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From an AI idea to a Mercedes-Benz pilot in eight days

Most corporate innovation projects take months; this AI project took eight days. Daniel Pudelko describes how an idea became a pilot in a Mercedes-Benz dealership in record time, and which decisions made that pace possible.

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Video German 17 August 2026

A server in Frankfurt is not enough. Why this firm brought its AI in-house

A tax advisory and audit firm is not allowed to use ChatGPT. Daniel Pudelko and Amine Belakaria explain, using a real project, why neither US providers nor a European-hosted cloud were the answer, and how the AI ended up running on the firm's own hardware.

Article 08 May 2026 3 min read

A BMW comes in, a Mercedes offer goes out

In a premium trade-in, the follow-up purchase is usually decided at the first appointment, provided a concrete answer is on the table that day. Our prototype builds a Mercedes-Benz equivalent for a competitor's vehicle in seconds and produces a code that opens the same configuration at home in the official Mercedes configurator. The real work isn't the suggestion itself, it's making sure the suggestion holds up.

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