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Kristian Kabashi defined “the Blank Collar”, the post-AI worker, in 2016. Six years before ChatGPT. He wrote the book that named the shift. He spent two decades rebuilding businesses from inside global enterprises, the last stretch as a global executive director at Dentsu, and has since founded two AI-native companies: Numarics in finance and Cybee.ai in cybersecurity.
- Swissalbs Entrepreneur of the Year 2023
- Best of Swiss Apps, Numarics & Cybee.ai
- Top 100 Swiss Startups
- Swiss FinTech Awards Top 5 Finalist
- Keiretsu Startup of the Year 2024
- Top 100 worldwide, Deel × J.P. Morgan
“the Blank Collar”
finance · cybersecurity
& with startups
CHF 12.4M + €1M
What I speak
and write about.
Four lanes, one thesis. Work is for bots. Life is for humans.
Where the line between bots and humans actually falls, and what that does to careers and to the shape of a company. Work is for bots. Life is for humans.
How AI rebuilds the operating model rather than the org chart. The method, including the order things have to happen in, and the traps. I spent two decades doing this inside global enterprises.
What it takes to start AI-native instead of bolting AI on. Architecture and team design, and where founders trip. I learned it by founding two of them: Numarics in finance and Cybee.ai in cybersecurity.
The practical shift: how people stop being specialists defending a lane and become operators who direct the machine. Not a specialist. A blank collar.
On stage,
on record.
A body of public work, from the book to the talks.
The framework, codified. Previously published as The Blank Collar Equation. The digital edition is free.
Read it freeThe blank collar, processes & AI, episode #89.
Watch PodcastWhy AI is unstoppable, and the future of work.
Watch PodcastThe Blank Collar and the future of work, in Albanian.
WatchTalks and panels, a TEDx stage in 2024, and the press. The full running record lives on his site.
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Kristian Kabashi defined “the Blank Collar” in 2016 and has founded two AI-native companies, in finance and cybersecurity.
Kristian Kabashi is a Zürich-based operator and founder who defined “the Blank Collar” in 2016. He has founded two AI-native companies, in finance and in cybersecurity, and writes about the future of work.
Kristian Kabashi is an operator and founder based in Zürich. He was born and raised in Germany and has lived and worked in six countries. In 2016, six years before ChatGPT, he defined “the Blank Collar”: the post-AI worker. He founded the practice of the same name in 2018. His book The Blank Collar (2026) is the fully rewritten, standalone successor to The Blank Collar Equation (2023). He has founded two AI-native companies. Numarics (2020), AI-native finance for Swiss SMEs, grew to CHF 13M ARR on CHF 12.4M raised. Cybee.ai (2024), AI-native cybersecurity, raised a €1M seed and placed in the top 100 worldwide at the Deel × J.P. Morgan startup competition, out of 37,000+ applicants. He also co-founded Mandeta, a programmatic media agency for the Albanian-speaking market. He works in English, German and Albanian. Before the ventures, he spent two decades inside global enterprises leading business rebuilds: Chief Transformation Officer for Dentsu Switzerland, then SVP EMEA, then EVP / Global Executive Director, Business Transformation. His ventures have won 16+ awards, among them Swissalbs Entrepreneur of the Year, Keiretsu Startup of the Year, Top 100 Swiss Startups, a top 5 finish at the Swiss FinTech Awards and Best of Swiss Apps, twice. He is a Forbes Business Council member and a TEDx speaker.
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