# XYZ by FORMATION > XYZ by FORMATION is a Berlin-based AI consultancy and venture lab focused on AI consulting and implementation, workflow automation, and practical AI systems for small teams. ## Primary entry points - Home: https://formationxyz.com/ - Services: https://formationxyz.com/services/ - Specialist services: https://formationxyz.com/specialist-agents/ - MVPs: https://formationxyz.com/mvps/ - Blog: https://formationxyz.com/blog/ - Contact: https://formationxyz.com/#contact - Imprint: https://formationxyz.com/imprint/ - Privacy: https://formationxyz.com/privacy-policy/ ## Company summary XYZ by FORMATION provides AI operations for small teams in Berlin, Germany. The company focuses on practical AI systems, workflow automation, agentic workflows, digital operations, and spatial AI. ## Services - OpenClaw Workflow (Discontinued): https://formationxyz.com/services/openclaw-white-glove-setup/ - Discontinued. XYZ no longer recommends OpenClaw for client work because it is unstable, slow, hard to secure, and too fragile for business users. - Claude Cowork Workflow: https://formationxyz.com/services/claude-cowork-setup/ - Set up one Claude Cowork workflow for non-technical business work such as research, documents, and repeatable team tasks, with clear rules and review points. - Codex Workflow: https://formationxyz.com/services/codex-setup/ - Set up one Codex workflow for repo work, technical tasks, and research, with clear approvals and review. It plays a similar role to Claude Cowork, but for code-oriented work. - Agentic Website: https://formationxyz.com/services/existing-website-agentic-migration/ - Turn an existing website into a structured, agent-ready system for faster SEO operations, content updates, and reliable website workflow automation. - Perplexity Computer Workflow: https://formationxyz.com/services/perplexity-computer-workflow/ - Set up one Perplexity Computer workflow for non-technical business work, with clear scope, practical steps, and review points. - Agentic Content Management: https://formationxyz.com/services/agentic-promptable-website/ - Set up a promptable website workflow so pages, copy, FAQs, and SEO updates ship faster without losing review control. - NemoClaw Setup: https://formationxyz.com/services/nemoclaw-setup/ - Set up NemoClaw as a controlled OpenClaw and OpenShell stack with stronger privacy and security guardrails from day one. - Webmaster: https://formationxyz.com/services/agentic-website-webmaster/ - Keep your website updated with recurring SEO operations, publishing support, technical fixes, and structured website workflow automation. - Board Pack Copilot: https://formationxyz.com/services/board-pack-copilot/ - Build a repeatable board-pack workflow that turns scattered KPIs, updates, and narrative into a reviewable monthly decision pack. - SEO Manager: https://formationxyz.com/services/agentic-seo-scanner-optimizer/ - Run SEO as a recurring operating workflow so technical SEO improvements, content updates, and Generative Engine Optimization opportunities do not sit idle. - Due Diligence Room Assistant: https://formationxyz.com/services/due-diligence-room-assistant/ - Set up a controlled diligence workflow for gathering documents, spotting gaps, and preparing faster responses during fundraising or partner review. - Market Intelligence: https://formationxyz.com/services/agentic-competitive-landscape-scanner/ - Track competitor moves, market signals, and category shifts in a structured way so strategy and sales use fresher evidence. - Agentic Slides: https://formationxyz.com/services/agentic-slide-generation/ - Build presentations through a structured Reveal.js workflow so decks are faster to produce, easier to reuse, and better suited to AI-assisted work. - Engineering Team Agentic Setup: https://formationxyz.com/services/agentic-engineering-team-setup/ - Help your engineering team adopt agentic tooling, AI workflows, and reviewable automation that raise delivery speed without losing control. - Exec Briefing Agent: https://formationxyz.com/services/exec-briefing-agent/ - Build a recurring leadership brief that combines internal signals, market context, and key risks into one reviewable weekly summary. - Executive Team Agentic Sprint: https://formationxyz.com/services/skills-sprint-for-senior-team-members/ - Run a focused sprint for senior leaders to build the judgment, habits, and operating decisions needed to lead agentic work credibly. - Investor Update Engine: https://formationxyz.com/services/investor-update-engine/ - Run investor updates through a recurring workflow so monthly updates are faster to produce, easier to review, and more consistent. - Pipeline Review Copilot: https://formationxyz.com/services/pipeline-review-copilot/ - Run weekly pipeline reviews through a recurring workflow that highlights movement, risk, and stuck deals before they surprise the team. - Roadmap Agentic Review: https://formationxyz.com/services/full-roadmap-audit-from-an-agentic-perspective/ - Audit your roadmap, workflows, and operating drag to identify the highest-value AI implementation and workflow automation opportunities first. - Company-Wide Agentic Workflow: https://formationxyz.com/services/full-team-full-week-agentic-workflow-deep-dive/ - Run an intensive week of AI consulting and implementation with your team to redesign real workflows and make agentic automation usable in