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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 agentic readiness gaps.
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. The pattern is familiar across established mid-market companies: fragmented context, ungoverned tools, weak system-of-record discipline, and no clear path from AI activity to operating performance. Leadership still knows AI has to be part of the answer, and no longer trusts vendor roadmaps to get them there.
Josef works with that leadership team. Josef-led judgment, not slideware. Decisions, not open-ended discovery.
What HIP refuses
- Vendor referral fees
- Open-ended discovery
- Opaque staffing
- 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.
Founder experience
The numbers behind the advice.
30
years building technology companies
8
companies founded
50M
USD sales from first venture
2021
AIBC Dubai Investor of the Year
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 directly by Josef Holm, an Austrian technical founder based in DIFC, Dubai.
Josef has spent 30 years building technology companies. He founded 8 companies and grew his first venture to $50M in sales.
Josef co-founded Draper Goren Holm with Tim Draper and was named 2021 Investor of the Year at AIBC Dubai.
Josef owns every HIP engagement personally.
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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.