D1
Expand
Map every bottleneck
We walk your operations end to end with the people who live in them. We're not wasting time with surveys. In person, pragmatic, thorough and quick.
OutputThe bottleneck map
AI adoption for scaling startups · Zürich
Your team should be building
Not drowning in operations. Everything that isn't product is quietly eating your team alive. I help scaling startups automate the non-product work, so your people get back to what actually matters.
Why we exist
We make the mundane obsolete
So founders and their teams can build what actually matters.
01 · The drag
…And all of a sudden, product had no space. The scale-up trap.
A founder's week · illustrative
ProductEverything else
Mon
Product
Invoices
Ops sync
Tue
Product
Hiring admin
Reporting
Wed
Product
Support
Board update
Thu
Product
Onboarding
Finance
Fri
Product
Admin
Ops sync
Time on product this week
STEP 1 OF 3
You found product-market fit.
The team is small, the calendar is mostly product, and it works. Customers pay for what you build, and you build most of the week.
STEP 2 OF 3
Then HR, finance, admin and ops multiply faster than headcount.
Every new customer, hire and invoice adds a little more non-product work. Nobody decided this. It simply compounds, one calendar block at a time.
STEP 3 OF 3
Every hour on non-product work is an hour not building what customers pay for.
Your best people are now firefighting operations. The product slows down exactly when it should be speeding up. That is the scaling wall, and it is a systems problem, not a hiring problem.
The work nobody hired for is the work eating the week.
02 · The promise
Working software in 5 days
Not a slide deck. Not a six-month transformation. We find the one bottleneck stealing the most product focus and automate it together, in a single week, in your environment. We build with AI, which is why a week is enough. Whether AI ends up inside the solution is decided by what moves the needle, not by fashion.
Build Week · How it works
Expand. Focus. Build. Ship.
One week, one bottleneck, running in production by Friday. Built with AI, with your people in the room the whole time.
D2
Focus
Pick the one stealing the most product focus
Chosen by impact on product time, not by what is easiest to automate or what shows off AI. One target, scoped tight enough to ship this week.
OutputOne build target
D3–4
Build
Built with AI, in your environment
Your stack, your data, your access. AI does the heavy lifting of the build, your team sees every step, so it is never a black box.
OutputWorking software, documented
D5
Ship
Running in production by Friday
Live, handed over, and used on Monday. One month of hosted support included, and a handover conversation in week three.
OutputLive automation + roadmap
CHF
Build Week
9,500
One operational bottleneck automated, running in production, with one month of hosted support and a roadmap for the next use cases.
How a week is enough
We build with AI. The bottleneck decides what ships.
The build
AI does the heavy lifting
Claude Code, agents and automation tooling write, wire and test the bulk of the solution. That is how a week replaces a quarter, without cutting corners.
The choice
Needle-moving only
We pick the automation that returns the most product time, not the one that demos best. Sometimes that is an integration. Sometimes an agent.
The result
AI inside only if it earns its place
Using AI to build a plain automation that moves the needle beats putting AI into everything. Your team learns both by watching it happen.
03 · The path
Build. Enable. Advise.
A path that ends with you not needing me. Each step transfers more capability to your team and takes less of mine.
01
Build Week
We automate your number one operational bottleneck. One month of hosted support included.
CHF 9,500one week
02
Enablement Sprint
Your team learns to build with AI the way we did in Build Week and ships the next use cases in parallel. Supervised, not done for you. Repeat until they are independent.
CHF 5,000per MVP
03
Advisory Retainer
A fractional AI lead in your corner. Monthly sparring, quarterly scorecard, structured scaling governance.
CHF 1,000per month, quarterly blocks
Where it ends
Independence
"You don't need me anymore." That sentence is the goal of every engagement, and the reason the path is short.
04 · Who it's for
Built for startups that found product-market fit
10–50
people. Sweet spot between 15 and 35, where the founder still sees every calendar.
Post product-market fit
Customers pay for what you build. Now the non-product work is multiplying faster than the team.
Founder-led
Led by people who still care most about the product, and can feel it slowing down.
Across Europe
From Spain to the Netherlands, Germany and Switzerland. In person for Build Week, wherever you are. Remote for the rest.
The human part is the point
05 · Why Mundaine
No fanciness. Just working software.
Six things I will not compromise on, because each one is a way companies waste their people.
Anti-waste
Every resource toward what matters
No dashboards nobody opens. No pilots that never ship. No AI for the sake of AI.
Speed creates space
Working software in days
We build with AI, so the build takes days. That leaves room for the human part, which is the slow part.
Human-centered
People are not gears
We address the fear and the culture, not just the tooling.
No black boxes
Built in the open
Your team sees every step, so what ships is yours to run. Want to build the next ones yourselves? That is the Enablement Sprint.
No fluff
Straight talk, results on Monday
Hands-on building and honest conversations, in that order.
One person, end to end
From diagnosis to shipped code
The same person who finds the bottleneck builds the fix. No handoff, nothing lost in translation.
06 · Across Europe
Working with scale-ups in Spain, the Netherlands, Germany and Switzerland. Based in Adliswil near Zürich, regularly working out of Impact Hub Zürich. Co-lead of the swissAI Tech-Circle, founding member and Adoption co-lead of the international AI collective The GenAI Circle. Speaker, author, and hands-on builder.
GenAI Circle
Built with
Claude Code
Next.js
Vercel
Neon
n8n
GitHub
…and one detour to California The merch store and artist site for Cali Agents, the West Coast hip-hop duo, live since March 2026. All custom-built. pocketslinted.com
07 · Insights
Writing on scaling with AI
Most of GTM Is Glue Work
Your real GTM job is a thin band of judgment surrounded by mechanical grind. Claude Code absorbs the grind on both sides of your tools.
How to Find the One Bottleneck That's Capping Your Growth
A three-question diagnostic you can run Monday morning to identify the one operational bottleneck capping your scaling startup's growth.
The Scaling Wall Nobody Talks About
Operations starts eating everything. The CTO stops building and starts firefighting. The scaling wall is a systems problem, not a hiring problem.
08 · About
I help companies adopt AI without wasting their people
I'm Damian Nomura, an AI adoption consultant, author, and speaker near Zürich. I take teams from operational bottleneck to working software in five days, then hand the capability over so they can keep going without me.
Human-centered, hands-on, no fluff. I build this way for my own company too, so what you get is practice, not theory.
Co-lead, swissAI Tech-Circle
Founding member, The GenAI Circle
Author & speaker
Builder first
Based near Zürich
Working across Europe, from Spain to the Netherlands. In person for Build Week, remote for the rest.
Start here
Stop wasting your people
The best teams don't have more hours. They stop spending them on work that doesn't matter. A first call is 30 minutes, and you leave with the bottleneck named either way.
Let's talk
No deck. No pressure. Straight talk.