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AI Ketchup 🍅 | Your Business's Secret Sauce

Elina Lesyk

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Frequency: 1 episode/21d. Total Eps: 24

AI is your new hire. Learn how to train it. Join Elina, ex-AWS Cloud & AI Architect, as we crack open the playbooks of leaders who’ve slashed costs, automated workflows, and scaled revenue using AI. No jargon. No fluff. Just battle-tested tactics from: ✅ Founders who built 7-figure businesses with AI ✅ CEOs who automated 40% of operations (and kept their teams happy) ✅ Skeptics-turned-advocates surviving the AI learning curve A new episode biweekly if you hit a "Subscribe".

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70 % deiner Kanzlei-Arbeit: Pflicht oder Gewohnheit?

Thursday, April 30, 2026 • Duration 34:14

Was wäre, wenn nur 6 deiner Schnittstellen gesetzlich Pflicht sind – und alles andere nur Gewohnheit ist?

Elina spricht mit Johannes Breuers (ehemals Wirtschaftsprüfer und Steuerberater bei Grant Thornton, ex-CFO SER Group/Doxis) über First Principles für Steuerkanzleien. Über das, was wirklich gesetzlich vorgeschrieben ist, was nur Gewohnheit ist — und warum 70 % deiner alltäglichen Arbeit gar nicht deine Arbeit sein müsste.

▸ "DATEV ist nicht Pflicht."

▸ "70 % Overhead in der Kanzlei ist eine valide Schätzung."

▸ "Ich bin Führungskraft, aber mache mich entbehrlich - und das ist genau das Ziel."

▸ "Liebe Steuerberater, seid selber schuld. Macht erstmal eure Hausaufgaben."

ÜBER DEN GAST

Johannes Breuers war 10 Jahre bei Grant Thornton als Wirtschaftsprüfer und Steuerberater tätig (Corporate Finance & Beratung) und 14 Jahre als CFO der SER Group / Doxis. Heute begleitet er Steuerkanzleien bei Innovations- und Disruptionsthemen.

KAPITEL

00:29 Eröffnung: 70 % deiner Kanzlei-Arbeit - Pflicht oder Gewohnheit?

03:06 First Principles erklärt (Aristoteles, Musk, Grüne Wiese)

04:07 Die 6 gesetzlich verpflichtenden Schnittstellen

06:04 In der Tretmühle gefangen: Was Kanzleien zurückhält

06:55 DATEV ist nicht Pflicht: USA-Tech-Stack & Value Pricing

10:18 Wie fange ich an? Schmerzpunkte zuerst

12:24 70 % Overhead: eine valide Schätzung

16:18 „Ich mache mich entbehrlich" (Reinhard Sprenger)

20:06 In den USA tippt niemand Belege ab: Outsourcing & §203 StGB

24:46 Wissensmanagement: Die Kanzlei-Wikipedia

27:59 „Du drückst einfach auf Record - kein Hexenwerk"

31:10 First Principles in der Praxis: Stell dich neben dich selbst

33:13 wpstb.ai - Johannes' Paper

LINKS & RESOURCEN

▸ https://wpstb.ai/ - Johannes' Webseite mit Paper zu First Principles für Kanzleien

▸ Reinhard Sprenger - Management-Bücher

#Steuerberatung #Kanzlei #FirstPrinciples #AIKetchup

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Checklisten sind keine Prozesse: Der ehrliche Weg zum Kanzlei-Verkauf | Julia Buhmann

Wednesday, April 15, 2026 • Duration 31:37

„Die eigene Kanzlei verkaufen? Du spinnst doch!“ Genau das musste sich Julia Buhmann, Managing Director von Crestivia GmbH, aus ihrem Umfeld ständig anhören, als sie sich entschied, ihre gut laufende Steuerkanzlei nach 16 Jahren zu verkaufen.

