Saurin
Jani
ForesightMarket IntelligenceStrategyInnovation
A strategist who can open the terminal and build.
Early signals. Funded decisions. Scaled innovations.
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A strategist who can open the terminal and build.
I help organizations turn emerging technology, market signals and data into funded decisions through bridging foresight & innovation execution — and increasingly, I build the AI tools that accelerate this process. Today I run Saurin Jani Consulting, an independent strategy practice in Vienna advising organizations on foresight, market intelligence and innovation.
Over 10+ years at international groups, I've delivered at the intersection of foresight, market intelligence, strategy and innovation. I pair strategic advisory — trend radars, roadmaps, scenario planning, competitor and M&A intelligence, innovation governance — with hands-on technical fluency: I design, build and ship agentic AI workflows myself (Claude Code/Codex, Cursor, n8n — portable to enterprise and locally hosted AI environments), then drive adoption through coaching, onboarding and reusable playbooks.
Ships agentic AI workflows (Claude Code, Cursor, n8n) that cut clients' research and reporting effort; AI adoption roadmaps, governance and upskilling.
Company-wide trend radar (86 trends) adopted as the central strategy tool; research initiated the group's first-ever M&A deal; facilitated the Product & Technology Roadmap.
Built innovation governance from scratch — R&D KPI system, org-wide OKRs, multi-country RACI; outcome-driven (ODI) research with a 500-respondent study; in-house patent/FTO capability.
Stage-gate portfolio governance; intrapreneurship model lifting engagement 30%; IoT feasibility studies; patent coordination (TRIZ).
"Future Truck 2035" scenario visualization for leadership.
CAD and wind-turbine load simulation — the mechanical-engineering roots.
Raw signals in — funded decisions out. Scroll through the stage below to watch the method: thousands of scattered data points get clustered into themes, mapped onto a radar, and converted into a roadmap leadership can fund.
Seven engagements, abstracted to protect employers and clients — every method shown is real, every number defensible.
End-to-end foresight for an international consumer-health group: environmental scanning (PESTEL/STREEP) → weak-signal & trend analysis → drivers of change → 2×2 scenarios → wind-tunnelling of corporate strategy → backcasting into innovation search fields → Product & Innovation Roadmap 2030. Radar of 86 macro-trends adopted org-wide as the central strategy tool.
Qualitative depth interviews across USA, Germany and China → universal job map → 500+ desired-outcome statements → quantitative study (n=501) scoring importance vs. satisfaction → an opportunity landscape that pinpointed underserved customer outcomes and steered the category roadmap.
Market-entry intelligence for an emerging health-tech segment: 90+ competitor apps analyzed, 20+ trend reports synthesized, expert interviews, funding-landscape mapping and top-down TAM/SAM/SOM sizing — then build-vs-buy-vs-partner evaluation. The researched insight became the first M&A transaction in company history.
In-house freedom-to-operate studies and patent landscaping: CPC-code search strategies screening 78 patent families down to 4 of concern — launch cleared with zero infringements. Landscape analytics revealed category white space and the shift toward sensor-based smart devices. ~€40k in external counsel fees avoided.
Designed and streamlined the R&D KPI architecture for an international group: rationalized legacy indicators into a focused, bonus-relevant system — new-product sales ratio, launch-on-time, complaint ratio, quarterly project-goal achievement — automated the calculation logic and reported to leadership, linked to org-wide OKRs. (Dashboard shows synthetic values.)
Diagnosed a broken innovation front-end through stakeholder interviews; redesigned it into four pillars — corporate foresight, innovation strategy, agile search-field exploration, organizational support. Formalized multi-country RACI, product-brief and project-order standards, rolled out OKRs, and ran structured use-case evaluation for a €50k external technology partnership.
Interactive workbench for the early steps of M&A strategy — external scan with profit pools and market maps (TAM/SAM/SOM), theme generation, investment criteria — built end-to-end with an AI tool stack and delivered to a consulting client. The replica below is fully sanitized: every company identifier anonymized, dates removed.
Hover a node to see the evidence behind it; click to jump to the case where it was used. No skill listed without work to back it.
Educational posts on method, plus ready-to-go agentic workflows that get specific jobs done — market signal scans, signal synthesis, deal tracking and more. Published here as I release them, announced on LinkedIn.
Interactive M&A intelligence workbench delivered to a consulting client: external scan, profit pools, market maps, theme generation, investment criteria. All identifiers anonymized.
Open in browser →Agentic workflow that monitors a market's news, patents and funding rounds, then compiles a weighted signal brief.
In productionReady-to-run tracker for M&A activity, partnerships and competitor moves in a chosen segment.
In productionOpen to strategy, market-intelligence, foresight & innovation roles — Vienna / DACH / remote-friendly Europe.