- May 12, 2026
- News
Helsinki / Berlin / Cape Town — May 4, 2026 DAIN Studios, a European AI consultancy specializing in agentic AI strategy and enterprise transformation, announces that NGL (Next Gen Learning) has acquired the shares
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- August 3, 2026
- April 9, 2026
- News
Most organisations running AI today have a growing list of use cases, a set of pilots scattered across the business, and a gap between what those pilots are producing and what is actually changing
- March 10, 2026
- News
- Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, xAI
In 2025, DAIN Studios joined the Harvard Data Science Initiative (HDSI), Harvard Data Science Review (HDSR) and Next Gen Learning (NGL) to design and deliver a new portfolio of executive programs on Generative AI and Agentic
- February 25, 2026
- News
- Artificial Intelligence
DAIN Studios has been selected as one of AI Finland’s 2026 Strategic Partners (in Finnish). The year-long partner programme brings together 12 organisations to help scale practical AI adoption in Finland, with shared use
- February 20, 2026
- Interview, News
- Artificial Intelligence
Hyperight published a Practitioner Spotlight featuring Ulla Kruhse-Lehtonen, Co-founder and CEO of DAIN Studios Finland. In the interview, Ulla describes her work as bridging advanced technology and everyday business needs, with a focus on
- February 19, 2026
- Interview, News
- Artificial Intelligence, Explainable AI, Generative AI
The Harvard Data Science Review Podcast featured Dirk Hofmann and Ulla Kruhse-Lehtonen, co-founders and co-CEOs of DAIN Studios, in an episode on agentic AI and what it takes to make it work in real
- January 7, 2026
- News
- Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, xAI
Harvard Data Science Review (HDSR) has published the Just Accepted version of a new article by Ulla Kruhse-Lehtonen and Dirk Hofmann of DAIN Studios: The Agent-Centric Enterprise: Why 2–10× Productivity Gains Demand Radical Workflow
- January 5, 2026
- News
- Artificial Intelligence, Data Governance, Data Strategy, Maturity
In 2025, AI spread across organizations faster than most leaders expected. Pilots, copilots and internal GPTs appeared in many functions. Yet in many companies, impact on core KPIs was uneven. In our client work
- January 5, 2026
- News
- Artificial Intelligence, Maturity
In 2026, the gap will widen between companies that treat AI as a strategic capability and those that handle it as a scattered collection of tools and pilots. AI only scales when it is anchored in
- January 5, 2026
- News
- Artificial Intelligence, Maturity
In 2026, AI will no longer be judged only on what it can do, but on how safely, fairly and transparently it can be used at scale. In our client work at DAIN Studios,
- January 5, 2026
- News
- Artificial Intelligence, Maturity
In 2026, the AI and data stack looks fundamentally different from just a few years ago. The focus has shifted from training individual models to building AI systems – multiple models, retrieval components, agents and orchestration logic working
- January 5, 2026
- News
- Artificial Intelligence, Maturity
Dirk Hofmann | CEO Germany & Co-Founder, DAIN Studios When does an AI project move from “useful” to “strategic”? In our experience, it’s the moment a company stops asking “how do we save time?” and starts
- December 18, 2025
- News
- Artificial Intelligence, Maturity
The writer, Dirk Hofmann, is the Co-Founder and CEO of DAIN Studios Germany. Dirk is a veteran in the consumer electronics industry having acted in various product, marketing, and strategy roles at Siemens, BenQ,
- November 28, 2025
- Interview, News
- Artificial Intelligence, Explainable AI, Generative AI, Maturity
You can have the best models and platforms, but if people don’t feel confident using them, nothing moves. Julia Blume, senior Data and AI Strategist at DAIN Studios spends a lot of her time inside client
- November 14, 2025
- News
- Artificial Intelligence
Most organizations already know why they want to use AI. The real challenge is turning that intent into something that genuinely changes how people work. We sat down with György Paizs, DAIN Studios’ Principal
- November 7, 2025
- News
- Artificial Intelligence, Explainable AI
Update: This NotebookLM was created as an exploratory learning interface for an earlier version of DAIN’s Data & AI Maturity Model. We have since evolved both the model and the ways we bring it
- October 31, 2025
- News
- Artificial Intelligence, Maturity
The writer, Dirk Hofmann, is the Co-Founder and CEO of DAIN Studios Germany. Dirk is a veteran in the consumer electronics industry having acted in various product, marketing, and strategy roles at Siemens, BenQ,
- October 31, 2025
- News
DAIN Studios’ Co-CEOs, Ulla Kruhse-Lehtonen and Dirk Hofmann, are part of the faculty team for the Agentic AI Intensive — a 2.5-week executive program by the Harvard Data Science Review (HDSR) and the Harvard