We’re back from the summer holidays. The first month since then has full of events and work:
- Georg Arens has stepped down as managing director of the operational business, but remains a shareholder of Datentreiber and a Datentreiber expert. The Datentreiber team thanks you for driving Datentreiber forward for many years! 🙏👏
- Bending Spoons is acquiring Miro. As a Miro Solution Partner we are using Miro intensively for our workshops and training sessions, and we have developed many tools and templates that we have made freely available on Miroverse. We will keep you updated on what the acquisition means.
- The Catalyst goes MCP! The team has decided to continue developing the Catalyst as a standalone MCP server and to release it as open‑source software. We also invite everyone to join the Catalyst Co‑Creation Community (coming soon) and contribute to its development. We need you as test users and feedback providers.
Read more about the Miro acquisition and its impact on the Catalyst in a community post by Datentreiber Martin Szugat: Miro, Bending Spoons and our Catalyst
In recent months we have experimented extensively with AI tools for strategy development and solution implementation, primarily using AI Actions, AI Flows and AI Sidekicks in Miro (see TOOLS & TEMPLATES below, where we showcase some solutions).
Your feedback has shown that you want a tool‑agnostic solution that links various tools and teams across the organization. Consequently, we have decided to set up the Catalyst as an MCP server with the following functionality:
⚡ The Catalyst manages strategy and solution artefacts such as a business‑model analysis, a use‑case catalogue and much more as MCP resources and stores the artefacts as markdown files in an LLM wiki.
⚡ The Catalyst supports common activities such as use‑case ideation or ROI estimation as MCP actions and integrates with Claude, Miro, PowerPoint, or wherever else you design your strategy and solutions..
⚡ The Catalyst handles complex team workshops and AI workflows as MCP prompts so that you can focus on what matters most: building better businesses!
At the Machine Learning Week Europe conference November in Munich (see EVENTS & OFFERS below) we will present an early version of the Catalyst system at our exhibition booth. The Catalyst dev team, Romina, Kian, Fabian and Benjamin, will introduce it to you. In the spirit of “Build in Public” we will report continuously and intensively over the coming weeks on the Catalyst’s progress on social media and the Data & AI Business Design Community. We look forward to your questions and feedback!
TOOLS & TEMPLATES
If you’d like a glimpse of the Catalyst, have a look at our canvas workshop templates and AI workflow tools on Miroverse:
💫 Catalyst for Data & AI Use Case Ideation: Benjamin released a specialized version of the Catalyst for AI use‑case ideation and ROI estimation as a Miro Sidekick, and wrote about it in our community blog. Even Miro has reported on it in their corporate blog.
🎯 Lean Data & AI Strategy Workshop: our popular workshop template got a major upgrade. For example, AI Flows analyze and summarize your workshop briefing documents and turn the workshop output into actionable outcomes, e.g. markdown summaries, todo lists, use case catalog, clickable prototypes and more.
🤖 Multi-Agent System (MAS) Design Workshop: For every canvas, there are now five AI Actions at the click of a button: Consult [on the use of the canvas]; Create [sticky notes for the canvas]; Check [for completeness, correctness, and consistency]; Challenge [to identify the riskiest assumptions]; Choose [the best option to move forward].
EVENTS & OFFERS
The past weeks have been quiet due to the summer holidays, but autumn is packed with events. We also have a few special offers for our community members, social media followers and newsletter subscribers:
📅 08.10 A!-Day for Agentic Commerce in Munich: How do data drive the agentic business? Together with Datentreiber Martin Szugat, we find the answers and you learn the newest trends about consumer agents.
📅 26-27.10 Data & AI Design Thinking Training in Weilheim (near Munich): Our classic, two intensive workshop days during which we’ll work together to explore the Data & AI Business Method, apply the Data & AI Business Design Canvases, and design a value-driven, human-centric Data & AI Strategy.
⚠️ Important note: this training will be offered in this format for the last time. It remains available as an in‑house training. Next year we will launch a new format: the AI Labs. They are short work sessions that show how you can use proven tools & templates to solve concrete challenges such as AI use‑case ideation, evaluation, definition etc.
📅 12.11 Miro Meetup Berlin: Create an AI app together in one evening? We’ll build one at the AI Buildathon! Vanessa Christina Dsouza, Samuel Tschepe and Martin Szugat will show you at the Miro Office Berlin how to design and develop AI solutions using Miro and Miro AI.
📅 16.11 Masterclass Multi-Agent Strategies & Systems in Munich: Learn how to design an Agentic AI business using a practical example and the MASS Blueprint. The masterclass provides access to an exclusive template and tools.
📅 17-18.11 Machine Learning Week Europe conference in Munich: Do you want to know how PAYBACK, Google, TESA, REWE, Microsoft and many other companies use predictive, generative and agentic AI for reliable solutions in real-world operations? You’ll discover this in numerous case studies, deep‑dives and keynotes over two days.
For our followers, subscribers and members, use code DATENTREIBERMLW26 for a 15 % discount. As a Datentreiber customer you receive a 20 % discount. Send us a message.
📅 23-24.11 Data & AI Business Consulting Training in Weilheim (near Munich): Two more intensive workshop days await you, during which you’ll learn to use our Canvas workshop templates and AI workflow tools as business consultants for data & AI strategies and solutions.
⚠️ Important note: this training will be offered in this format for the last time. It remains available as an in‑house training.
Furthermore, the next 🚶➡️ Business Walk & Talk Aufwärts ⛰️ will be held in Zürich on 9 October. In November we are planning another netwalking event in Bavaria on 20 November, as well as a Miro Meetup in Zürich on 30 November (to be confirmed). We may also organize a Miro Meetup Munich this year, maybe next year.
We’ll pause our online Lunch & Learn series for now, as the coming weeks and months are very busy, as you can see. It will resume in the new year.
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Finally, we would like to highlight two partner offers that Martin Szugat contributed to as an AI expert:
📺 thekey.academy has launched the IHK‑certified video programme “Manager for AI Competencies”. With the Early Bird code KI35 you receive a 35 % discount and can, among other things, view the following modules by Martin: ✔️ “Briefing AI: Prompting & Context”, ✔️ “Understanding and Analysing Data with AI”, and ✔️ “From Routine to Workflow”.
🏫 Haufe Academy will launch next year the Masterclass “AI & Data Strategist”. Martin contributed the course “In 80 Days to a Data & AI Strategy”. The course is delivered as a blended‑learning format with text, video and live sessions.
If you’re interested in attending our events or those organised by partners, please get in touch about any special terms.
As you see, it’s going to be a hot autumn. We wish you great success with your AI projects, and may the data be with you!
The Datentreiber team
