👋 Johannes Hötter

Kern AI

At Kern AI, we're building the next-gen AI platform helping teams to collaborate and successfully implement LLM use cases.

Co-Founder & CEO

path2.ai

I founded path2.ai during my master's studies together with Henrik Wenck. We wanted to understand what problems companies face when implementing meaningful artificial intelligence. During this time, we helped organizations take their first steps towards AI, e.g. by implementing pilot projects or presenting AI in workshops. We also helped existing AI teams by providing insights into the state of research in computer vision, natural language processing, and document classification.

Founder & CEO

GAMBIT Consulting GmbH

Associate Data Migration Consultant

Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg

Tutor Programming and Linear Algebra

My main goal at Kern AI is to help enterprise teams successfully deploy Large Language Model (LLM) applications in their daily business. 

To do so, I post regularly about AI best practices in theory, strategy, and hands-on use cases - and at Kern AI, we build the collaborative next-gen AI platform to put everything into practice.

At Kern AI (previously onetask), we aim to build a dev environment for AI training data with which we aim to provide both higher-quality and higher-quantity training data. If you are interested in how we do this, check out our website www.kern.ai

There's never been a better time to check out this resource. It is my #1 book on AI, all-time. It addresses so well-written how jobs/roles change if certain tasks become extremely efficient to be solved - which is what we're seeing e.g. in software engineering or medical use cases. Perfectly describes the scenario we currently are in regarding AI.

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Geschäftsführer Kern AI (acq. by accompio)

English content on LI: "We deployed AI agents and here is what happened"
German content on LI: Another rant about Deutsche Bahn

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Octolens

AI social listening for B2B SaaS. Catch every mention that matters to your business.

Check out Octolens for AI-vetted alerts of brand mentions and growth opportunities—so you can act fast and stay ahead.

crowd.dev

Head of Operations

Centralize community, product, and customer data to understand which companies are engaging with your open source project. Sync insights with your CRM to prioritize the right accounts and uncover revenue opportunities.

Backed by Seedcamp, Lightbird, Possible Ventures, Angel Invest, and a set of amazing angels.

Chief of Staff

SaveSpace

Transforming the outdated self-storage industry. Part of the Techstars Berlin Accelerator 2022.

SaveSpace makes storage easy and accessible by providing on-demand booking, a full service approach with pick-up and delivery, and online inventory management. We take storage outside city centers and believe in a world where urban space is used for living, never for storage.

Co-Founder & Managing Director

Prophet

Associate Consultant

Associate Consultant Intern

Ada Health

Performance Marketing

Fielmann AG

Content Marketing

SPIRIANT

Marketing and Communications Intern

Caudalie

Sales and Customer Support

I'm the founder of Octolens, an AI-powered brand monitoring tool built for developer and AI companies. With Octolens, you never miss critical conversations about your brand, competitors, or customer pain points. We surface high-signal posts so you can engage, connect, and grow.

Over 1,000 founders and growth teams use Octolens to stay close to the conversation.

Before Octolens, I was Chief of Staff at crowd.dev (acquired by the Linux Foundation), where I worked on DevTool growth and community-led strategies. I also co-founded SaveSpace (Techstars '22).

Earlier, I worked at brand consultancy Prophet, where I helped businesses refine and protect their brand identity.

At Octolens, we help teams monitor their brand online—because what people say when you're not in the room matters.

Charlotte Schmitt

The first paying users of Octolens thought they were buying software.
In reality they were buying me scrolling through social media for them, several hours each day. 

When I started Octolens, there was no automation and no AI. There was only a simple form where people could submit their keywords. 

Every time someone sent something in, I opened every social platform myself, searched every keyword by hand, read everything, filtered out the noise, and saved only the posts that truly mattered. 

Once a week I sent customers an email with their most relevant social mentions. People kept telling me this was better than anything they had tried before. 

That feedback became the blueprint.
Step by step we turned each part of my own manual workflow into software. 

Search came first.
Then judging relevance with AI.
Then filtering.

Each improvement replaced something I used to do by hand. 

What emerged was not just a social monitoring tool. 

It was an automated concierge that understands your brand and only surfaces the conversations you should care about. 

Since then Octolens has taken off. It is profitable, it keeps growing, and it is used by teams at Supabase, Vercel, PostHog, Prisma and many others.

All of this started with a form, a lot of manual work, and the mentality to do things that don't scale.

Founder @ Octolens | Brand Monitoring for AI & Developer Companies

November holds a special place in the Octolens story.

First, we gained a new tiny teammate.

She hasn’t been super productive and requires a lot of hand-holding, so Igor Kotua has had to pick up the slack… but she’s very cute to look at. 🐙🥰

Second, we hit profitability.

When I found out I was pregnant earlier this year, the big goal was to reach profitability before taking a bit of time off. Hitting that goal - almost at the moment of giving birth - has been a huge milestone.

Igor has stepped in massively while I’ve been mostly away - shipping great features and taking care of our customers.

I doubt December can top this, but we’re excited to finish 2025 strong.

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