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Welcome to the Insights & Tools Hub — your gateway to exclusive knowledge on platform business models, AI-driven innovation, and venture building beyond the core. Access expert guides, playbooks, frameworks, and toolkits designed to help you learn, apply, and lead in the age of ecosystems and intelligence.

Register to unlock our curated library and stay ahead with the latest insights from the frontier of digital innovation.

Toolkits & Templates

Platform Innovation Kit, Ecosystem Strategy Kit, AI Innovation Kit, … get access to toolkits and templates to design winning strategies and business models.

Playbooks & Guides

Dive deeper into selected topics to educate yourself and your team. E.g. Network effects, monetization strategies, Chicken-Egg-Problem Solving, IT Stack, … and many more.

Case Studies & Insights

Learn from the best and access our case studies on exceptional performing venture teams. Watch our BeyondCore Podcast or Read our latest articles. 

Latest Insights / Articles

Introducing the AI Use Case Navigator App

Most teams don’t fail at AI because of technology.
They fail because there is no structured way to discover the right use cases.
The AI Use Case Navigator App turns vague AI ideation into a clear, shared discovery process.
Instead of brainstorming random ideas, teams explore AI opportunities through 28 proven use-case patterns — ensuring full coverage, less bias, and better alignment.
With guided goal setting, structured ideation, transparent evaluation, and a clear path to execution, the app helps teams move from “What could we do with AI?” to “These are the use cases that matter.”

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2024 in review

A look back at fastbreak.one’s impactful year in 2024, highlighting new customer collaborations, innovative ventures, strategic partnerships, and cutting-edge insights that are shaping the future of new business building.

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Agenda 2025 for CEOs and Innovators

In 2025, the key to success lies in leveraging platform business models, scaling AI through strategic use cases, adopting venture studio methodologies, and focusing on new business building to navigate complex market ecosystems and drive future growth.

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Toolkits & Frameworks

Carefully crafted toolkits

Our carefully crafted toolkits are based on our multi-year experience in building & scaling platforms and ventures. Innovation teams in Corporates, Startups and Business Schools are using our frameworks around the globe.

Platform Innovation Kit

The most advanced toolkit for designing platform business models. This includes tools for business modeling, strategies, governance, go-to-market, IT-architecture, monetization and many more. Downloaded millions of time around the world. Used by corporates, startups and business schools.

AI Use Case Navigator

The AI Use Case Navigator helps teams to identify, evaluate and design AI Use Cases for their individual company needs. We analyzed +600 AI Use Cases and identified 28 patterns. Those patterns help teams to explore 95% of AI use cases to date - to risk of missing out the best ones.
Podcast

BeyondCore Podcast

In our podcast we dive deep with industry pioneers about new business building beyond the core – with platforms, ecosystem thinking and AI.

Every 2 weeks we publish a new episode. Since 2022 we are one of the top business podcasts about platforms and ecosystems worldwide.

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Deep Dives

Playbooks & Studies

Every year we publish some deep dive studies and reports helping corporates and platform teams to navigate through the noise.

AI for Platforms

Platform Innovation Kit, Ecosystem Strategy Kit, AI Innovation Kit, … get access to toolkits and templates to design winning strategies and business models.

Playbooks & Guides

Dive deeper into selected topics to educate yourself and your team. E.g. Network effects, monetization strategies, Chicken-Egg-Problem Solving, IT Stack, … and many more.

Case Studies & Insights

Learn from the best and access our case studies on exceptional performing venture teams. Watch our BeyondCore Podcast or Read our latest articles. 

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