Stuck between keeping the lights on and building the future?
We embed senior specialists into your dev team with measurable goals, a 100-day clock and a planned exit. No body-shopping. No open-ended mandates. When we leave, your team owns everything we built.
- Day 1 Goals agreed
- Day 80 Results measured
- Day 100 Your team takes over
Engagements for Novadex Schmalz DataCollect Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
What We Do
Dev Org Modernization
Your team is stuck between legacy and the future. We embed, modernize architecture and processes, transfer the knowledge and leave.
Learn more →High-Tech Prototype Development
From concept to a working prototype on real hardware, with computer vision, edge AI and IoT. Your team learns how the prototype works along the way.
Learn more →AI Applications
AI demos impress in meetings and vanish after. We build production systems with RAG, knowledge graphs and agent frameworks, hand the knowledge to your team and leave after 100 days.
Learn more →Every engagement runs 100 days
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Day 1
Day 1
Scope
Define measurable goals before anyone writes code.
Team
Assemble specialists from the curated network for this challenge.
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Day 1–80
Days 1–80
Build
Work embedded in your team with biweekly progress reports.
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Day 80
Day 80
Measure
Assess goal achievement against the day-1 agreement.
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Day 80–100
Days 80–100
Transfer
Document, hand over, your team owns it all.
After day 100 comes either a new cycle with fresh goals or the planned exit. We agree on the exit before we start.
The full methodology →For investors: we find the weaknesses and fix them
We assess the portfolio company's dev org, then fix what we found in a 100-day engagement. As Technology Operating Partner we work inside the company's team until the team can carry the results on its own.
Fixed cycle
Goals, the measurement point and the end date are set before we start.
Planned exit
Once we leave, the portfolio company carries no ongoing cost. The team owns everything we built.
Repeatable across the portfolio
Every portfolio company gets the same structure, adapted to its situation.
EKK & CO has brought us in for several portfolio companies, each time for a different technical problem and each time in the same model.
See the PE/VC AssessmentNotes from the work
All Insights →Scattered Minds
Eight agents open, a glance every 45 seconds, mail in the gaps. What the research says about supervising AI agents in parallel and where we draw the limit.
Read more →Bots Passed Humans. The Web's Business Model Is Next.
More than half of all web traffic is now non-human, and AI crawls content without sending readers back. The search-and-ad economy that funded the open web is breaking. Where the value moves next, and how to read it in a portfolio.
Read more →100 DAYS has been working with us in closed cycles for 10 years. Gaylord regularly finds solutions to our challenges that weren't on our radar. That moves us forward in weeks what would have taken us months on our own. Our team benefits from this input. We keep coming back because we want to, not because we have to.
Lukas Gassner
CEO, Novadex GmbH
Does a 100-day engagement fit what you're planning?
Your first call is with Gaylord Aulke, founder of 100 DAYS and hands-on in every engagement. In 20 minutes we'll work out together whether it fits. No commitment.