Who Checks the Work?

Monday night was a reminder of what makes Berlin’s SaaS community valuable: people do not just talk about building companies. They show what they are building, challenge each other’s assumptions, and make connections that continue after the event.

I had the opportunity to present QualityMax at Berlin SaaS Night alongside founders and builders from across the community.

My talk started with one question:

Everyone is teaching machines to generate. Who checks the work?

AI can now generate more software, faster than ever. But more output does not automatically mean better software. Someone—or something—still needs to verify that the result works, remains secure, and is safe to ship.

That is the problem we are building QualityMax to solve.

Make the product the conversation

Rather than keeping the discussion abstract, I showed QualityMax in action. For me, that is the most useful way to discuss AI and software quality: demonstrate the product, expose it to real questions, and learn from how people respond.

The evening brought together:

• Live startup pitches from the community
• Honest conversations about building and scaling SaaS
• Founders, developers, and investors in one room
• New connections that can turn into real collaboration

The conversations after the pitch

The conversations after the talks were just as valuable as the presentations themselves. Berlin has no shortage of ambitious builders. Events like this create the space to compare notes openly, find people working on adjacent problems, and move from an online connection to an actual relationship.

A big thank-you to Jan Schulz and Marcel Claus-Ahrens for organizing the evening, to my fellow speakers, and to everyone who joined us.

The Berlin SaaS community keeps growing, and I am glad to be part of it.