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Core pages
- Pages
- About XYZ Meet the people behind XYZ by FORMATION and see who leads the work.
- Book a Meeting with Us Choose a 30-minute discovery call slot with XYZ by FORMATION.
- FAQ Frequently asked questions about what XYZ is, what we offer, and how teams work with us.
- Imprint Legal notice and company information for XYZ, a division of FORMATION GmbH.
- Privacy Policy Privacy information for XYZ, a division of FORMATION GmbH.
- Search Search services, MVPs, and pages.
- Specialist Agents We install AI coworkers that remove operational bottlenecks for teams under 100 people.
Services
- Services Browse the packaged services XYZ offers for teams that want practical AI consulting and implementation, workflow automation, and a clearer path from problem to production.
- OpenClaw Workflow (Discontinued) Discontinued. XYZ no longer recommends OpenClaw for client work because it is unstable, slow, hard to secure, and too fragile for business users.
- Claude Cowork Workflow Set up one Claude Cowork workflow for non-technical business work such as research, documents, and repeatable team tasks, with clear rules and review points.
- Codex Workflow Set up one Codex workflow for repo work, technical tasks, and research, with clear approvals and review. It plays a similar role to Claude Cowork, but for code-oriented work.
- Agentic Website Turn an existing website into a structured, agent-ready system for faster SEO operations, content updates, and reliable website workflow automation.
- Perplexity Computer Workflow Set up one Perplexity Computer workflow for non-technical business work, with clear scope, practical steps, and review points.
- Agentic Content Management Set up a promptable website workflow so pages, copy, FAQs, and SEO updates ship faster without losing review control.
- NemoClaw Setup Set up NemoClaw as a controlled OpenClaw and OpenShell stack with stronger privacy and security guardrails from day one.
- Webmaster Keep your website updated with recurring SEO operations, publishing support, technical fixes, and structured website workflow automation.
- Board Pack Copilot Build a repeatable board-pack workflow that turns scattered KPIs, updates, and narrative into a reviewable monthly decision pack.
- SEO Manager Run SEO as a recurring operating workflow so technical SEO improvements, content updates, and Generative Engine Optimization opportunities do not sit idle.
- Due Diligence Room Assistant Set up a controlled diligence workflow for gathering documents, spotting gaps, and preparing faster responses during fundraising or partner review.
- Market Intelligence Track competitor moves, market signals, and category shifts in a structured way so strategy and sales use fresher evidence.
- Agentic Slides Build presentations through a structured Reveal.js workflow so decks are faster to produce, easier to reuse, and better suited to AI-assisted work.
- Engineering Team Agentic Setup Help your engineering team adopt agentic tooling, AI workflows, and reviewable automation that raise delivery speed without losing control.
- Exec Briefing Agent Build a recurring leadership brief that combines internal signals, market context, and key risks into one reviewable weekly summary.
- Executive Team Agentic Sprint Run a focused sprint for senior leaders to build the judgment, habits, and operating decisions needed to lead agentic work credibly.
- Investor Update Engine Run investor updates through a recurring workflow so monthly updates are faster to produce, easier to review, and more consistent.
- Pipeline Review Copilot Run weekly pipeline reviews through a recurring workflow that highlights movement, risk, and stuck deals before they surprise the team.
- Roadmap Agentic Review Audit your roadmap, workflows, and operating drag to identify the highest-value AI implementation and workflow automation opportunities first.
- Company-Wide Agentic Workflow Run an intensive week of AI consulting and implementation with your team to redesign real workflows and make agentic automation usable in practice.
- Sales Follow-Up Operator Run post-call follow-up through a repeatable workflow so notes, next steps, and draft responses move faster without slipping through the cracks.
- Company-Wide Agentic Deep Dive Redesign core systems and workflows across multiple functions with practical AI consulting, implementation, and governed automation.
- Proposal and RFP Assistant Set up a proposal workflow that gathers source material, drafts responses, and speeds up structured bids without turning them into copy-paste chaos.
- QA Tester Add a standing QA layer around key website and product flows so regressions and breakages are caught before they hurt customers.
- Marketer Turn founder knowledge, customer questions, and offer updates into a steady marketing system that keeps shipping useful content and campaigns.
- Small Autonomous Organization Stand up a governed multi-agent team around one business function with human-in-the-loop workflows, clearer controls, and better throughput.
- Complex Autonomous Organization Design and stand up a larger autonomous operating unit across higher-volume workflows, deeper process chains, AI integrations, and stricter controls.
