About

I do AI transformation from the inside.

I'm Ilari Schmidt. I help businesses move repetitive work onto machines, and I do the same thing for real at work every day, not as a consultant giving presentations.

Background

I started as a digital agency entrepreneur (2018–2023): about a hundred projects of marketing work and my own SaaS website service. That taught me that lasting results come from systems, not one-off projects. From 2020 to 2025 I ran Google Ads campaigns for Finnish companies as a freelancer: data, measurement, continuous optimization. Marketing taught me to talk about results, not features.

Today I lead e-commerce and digital transformation at a brand company, taking AI from "we should look into this" into actual use, as an operator. Alongside that I am completing a master's degree in Data & AI expertise. This site and the machines running behind it are my own training ground, and proof that I talk about things I have actually built.

Services run under my company Potero Standard Oy (Finnish Business ID 3597827-9), based in Eurajoki, Finland. I work in Finnish and English, on-site in Finland and remotely elsewhere.

How I work

  1. From a real problem to a working result. The goal is a running machine, not a report.
  2. Iterative feedback loop. Screenshots, test results and refinements until it works in practice. Results are tested, not guessed.
  3. Efficient and premium at once. Easy to use, technically reliable, visually polished, preferably reusable.
  4. Across domain borders. Marketing, creative production, e-commerce, data and software development in one pipeline.
  5. A system, not a one-off fix. The solution keeps running without me.

See what I have built or get in touch.