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Secure, multifunctional digital assistant for consultants and business professionals Meet Brian Book a Demo Try for Free – Because your time is precious – Get support to complete your tasks within seconds, 24/7 Who is Brian? Brian is your TRANSLATION assistantBrian basics explained Watch this video to learn why we have built Brian, what his skills are, how he works and how to get started! – Our clients – We love to amaze business professionals Brian is an innovative multi-skill tool increasing the productivity of knowledge workers. I believe the potential of this always-on work companion who instantly performs recurring tasks is quite significant! Balint TolnayVentum Consulting, Partner Why do I like Brian? Brian is humble and focuses on what he does well: Make everyday consulting life easier and provide value immediately. A great example of a domain-specific concept. Roman SominskyAllianz Consulting, Lead Data Analytics & Digital Assistants The Munich-based company AskBrian is revolutionizing consulting with its AI. Brian bundles multiple features within one application in a new and extremely convenient way. Johannes HerbergerSiemens Management Consulting, Project Services Manager Brian – the digital assistant is fantastic. The support for those little but time-consuming everyday tasks such as translating transcripts or searching for the right icons definitely saves us time and energy. We can highly recommend Brian and are excited about the upcoming developments. Sascha VollmerhausenBluemont Consulting, Manager AskBrian is an innovative pioneer applying artificial intelligence with a specific focus on management consulting. A digital assistant that takes on unpleasant research tasks so that consultants have more time for personal consulting of their clients. This is how it should be! Daniel NerlichOdgers Berndtson, Managing Partner We use Brian in our daily strategy consulting in order to get more efficiency in commodity work such as data research, data cleansing, and document translations. This allows us to maximize our efforts in client work by reducing the need for admin support.  Especially the smooth integration in MS Teams makes Brian a highly frequented assistant with 24/7 availability to our consulting team. Markus FostFOSTEC & Company, Managing Director I am convinced, Brian is a very innovative, scalable, and highly applicable AI tool to access complex information and digital services. The assistant has a great product-market fit especially for high-powered knowledge workers and organizations – productivity goes up, complexity down… it’s so simple. Matthias SetzerFacebook, Global Director Payments Partnerships We want to maximise the time we invest in our clients and minimise the time spent on repetitive and less-value-adding tasks. Brian is exactly the right AI to fix that: a powerful digital assistant to seamlessly undertake many day-to-day tasks and help professionals focus on value-adding activities. Jens TorchallaOliver Wyman, Partner Being a bit skeptical in the beginning….. now, we have been working with Brian on our projects for over one year. Clearly, we are still appreciating the various functionalities – from slide translation to advanced research insights. Brian reduces commodity work in our teams significantly. That makes “him” a true asset in terms of efficiency. Easy to use, this digital assistant is the perfect fit for and beyond strategy consulting. Gerhard NenningStern Stewart & Co., Senior Partner Brian is a powerful (digital) co-worker! Brian performs cumbersome, annoying, and uninspirational tasks for me within minutes and that way saves many hours of work every single week for me and my teams. The ability to talk to and activate Brian via e-mail is extremely comfortable and easy and a clear USP vs. other solutions in the space. Daniel MöllerhennBain & Company, Principal I am deeply impressed by the skills of my new co-worker BRIAN. He supports me in communicating in local languages, creating PowerPoint presentations, and with research. All this happens super-fast 24/7. I am pleased to recommend this amazing AI assistant to you! Marcel WinnefeldCylad Consulting, Principal Brian is an innovative multi-skill tool increasing the productivity of knowledge workers. I believe the potential of this always-on work companion who instantly performs recurring tasks is quite significant! Balint TolnayVentum Consulting, Partner Why do I like Brian? Brian is humble and focuses on what he does well: Make everyday consulting life easier and provide value immediately. A great example of a domain-specific concept. Roman SominskyAllianz Consulting, Lead Data Analytics & Digital Assistants The Munich-based company AskBrian is revolutionizing consulting with its AI. Brian bundles multiple features within one application in a new and extremely convenient way. Johannes HerbergerSiemens Management Consulting, Project Services Manager Brian – the digital assistant is fantastic. The support for those little but time-consuming everyday tasks such as translating transcripts or searching for the right icons definitely saves us time and energy. We can highly recommend Brian and are excited about the upcoming developments. Sascha VollmerhausenBluemont Consulting, Manager AskBrian is an innovative pioneer applying artificial intelligence with a specific focus on management consulting. A digital assistant that takes on unpleasant research tasks so that consultants have more time for personal consulting of their clients. This is how it should be! Daniel NerlichOdgers Berndtson, Managing Partner We use Brian in our daily strategy consulting in order to get more efficiency in commodity work such as data research, data cleansing, and document translations. This allows us to maximize our efforts in client work by reducing the need for admin support.  