Der zunehmende Bürokratie- und Dokumentationswahnsinn hielt sie immer mehr von dem ab, was sie eigentlich tun wollte: Unternehmen ganzheitlich und strategisch zu beraten. Heute führt sie erfolgreich die Crestivia GmbH und blickt mit einem objektiven Blick von außen auf die Steuerberater-Branche.

In dieser Folge des AI Ketchup Podcast sprechen wir ungeschönt über ein Thema, das bei vielen Kanzlei-Inhabern hinter verschlossenen Türen extrem präsent ist, aber selten offen diskutiert wird: den Exit.

In dieser Episode erfahren Sie:

- Der wahre Kanzlei-Wert: Warum Checklisten keine echten Prozesse sind und wie fehlende Automatisierung den Kaufpreis einer Kanzlei massiv drückt.

- Die harte Realität der Nachfolge: Warum Julias erster Verkaufsversuch scheiterte und wie sie letztendlich die perfekte Nachfolgerin fand.

- Kein Private Equity: Warum sie sich bei der Übergabe ihres Lebenswerks ganz bewusst gegen PE-Investoren entschieden hat.

- Die 2-Jahres-Regel: Welche konkreten Schritte Sie heute einleiten müssen, wenn Sie Ihre Kanzlei in 5 Jahren lukrativ und stressfrei übergeben wollen.

Egal, ob Sie aktuell über einen Verkauf nachdenken, sich aus dem Tagesgeschäft befreien wollen oder Ihre Kanzlei einfach nur zukunftsfähig aufstellen möchten – diese Folge liefert tiefe Einblicke von jemandem, der den Prozess erfolgreich durchlaufen hat.

Mehr über unseren Gast Julia Buhmann:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/julia-buhmann-652653163/

KI-Check aus 150 Kanzleien, Digitalisierung vs. Automatisierung, Serverlos glücklich | Niklas Tober

Tuesday, March 17, 2026 • Duration 36:11

Digitalisierung ist das Fundament, aber die Automatisierung ist das Ziel. In dieser Folge spricht Elina Lesyk mit Niklas Tober, der als Kanzleimanager bereits über 150 Kanzleien begleitet hat. Wir klären die Frage: Wo liegen die Grenzen von DATEV und wie sieht ein echter KI-Workflow in einer modernen Steuerkanzlei aus?

Highlights der Folge:

- Die 150-Kanzleien-Erfahrung: Warum viele Kanzleien bei der Digitalisierung stecken bleiben und den Sprung zur Automatisierung verpassen.

- DATEV vs. KI-Startups: Wann es sich lohnt auf den DATEV-Standard zu warten – und wann Drittanbieter (Tabula, FastDocs & Co.) unverzichtbar sind.

- Schluss mit dem KI-Flickenteppich: Wie man eine sichere Azure-Cloud aufbaut, um ChatGPT, Claude und Perplexity effizient für das gesamte Team nutzbar zu machen.

- Prognose 2029: Warum es in drei Jahren keine Kanzlei-Server mehr geben wird und wie sich die Rolle der Steuerfachangestellten verändert.

Kapitelmarken:

00:00 – Intro & Die Rolle des Kanzleimanagers
04:15 – Helikopter-Beratung vs. 360°-Optimierung
08:30 – DMS-Workflows: Unabhängig vom Mandanten-Kanal
12:50 – Der DATEV-Spagat: Innovation vs. Standardisierung
18:20 – KI in der Buchhaltung: Belegprüfung am Point of Sale
24:10 – Die Kanzlei-KI auf Azure: Kosteneffizient & DSGVO-konform
30:00 – Die Vision 2029: Serverlos glücklich?

