fulfill promises to Trump?  
These companies create huge profits but they’re now in debt. 

Source: H/t @Stansberry, QE Infinity @StealthQE4 on X

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