- Security Officer Add an ongoing security review layer that helps your team spot practical risks, tighten controls, and act on them faster.
- Bespoke Software Project We use agentic engineering practices to get you high quality solutions fast, from apps and websites to geospatial systems, search, and product intelligence.
- Meeting Prep and Decision Pack Prepare high-stakes meetings faster by pulling together notes, prior decisions, open issues, and a reviewable pre-read in one workflow.
- Your Agentic Use Case Bring the workflow, bottleneck, or AI use case that needs custom AI implementation, workflow automation, or human-in-the-loop design.
Success stories
- Success Stories Concrete customer and product proof from XYZ work that already shipped, ran in production, or proved useful enough to discuss as a practical reference point.
- German Indian Innovation Corridor How XYZ helped GIIC modernize workflows, Codex operations, website work, email automation, and sales follow-up.
- Geomob How XYZ used agentic document and presentation workflows for Geomob collateral, outreach, and email operations.
- BDBau How XYZ modernized BDBau sales material and implemented email-agent support for outreach and follow-up.
MVPs
- MVPs Explore small, working AI products and workflow tools that show what XYZ can design, build, test, and adapt for your business.
- Optical Asset Tracking A vision-based venture concept for tracking physical assets with cameras, software, and practical operational workflows.
- QR Luggage Tags A venture concept for simple, scannable luggage tags that could improve how baggage is tracked across travel networks.
- Company Cockpit A venture concept for Harmonitor, a single operating view that helps founders and teams run a company with less fragmentation.
- Tee Me A venture concept for a simple way to order a t-shirt and have it delivered to you haste, post, haste
- Timeless Prints A venture concept for the storefront where customers will be able to order prints from Timeless Colours' colourising and restoration service.
- Your Idea? A standing invitation to bring new ideas, interesting suggestions, and possible business opportunities to XYZ so we can explore whether they are worth shaping together.
- Frontline Email Agent An MVP for a public-facing email frontline that answers common questions, gathers feedback, supports tickets, and escalates cleanly when needed.
Articles
- Blog Short field notes from XYZ on agentic operations, practical AI systems, and the MVPs we are putting under real pressure in Berlin.
- Custom software is back for smaller companies LLMs have made custom internal software cheaper to build, but complex workflows still need hands-on AI implementation, data work, and engineering discipline.
- Without Knowledge, AI is powerless AI agents need company-specific knowledge before they can handle proposals, support, reporting, contracts, and internal workflows with enough context to be trusted.
- Launching Agentic Mail Agentic Mail is our email-first support MVP. Send it a real question and see how it answers from source material.
- Agentic De-Siloing: Moving Work Out of SaaS Silos Agentic de-siloing moves operational data out of closed SaaS systems and into open, structured, reviewable workflows where LLMs can work closer to the data with stronger control.
- My Agentic Inbox Is Awesome Email used to be a chore, a time drain, and sometimes a small daily nightmare. My agentic inbox has turned it into an organized workflow I can actually trust.
- We're using OpenClaw, it sucks! We have been using OpenClaw for real agentic workflows and team collaboration. It makes some important ideas accessible, but the product is flaky, slow, insecure, and structurally hard to trust.
- What Is Authorship in the Age of AI? AI did not end authorship. It exposed the difference between pressing generate and actually directing, editing, and taking responsibility for published work.
- When All Else Is Equal, Ideas Are All That Matters AI will make production cheaper, faster, and more widely available. When everyone can build, create, and automate, the scarce advantage shifts to better ideas, sharper taste, and stronger judgment.
- How We Used AI to Create the Geomob Sponsor Presentation We used an AI-assisted document workflow to turn sponsor positioning, event context, and review notes into a polished Geomob sponsor presentation PDF without rebuilding the document by hand.
- Your Website Is Not Outdated. Your Website Process Is. If your website feels hard to keep current, the real problem is usually not design or tooling. It is the process behind updating it.
- Should We All Now Build Our Own Internal Tools with AI? AI makes custom internal software much easier to produce. The harder question is still what to build, what to buy, and how to avoid ending up with a stack of half-supported internal tools.
- The AI Adoption Dilemmas Facing Small Businesses Small companies know they need to work with AI, agents, and workflow automation. The hard part is choosing where to start without creating hidden operational, privacy, and reliability problems.