Niklas auf LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/niklas-tober-8256b91b9/

Das Ende der Fibu: Warum klassische Buchhaltung ausstirbt | Philipp Sterzinger

Monday, January 19, 2026 • Duration 44:29

„Diese Mandanten werden aussterben“ – Philipp Sterzinger findet klare Worte für den aktuellen Zustand der Steuerbranche. In dieser Episode des AI Ketchup Podcasts sprechen wir darüber, warum das klassische „Monatsende-Abarbeiten“ keine Zukunft mehr hat und warum es jetzt an der Zeit ist, als Kanzlei massiv in KI-Tools und neue Skills zu investieren.Philipp teilt seine „Secret Sauce“, wie er KI nicht nur theoretisch bespricht, sondern in seinen ausgebuchten Workshops direkt in die Praxis umsetzt – von lokaler KI auf dem Laptop bis hin zu asynchronen Lernmethoden.

In dieser Folge erfährst du:

- Der Status Quo der Branche: Warum Kanzleien ohne technologische Investition (ca. 10.000 € - 20.000 €) bald nicht mehr wettbewerbsfähig sind.

- KI-Adoption in der Praxis: Warum Philipp nicht über KI redet, sondern sie live einbaut und wie ein „Reallabor Kanzlei“ aussieht.

- DATEV & das Ökosystem: Ein Blick unter die Motorhaube der DATEV-Cloud und die Rolle von Drittanbietern.

- Neues Lernen: Warum klassische Seminare ausgedient haben und wie „Microlearning“ sowie digitale Co-working Spaces (z.B. via MS Teams) den Kanzleialltag erleichtern.

- Führung & Kultur: Wie man Mitarbeiter auf dem Weg zur Kanzlei 2030 wirklich mitnimmt, anstatt sie im Elfenbeinturm zu übergehen.

Über Philipp Sterzinger:

Philipp ist KI-Evangelist mit über 18 Jahren Erfahrung an der Schnittstelle von IT und Steuerwesen. Er hat eine Community von über 800 Steuerprofis aufgebaut und unterstützt Kanzleien dabei, durch Automatisierung und Digitalisierung wieder mehr Freude an der Arbeit zu gewinnen.

Weiterführende Links & Community:

Möchtest du tiefer in das Thema eintauchen und dich mit Gleichgesinnten vernetzen? Werde Teil der Community und lerne, wie du KI konkret in deinen Kanzleialltag integrierst: 👉 Tax KI-Community auf Skool: https://www.skool.com/tax-ki-community

Hat dir diese Folge gefallen? Dann abonniere den AI Ketchup Podcast und teile diese Episode mit Kollegen, die den Sprung in die digitale Zukunft nicht verpassen wollen!

How to Rank Higher in AI Overviews | Pahul Hallan

Season 1 · Episode 19

Thursday, August 28, 2025 • Duration 38:04

Is traditional SEO dead? As AI Overviews begin to dominate search results, the rules for getting discovered online are being rewritten. In this episode, ML engineer Pahul Hallan explains why the new landscape is a "winner takes all" game and breaks down the essentials of AI Engine Optimization (AEO). Discover the technical and content strategies your e-commerce business needs to implement today to not just survive, but thrive in the age of AI-powered search and rank higher than your competition.

Guest: Pahul Hallan, Machine Learning Engineer with 5+ years of experience in e-commerce search, ranking, and recommendation systems.

Find our guest here:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/pahulhallan/

Main Topics & Takeaways:

The Shift from SEO to AEO: Understand the fundamental differences between traditional keyword search and modern AI Engine Optimization.
Winner-Takes-All Search: Why AI search drastically reduces the number of competitors and what it takes to be one of the top results.
Technical SEO for AI: How to use standardized schemas (Schema.org) and configure your robots.txt file to ensure AI models can find and understand your content.
"Hand-Feeding the LLM": Actionable content strategies, including using Q&A formats and creating detailed, story-driven product pages that AI loves.
The Future of Recommendations: How multimodal contextual embeddings are making product recommendations hyper-personalized.
Privacy in the AI Era: A look at the "right to be forgotten" and how to manage your digital footprint as data collection becomes more sophisticated.

AI search is a "winner-takes-all" environment. Unlike traditional search with 10+ results, you might only be competing against two or three products in an AI-generated answer.
Structure your website content in a Q&A format. It's more effective than simple listicles because it directly provides the structured answers that LLMs are designed to find.