Especially the smooth integration in MS Teams makes Brian a highly frequented assistant with 24/7 availability to our consulting team. Markus FostFOSTEC & Company, Managing Director I am convinced, Brian is a very innovative, scalable, and highly applicable AI tool to access complex information and digital services. The assistant has a great product-market fit especially for high-powered knowledge workers and organizations – productivity goes up, complexity down… it’s so simple. Matthias SetzerFacebook, Global Director Payments Partnerships We want to maximise the time we invest in our clients and minimise the time spent on repetitive and less-value-adding tasks. Brian is exactly the right AI to fix that: a powerful digital assistant to seamlessly undertake many day-to-day tasks and help professionals focus on value-adding activities. Jens TorchallaOliver Wyman, Partner Being a bit skeptical in the beginning….. now, we have been working with Brian on our projects for over one year. Clearly, we are still appreciating the various functionalities – from slide translation to advanced research insights. Brian reduces commodity work in our teams significantly. That makes “him” a true asset in terms of efficiency. Easy to use, this digital assistant is the perfect fit for and beyond strategy consulting. Gerhard NenningStern Stewart & Co., Senior Partner Brian is a powerful (digital) co-worker! Brian performs cumbersome, annoying, and uninspirational tasks for me within minutes and that way saves many hours of work every single week for me and my teams. The ability to talk to and activate Brian via e-mail is extremely comfortable and easy and a clear USP vs. other solutions in the space. Daniel MöllerhennBain & Company, Principal I am deeply impressed by the skills of my new co-worker BRIAN. He supports me in communicating in local languages, creating PowerPoint presentations, and with research. All this happens super-fast 24/7. I am pleased to recommend this amazing AI assistant to you! Marcel WinnefeldCylad Consulting, Principal Brian is an innovative multi-skill tool increasing the productivity of knowledge workers. I believe the potential of this always-on work companion who instantly performs recurring tasks is quite significant! Balint TolnayVentum Consulting, Partner – Brian’s skills – Over 30 boasting skills with more to come, Brian helps you get the work done Brian helps you overcome language barriers Just send any file format (PowerPoint, Word, PDF, etc.) over to Brian and it will translate it immediately into your desired language. Brian analyses all public companies for you Brian provides a financial X-ray of any public company around the world – over 1,000 well-structured data points in Excel! Brian helps you get those perfect slides Brian can provide icons, flags or templates. Email him and he will send you the elements you need for your deck in hand. See All Skills– Be your best with Brian – Working with AskBrian adds value to your business Focus on what mattersIncrease your productivity by delegating time-consuming and repetitive tasks to Brian. Aren’t you curious about what you could accomplish with your own digital AI assistant, just a click away? Check Brian’s skills Don’t stress, spend lessWith Brian by your side, you eliminate the need for additional costly subscription plans, and the hassle of managing contracts, and payment plans. Brian’s got you covered. Learn about our pricing Don’t dabble with data securityBrian boasts top notch security, a transparent privacy policy, and is GDPR compliant. Hundreds of companies trust Brian with their confidential information. How we secure your data and privacy How It Works– Are you busy? – This is how Brian saves your time 10 requests … is the average number of requests per user per month 6 hours and 42 minutes … is the time Brian saves each active user per month The ROI DetailsAnd your Brian ROI? … reflects your user profile and value of your time Your value: 7 hours x 40€ per hour = 280€ per monthYour invest: 10 – 50€ / user / month (depends on skill-set and duration) Your Return on Investment: 9 – 28 x! 