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Follow our writings, how we are building Beyond Work and a contrarian take on a market full of hype.

Christian LanngThu Mar 12 2026

A Love Letter to Consulting and the Human Factor

AI will strengthen, not replace, the people closest to the problem. The real advantage in enterprise AI is not the model itself, but the business context, stakeholder trust, and implementation ownership that consulting f...

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Christian LanngWed Oct 29 2025

Block by Block, Building Beyond Work

Beyond Work's evolution from concept to enterprise-scale implementation. The company, launched two years ago alongside co-founders Malte Højmark-Bertelsen and Joakim Recht, aims to generate business applications using na...

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Christian LanngFri Mar 07 2025

Electric Dreams of (automatic) Enterprise Software

A reflection on the evolution from childhood coding to discovering that traditional software engineering wasn't fulfilling. Recently, AI code generation tools enabled moving from concept to working systems without touchi...

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Christian LanngSun Feb 18 2024

The Blackberry moment of legacy SaaS

Why did Blackberry's market share go to zero? They went from perfect product-market fit to zero market share in less than a decade. What can we learn from this as AI transforms technology now?

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Christian LanngThu Jun 06 2024

Beyond Work Secret Master Plan

Beyond Work started with a very simple, but ambitious question. Could you run a Fortune 500 company with 150 people using AI and technology? Business today is bloated and inefficient, locking up human potential to innova...

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Christian LanngWed Dec 18 2024

The Experiment - One Year In

Beyond Work has been an experiment from day one. We chose to treat our entire organization, go-to-market strategy, and product development the same way a startup would search for product-market fit.

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Christian LanngSat Sep 23 2023

The dirty secret of enterprise software

Salesforce is just an Oracle database with a few thousand buttons stuck to it. But let me take it one step further, all enterprise applications are just databases with a poorly designed UX...

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Malte Hojmark BertelsenTue Aug 06 2024

Is all software before ChatGPT obsolete?

In tech and software development, the concept of "technical debt" is (most often) well-respected. However, another challenge has become more important than ever: "legacy debt." Where technical debt is the debt you accumu...

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Joakim RechtSun Jan 14 2024

Life as a Senior Engineer

I recently met up with a couple of fellow engineers, and in passing I mentioned that I always tried to do some amount of coding every day, even when I was a distinguished engineer at Uber.

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