About Marcado Studios

A founder-led studio in Berlin for AI strategy, engineering and venture design

We are a small team in Berlin. We work with mid-size companies in the German-speaking market and with well-funded startups, on AI strategy and agent deployment, on machine-learning and LLM engineering, and on strategy work including venture and joint-venture design.

The team stays small on purpose. The people you speak to are the people who do the work, and we bring in senior specialists from our network for the parts of a project that need them. That is also why we take on few projects at a time.

We also build our own products. Five consumer apps are live on the App Store, designed, built and shipped by the same team. Client work pays for the studio; product work keeps our judgement about software honest.

The studio is founder-led from Berlin. The same person runs the first conversation on every project, writes the strategy work, and stays involved through the engineering rather than handing it over after the kickoff.

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How we work

Three habits that shape every project

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First principles thinking

We work out what is actually true about the problem first: what the data can carry, what the economics allow. Then we build up from there. A playbook borrowed from another company answers the question that company had.

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At the frontier of strategy and tech

What a model can do, and what it costs to run, changes every few months. What that makes viable as a business changes with it. We work at that edge and keep testing our own assumptions against it, so you are not deciding against limits that stopped applying a year ago.

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Rapid iterations

We would rather put something small in front of a real user this week than plan for a quarter. You find out early when an idea is wrong, while changing course is still cheap.

Let us have a conversation

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