Business before technology
We don't start from tools — we start from customers, business, products, and the organization's goals.
Team
The team that navigates the AI era with you
Starmap AI's experts combine strategic vision, business and product experience, and a deep understanding of AI and its human impact.
Why Starmap AI
Why Starmap AI?
We approach AI from the perspective of business, customer value, and people — not just technology.
More than efficiency
We help you see AI as an enabler of growth, new customer value, and new business models.
Experiential learning
People get most excited about AI when they get to try it themselves and see what they can build.
Human-centric AI change
We help organizations also account for workload, role changes, leadership, and AI-burnout risks.
Otso Lindfors
AI-strategian ja liiketoimintamuotoilun mentori
Otso Lindfors helps business leaders identify how AI changes business, products, services, and the creation of customer value — and what companies should therefore do differently. His core expertise lies in strategic design, business renewal, identifying new business opportunities, and turning strategy into concrete products, services, and operating models. Otso approaches AI first and foremost as a strategic transformation. AI can make existing ways of working more efficient, but the most interesting opportunities often emerge from the fact that it enables companies to build something that was not previously possible: a new service, product, customer experience, business model, or an entirely new way of organizing how the company operates. He helps leadership teams separate truly meaningful opportunities from technological noise and build a clear direction around them. Otso has over 20 years of experience in strategic and industrial design, product and service development, entrepreneurship, and building companies. He is the founder of Apxt Venture Studio and Agents Guild, and serves as Chair of the Board at Aihu Agency, Kick AI, and Connau. At Intercontinental Sustainable Racing (ISR), he works with strategy, business models, international growth, and investor readiness. Otso also acts as a startup mentor at LUT Forward and Aalto Creatives, among others, and teaches strategic design at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou as part of the Playshop program. At Starmap AI, Otso helps leadership teams and companies especially in situations where the question is no longer only how to use AI, but what is worth building in a world enabled by AI, how the business should be renewed, and where the company should go next.
Tuomi Kariniemi
Työn muotoilu ja AI-muutoksen psykologia
Tuomi helps organizations redesign work, roles, and processes when AI changes them. At the core of his work is a question that is often left unaddressed in implementation projects: what happens to people’s thinking, emotions, and professional identity when their work changes faster than it can be properly discussed? Reorganizing tasks may look simple on paper, but in practice, change often stalls. People begin to ask what in their own expertise is still valuable, where meaningfulness in work comes from when the very part of the job they have mastered best is the one being transferred to machines, and what they can rely on when the predictability of work disappears. These questions do not go away by staying silent. They move into corridor conversations and later appear as slowness, cynicism, and employee turnover. Tuomi brings them to the table in a way that allows them to be discussed without turning the conversation into therapy or resistance management. Tuomi’s background is in cultural anthropology, and this is reflected in the way he reads the relationship between people and machines: what is really happening inside the organization, not what is written in the change plan. He has worked extensively with change capability, HR digitalization, leadership, and the development of work, with a background in HR roles in international companies. He has built applications himself using agents, delivered AI training for organizations, and studies the psychology of AI through both research and hands-on practice. He understands technology well enough to know where implementations actually tend to get stuck. At Starmap AI, Tuomi works with executives, managers, and teams in situations where AI adoption is not being held back by a lack of tools, but because people are not yet truly involved. He redesigns work and roles, plans how change should be carried through, and facilitates conversations that are difficult to start. He helps leaders lead work whose content is no longe
Timur Kulbaev
Senior AI Consultant & Mentor
Timur Kubaev brings deep practical expertise in AI agents, automation, and agentic software development to Starmap AI. He helps business leaders see how AI can be used in concrete ways to automate workflows, prototype new solutions, and develop business operations. Timur has built AI agents and automation systems designed to reduce manual work and free up teams’ time for more meaningful tasks. His expertise covers the full journey from idea to implementation: identifying use cases, technical planning, development, deployment, training, and continuous improvement. As an AI mentor for senior executives, Timur helps leaders understand what AI agents and AI-assisted programming truly make possible. His vibe-coding workshops make AI tangible: participants see and experience for themselves how quickly new ideas can be turned into functional digital solutions.
