Your team, minus the busywork.
Duess Strategies builds AI that handles what buries your people: reports that assemble themselves, answers pulled from your own data in seconds, the flood of information cut down to what matters. It doesn't replace your people. It gives them superpowers. Same team, better output. I also co-founded FishDog, a synthetic research platform, so when I say AI can do real work, I'm speaking as someone who ships it.
What we do
Fractional Chief AI Officer
I embed with your leadership team and direct AI implementation across your operations. Strategy, execution, change management, and handoff. The whole thing, not just the first meeting.
FishDog — Synthetic Market Research
I'm a co-founder of FishDog, a research platform built on synthetic populations. We recruit synthetic consumers to mirror real ones, then run the studies you'd normally wait weeks and five figures for. Answers land in hours.
Why Duess Strategies
Operators, not advisors
I've built, scaled, and sold businesses. When I advise on implementation, it's from having done it, not from having read about it.
Technically fluent
I understand the technology well enough to know what's real and what's a sales pitch. I co-founded and help run FishDog, and I still prototype, test, and evaluate what engineering teams build. Most consultants either can't read a room or can't read a codebase. I do both.
Deep in food and tech
I spent my twenties at the cutting edge of technology, working with Google, Cisco, and others. I spent my thirties building one of North America's most successful food and agriculture marketing agencies. Now I bring both to bear on the same problems.
The research work at FishDog
Most market research fails the people who pay for it. Too slow for the decision it was meant to inform, too expensive to run twice, and too thin to mine for the question you didn't think to ask.
FishDog starts from a different place. We build synthetic populations: panels of AI respondents recruited to mirror a real population, the way a good pollster recruits a sample. Recruitment is where representativeness lives. We never invent an audience to flatter a brief.
The work right now spans consumer brands, media, and financial services across 14 countries. Studies that once took six weeks come back overnight. Clients don't get a verdict; they get the full record of who said what and where opinion splits, because the divergence is usually worth more than the average.
Every engagement runs with a human researcher on it, start to finish. The AI does the fieldwork. People do the judgment.
If your organization runs consumer research, message testing, or concept work, fish.dog is the place to look.
Agricultural export organizations
Duess Strategies is a USAEDC member, and I'm currently embedded as fractional Chief AI Officer with a member cooperator: market intelligence in seven languages, answers from the organization's own data, years of field reporting made searchable. If you run on MAP or RAPP funding and a small team, there's a page for you.
Experience
"Andreas has vast knowledge and experience, combining expertise in CPG, data and AI. He takes a collaborative approach, and in fact, our introductory conversation turned into two engagements in 2024."
Michael Klein
Vice President of Communications & Strategic Development
USA Rice
Let's talk
Whether you need a fractional CAIO, help getting more out of a small export-development team, or a keynote speaker, it starts with a conversation.
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