How Voice AI Boosts NPS by 180% & Creates Unicorns | Stefan Ostwald

Season 1 · Episode 18

Thursday, July 31, 2025 • Duration 38:14

Is the future customer experience spoken? Discover the massive shift from clunky, frustrating automated systems to truly helpful AI Agents that can increase customer satisfaction by 180%. In this episode, we sit down with Stefan Ostwald, co-founder and Chief AI Officer of the AI unicorn Parloa, to uncover how they found product-market fit by solving the biggest pain points in customer service. Learn how modern voice AI is moving beyond a cost center to become a powerful tool for building brand loyalty, driving revenue, and redefining the entire customer experience.

Guest: Stefan Ostwald, Co-founder and Chief AI Officer at Parloa.

Website: https://parloa.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stefan-ostwald/

What You'll Learn

The inside story of how Parloa pivoted from a voice agency to a billion-dollar AI product company
Why modern AI agents are succeeding where old chatbots failed, and how they are delighting customers
Key learnings on scaling an organization from 10 to 350 people and the challenges faced at each stage
How to structure your company and teams around your product to maximize autonomy and speed
Using voice AI to move beyond surface-level analytics and truly understand the root cause of customer issues
How continuous AI conversations will transform brand relationships and turn service into a revenue driver.

Key Insights & Actionable Takeaways

True product-market fit is found when your technology solves a deep, painful problem, not just a "nice-to-have" one. For Parloa, this was shifting from smart speaker apps to enterprise customer service.

How to Build a True AI-First Education Company | Moritz Heininger

Season 1 · Episode 17

Thursday, July 24, 2025 • Duration 32:57

Are you overwhelmed by the constant flood of new AI tools, feeling you have "FOMO" about what's truly relevant? This episode cuts through the noise. We're joined by Moritz Heininger, founder of the leading German AI education platform, SnipKI, to reveal how he built a true AI-first company that automates nearly everything—from daily content publishing to B2B lead qualification. Forget abstract theory; Moritz shares a practical blueprint for integrating AI and automation into your core business processes, helping you avoid common mistakes and transform your team's productivity. Listen now to learn how to move from being curious about AI to becoming competently AI-driven.

Guest: Moritz Heininger, Co-Founder of SnipKI.
Find our guest here:

Website: SnipKI
LinkedIn: Moritz Heininger

Building an AI-First Engine: How SnipKI automates its entire content pipeline, from video transcription and image generation to social media posting.
The "KI Führerschein": The concept of an "AI Driver's License" and why structured, company-wide upskilling is essential for adoption.
A Go-To-Market Secret: How building trust through high-quality content on LinkedIn has driven all inbound growth for SnipKI without any outbound sales.
The 3 Stages of AI Transformation: Understand the evolution from using AI for (1) Efficiency, to gaining (2) Superpowers, to finally (3) Reinventing your core product.
Actionable First Steps: Moritz’s 3 practical exercises for anyone to become AI-literate, involving strategic thinking with LLMs, "vibe coding" with no-code tools, and building your first automation.
The Biggest Mistakes to Avoid: Why you can't fix a broken process with AI and why the worst thing you can do is fail to start experimenting.

Why Your Next AI Project Should Be Open-Source | Mike Bird

Season 1 · Episode 16

Thursday, July 17, 2025 • Duration 40:26

Is locking down powerful AI in the hands of a few companies a risk we can't afford to take? In this episode, we're joined by open-source visionary Mike Bird to explore why the future of humanity might depend on open-source AI. We dive deep into the strategic advantages of building in the open, how to decide what parts of your business to open-source, and the practical tools and frameworks that can help developers and companies thrive.

Guest: Mike Bird, open-source advocate, contributor to Open Interpreter, AI & Engineering Lead at BoxOne Ventures and host of the Tool Use YouTube channel.

