Work is slower
than it has to be.
I work on that, because every hour we win back is an hour for bigger things.
Most of what slows us down
It's the waiting in between
So I look for those gaps
So the time goes back to people
Four ventures in, this is
Each one wins back time in one specific place. Two are already live, and the other two are being tested right now. Keep scrolling to fly past them.
On most projects, someone loses hours every week just figuring out what changed. AUVY reads the emails, meetings, and files, spots what changed, and gets the next step ready. Nothing goes out until a person says yes.
for project teams
visit auvy.ai ↗Every app has its own login and inbox, and AI assistants have none. OpenPulse gives people and their assistants one address for messages, calls, and payments. Everything is sealed. Not even we can read it.
for people and their AI assistants
visit openpulse.org ↗Train times in Germany are public, but a pain to use. ImTakt shows up to ten connections side by side, live departures, and which lines keep running late.
for anyone taking the train
visit imtakt.dev ↗What gets figured out in a therapy session often fades before the next one. Limbova gives therapists one place to run their work, and patients an app that carries them through the week.
for therapists and their patients
visit limbova.de ↗Everything runs on computers I set up and look after myself, in Helsinki. Your data stays in Europe.
hosted in helsinkiI built my own tool, so any product can be launched, updated, or rolled back in a single step.
my own launch toolEvery train and bus stop in Germany, gathered and tidied up so anyone can find their way.
imtakt.devThe engine behind AUVY. It takes care of the busywork, and a person always makes the final call.
auvy.aiThe wiring that lets AI helpers work safely with the tools people already use.
openpulse.orgI hold myself to it too: usually about 25 days from idea to launch. Everything on this page shipped this year.
back to the ventures ↑If I talk about speed, I should show mine. These come straight from my work log, including what hasn't worked yet.
public sources only · updated 2026-09-22
A clock counts every hour the same. Your week doesn't. An hour spent waiting on a reply, chasing a sign-off, or copying something from one place to another is simply gone. An hour spent on the work only you can do moves everything. I measure time by the second kind, and everything I build is there to give you more of it.
The Greeks had two words for time: chronos, the clock, and kairos, the moment that counts. Most work runs on the first. I build for the second.
Every venture starts as a question about where time goes. I measure first and publish what I find, including what doesn't work yet.
In a public memory test, AUVY finds the right conversation 99.4% of the time. The places it still falls short are published next to it.
Twenty of 472 rail segments cause 30% of all the extra delay on German long-distance trains.
Messages are sealed on your own device. We carry them, but we can't read them.
A week has 10,080 minutes. The session is 50 of them. Limbova is built for the rest.
If something needs someone watching it all day, it hasn't saved anyone any time.
The tools do the heavy lifting. People always make the call.
If it only works in a demo, it doesn't count. It has to work on a normal Tuesday.
More time forwhat matters.
Faster isn't the goal on its own. Every hour we stop wasting is an hour people can spend on the things that actually move the world forward.
This is the long game. I study how work gets done and make it faster, one place at a time. Add that up across a whole society and people can take on far bigger things: more energy, more science, more of what moves humanity forward.
one day, 24 hours · an illustration, not a measurement
Tell me where the time goes. That's where I start.
Patrick Schröppel · founder in Augsburg · about · set in PS Kairos, a typeface cut for this site