My Mission is Empowering Everybody to Thrive in a Free Cognitive World

"My Mission is Empowering Everybody to Thrive in a Free Cognitive World"

Keeping up with knowledge the old way is a lost cause. But in a world where data, compute, and knowledge are growing exponentially, nothing is more impactful than using these effectively.


I’ve tried several banking apps before, but nothing comes close to this. It’s fast, intuitive, and actually enjoyable to use. From setting up virtual cards to tracking my spending in real time, everything just works — and it works beautifully.

Keeping up with knowledge the old way is a lost cause. But in a world where data, compute, and knowledge are growing exponentially, nothing is more impactful than using these effectively.


Bert Kastel

Bert Kastel

Founder, Essential Cognition

Founder, Essential Cognition

A Message from the Founder

Welcome to the Aibundance-Club

With Essential Cognition, you're buying a front row ticket to the most exciting and revolutionizing times in human history. This ticket empowers you to co-shape the near-term future that emerges, and to benefit from it.

The next 1,000 days, about 3 years, will be the start of a decade-long transition as impactful as the advent of the Internet or the Printing Press. This will likely also bring the same level of upheaval, just much faster. In approximately this time frame, the massive impact of artificial intelligence will hit our lives, the economy, and society – and invariably also your company, your markets, your supply chains, your partner networks, and your way of doing things. You can now make a choice: to anticipate, adapt, and thrive, or soon find yourself in a constant uphill battle for survival.

Essential Cognition gives you a critical toolset to succeed: Embed your strategic advisors and subject-matter experts into your organization. Have your own intelligence network and early detection system for opportunities and threats. Integrate a neural net into the very fabric of your organization to empower your team and purposefully strike with superior cognitive power, knowledge, and understanding. Turn this into a differentiator by training your adaptive muscles. And soon, work with your own Corporate Cognitive Twin that encapsulates the essence of your organization, of its cognition.

Deploying an AI neural net gives you a mechanism to learn about and adapt to the future as it pertains to you and your business – and to shape it. It trains your organizational muscle memory and gives you situational awareness of what is coming. These integrated AI tools will help you identify opportunities for growth and key developments within and across your organization, and beyond it into your supply chains and ecosystems. And then to make better-informed decisions. Together with your own version of AI that has synthesized what really makes you different.

The agents you get right now are going to be useful, but they will not be perfect from the start. There will be a lot of rough edges. But we are going to treat you well and figure it out. You will become part of a community that learns and scales together. It's going to be an incredibly fun journey. It's going to be useful. It’s going to be beneficial.

We want to put you in a position so that the AI revolution will not upend your business – but you will deal with it at your own terms. You will learn how to apply these exponentially growing technologies and lead the process, how to ride the wave instead of being swallowed by it, and how to be crucial years ahead of your competition.

Small but consistent steps will build up your understanding and capacity for innovation and adjustment. With relatively simple means you will get profoundly new tools to keep the finger on the pulse of your organization and ecosystem, on the technological drivers of transformation, and on relevant market and industry trends.

 I hope you will join in and get on board. Let’s take this journey together. On the way toward an Aibundant world.


Bert Kastel
Founder

Entrepreneur and Futurist

Charting a Course for the Next 10 Years

And then far beyond...

Entrepreneur and Futurist

Charting a Course for the Next 10 Years

And then far beyond...

Entrepreneur and Futurist

Charting a Course for the Next 10 Years

And then far beyond...

Bert Kastel is a technology entrepreneur and futurist who prepares and guides individuals, organizations, and institutions through the impact of technological change. He researches transformative technologies and develops strategies, products, and solutions that empower everybody to thrive in a free world.

As a serial entrepreneur, Bert has lived and worked across the world while actively participating in recent technological revolutions from ERP, the Internet, mobile, to blockchain, healthcare, and artificial intelligence.

In his 2024 book "Regime Change", he charts a course for the tech transformation of the next 10 years. Just two years earlier, and before the release of ChatGPT, Bert published the then unprecedented, first ever, non-fiction book written by an AI: "Techtonic Shifts". What then was unprecedented, just two years later had become normal.

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