Our guest:

X: https://x.com/MikeBirdTech

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikebirdtech/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@MikeBirdTech

What You'll Hear About:

The Philosophical Debate: Why centralizing AI in a few corporations is a high-risk scenario for humanity.
Strategic Open-Sourcing: How companies can build trust and attract talent by strategically open-sourcing parts of their tech stack without losing their competitive edge.
Practical AI Workflows: Three game-changing use cases for AI in your daily life, including voice transcription, building tool generators, and leveraging code assistants like Cursor.
The Future of AI Agents: Will open-source or closed-source frameworks dominate the next wave of AI agent technology?

Security in the Open: How to navigate the risks of open-source, from malicious actors to ensuring the safety of tools like MCP servers with projects like ToolHive.

Key insights:

Open-sourcing parts of your software is a powerful way to build trust in an age of increasing digital skepticism.

Rewiring an 800-Person Powerhouse with AI Agents | Aytekin Tank

Season 1 · Episode 15

Thursday, July 3, 2025 • Duration 38:58

Is it possible to transform a 20-year-old bootstrapped company into an AI powerhouse? Aytekin Tank, founder of Jotform, reveals the “cheat codes” he used to scale to 30 million users and revolutionize his own business with AI agents. Discover how Jotform went from building simple forms to developing sophisticated AI that resolves 75% of customer support inquiries automatically. This episode is a masterclass in product evolution, leveraging user feedback, and the future of AI-driven customer interaction for any business owner looking to innovate and automate.

Find our guest here:

Website: Jotform.com
Book: Automate Your Busywork
LinkedIn: Aytekin Tank on LinkedIn

What You'll Learn in the Episode:

The Genesis of Jotform: How Aytekin’s experience as a developer led to the creation of a 30-million-user company.
The "Cheat Code" Philosophy: How using your own product and leveraging a massive user base provides an unparalleled advantage in development.
From Forms to AI Agents: The surprising user behavior that pivoted Jotform from an AI form-filler to a full-fledged AI agent platform.
Dogfooding to Perfection: How Jotform became its own biggest customer to increase its AI's support resolution rate from 25% to 75% in just three months.
The RAG Revolution: The critical role of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and the specific tech that unlocked a 10% jump in resolution rates.
Automating Laziness: Why understanding user laziness is the key to designing powerful and effective website chatbots and AI tools.

Can Europe Build Private AI? Meet Nebul’s Proof | Arnold Juffer

Season 1 · Episode 14

Tuesday, June 3, 2025 • Duration 43:48

Why should you care about who really owns the servers that power your cloud workloads and AI?? In this episode, Nebul CEO Arnold Juffer reveals how European businesses can run private GPTs—free from hyperscaler lock-in, Cloud Act subpoenas, and data-leak nightmares.

TOPICS DISCUSSED:

1. European AI Sovereignty
How geopolitical tensions underscore the need for a Europe-owned AI infrastructure.

2. Private Cloud and Compliance
Building “secure by default” private clouds that turn compliance into a competitive advantage.

3. Model Bias & Hallucination
Addressing bias in foreign-trained models and reducing hallucinations using RAG and guardrails.

4. European AI Act & Regulation
Challenges around traceability requirements and prohibited model sizes under the AI Act.

5. B2B AI Adoption
A workshop-to-MVP approach for enterprises exploring private AI workloads.

6. AI as Operational Interface
Leveraging AI agents for 24/7 infrastructure monitoring and as the new front-end for business applications.

INSIGHTS:- Sovereignty over data and models is critical for economic and geopolitical security.

- Running open-source stacks under European jurisdiction prevents foreign “phone-home” risks.

- RAG dramatically improves factual accuracy and reduces bias/hallucinations.

- The AI Act’s traceability mandate and model-size limits can stifle innovation if not refined.

- A fast-paced, time-boxed MVP process de-risks enterprise AI adoption.

- AI agents can surface patterns in massive log streams and replace routine interfaces.

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