How it Began
Why we started Zeit AI
For years, Leopold and Marvin worked side by side at Palantir, building with some of the largest industrial companies on the continent. Leopold led the established customer business across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Marvin owned and deployed the first instances of what became the Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP) at Palantir. Together, they shipped projects that turned into more than €50M in new revenue.
In summer 2024, they left Palantir. They’d seen firsthand the value Forward Deployed Engineers create for enterprises and one thing kept showing up: the people who actually run a business - the heads of controlling, the operators, the managers - are still stuck moving data manually between systems. The signal sits in the ERP, in the CRM, and in a dozen fragmented tools that don’t talk to each other. So decisions get made in spreadsheets and on gut feel. The gap between the two is where companies lose time, money, and confidence.
With today’s frontier models, that work can finally be done at software scale. So we’re building the first AI Forward Deployed Engineer for the European market. An autonomous system that connects to source systems, prepares messy data, and turns business questions into operational applications, in natural language.
We joined Y Combinator (S24), built ZeitMind, and went from zero to €1M ARR in 12 months. Today we’re a team of engineers, builders, and operators based in Munich. And we’re just getting started.
In summer 2024, they left Palantir. They’d seen firsthand the value Forward Deployed Engineers create for enterprises and one thing kept showing up: the people who actually run a business - the heads of controlling, the operators, the managers - are still stuck moving data manually between systems. The signal sits in the ERP, in the CRM, and in a dozen fragmented tools that don’t talk to each other. So decisions get made in spreadsheets and on gut feel. The gap between the two is where companies lose time, money, and confidence.
With today’s frontier models, that work can finally be done at software scale. So we’re building the first AI Forward Deployed Engineer for the European market. An autonomous system that connects to source systems, prepares messy data, and turns business questions into operational applications, in natural language.
We joined Y Combinator (S24), built ZeitMind, and went from zero to €1M ARR in 12 months. Today we’re a team of engineers, builders, and operators based in Munich. And we’re just getting started.
