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Key facts
- Company
- Exaptation GmbH
- Founded
- April 2026
- Registered office
- Osterbrooksweg 35-41, 22869 Schenefeld (Kreis Pinneberg), near Hamburg, Germany
- Managing Director
- Lasse Alexandros Diercks
- Commercial register
- HRB 19637, Amtsgericht Pinneberg
- Focus
- Complexity consulting (Cynefin, SenseMaker) and private AI on European or in-house servers
- Languages
- German, English
- Website
- exaptation.eu
- Offerings
- Discovery, Complexity Audit, Scapegoat as a Service, Customer narrative research, Internal culture map, Wardley Mapping, Affordance Mapping, AI pairing, Estuarine Mapping, Entangled trios, Work with AI 101, AI literacy for teams, Workflow automation, AI orientation, Private AI pilot, Migrate away from AWS, Migrate away from Google Cloud, Migrate away from Azure, Migrate away from Google Workspace, Migrate away from GitHub, Trust Check, Community Building, Change Pulse, R&D Lab, Strategy Resilience Check, Speak-up Check, First 90 Days, Friction Map, Leaving Stories, AI Adoption Pulse, Silo Map, Values in Practice, Weak Signals Radar, Decision Check, Merger Check
Boilerplate
Exaptation GmbH is a consultancy in Schenefeld near Hamburg, founded in April 2026 by Lasse Alexandros Diercks. It helps organisations act in complex situations. It brings fifteen years of hands-on software work together with complexity methods such as Cynefin and SenseMaker, and builds private AI that runs on European or in-house servers.
Exaptation GmbH is a consultancy in Schenefeld near Hamburg, founded in April 2026 by Lasse Alexandros Diercks. It helps organisations act in complex situations. It brings fifteen years of hands-on software work together with complexity methods such as Cynefin and SenseMaker, and builds private AI that runs on European or in-house servers. It offers complexity audits and mapping workshops, twelve SenseMaker studies that let customers or staff tell and interpret their own stories, AI literacy and AI orientation workshops, private AI pilots on a client's own documents, and migrations away from US cloud providers. Exaptation starts small, tests in safe-to-fail steps and says plainly what nobody can predict.
Exaptation GmbH is a consultancy in Schenefeld near Hamburg, founded in April 2026 by Lasse Alexandros Diercks. It helps organisations act in complex situations. It brings fifteen years of hands-on software work together with complexity methods such as Cynefin and SenseMaker, and builds private AI that runs on European or in-house servers. It offers complexity audits and mapping workshops, twelve SenseMaker studies that let customers or staff tell and interpret their own stories, AI literacy and AI orientation workshops, private AI pilots on a client's own documents, and migrations away from US cloud providers. Exaptation starts small, tests in safe-to-fail steps and says plainly what nobody can predict. It works in German and English.
Lasse Alexandros Diercks, the founder and Managing Director, has built software for fifteen years across every layer of it: interfaces and design systems, checkouts and APIs, the Kubernetes infrastructure the company's own website runs on, and the AI agents that help run the business. That range is the point: the costly problems in organisations rarely sit in one department. They sit between design and engineering, between hosting and law, between what a dashboard measures and what actually happens.
The name comes from evolutionary biology. An exaptation is a trait that evolved for one purpose and was later put to another, the way feathers kept birds warm long before they carried them. The firm's working premise follows from it: most of what an organisation needs is already there. Exaptation helps it see that, and put it to new use.
Topics Lasse can speak on
Lasse Alexandros Diercks is available for interviews, background talks, panels and talks, in German or English.
AI literacy under Article 4 of the EU AI Act, after the Digital Omnibus
What the 2026 Digital Omnibus changed in the AI literacy duty, and what a company that uses AI should now actually do and keep on record.
Private AI on your own servers instead of US cloud services
When an open model hosted in the EU or in-house is the better choice, what it takes to run one, and where it falls short.
Why AI pilots fail, seen through Cynefin
Many AI pilots are planned like a complicated project when the situation is complex. What changes when they are run as small, safe-to-fail experiments instead.
Design systems that teams actually use
What fifteen years of building interfaces show about design systems: why adoption is an organisational question more than a technical one.
Narrative research with SenseMaker
How hundreds of short stories, interpreted by the people who tell them, show patterns that surveys miss, and what such a study takes to run.
Logo and photos
Logo files in SVG and PNG, for light and dark backgrounds, the portrait and the share card.
Portrait: Lasse Alexandros Diercks
Logo with wordmark, for light backgrounds
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Mark, for light backgrounds
Mark, for dark backgrounds
Share card
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Press contact
For interviews, quotes, background or talk requests, book a free 30-minute call or write to Lasse Alexandros Diercks on LinkedIn. Please mention your outlet and your deadline.