Scaling in the AI era
When features become easy to copy, growth alone no longer carries. We build the one lever that moves your most important number: in 90 days, inside the business, with your team. The growth stays defensible.
30 minutes. No obligation.
SELECTED CLIENTS & PARTNERS
How we work
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daysWe examine the five layers of your business against your numbers. The result: the lever with the largest effect and a prioritised implementation list.
02
90 daysOne lever, built inside the business, together with your team. At the end the effect is measurable: before and after.
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ongoingFor investors and serial acquirers: the same approach per portfolio company, with an outcome component in the fee.
For established companies & Mittelstand
You don't have to take AI on faith. In the EIGENBAU workshop in Landsberg am Lech you build a working tool for a real bottleneck from your company in a single day. Afterwards you know what AI can do for you.
We'll also tell you where AI won't help you. On request we arrange reference calls.
If you want to go further afterwards: the scaling audit and the 90-day lever work beyond software companies too.
20 %
Only about 20% of PE portfolio companies have operationalized gen AI and see concrete results
4 %
of DACH software companies actively build AI products
Own analysis 2026, n = 5,690
53 %
name missing AI know-how as a barrier
WHY CONVIOS
The difference shows in how we work. Four points where you can check it.
The lever runs in the business after 90 days
Common in consulting projects
A recommendation on slides
One accountable person with 20+ years of operating leadership
Common in consulting projects
Analysis by rotating teams
Your team builds along and takes over
Common in consulting projects
Knowledge leaves with the project
A fee with an outcome component
Common in consulting projects
Billing by effort
WHO'S BEHIND IT
Managing Director, Convios
I've built companies, sold one, and led operations through phases where the answers weren't on slide decks. Co-founder with an exit to S&P Global. COO running 300 people across seven locations. VP Technology managing 200+ engineers through four acquisitions. 20+ years in roles where decisions had consequences. Technology has to serve the business, measurably and controllably. At Convios, I help CEOs and managing directors treat AI, compliance, and software delivery as leadership topics. With structure, and with the willingness to change what isn't working. Licensed pilot. Flying teaches you early that good decisions under pressure come down to preparation. The same applies to running a company.
Contact Dr. Gausmann8 industries · 4 post-merger integrations · Teaching appointments at 2 universities
INSIGHTS
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