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Book a free consultation Menu --- We are excited about and love what we do. We have built Brian to create real value for consultants and other high-paced business professionals. We do so by exploring innovative ways to connect humans with state-of-the-art technology and data. Our goal is to “generate” more time for our clients to invest in new business ideas or share them with their loved ones. – Our beliefs – Leap of faith Acceleration The business is accelerating but a large share of professionals today have to deal with ‘standard’ operative tasks for which there are already smart tools and services available (translation, financial analysis, research, calculation model, and so on). Complexity It is increasingly difficult to keep track of the best services/tools und distinguishing between real value services and good marketing. Many professionals are ‘lost’ in the high number of options, solutions, and data sources. AI at the start There are already online services and tools supporting multiple tasks of advisors. These tools are fast, instantly available, increasingly smart and, compared to their value, quite affordable. Considering the recent advances of AI, we believe to be just at the beginning. Seeking simplicity Accessing smart features of multiple tools in ‘one place’ without worrying about data security, and doing so using free natural language, enhances efficiency. – Founder’s story – How it began Oct. 2017Dec. 2017Jun. 2018Jan. 2020May 2020Aug. 2023Oct. 2017“It’s 10:00 pm. We are working with high pressure on a proposal for an exciting consulting project. We want to integrate a few slides from a different proposal but these are in German. We need them in English and we need them now. All team members are busy with other tasks (note: nobody likes to translate slides), the support staff is not available on short notice… so I start to translate them by myself. In order to be faster, I copy-paste the slide sections to DeepL and back… I am impressed by the quality of the translation and think to myself… there must be an automated way for this!” Dec. 2017I talk to friends, AI experts and some colleagues about the idea of a multi-skill digital assistant designed to help people like us with recurring tasks. There is nothing like this on the market, the people are excited about the idea. I am excited too! But is something like this technically possible? On December 5, Brian is born. At first, he can only do small talk and tell jokes. I am experimenting with chatbot technology, RPA, researching further online skills and databases. I analyse all top AI 100 companies in order to find out which of them are potentially helpful for business professionals like me. I can get no sleep – new skill ideas come late in the evening, in the middle of the night, very early in the morning… the only relief is to write them down – a mind map of 50 potential skills is the result. Jun. 2018It will work! We have built the architecture for Pro Brian and we see the technological prove that Brian will work and it will be amazing! The first users test the translation skill and they are loving it. It is not perfect, but it saves a lot of time! AskBrian GmbH is founded. We have some funding, have done all the registration and paperwork. In parallel, we develop the free skills of Brian. Jan. 2020Brian is running, we have paying clients, 600+ users, more than 1000 requests a month. We are improving the deliverability, solving special issues, adding translation of pdf, png, and jpg files. Now we are ready to onboard further clients and start contacting investors. We experience very positive traction, amazing feedback, and great potential. The founders decide to dedicate 100% of their passion and energy to Brian. We believe we owe it to our clients, we owe it to Brian and we love building Brian. With additional power, we move faster. May 2020The world is struggling with the COVID-19 pandemic, the economy slows down and this is the time where we push even stronger and close our first external financing round! We have gained private investors from leading consulting firms and startup founders – Investors from consulting firms such as Bain, Oliver Wyman, Stern Stewart, EY and the founders of Flaconi, Zenloop, Kartenmacherei and more! With our new supporters, we have so many more possibilities! Aug. 2023In August 2023, AskBrian was successfully acquired by think-cell, the leading productivity software provider specialising in data-driven PowerPoint presentations. This move signals an exciting period of growth and innovation for both companies. Together we are creating the conditions to redefine productivity in the professional sector. – Integrating the best – Partners and technology Brian integrates selected data sources and best digital services available. Only with the leading providers, we can provide the best service possible: no matter if it comes to translations, OCR, industry insights or financial information we always shoot for the stars. – Inspiring people – Proud member of selected communities Brian represents a new species of software. We do not try to ‘disrupt’. We love to create, build and develop further. While creating a new market we are proud to combine the best of consulting and AI. – Who we are – People behind Brian We, the people behind Brian, simply love what we do. We are a team