Applied AI, LLMs, AI Agents, and the Reality of German Mittelstand Adoption with Markus Böge

Episode Summary

In this episode of The Bhairav Show, Suhas Bhairav speaks with Markus Böge, a founder and CTO in Germany with more than 25 years of experience across software development, enterprise software products, startups, scaleups, SAP, and applied AI. The conversation is a grounded look at what is actually happening with LLMs, generative AI, and AI agents inside German companies, especially the Mittelstand. Markus begins by describing a career built around software product lifecycles. His experience spans successful enterprise products that lived for many years. This gives him a practical view of software as something that grows together with customers, teams, and business reality. A major theme of the episode is Markus's approach to product development: first who, then what, then how. Instead of starting with technology or jumping directly into solutions, he begins by understanding the customer, the target group, and the real patterns across multiple prospects. For enterprise software.