ISTARIUM

One-to-one coaching for senior leaders

AI Enabled Executive

experience the build, lead with confidence

You design and build your own AI solution on an idea from your own world, with data of your choosing. You weigh up architecture, benefit and risk, and you decide. From then on you can judge and steer what makes AI initiatives succeed, independently: on experience, not opinion.

60 hours
of work over 8 weeks,
4 to 12 weeks if needed
6 months
your own AI server and AI subscription: independence you keep
A human
personal guidance from a real person

From consuming to collaboration

Discover what is really possible with AI.

In a guided, secure test environment you work on your own idea over 8 weeks and grow into a real team with your AI. You learn to evaluate and decide together, and get to know the strengths and limits of the AI, and your own. Both sides contribute, together you achieve more. In the end you judge for yourself what AI can do for you. Because you have experienced it yourself: personal teamwork with AI as a key competence.

Not a seminar. A project.

From day one you build a real solution from your professional or private world. No passive listening, tangible value in eight weeks.

Real teamwork with the AI

Not just delegating: you develop together and get to know the strengths and limits of the AI, and your own. This collaboration has to be experienced.

Your server, your independence.

You keep your own AI environment: six months of AI server and AI subscription. A powerful tool to carry your further ideas to the goal yourself.

What to expect

  1. Start You can begin at any time. No waiting for a course date or a setup, everything is ready
  2. Your idea A real idea from your professional or private world, with data of your choosing
  3. Teamwork You and your AI over 8 weeks, 4 to 12 if needed: develop together, experiment and evaluate, with personal guidance
  4. Decide Data usage, architecture, benefit, the deliberate handling of US providers. The decisions are yours to make
  5. Your server You keep your own AI environment: server and AI subscription stay in your hands, to use and develop further

What is included

  • Your own AI server in Germany: 6 months, the 24/7 basis for your own AI command centre, then yours to keep
  • Your independent AI access (Claude Code): 6 months provided, no sign-up or billing of your own
  • Personal guidance: an experienced partner for the questions the AI does not answer, and when something gets stuck
  • Kickoff and setup: a short shared start, then full practice
  • Individual project, individual experience: a personal introduction and definition of your project's content and goals
  • Secure working environment: fully decoupled, permanently backed up and portable at any time

Who guides you

Michael Mai

Michael Maiyour guide

Allow me to introduce myself as your personal guide. For over 20 years I have been a consultant and executive in industry: AI adoption, transformation and operational excellence.

In three months I built my own AI server and developed a range of my own agents, apps and tools that make my everyday life easier and faster in very personal ways. This experience, the environment and everything I learned along the way, I consider incredibly valuable, and I want to pass it on.

Digital independence is not a topic only for Europe or entire regions. It concerns each of us. The question is simple: do we want to stay fully dependent on predefined tools and devices, or do we dissolve that dependency? AI is the perfect partner for this, because for the first time it opens a door to software development that was closed to many.

Anyone strong in conception, architecture and vision, but without direct access to technical implementation, finally gets the right partner. At exactly this interface, much time and substance used to be lost. Whether a prototype, a well-founded discussion with professionals, or a small agent that makes your day easier: much succeeds today in hours, without having to involve others.

I look forward to the shared experiences, to your questions, and to welcoming you, in the end, into the new world of personal, technological independence.

Common questions

Do I need to be able to code?+

No. You decide, the AI writes the code. What you do need is judgement and the willingness to keep time reliably clear for the duration of the project.

How much time and effort should I plan for?+

Plan for about one day per week, so roughly 60 to 70 hours over the eight weeks. You should budget for that. It is exactly why the programme can be stretched to twelve weeks if needed.

How much you actually need depends on your intensity, your technical affinity and your prior knowledge.

What if I break something?+

Your work is backed up continuously in the background. If you take it apart, we bring it back. Read that as an invitation: play it safe here and you will learn very little.

What data do I work with? Can it be real?+

That is your call. We draw no line between company data, personal data and made-up data. You run a business; this is a judgement you are equipped to make, legally included. We are not going to make it for you.

What we provide is the basis for your decision: what leaves your server, where it goes (the AI we use runs, deliberately, at a US provider), what is retained, and where responsibility sits. Together with your AI you analyse and direct the flow and use of data in your project. Then you decide deliberately, building block by building block, for or against. Your decision, as in real life.

That is precisely the competence at stake here: making that decision consciously instead of working around it.

Where does this run, and what about data protection?+

Your working environment sits in Germany: that is where your files live and where your agents run. The AI itself is run by a US provider. No language model of our own runs on the German server. So the environment and your data stay in Germany, while the model calls go to the US.

We say so plainly, because that is the reality you will be deciding in back at the company as well. What you put into it is your decision, with all the consequences laid out for you beforehand.

Can this run on EU-hosted AI?+

On request, EU-hosted AI is available as an option. Beyond cost, though, it noticeably narrows the feature set and therefore your experience.

We deliberately recommend using US AI in an independent test environment: it is exactly this direct, self-owned engagement with a real AI that is a learning effect at stake here. That way you experience the handling and impact of your data first-hand.

For organisations under stricter obligations, the environment can additionally be migrated into your own EU cloud, as a separate engagement with different costs and a different feature set. Talk to us.

What happens after the project?+

The environment and the AI access run for six months, so you have plenty of time to keep working after the programme ends. After that you decide whether we keep operating it or you take it over yourself.

Am I tied to certain tools or platforms afterwards?+

No, quite the opposite. Ready-made tools for automation, AI agents or AI platforms are always just narrow frames for one particular workflow, and they keep you dependent even when you no longer need them.

Here you build your own instead: after the programme you create any workflow yourself, and the effort is barely greater. Build it yourself instead of clicking a template, no platform lock-in, real teamwork with an AI. Full individuality, full independence, exactly what you need, nothing more and nothing less.

Do I get a certificate?+

You receive a confirmation of participation, verifiable online: a code lets anyone check at any time that you completed the programme and what it covered.

A classic certificate exists to prove knowledge or skill to third parties. Picture having to show someone that you understand AI: you take out your phone and show the agents and flows on your server that you built yourself, and demonstrate real AI applications — live, on the spot, on your phone or laptop. You will never need a certificate for AI again.

Next step

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