of senior business professionals with an extensive background in consulting, software development, and research, with an obsession to deliver value to our clients. What unites us together is the goal to achieve something extraordinary. Pavol SikulaFounder & CEOExperienced Management Consultant 14+ years at Stern Stewart & Co. Expertise in support optimization Two-time Ironman Matthias RuppelCo-founder & CTOPassionate software developer Experienced team leader 3 years big data at T-Systems Franziska GrünsteidelTeam Lead Business DevelopmentConsultative selling enthusiast Passionate team leader Loves econ simulation games Daniel SteblinFullstack DeveloperExperienced Software Engineer Startup background Loves Fitness/Bodybuilding Martin ZachoszczSenior Software EngineerExperienced Software Engineer Psychology & Software-Engineering background Loves DYI projects & Biking through Berlin Khushi AgarwalUser Success ManagerBusiness & strategic Innovator Product Enthusiast Bookworm at heart Menu --- HOW IT WORKS Get started with Brian instantly. – STEP 1 – Get Access to BrianNo matter if you are an individual user or if you represent a team, you can gain access to Brian easily within minutes – STEP 2 – Work with BrianBrian helps you with over 30 relevant business-related tasks, communicating via MS Teams, WebApp, email, or Slack using natural language – STEP 3 – Become a Brian Pro!While working with Brian comes intuitively, we have provided additional resources to help you become the ultimate Brian Pro! –Access Brian Immediately– STEP 1: Onboard Brian for your business As an individual It is that easy: Sign up for a free trial: – 14 days – All skills of Brian – No credit card required – No software to be installed Ten minutes after your confirmation email, you are good to go! Free TrialAs a team or company It is that easy: In the free live demo session we will: – Present Brian and his skills – Learn about your situation and needs – Answer your initial questions – Discuss next steps It only takes minutes to provide ‘trial access’ for you, your team, or the entire company! Book a Demo– Work with Brian – STEP 2: Communicate with Brian via MS Teams, WebApp, email or Slack Learn Brian basicsBrian has multiple talents powered by selected digital services and data sources. A few hints on how to work with him: Keep your requests short and crisp! In each request, ask for one skill and one ‘thing’ only (e.g., one company, one industry,…) Brian’s mother tongue is English, but he also speaks German, Spanish, French and Japanese. He delivers within seconds, 24/7. Enjoy! Chat with Brian on MS Teams Brian via MS Teams: Even faster response times Higher convenience Ultimately leaving the email-age Benefiting from all skills of Brian How to get started with Brian via MS Teams: Here you can find simple instructions on how to How to get started with Brian via MS Teams Then, follow these simple instructions to add the AskBrian app to your MS Teams application… … and you are ready for work 4.0! Add Brian to your Teams nowEasy access with the Brian WebApp Brian via WebApp: Access through Web Browser Password-Free Conversation History Fastest Interface Optimal User Navigation How to get started with Brian via WebApp Here you can find simple instructions on how to get started with the WebApp Launch WebApp nowInteract with Brian via email– Brian’s help is just one email away – Working with Brian via email: The great thing about email: everyone uses it! Email Brian your tasks, requests, and general questions: brian@askbrian.ai No hardware, or software download needed Write to Brian for assistance as if he was human, using natural language! – Emailing made even easier– Chat with Brian on Slack Brian via Slack: Seamless interaction in your daily workflows No need to switch between tools Access all of Brian’s powerful skills — right inside Slack How to get started with Brian via Slack: Follow these simple instructions to add the AskBrian app to your Slack.. … and you are ready for work 4.0! Add Brian to your Slack now–Become a Brian Pro– STEP 3: Bring your collaboration with Brian to the next level Get the full scoop on Brian’s skills We continuously develop Brian’s skills further: Multiple skills in one ‘tool’ Transparency about sources and providers Hints on how to improve your experience Check skill details Even more options for larger clients: Customized look-and-feel of Brian’s results Individual skill development and /or integration White label solutions Understand Brian’s architectureFind answers to frequently asked questions!Make sure you’re getting all the benefits of Brian with more insights into: Getting Access Working with Brian MS Teams Integration Data Security & Privacy Solving Problems Additional FAQs Troubleshoot any problems away, and get back on track with Brian! Check the FAQsReady to get started? Get to know your new AI digital assistant, and unlock your potential Try for Free Best for individuals: 14 days of full Brian access, no strings & no credit card required. Book a Demo Best for teams and companies: an interactive Brian demo session, tailored to your specific needs. Menu