Work After AI is an annual report on how artificial intelligence is actually changing work, organizations, and enterprise software. It appears every autumn as a European answer to the great American trend reports, from Mary Meeker to the Stanford AI Index and the State of AI Report, because the debate those reports shape rarely fits the reality of European owners, boards, and executives. The analysis is written for the people who decide whether their organizations will still be competitive in five years: owners, boards, and managing directors of mid-sized European companies, together with the capital side of private equity funds and family offices. The report is free and meant to be shared.
The weekly briefing reads the world’s smartest investors as an early warning system
Between the annual editions, Work After AI Weekly tracks what the investments of the world’s leading venture firms reveal about the future of work, the organization, and enterprise software. Each issue works through the next block of the top one hundred venture firms and distills the trends that matter for anyone running a company, with the deals serving as evidence rather than as the story itself. The investors are the signal source, never the subject.
Analyst notes follow the models, prices, and infrastructure beneath the surface
Alongside the weekly briefing, the Analyst & Trend section carries event-driven pieces on AI models, pricing, and infrastructure, published when the market moves rather than on a fixed schedule. When a model release or a pricing decision changes what organizations can expect from their AI systems, it is analyzed there first, and the consequences for work and organizations feed back into the annual report.
The analysis is grounded in boardroom conversations, not in secondhand headlines
Work After AI is written by Gerhard Kürner, who spends his year in conversations with owners, boards, and executives across DACH and Europe. That vantage point is the reason this publication exists: the distance between what the headlines claim and what is actually happening inside European companies is the most underreported story in the AI debate. European sovereignty runs through the analysis as a strategic question of capability and independence, not as a compliance topic.
Gerhard Kürner is CEO of 506.ai, the European platform for Service-as-a-Software and agentic engineering. More than 1,000 conversations over the last three years with boards, owners, and PE funds across DACH and Europe.
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