Tommi Perälä
AI-strategi & liiketoiminnan rakentaja
Tommi helps companies identify the opportunities in AI and digital development that truly matter for their business. At the core of his work are AI and digital roadmaps, AI agents, the concepting of new services, and the identification and practical implementation of use cases from idea to execution. Tommi moves naturally between strategy, business, and technology. His strength lies in quickly seeing where the potential is, structuring complex topics into an understandable whole, and building a concrete direction forward. He challenges, spars, and helps organizations make better choices — instead of adopting AI simply for the sake of using AI. His long experience as a consultant, development director, and builder of various digital services has taught Tommi to always view technology from a business perspective. His work also includes mentoring and training, with the goal of making AI understandable, practical, and genuinely useful. At Starmap AI, Tommi works especially as a sparring partner for business leaders, a builder of AI strategies and roadmaps, and a practical hands-on trainer. He helps leadership teams and organizations identify the most important AI opportunities, prioritize the right use cases, and bring AI into business development, new services, and everyday operating models. Focus: AI roadmaps, AI agents, and digital business development
Johannes Koponen
AI Konsultti & Mentori
Johannes helps business leaders and teams leverage AI to build new digital solutions, SaaS products, and tools that support business operations. His areas of expertise include AI-assisted software development, product management, SaaS business development, and combining technology, customer insight, and commercial thinking into practical solutions. He has been applying AI-assisted development in practice for a long time and has used it to build functional services and applications. Johannes also has entrepreneurial experience and has developed a SaaS-based ERP solution tailored to the needs of the construction industry. His background combines building and scaling SaaS products, roadmap planning and prioritization, go-to-market strategy, and leading demanding development projects. At Starmap AI, Johannes works as an AI trainer and mentor for senior executives and also contributes to programming workshops and implementation projects. He helps organizations move from an interest in AI to concrete action and build solutions that improve both day-to-day efficiency and business growth.
Mikko "Tuba" Tuominen
Senior AI mentori
Mikko helps companies turn AI into concrete business benefits: more efficient processes, stronger sales, more impactful marketing, and smoother everyday work. His core expertise lies in business process automation and the use of AI in sales, marketing, content management, and the optimization of operational work. Mikko is especially driven by the belief that people should not spend their time on repetitive manual tasks when those tasks can be automated in a smarter way. He helps organizations identify where AI can remove inefficiencies, accelerate workflows, and free up experts’ time for work that creates greater value for customers and the business. Mikko has a strong background in B2B sales, service development, project management, and building technology companies. He has worked in AI and automation-related leadership roles, as a hands-on AI consultant, and in commercial and strategic positions. This gives him the ability to connect the possibilities of technology with real business needs — not in theory, but in a practical, results-driven way. Mikko delivers AI training, mentoring, consulting, and implementation projects that help companies adopt AI quickly, systematically, and in a way that supports the business. He helps management and teams identify the best use cases, build the first working solutions, and bring AI into everyday processes so that the benefits are clearly visible in smoother work, improved efficiency, and business growth.
Kristian Jakobsson
AI Mentori
Kristian Jakobsson helps companies use artificial intelligence to solve concrete business challenges. Kristian’s strength lies in his ability to combine analytical thinking, problem-solving and the practical application of AI. He has developed AI-powered solutions for clients in areas such as industrial quotation processes and pricing. In these use cases, AI can help structure complex information, accelerate preparation, improve the quality of work and support decision-making in situations where the cost of errors can be significant. Kristian is particularly motivated by solving challenging problems. His interest in mathematics, logical thinking and strategic analysis is reflected in the way he approaches AI: he looks for solutions that are not only technically interesting but also genuinely useful in day-to-day business operations. His active involvement in chess also reflects his interest in structured thinking, anticipation and identifying the best paths towards a solution. At Starmap AI, Kristian focuses on both sales and delivering a variety of AI training programmes. He helps companies understand how AI can be applied in practice in areas such as quotation processes, pricing, improving the efficiency of expert work and building new digital solutions.
Marko Torpo
AI mentori
Marko Torpo combines the practical application of artificial intelligence, software development, business development, and people leadership in a rare and distinctive way. He has long and diverse experience from the IT, telecom, and fintech sectors, as well as from expert, product, business leadership, and managing director roles. Marko’s strength lies in his ability to make AI understandable and practical also for leaders and organizations for whom AI is not a technical project, but a transformation of business, work, and competitiveness. He helps companies identify where AI can genuinely improve processes, create new customer value, strengthen products and services, and open up entirely new business opportunities. Marko has a background in software design and product development leadership, and he has personally built several applications using AI-assisted programming. He understands at a practical level how modern AI tools, agents, and AI-based development platforms can be used to rapidly build ideas, prototypes, services, and business models. Thanks to his leadership and executive search background, Marko also approaches AI from the perspective of people, capabilities, and organizational culture. He helps management understand how AI changes work roles, decision-making, competence requirements, and cognitive workload — and how organizations should be led so that AI increases productivity without undermining employee well-being.
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