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Daniel Kazani

I'm the founder and operator who built Softup Technologies from 0 to $3.7M in revenue, with $15M in cumulative revenue over 7 years and 10x revenue growth in 5 years. Along the way, I have helped 20+ startup clients raise $100M+ in funding. I help founders turn early ideas into enterprise-ready product. I operate at the intersection of product, engineering, and go-to-market, turning vague founder ambitions into clear scopes, shipped product, and pipelines that fill themselves. This includes owning engagements end to end, designing AI modules that compress time to value, mentoring founders through Founders Institute and Pioneers Club, and hosting Disrupt or Defend, a podcast on how companies use AI. How can I support: * Shipping AI-accelerated MVPs and feature builds for non-technical founders, with timelines compressed from 6 months to under 8 weeks. * Running product development engagements end to end across. * Designing operating systems that scale beyond the founder team. * Setting up outbound, positioning, and affiliate systems that fill your sales pipelines. * With advice on product design and prototyping, marketing and sales, growth strategy, and product-market optimization. Career highlights: * Helped 20+ startups raised over $100 million in funding. * Helped enterprise clients including ATOS, Payone, AutoScout24, ImmoScout24, and Western Union cut $5M+ in costs through AI and nearshoring. * Embedded AI across delivery: 29% efficiency lift, up to 60% AI-generated code, and time-to-delivery cut by up to 75%. * Reached 3.3-year average customer tenure, with 80% of new clients arriving via referral. * Mentored 30+ founders through Founders Institute Germany and Pioneers Club, with portfolio companies generating up to 3 LOIs in their first 3 months. * Built 1,000+ agentic workflows on n8n and shipped native AI products including ResumeGPT and the Softup AI Workspace. * Host of Disrupt or Defend, with 30+ guests from NVIDIA, Google, Microsoft, and the investor and founder community, averaging 2,000+ listens per episode. I'm most valuable when founders need to ship fast, break down ideas into product and land the first 10-20 customers.

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