It started with a question
What if I can no longer give my children advice one day — yet still want to give them a way to ask me? This question wouldn't leave me. Not as personal anxiety, but as a technical challenge: how do you distill experience, judgment, and intuition into something lasting?
"I saw AI not as a replacement for humans, but as an amplifier of human experience — a memory that learns alongside you."
From the trading desk to the platform
I've been working in digitalization since 2009. I was among the first in Germany to deploy a fully automated forex trading system. In the years that followed, I led digital transformation projects across multiple industries — from top-level strategy to operational execution. As AI matured, I recognized a new category: not just automation, but genuine machine understanding.
Neuroscience as the architectural blueprint
The human brain is the best information processing system we know. I took its principles as my guide: different layers for different types of knowledge, active forgetting via the Ebbinghaus curve, consolidation during sleep. From this emerged ZenBrain — the memory architecture at the core of ZenAI today.