01
Assess
We audit your product, operations, and market position. Identify where AI creates real business value — not where it sounds impressive. You get a prioritized roadmap with clear ROI projections.
NOPEA LABS
Helsinki — Est. 2025
Your AI leadership team.
A fractional Chief AI Officer and Chief Business Officer who embed in your company. We plan the AI transformation and execute it with you — from strategy to production code.
Two Executives
AI + Business, working as a pair
Inside, Not Outside
Embedded in your leadership team
Strategy to Code
We implement what we recommend
Leadership
Antti Väänänen
Fractional CAIO
Nearly 20 years building and operating SaaS platforms. AWS architecture, production AI systems, and hands-on implementation. Turns AI strategy into running systems.
Jere Polvi
Fractional CBO
Serial entrepreneur since 1999 with multiple exits in software and EdTech. Identifies where AI creates business value and builds the commercial case for transformation.
Our take
“AI changes everything.”
Every SaaS company knows AI will reshape their industry. Few have the in-house leadership to navigate it. Hiring a full-time CAIO costs over €200k and takes months. Most consulting firms deliver strategy decks, not working systems.
We offer a third option: experienced AI leadership that embeds in your team part-time, plans the transformation, and builds alongside your engineers. Business strategy and technical implementation from the same team.
Process
02
Architect
Design the AI systems, data pipelines, and integration points. Select the right models and approaches for each use case. No vendor lock-in, no unnecessary complexity.
03
Implement
We build and deploy alongside your engineering team. Production-grade AI systems, not prototypes. Your team learns by building with us, not by reading our documentation.
04
Scale
Establish AI governance, measurement frameworks, and internal capability. When we step back, your organization runs the systems independently.
Why us
Executives, not consultants
We sit in your leadership meetings, not in a separate project room. Fractional CAIO and CBO aligned with your business outcomes, not billing hours.
Business meets engineering
Jere finds the commercial opportunity. Antti builds the system. One team covering the full distance from board presentation to production deployment.
SaaS natives
Decades of experience building, scaling, and selling software products. We understand your business model because we have built companies like yours.
Ready to talk?
Let’s start with a call.
If AI transformation is on your agenda — or you want to hear what it could look like for your company — let’s start with a conversation.
Book a callBest regards
Antti Väänänen
Fractional CAIO
Jere Polvi
Fractional CBO