- How to Fix a Failing AI Workflow If an AI workflow keeps failing in the same way, the fix is usually better workflow design: clearer task boundaries, stronger guard rails, and earlier review steps.
- Why Your Business Needs an AI Ops Layer Now Many businesses are spending more and more extra time just to keep up. The volume and speed of business communication now outruns human-only operations.
- Everybody is a developer now. What happens next? AI-native software development is getting easier fast. The hard part is no longer generating an app or website. The hard part is judgment: architecture, security, UX, data, and operational control.
- Stop Fixing the Same AI Mistake Twice If your team keeps correcting the same AI writing mistakes by hand, the real problem is not the draft. The real problem is that your editorial workflow has not turned the lesson into a rule.
- Why Agentic Workflows Need Payment Layers Agentic workflows stop at the point of purchase unless they have a controlled way to pay, with scoped permissions, spend limits, isolated records, and human review where it matters.
- Skill Trees for AI Users AI value does not come from one magic prompt. It comes from the skills users build over time, from asking better questions to designing repeatable workflows.
- DECK/DOCS: How we make automatic sales decks & docs from basic deal data DECK/DOCS turns structured inputs such as scope, pricing, roadmap notes, contacts, and brand cues into polished offers, readable sales documents, and presentation-ready decks from the same source.
- The Making of the XYZ Website Instead of treating the XYZ site as a static brochure, we built it as a promptable website with explicit guard rails, a structured content pipeline, and an editor workflow that can move much faster without losing control.
- Hyper-Agile Hyper-agile software development changes the bottleneck from implementation to judgment. With agentic coding and AI-native workflows, small teams can ship, test, and revise software within hours.
- What the Peter Van der Meersch Case Says About Responsible AI Workflows in Newsrooms The Peter Van der Meersch case is best understood as an AI workflow failure. The practical lesson is not to avoid AI altogether, but to use supervised AI workflows with verification loops, guard rails, and clear accountability.
- The End of Notifications Agentic systems are better suited to brief us than to interrupt us, which is why the daily digest is likely to overtake the notification as the default way digital systems surface new information.
- Closing the Loop Closed-loop systems turn agentic workflows into repeatable labor by moving work through research, execution, testing, reporting, and iteration without dropping context.
- A practical guide to the major agentic systems A practical overview of major agentic systems, what unifies them, where they differ, and why guard rails matter more than tool hype.
- You do not need artisanal websites anymore Most small teams no longer need slow, precious website projects. They need websites that can ship, learn, and improve at the speed of the business.
- Why Code-Centric AI Workflows Will Outperform Traditional Business Tools Teams that move core business workflows into code-centric tools gain a practical advantage with AI: more consistency, faster iteration, better reuse, and a path toward deeper tool integration without requiring non-developers to write code.
- How AI Can Pull Development and Operations Teams Out of DevOps Hell AI coding agents can remove a large share of painful infrastructure and deployment work, but the real advantage comes when development and operations teams learn how to use them with guardrails, review habits, and operational discipline.
- Inside the very small but very clever Help Chatbot on the XYZ Website Our site robot is intentionally not powered by live LLM calls yet. Instead, it combines an AI-assisted internal FAQ, rule-based retrieval, careful caching, and privacy-aware analytics to guide visitors through the site.
- How We Used AI to Build a GeoIT Symposium Presentation Fast For our 16 March 2026 GeoIT Symposium talk, we used AI to generate a polished Reveal.js presentation, shaped it with repo-specific skills, improvised a PDF export skill, and published the deck on Cloudflare Pages.
- What if time to market was measured in hours or days instead of months or years? Agentic workflows and newer tools are shrinking the path from idea to launched service, making faster testing, validation, and iteration commercially realistic for small teams.
- How AI Will Create New Departments Inside Small Companies Small companies will not just buy AI tools. They will gain entirely new operating capacity as AI takes on real departmental work across finance, planning, procurement, and administration.
- How Agentic Workflows Will Transform Small Businesses German small businesses do not need science fiction. They need practical semi-autonomous workflows that remove drag without adding more systems overhead.
- Getting Good Ideas Unstuck Ideas in Motion is our way of helping founders and operators move promising concepts out of limbo and into something testable, operational, and real.
- Why We Created XYZ XYZ exists because FORMATION chose to test agentic operations on itself first, then package the patterns that proved useful into services for other teams.
Podcast
- Podcast Listen to audio editions of the XYZ Journal on agentic operations, practical AI systems, and venture building.