AI strategy · AI governance · AI solutions · AI adoption
Transformation powered by AI
Substance instead of buzzwords.
miosu is an AI-first company, working remotely across Switzerland, Germany and Finland. I take leadership teams from strategy through to the built solution — to where AI creates measurable business value, and in a way that brings people with it.
- Setup AI-first, remote
- Markets Switzerland · Germany · Finland
- Languages German · English · Finnish
- Technology Microsoft Copilot · Copilot Studio · AI Foundry · Fabric
Starting point
The questions leaders are actually asking
The same six questions come up in most conversations. They are rarely asked this openly.
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Where does AI actually create value in our business?
The list of possible use cases is long. The list of worthwhile ones is short, and different.
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Why do our pilots never reach production?
The step from prototype to daily operations is rarely technical. It is organisational.
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What does the EU AI Act mean for us?
Regulation feels threatening for as long as you lack an overview of your own systems.
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Our people are sceptical. How do we bring them with us?
Scepticism is usually justified and seldom a communication problem.
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We have Microsoft Copilot. Why does nobody use it?
Licences do not create habits. Real tasks in the working day do.
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How do we tell substance from vendor promises?
The answer lies not in the technology, but in the questions you ask about it.
None of these is a technology question first.
The difference
A company that runs AI-first itself
miosu is deliberately built as a one-person company. What a team delivers in a traditional consultancy, I deliver with AI — and you always talk to the same person.
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Business first, tools second
Before we discuss platforms, we clarify which decisions and processes should improve. That order costs two weeks and often saves months.
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Advise and build
I do not stop at the concept: where it makes sense I build the solution myself, from Copilot agents to data products on Microsoft Fabric. I stay independent regardless, because I resell no licences and take no commissions.
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From strategy into daily work
The same person who writes the roadmap stays through the change that makes it real. Strategy papers without adoption change nothing.
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AI-first, not just an AI advisor
Analysis, research and preparation run AI-supported on my side. That makes the work faster and leaner — and I recommend nothing I have not tested in my own operation.
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Focused, backed by a network
miosu concentrates on its core competencies. Where specialist knowledge is needed, I bring in selected solopreneurs from Switzerland and Finland — and you keep one person accountable for the result.
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Building your knowledge is the goal, not a bonus
Your team should end up able to do what I do. I share what I know openly — methods, templates, the criteria I judge by — rather than holding it back. We grow together, and that is the measure of a good engagement.
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Technically grounded, not only conceptual
In the Microsoft stack — Copilot, Copilot Studio, Azure AI Foundry, Microsoft Fabric — I know the tools from practice. That makes effort estimates realistic and vendor claims testable, without tying me to any one platform.
Services
Described as outcomes, not packages
From strategy to a running solution. Most engagements combine two or three of these building blocks — what counts is the outcome at the end.
- AI Strategy You know where AI creates value — and where it does not.
- AI Readiness You know honestly what your organisation can carry today.
- Executive Briefing Your leadership team shares one language.
- AI Governance You move quickly without losing control.
- Transformation Roadmap You have a sequence, not a wish list.
- Implementation and Delivery The solution runs — built, tested and handed over.
- Adoption and Change Your people use what you have built.
- Strategic Sparring You have someone to think with before you decide.
The path
Five steps, in this order
No model replaces judgement. But the order decides whether what you build will hold.
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Understand
Business model, people, constraints. Listening before assessing.
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Assess
A sober view of data, process maturity, capability and risk.
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03
Decide
Agree where to act first — and why not elsewhere.
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04
Build
Solutions built from day one for daily operations.
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05
Embed
Enablement, change and measurement until use becomes normal.
Most organisations do not fail at step four. They fail at steps one and five. The approach in detail
Working together
Why leadership teams work with a solopreneur
I do not arrive at a first conversation with a solution. I arrive with questions, because I want to understand your business before I hold an opinion about it.
miosu is a one-person company, and that is a deliberate choice. You do not get a pitch from partners and delivery from juniors. You work with the person you met in the first conversation, from the first meeting to the last.
The work runs remotely across Switzerland, Germany and Finland, with time on site where presence makes the difference: workshops, leadership sessions, difficult conversations. And where specialist knowledge is needed, I bring in selected solopreneurs from Switzerland and Finland — assembled for your question, not for a firm's utilisation.