practice. - Sales Follow-Up Operator: https://formationxyz.com/services/sales-follow-up-operator/ - Run post-call follow-up through a repeatable workflow so notes, next steps, and draft responses move faster without slipping through the cracks. - Company-Wide Agentic Deep Dive: https://formationxyz.com/services/full-deep-dive-all-systems-upgraded/ - Redesign core systems and workflows across multiple functions with practical AI consulting, implementation, and governed automation. - Proposal and RFP Assistant: https://formationxyz.com/services/proposal-rfp-assistant/ - Set up a proposal workflow that gathers source material, drafts responses, and speeds up structured bids without turning them into copy-paste chaos. - QA Tester: https://formationxyz.com/services/agentic-qa-tester/ - Add a standing QA layer around key website and product flows so regressions and breakages are caught before they hurt customers. - Marketer: https://formationxyz.com/services/agentic-marketer/ - Turn founder knowledge, customer questions, and offer updates into a steady marketing system that keeps shipping useful content and campaigns. - Small Autonomous Organization: https://formationxyz.com/services/autonomous-organization/ - Stand up a governed multi-agent team around one business function with human-in-the-loop workflows, clearer controls, and better throughput. - Complex Autonomous Organization: https://formationxyz.com/services/complex-autonomous-organization/ - Design and stand up a larger autonomous operating unit across higher-volume workflows, deeper process chains, AI integrations, and stricter controls. - Security Officer: https://formationxyz.com/services/agentic-security-officer/ - Add an ongoing security review layer that helps your team spot practical risks, tighten controls, and act on them faster. - Bespoke Software Project: https://formationxyz.com/services/bespoke-software-project/ - We use agentic engineering practices to get you high quality solutions fast, from apps and websites to geospatial systems, search, and product intelligence. - Meeting Prep and Decision Pack: https://formationxyz.com/services/meeting-prep-decision-pack/ - Prepare high-stakes meetings faster by pulling together notes, prior decisions, open issues, and a reviewable pre-read in one workflow. - Your Agentic Use Case: https://formationxyz.com/services/your-agentic-use-case/ - Bring the workflow, bottleneck, or AI use case that needs custom AI implementation, workflow automation, or human-in-the-loop design. ## Recent articles - Custom software is back for smaller companies: https://formationxyz.com/blog/custom-software/ - LLMs have made custom internal software cheaper to build, but complex workflows still need hands-on AI implementation, data work, and engineering discipline. - Without Knowledge, AI is powerless: https://formationxyz.com/blog/without-knowledge-ai-is-powerless/ - AI agents need company-specific knowledge before they can handle proposals, support, reporting, contracts, and internal workflows with enough context to be trusted. - Launching Agentic Mail: https://formationxyz.com/blog/launching-agentic-mail/ - Agentic Mail is our email-first support MVP. Send it a real question and see how it answers from source material. - Agentic De-Siloing: Moving Work Out of SaaS Silos: https://formationxyz.com/blog/agentic-de-siloing/ - Agentic de-siloing moves operational data out of closed SaaS systems and into open, structured, reviewable workflows where LLMs can work closer to the data with stronger control. - My Agentic Inbox Is Awesome: https://formationxyz.com/blog/my-agentic-inbox/ - Email used to be a chore, a time drain, and sometimes a small daily nightmare. My agentic inbox has turned it into an organized workflow I can actually trust. - We're using OpenClaw, it sucks!: https://formationxyz.com/blog/were-using-openclaw-it-sucks/ - We have been using OpenClaw for real agentic workflows and team collaboration. It makes some important ideas accessible, but the product is flaky, slow, insecure, and structurally hard to trust. ## MVPs - Optical Asset Tracking: https://formationxyz.com/mvps/vision-based-asset-tracking/ - A vision-based venture concept for tracking physical assets with cameras, software, and practical operational workflows. - QR Luggage Tags: https://formationxyz.com/mvps/qr-baggage-tags/ - A venture concept for simple, scannable luggage tags that could improve how baggage is tracked across travel networks. - Company Cockpit: https://formationxyz.com/mvps/cockpit/ - A venture concept for Harmonitor, a single operating view that helps founders and teams run a company with less fragmentation. - Tee Me: https://formationxyz.com/mvps/tee-me/ - A venture concept for a simple way to order a t-shirt and have it delivered to you haste, post, haste - Timeless Prints: https://formationxyz.com/mvps/timeless-print-shop/ - A venture concept for the storefront where customers will be able to order prints from Timeless Colours' colourising and restoration service. - Your Idea?: https://formationxyz.com/mvps/your-idea/ - A standing invitation to bring new ideas, interesting suggestions, and possible business opportunities to XYZ so we can explore whether they are worth shaping together. ## Languages - English: https://formationxyz.com/ - German: https://formationxyz.com/de/ ## Full machine-readable digest - https://formationxyz.com/llms-full.txt