Dominik Lambersy

CoFounder at TextCortex | G2 Top 10 Best AI Products 2025 | Top visited EU AI platform (2 mio. per month) | Speaker & Educator in Generative AI

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🏒 Heard of asymmetric returns?

Most things in life offer symmetrical returns - you put in X, you get X back. Linear growth.

But asymmetric returns?

You put in X, and the output could be anything. Some risk, but potentially HUGE rewards.

At TextCortex, we've grown to millions of website visitors monthly.

How?

By consistently creating content in our niche and building authority.

Compare this to paid ads where you typically get what you pay for - symmetrical results.

Content creation offers asymmetric returns.

It grows and compounds over time, reaching more people and bringing more value than you initially put in.

It's like planting a seed that grows into a forest, providing shade for countless people.

This is the beauty of asymmetric returns - the potential for exponential growth.

It's not just about working harder, it's about working smarter.

Finding those leverage points where a small input can lead to massive output.

Whether in relationships, business, or personal growth, seek opportunities where your efforts can multiply.

That's where the magic happens.

Want to learn more? Comment "asymmetric" below!

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@MichLieben Repo

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@wadefoster @zapier Team of 15 who has been deploying AI in enterprises in Europe. Curious to test!

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@rohitdotmittal We are currently just mass adopting OSS to what our customers needs.

It's an insane time where you find a solution already inline you just need to tweak it a bit with domain knowledge.

Will be fun platform businesses built out of the sheer amount of OSS being built rn.

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@LoganTGott Playbook

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@LoganTGott Playbook

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@romanbuildsaas Claude

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@CyrusYari Valencia

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@star_yutish Won't matter when the new model that changes everything yet again drops

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@onusoz And the next step is locking down usage :D

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@VyronInvest Die Antwort ist also nicht 42?

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@TechCrunch They should fix outlook for people in space.

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@geoffreywoo Last time I checked OprnAI is killing anything that is not core quest.

Also just a new model drop won't save that incinerator from burning.

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@Shpigford Happens to AI companies since 2022. It's crazy to me how many investors fall for this.

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@fchollet I agree - agency and general influence / power.

Agency will always establish opportunities while influence will help in spreading them.

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@nikunj @mpauldaniels And even this number is beautified. COGS are brutal for anything dev related in AI.

Sure my revenue looks crazy if I give people 50 dollar bills for 20 dollar in return.

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Canva for AI Agents. With customer logos from hidden champion to Fortune 500.

Platform helps companies to deploy a set of battle tested vertical agents, stupid easy to customize new ones in less than 10 min. Already scaled through 30+ teams in some of our accounts. On track to become agentic infrastructure.

- 5x rev growth in 2025
- 220% NRR, 70%+ gross margins, break-even
- 65% WAU/MAU ratio

Team: OpenClaw/Shadcn/langflow maintainers + ex-Celonis/Personio, Berlin.

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@rohanpaul_ai I honestly see a ton of engineers burning out in too many context switches. Incapable of focusing or taking any outside impulse they just run from agent n to agent n+10

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@christianmiele Wer die API nach 15 Jahren Standard noch so versteckt wie DATEV, dem hilft auch Agent Auth nichts.

Ich glaub die Story hilft dir auch als Schaustellung warum wir keine soliden Developer Tools oder API Businesses in DE haben. Gatekeeping extreme: https://t.co/tCJvSMhqRD

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Germany pioneered industrial engineering that the whole world copied. And in 2026, we require a 12-step partner certification program to access THE accounting API of the nation.

We didn't lose our edge to China or the US. We bureaucrated ourselves out of the game.

I got curious about building an AI agent to take over accounting tasks. A proper Buchhalter Bernd.

Imagine Bernd to pick up our invoices from a central inbox, read and extract the invoice data, upload to DATEV for human review.

I hired 6 people so far who have hated this job with the truest, burning passion. Might as well get into it.

Step 1: get API access to DATEV.

Here's what they require:
✅ 2 years in business
✅ 20 managed DATEV environments
✅ 2 certified DATEV technicians
✅ A field service review
✅ Proof of data protection expertise

...to access an API.

Not launch a rocket. Not handle nuclear waste. An. API.

Building process over.

Meanwhile some cracked 19-year-old in San Francisco builds a full payment empire on Stripe integration in 4 minutes with some sandbox keys.

The best part? Their data protection requirement document is literally labeled "Internal" at the bottom.

Nothing says "we take security seriously" like publicly publishing your internal docs.

Germany didn't fall behind on digitization because of talent or money.

It fell behind because gatekeepers built moats around the moats of the moats.

Every month this friction exists = another accounting workflow that stays manual = another person doing copy-paste in Excel and 90s themed webapps in 2026.

That's not protecting anyone. That's protecting the status quo.

Generative AI could handle 80% of routine accounting tasks today.

But first you need 2 certified employees, a field review, and apparently a fusion between a time machine and a FAX to get 20 clients before you've even started.

Germany, we need to talk.

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Who did it better 11x, Cluely or Delve, Icon?

Who wants to add to the list?

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Delve halts demos, Insight Partners scrubs investment post amid ‘fake compliance’ allegations https://t.co/6jsdWssmqK

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@michael_chomsky You mean Scale AI?