AI-native products & consulting

Værksted

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We build AI-native products — and help organizations become AI-native.

Værksted is Danish for workshop. We're an EU-registered company. We don't sell data, we don't run ads, and we don't design software to exploit the people who use it. We'd rather run a reasonable company and build technology that leaves people better off. The principles below are how we mean it.

Principles
01

Privacy by default

Your work is yours. We don't sell it.

02

We sell software, not you

Our money comes from people buying our products, not from selling access to you. No ads, no trackers, no data brokerage.

03

Simplicity over surface area

One craft, done well. If a feature doesn't earn its place, it doesn't ship. We resist the feature factory.

04

Design is how it works

Looks matter. Craft matters more. The interface, the latency, the recovery from failure — every detail, or none of them.

05

No addictive patterns

No infinite scrolls, no manipulated streaks, no engagement metrics dressed up as care. Tools you can put down.

06

No lock-in

Your data is yours, in formats you can read. Leave whenever you want. We earn loyalty; we don't trap it.

Products
01

Maskin

The machine. An open-source (Apache-2.0) workspace where people and AI agents work on the same typed objects: insights, bets, tasks and knowledge. Read the case
Early-stage, in active development, with a hosted version.
02

Skjald

The bard. A meeting notetaker that records, transcribes and writes up what was decided, who does what and who spoke. Read the case
Pre-release, for iPhone, iPad and Mac. Not on the App Store yet.
03

Saga

The storyteller. A text editor for long-form writing — where ideas become narratives that hold together.
04

Sindre

The smith. A product management agent that turns intent into shipped work.
05

Hugin

The raven. A shared inbox that brings every social channel into one place.
In the forge
06

Rask

The mender.
In the forge
The builders

Sebastian Krumhausen

CPO, founder, investor. His master's thesis at LEGO Future Lab became LEGO Life — launched 2017, grown to 8M+ active users. Product leadership at momondo, KAYAK, TELUS, and Trackunit. Trained 250+ product managers in AI, lean, and agile.

Magnus Nøddegaard Hansen

Engineer and builder since 17. Designed and built Maskin's MCP-native architecture from scratch. Thinks in systems, ships in weeks.

Building together since 2020 · Copenhagen

Two ways we work. We build our own products, and we advise organizations on becoming AI-native. That means advice and plans: where AI pays off, who owns each step, and how you will know it worked. We don't build or run systems for clients. We take on a small number of engagements at a time, so each one gets our full attention. Reach us at [email protected]

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Cases: Maskin and Skjald