Axel Winter

Building Digital and AI Business across Asia

How Open Source Just Changed the World. Again.

Microsoft Build 2026 Wasn’t About Windows. It Was About a Movement.


04.06.2026 0

The Machine That Builds Itself

A solo-built AI platform that ingests, reasons, publishes — and rewrites its own code. Three flywheels, three weeks to production. An operator’s teardown.


01.06.2026 0

The Machine That Dreams: Inside My Personal AI Stack

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about how AI eliminates the Non-Value-Add Positions — any role, at any seniority, whose primary function is to collate information, compress it, and forward it upward or downward. The piece provoked the question I’ve been getting ever since: what does that actually look like in practice? So let…
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20.04.2026 1

The Big AI Management Reboot

The old executive playbook is dead. AI doesn’t just automate tasks beneath you — it removes the scaffolding that made your altitude possible. The future belongs to hands-on leaders who actually do things.


06.04.2026 1

How to Get Started with OpenClaw and AI Agents

You’ve heard about AI agents. You’re curious. But every guide assumes you’re a developer. This one doesn’t. Here’s how I set mine up — and what it actually does for me now.


02.04.2026 2

Why I Spent My Sunday Installing an AI Agent — And Why Every Leader Should

A senior leader’s hands-on Sunday experiment with OpenClaw and agentic AI — and why every organization should honestly reassess their enterprise technology spend before the next big initiative.


15.03.2026 2

Defining the Next Era of Luxury Ecosystems: Reflections from Shoptalk Luxe Abu Dhabi

Frameworks for luxury retail digital transformation from Shoptalk Luxe Abu Dhabi — Omni-Channel Multiplier, O2O Attribution, the POS Blind Spot, and why the definition of exclusivity is shifting from physical space to orchestrated customer journeys.


10.03.2026 0

AI Predictions 2026

We are leaving the magic trick phase of AI. By 2026, the hype cycle crashes into the economic reality of physics, power, and P&L — here are the shifts every business leader needs to prepare for.


31.12.2025 0

Building the Tech Future: How I Got Into Technology

At the end of the eighties, I studied in Germany, focusing on a business and economics degree, and started working a bit in my family’s company. I was so excited about this degree that I started writing the software my family business was to use, and even sold it to two more firms. Since my…
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14.12.2025 0

Reinvent IT: Build the Future — Don’t Rent It.

In the era of AI, the question for every business leader isn’t whether to transform — it’s whether to do it smart or stay stuck. We are at a strategic inflection point where the traditional IT playbook is not just outdated; it’s a liability. When fintech giant Klarna announces plans to “Shut Down SaaS Providers”…
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25.07.2025 0