John Richard Enders

Engineering, AI & product.
Based in Berlin.

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a few things are growing here.

A FEW THINGS ALONG THE WAY

John Richard
Enders.

Engineering · AI · Product
Berlin, and a little beyond.

Find me on LinkedIn
A little studio at the end of a winding path
a place to make things.

01 Places I’ve built

Augustus ↗Previously
Forward Deployed Engineer

Built banking AI operations from zero to one.

telli ↗2025–2026
Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

Product and customer engineering.

Y42 ↗
Entrepreneur in Residence · Product Management
START Global ↗2021–2022
Head of Data & Performance Marketing

Data intelligence, CRM automation, and performance marketing.

02 Made over a weekend

A few hackathon experiments.

YouTube Fact-Checker ↗
Stockholm AI Hackathon · 3rd place · September 2025

A browser companion that transcribes videos, finds factual claims, and checks them against sources in real time.

BS Buster ↗
Speedinvest Berlin AI Hackathon · 1st place · February 2025

Live speech transcription and fact-checking, with sources alongside the conversation.

AI for wealth managers
SIX Challenge · START Hack · 5th of 27 teams · March 2025

Real-time client-call analysis with insights drawn from the web and internal resources.

03 Things I’ve studied

University of St Andrews
Master’s degree · Computer Science

Artificial intelligence and machine learning.

University of St. Gallen
Bachelor’s degree · Economics

Advanced economics, game theory, mathematics, business analytics, and data science.

Still collecting questions.

SMALL OBSERVATIONS / VOL. I

Better questions begin with listening.

COLLECTED ALONG THE WAY
THINGS WORTH HOLDING ONTO01 / 04

ROB FITZPATRICK · CUSTOMER DISCOVERY

The Mom Test

A useful conversation is not a pitch in disguise. Ask about the last time someone faced the problem, what they tried, and what it cost them. Specific experiences tell you more than encouraging opinions.

Ask about what people have done, not what they might do.

A FEW THINGS FOUND ALONG THE WAY

Somewhere worth keeping.

Opening the collection…