PAUL PIPER
SOFTWARE ARCHITECT & FOUNDER

Okay, so… we built another product for AIVory: Smart Inference.

And the reason is simple: GPU inference is expensive, but most of the time you’re overpaying for it. There are $765 billion worth of GPUs out there and roughly half sit idle at any given time. That’s why providers offer them at a discount - if you can find their offers and keep track of the actual prices across 60+ providers. That takes time. So we built a service around it.

So this was a fun one: I applied for a spot at AI Founders Connect Frankfurt and got selected as one of five founders. It was a guided pitch competition at Google, organized by Daniel Pietschmann and Daniel Gerald Orbegoso Barrantes - who had already left me deeply impressed at their last event.

I got a 3D printer and started to dabble with modelling. I use AI agents for a lot of it, having them render the outcome so that they can see what they did. But I figured that often makes them go in loops. It’s tough to really describe what you want sometimes and in 3D space it’s even tougher.

I used to work with 3ds Max a bit - about 20 years ago - and I know that 3D modelling tools usually give you options to modify elements visually. OpenSCAD doesn’t. So I decided to build a tool myself.

The recording from last year’s Gründungsmesse Mittelhessen in Giessen is finally out. Big thanks to TiG for organizing the event and making this available.

In the talk I get into something I think about a lot: the cultural gap between Germany and the US when it comes to founding companies. Why did I end up starting my company in the US? It’s not because Germany lacks talent or ideas - it’s about the environment around those ideas. Risk tolerance, access to capital, the social stigma around failure - it all adds up.

Okay, so… we built another product for AIVory: AIVory Architect.

And the reason is simple: AI or not, it took me weeks to actually setup Terraform/Kubernetes, make it secure etc etc. So I looked around, noticed that there isn’t many visual editors around and decided to do that as a side project.

So this is an exciting one: I spent 48 hours at the Bundeswehr Cyber Innovation Hub hackathon building SIMS - an AI-powered incident reporting system. Point your phone at a threat, record what you see, and AI handles the rest: transcription, threat analysis, GPS coordinates, automatic routing to responders. No more fumbling with phone calls during emergencies.

A quick personal note: we published the Cloudflare AI Markdown Worker. It’s a simple tool that detects AI agents (Claude, GPT, Gemini, etc.) and serves them markdown instead of HTML. Regular visitors get the normal site, AI agents get clean, token-efficient content.