Tobias Zwingmann

Author of AI-Powered BI (O'REILLY) | AI Coach & Mentor | I help organizations leverage AI and use data more intelligently to improve business performance. Sharing AI use cases & learnings.

My AI rule is simple. "If it doesn't cut costs, save time, increase throughput, remove risk or unlock revenue, it gets cut".In 5-continent wide enterprises and in the mid-sized companies finding $10k+ monthly savings in unexpected places I've helped, Profitable AI is about the same thing: Finding the overlap of what AI can do and what your bottom line needs it to do.Here's how I can help:→ Read the book: "The Profitable AI Advantage" – Frameworks for finding &amp; executing AI opportunities that pay off→ Use PAIGE: My AI strategy tool that helps you identify and evaluate opportunities for your specific business  → Join the Club: Direct access to me as you implement AI in your business (capped at 100 members)→ Work with me: When you're ready, my firm RAPYD.AI delivers AI strategy consulting and custom implementations that pay for themselves.I share what I'm learning every week in my Profitable AI newsletter – read by 10,000+ professionals who are tired of flashy demos and want real results instead.Follow along if you like. Or better: tell me what you're trying to figure out.

Managing Partner

We help you build amazing AI products faster.

In 2026, building a quick demo is effectively free. AI lets you pace through the Discovery phase at 10x speed. But look at the chart:
 
There is a cliff between Discovery and Delivery.
 
Where the "Exit Probability" spikes.
 
Where you realize the data isn’t ready.
Or the model isn’t reliable enough for a live customer.
Or the edge cases are too expensive to fix.
 
That high failure rate is actually fine. 
It’s a filter.

The problem is if the shipping rate is 0.

Because ROI only happens when you cross the blue line into Production.

Building the "shipping muscle" – to take the one surviving idea and deploy it as a real asset – is the most important skill that counts right now.

(Image adapted from Augmented Analytics, O'Reilly (2024)

Author: The Profitable AI Advantage. Created profits with AI from enterprise giants to 20-person teams.

Aaaaand that’s another wrap! It’s been super fun to record a new hands-on AI course, first time at the LinkedIn studios Graz. Huge thanks to the whole crew Jessica B. Violeta Puerta Cano Gregor Verdovsek Natalie Pao and more for a smooth experience and really cool live action setup. 

Looking forward to the release!

Can’t reveal the title yet, but it you want to build local AI automations without much technical overhead, this one’s for you.

Stay tuned.

PS: Back on the other side of the alps. Biggest benefit of small airports is you can just walk to your plane lol.

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PwC just released a new survey with 4,454 CEOs across 95 countries.

Take a look at this chart:

56% saw zero financial benefit from AI.
Only 12%(!) saw revenue AND cost impact.

What are these 12% doing differently? 

According to the report, the winners have:

✓ AI-ready tech stack and data environment
✓ A clear enterprise AI roadmap
✓ AI governance and risk management in place
✓ People and culture readiness for change

All of which are huge.

But 1 critical piece is still missing. 
(Tbh I think it's the most important.)

I'll break down what that is in Saturday’s newsletter.

Sign up before Saturday, 3:00 PM CET to get it in your inbox.
(Link under my name)

No BS AI/ML Content | ML Engineer with a Plot Twist 🥷30M+ Views 📝

Done-for you Audience Building & Content Writing for AI/ML Founders that frees up 100% of your time, so you can focus entirely on building your company  
  
Is your work too important to ignore? 💌 https://tally.so/r/wk69VJ  (or shoot me a DM) 👉
  
It's 2025 and we're at the peak of the attention economy  
  
Where Authenticity is king, visibility is currency and people wanna buy from people

Not faceless dehumanized brands  
  
So, they told you LinkedIn was "free marketing" you slapped some posts and called it strategy  
  
You've poured hours crafting the 'perfect' post, only to watch it sink without a trace..  
  
Then it dawned on you, your technical brilliance isn't enough to draw a crowd  
  
Hell, maybe you've even tried mimicking influencers, scrambling for any traction..  
  
Your post got 500 f*cking views... from your friends...  
  
Being ignored is soul-crushing  
  
It's not your fault tough  
  
When you started your company, you didn't sign-up for a degree in an Audience Building, Copywriting and LinkedIn strategy 

And here you are, sacrificing yet another late night for your vision  

"Am I just sabotaging my efforts?"  
  
"Is my life-work meaningless?"  
  
Getting traction feels impossible  
  
You hoped hiring some marketer would save your weekends but..  
  
Tech is a code they can't crack  
  
They can only churn out the lame, soul-sucking crap we all ignore on sight  
  
With armies of founders flooding feeds, your voice dissolves into meaningless white noise  
  
But in the process, you've wasted more of your precious time explaining 101 tech concept and rewriting low-quality drafts 

Done being ignored?  
  
Let's make the world listen 
  
I can help you with:  

✒️ No BS AI/ML Content  
⭐ LinkedIn Profile Revamp
🎯 Website Copy Optimization  

I've done it before:

↳ For founders backed by YC, a16z, Sequoia, and Techstars
↳ For bootstrappers in LLMs, ML, Vector DBs, Data Analytics, and Engineering
↳ For AI and Machine Learning leaders at Google, Microsoft, Airbnb, and YouTube

If they could rise above the noise, so can you

Yeah, even if you're an introvert with a "boring" niche

Still with me?  
  
Amazing—You're amazing!  
  
Cheers,  
Paolo

My booking link: 💌 https://tally.so/r/wLW0oz (or shoot me a DM) 👉

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