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Business context over technology
We study how your people actually work before anyone looks at tooling.
About HIP
Built for what happens after AI Fragmentation.
Most AI advisory is sold before a firm even knows what is actually broken. HIP is structured the opposite way. We work with leaders who have already tried, already spent, and now want a sharp read on what is worth doing inside their own business.
Why HIP exists
The market sells AI before it understands your business.
What the market looks like
The current AI market is noisy. Vendors push tools. Analysts push frameworks. Consultants push retainers. Most of it lands in a leader’s inbox before anyone has understood what the business actually does.
HIP was built for the moment after all that. The pilots did not land. The tools did not move the numbers. Researchers call the pattern AI Fragmentation, and it is the common shape of every established mid-market company we work with. Leadership still knows AI has to be part of the answer, and no longer trusts vendor roadmaps to get them there.
We partner with that leadership team. Senior advisory judgment, not slideware. Decisions, not open-ended discovery.
What HIP refuses
- Vendor referral fees
- Open-ended discovery
- Junior handoffs after the senior pitch
- Implementation without strategy
How we work
Four tenets that shape every engagement.
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Commercial reality over hype
Every recommendation has to tie back to capacity created or cost avoided. No exceptions.
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Discipline over speed
Selective rollouts and clear governance. Where exposure is real, a human stays in the loop.
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Vendor neutrality
HIP does not sell tools and does not take referral fees. The advice stays clean.
Track record
The numbers behind the advice.
30+
years building and operating companies
50M
generated by his first venture
25+
mid-market firms advised
100+
workflows diagnosed
Team
Senior advisors and engineers behind every engagement.
Engagements are delivered by a small, senior team. Josef sets direction and owns the hard calls. The rest of the team carries the work inside client workflows.
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Josef Holm
Principal
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Dalara Holm
Chief of Staff
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Eduard Beches
Senior Associate
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Elisabeth Pipal
Associate
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Miliza Cvetkovic
Associate
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Jonathan Beches
Associate
Principal
Three decades building tech companies. Now focused on AI.
Most AI advice is written by people who have never shipped anything commercial. I have spent thirty years building real tech companies, from e-commerce through SaaS to AI. That shapes how HIP reads every workflow and every call leadership is about to make.Josef Holm · Principal, Holm Intelligence Partners
Holm Intelligence Partners is led by Josef Holm. Austrian, technical founder and CEO, based in Dubai. Three decades building tech companies across e-commerce, SaaS, and AI.
His first venture launched in the late 1990s, at the start of the commercial internet, and generated $50 million in sales. That cycle taught him the skill he has leaned on since: spotting structural shifts early, before they become consensus.
In 2016 he founded his first machine learning startup, well before generative AI was a category. He was later a partner in Tim Draper’s VC fund, and today leads Akii, an agentic brand intelligence system, alongside Holm Intelligence Partners.
HIP exists to bring that operator and investor perspective directly into the mid-market, as an AI-Native Service Company that audits, fixes broken AI, and owns the implementation. Engagements are delivered by a senior advisory team. Josef sets direction and owns the hard calls.
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Every engagement begins with a short fit review. If there is a strong mutual fit, we move quickly. If not, we will tell you directly.