In an engagement I act as a sparring partner: someone who disagrees when it is warranted, who translates complexity into plain language, and who takes responsibility for recommendations instead of listing options.
What motivates me is the moment a team stops talking about AI and starts working better because of it.
- SetupSolopreneur, AI-first, remote
- RangeFrom strategy through delivery to adoption
- NetworkSpecialists in Switzerland and Finland
My work has succeeded when you no longer need me.
Michael Vonlanthen
Insights
Thinking on AI in business
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AI Governance
Privately used AI tools are an underrated business risk
Your people are already using AI, just not the tools you approved. The risk rarely sits in the tool. It sits in the fact that nobody knows what goes into it.
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AI Strategy
Messy data stays messy: why AI needs clean information
No model repairs what is wrong in your file storage. But a two-year data programme before the first use case is not an answer either.
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Microsoft Copilot
A hammer for a screw: Copilot is not the answer to everything
Microsoft 365 Copilot is an excellent tool for a particular purpose. Most of the disappointment comes from asking it to serve a different one.
Frequent questions
What leadership teams want to know first
The questions asked in almost every first conversation, answered here in advance.
What exactly does miosu do?
miosu is an AI-first advisory company based in Helsinki, run by Michael Vonlanthen. It helps companies apply artificial intelligence where it creates measurable business value: from AI strategy and readiness assessment through governance and a transformation roadmap to building the solution and embedding it in daily work. miosu sells no software and takes no commissions from vendors.
Which companies is this for?
Mainly small and mid-sized companies of roughly 50 to 2000 employees whose leadership teams want to use AI seriously but have neither an in-house AI department nor the budget for a large consultancy. The people miosu works with are CEOs, owners, executive teams and IT leaders. Industry-independent, with a focus on manufacturing, professional services, finance and public-sector-adjacent organisations.
Does miosu only advise, or also implement?
Both. miosu does not stop at the concept but builds solutions as well: Copilot agents in Copilot Studio, AI applications on Azure AI Foundry, data and analytics products on Microsoft Fabric, and the integration into an existing Microsoft 365 environment. On larger initiatives Michael Vonlanthen leads a team drawn from the client's IT and his network of specialist solopreneurs.
How does an engagement start?
With a sparring session: sixty minutes, free of charge, no preparation and no obligation. You describe your situation, Michael Vonlanthen asks questions and places what is realistic. You leave with two or three concrete observations about your own situation that are useful whatever happens next. The session can be booked directly online.
What does the first sparring session cost?
The first sparring session is free and carries no obligation. No automatic proposal follows: if working together makes sense it will be suggested, and if it does not, that is said just as clearly. After that, work is billed per project or per day depending on scope and duration.
Which countries and languages does miosu work in?
Switzerland, Germany and Finland, in German, English and Finnish. The work runs remotely by default, with time on site where presence makes the difference: workshops, leadership sessions and conversations that need trust.
Which technologies does miosu work with?
The focus is the Microsoft stack: Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, Azure AI Foundry, Microsoft Fabric, the Power Platform and Power BI. miosu remains technology-neutral and is not a Microsoft reseller — where another platform fits better, that is said openly.
How long does a typical engagement take?
An AI strategy takes four to eight weeks, a readiness assessment three to five weeks, a governance foundation four to eight weeks, and an implementation project eight to sixteen weeks. An executive briefing takes ninety minutes to half a day. Strategic sparring runs monthly or quarterly.
How does miosu handle data protection and the EU AI Act?
Governance and regulation are part of every engagement rather than a separate project. That includes a register of the AI systems in use, classification into EU AI Act risk classes, clear guardrails per class, and evidence of sufficient AI literacy among staff. The EU AI Act also applies to Swiss companies as soon as their systems or outputs have effect in the EU.
Why a one-person company rather than a large consultancy?
You work with the same person throughout — no pitch from partners followed by delivery from juniors. miosu runs AI-first itself, which makes analysis and preparation faster and cheaper, and brings in selected solopreneurs from Switzerland and Finland for specialist knowledge. Building knowledge inside the client team is a stated goal of the engagement, not a by-product of it.
Your question not covered? Ask it in a sparring session
Invitation
Let us start with a conversation
A sparring session takes sixty minutes. You need no preparation and enter no obligation. You leave with two or three concrete observations about your own situation.
Even the first conversation delivers something you can use.