Kai Ebert

Founder @ Brainhuggers Bureau | AI-native venture studio. Working side by side with companies to build operations that run on agents, not decks about them.

Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

About

Dialing in a sound on a synthesizer taught me one thing: the interesting ones are never in the presets. Most companies are using AI to do what they've always done, faster. Same decks, fewer hours. I'm interested in the harder question: what does a company look like that wouldn't exist without agents? That's what Brainhuggers Bureau is built to answer. Not a consultancy. A bureau, a place where cases get worked and findings get filed. We build experiments, test what survives, and document what we find. Even when it disproves the thesis. For the companies I work with, that means hands-on building, side by side. We take the part of your business you suspect should work differently with agents, build the AI-native version, and find out what actually holds up. Your problem, real output, an honest record of what worked and what didn't. The Bureau runs on two tracks: our own bets, and sparring with companies doing this work inside their own walls. Two decades in agencies before this. Fork, Jung von Matt, Valtech, SYZYGY/WPP. Built growth orgs, ran P&Ls, led pitch teams. I know the machine, including the PowerPoints nobody reads. Early 2026, for the first time: an empty calendar. And the tools are here. If the agent question is keeping you up too, you know where to find me.

Experience

  • Founder at Brainhuggers Bureau
    Mar 2026 - Present · 4 mos

    20 years inside agencies. Learned what they actually sell. It's not creativity — it's cover. Now building Brainhuggers Bureau: an AI-native venture studio. We run experiments first. Consulting is exhaust, not product. We don't pitch ideas. We build things. We publish what survives. Scars included. Human intuition grafted onto machine hallucination. Not metaphorically — at the source. Currently investigating: Ghost Agency, Brainhuggers CLI, Brand Cortex — and what a company looks like when you stop treating AI as a tool and start treating it as a collaborator.

  • Associate Partner at Advanced Innovation
    Apr 2026 - Present · 3 mos

  • Stellvertretender Vorsitz der Digitalagenturen & Value Chain Lab-Lead im Ressort KI at Bundesverband Digitale Wirtschaft (BVDW) e.V.
    Aug 2018 - Present · 7 yrs 11 mos

  • Member at AI Guild
    Jun 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 1 mo

  • Group Director Growth at SYZYGY AG
    Apr 2024 - Feb 2026 · 1 yr 11 mos