unrealistsWe help with tech planning
Hands-on tech leadership, data engineering, and AI integration for startups and growing teams.
Who we are
- Fractional/Interim CTO/VP-Engineering
- Senior leadership without committing to a full-time executive hire before you are ready.
- Data Sourcing, Engineering, Visualisation
- We solved many high volume data problems and have a strong expertise in data engineering and visualisation tasks.
- AI/LLM adoption
- We help businesses adopt AI and LLMs to enhance operations, such as simplifying ESG reporting through advanced data management or MCP / UCP integrations.
- Special Projects & Transformation Initiatives
- You have a challenge that is not your core business? Let’s talk about it.
Unrealists helps startups and scale-ups ship serious software. Founders bring us in as fractional or interim CTO and VP Engineering, for data engineering and analytics, and for LLM and AI rollouts that need more than a slide deck.
Our team is small. Together we have decades of combined experience across SaaS, logistics, mobility, finance, media, and research-heavy domains.
We are comfortable with strategy, delivery, hiring support, and hands-on implementation in the same engagement when that is what unblocks you.
Inside larger companies we also take on special projects and transformation work where the pattern is closer to a startup than to a slow IT program.
We are based in Berlin and work with teams across Europe, mostly in English.
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