Strategic Fiction

Our flagship offer: build the product before it exists. A working dashboard, domain-real data, a believable future—in days. Designed to create conviction, not just clicks.

See It in Action Case studies

The problem with big ideas

Every visionary product starts with the same impossible moment: how do you make people believe in something that doesn't exist yet?

A slide deck doesn't make hearts race

Stakeholders have seen a thousand pitch decks. Boxes and arrows don't create urgency — they create committees.

Decisions get deferred

Months of build before anyone sees anything

Traditional development means spending the budget before validating the vision. By the time it's real, the window has closed.

High cost, high risk

People say yes to a vision, not a spec

You can't sign off on a requirements document. You sign off on something you can click, explore, and imagine using.

Alignment never happens

Result: great ideas die in PowerPoint

Three ingredients of Strategic Fiction

A Strategic Fiction prototype is not a mockup and not a product. It's a carefully constructed experience designed to make the future feel real — today.

Real Data

Mock data that feels genuine. Industry terminology, realistic numbers, domain-accurate KPIs. Not lorem ipsum—a large-scale construction portfolio with multiple live projects, budget deviations, and AI-flagged invoice anomalies.

→ Audiences recognize themselves in it

Real UI

A fully working, clickable interface. Role-based views, interactive charts, filters, actions. It runs in a browser. It responds. It looks exactly like production — because it's built with the same tools.

→ It doesn't feel like a demo

Real Story

A narrative arc built in. The AI flags the invoice anomaly. The risk pattern surfaces across three sites. The CEO sees everything in one view. The demo tells itself — no presenter required.

→ Decision-makers lean forward

How we built the future of a construction company

In one week, we built a complete AI-powered construction intelligence platform for a confidential client—a European contractor under NDA managing a nine-figure portfolio across many concurrent sites.

The brief was simple: show the Geschäftsführung what unified project intelligence could feel like. Not a concept. A product.

Day 01/5

The Brief

A mid-sized construction enterprise. Data fragmented across ERP, planning tools, BIM, and email. No executive visibility. No coherent AI story for stakeholders.

One conversation. One whiteboard. A clear vision.

Day 12/5

Mock Data Architecture

Eight realistic projects across multiple regions. Trade schedules, budget deviations, milestone timelines. Six subcontractors with performance scores. Four invoices with AI-detected anomalies. A nine-figure portfolio that breathes.

Every number chosen to tell a story

Day 2–33/5

The Dashboard

Portfolio overview with traffic-light status across all projects. Role-based views for CEO, project manager, and site supervisor. Analytical mode and operational mode. Instant client-side filtering.

Three personas. One platform. No surprises.

Day 4–54/5

The AI Features

KI-Rechnungsprüfung: invoice anomaly detection with confidence scores (97% clean, 44% risky). Risikofrüherkennung: cross-project pattern detection that surfaces systemic issues invisible to any single PM. Terminprognose: schedule forecasting with 87% confidence.

AI as decision support — not magic, not marketing

Day 75/5

Pitch-Ready

A complete, working prototype. Navigable by anyone. Dark mode. Mobile-responsive. German UI. The kind of thing you hand an iPad to the CEO and watch them explore without a word.

The platform doesn't exist. But after seeing it, the client asked when it could go live.

Day 01/5

The Brief

A mid-sized construction enterprise. Data fragmented across ERP, planning tools, BIM, and email. No executive visibility. No coherent AI story for stakeholders.

One conversation. One whiteboard. A clear vision.

Day 12/5

Mock Data Architecture

Every number chosen to tell a story

Day 2–33/5

The Dashboard

Portfolio overview with traffic-light status across all projects. Role-based views for CEO, project manager, and site supervisor. Analytical mode and operational mode. Instant client-side filtering.

Three personas. One platform. No surprises.

Day 4–54/5

The AI Features

AI as decision support — not magic, not marketing

Day 75/5

Pitch-Ready

A complete, working prototype. Navigable by anyone. Dark mode. Mobile-responsive. German UI. The kind of thing you hand an iPad to the CEO and watch them explore without a word.

The platform doesn't exist. But after seeing it, the client asked when it could go live.

“The platform doesn't exist. But after seeing it, the client asked when it could go live.”

Not a prototype. A conviction.

Strategic Fiction looks like rapid prototyping. It feels different — because the intent is different.

Traditional Prototype

Strategic Fiction

Proves technical feasibility

Proves business desirability

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Domain-realistic, story-driven data

Shown to the development team

Shown to the boardroom

Built to test technology

Built to accelerate decisions

Success = it runs

Success = they want it to be real

When does this make sense?

Strategic Fiction is not for every project. It's for the moments where the idea is bigger than the current reality — and that gap needs to close fast.

Investor & Board Pitch

Highest impact use case

You're raising capital or requesting budget for something new. A working product demo creates conviction that slides cannot. Let them click through the future.

Enterprise Pre-Sales

Win before you build

You need to win a contract before you've built anything. A Strategic Fiction prototype shows the client exactly what they're buying — in their language, with their data.

Internal Alignment

End the committee loop

Leadership is stuck in debate. A working prototype stops the conversation and starts the commitment. Make the abstract concrete — and watch consensus form.

Conference & Trade Show

Demonstrate, don't describe

Don't describe your product. Demonstrate it. A Strategic Fiction prototype turns a booth conversation into a product experience that visitors remember — and share.

Ready to make the first step?

Start with a focused conversation or a short proof. We'll align on the real problem, then use AI and craft to make it tangible—fast.

Get in touch

Try a 30-minute proof of concept

matthias.grieder@ebcont.com

Bring clarity to your product story

+43 664 60651845

Move from insight to working software

Vienna, Austria

Start Your Transformation

Human insight, AI acceleration—see how fast the right prototype can align your team and stakeholders.

Strategic Fiction

Our flagship offer: build the product before it exists. A working dashboard, domain-real data, a believable future—in days. Designed to create conviction, not just clicks.

See It in Action Case studies

The problem with big ideas

Every visionary product starts with the same impossible moment: how do you make people believe in something that doesn't exist yet?

A slide deck doesn't make hearts race

Stakeholders have seen a thousand pitch decks. Boxes and arrows don't create urgency — they create committees.

Decisions get deferred

Months of build before anyone sees anything

Traditional development means spending the budget before validating the vision. By the time it's real, the window has closed.

High cost, high risk

People say yes to a vision, not a spec

You can't sign off on a requirements document. You sign off on something you can click, explore, and imagine using.

Alignment never happens

Result: great ideas die in PowerPoint

Three ingredients of Strategic Fiction

A Strategic Fiction prototype is not a mockup and not a product. It's a carefully constructed experience designed to make the future feel real — today.

Real Data

→ Audiences recognize themselves in it

Real UI

→ It doesn't feel like a demo

Real Story

A narrative arc built in. The AI flags the invoice anomaly. The risk pattern surfaces across three sites. The CEO sees everything in one view. The demo tells itself — no presenter required.

→ Decision-makers lean forward

How we built the future of a construction company

The brief was simple: show the Geschäftsführung what unified project intelligence could feel like. Not a concept. A product.

Day 01/5

The Brief

A mid-sized construction enterprise. Data fragmented across ERP, planning tools, BIM, and email. No executive visibility. No coherent AI story for stakeholders.

One conversation. One whiteboard. A clear vision.

Day 12/5

Mock Data Architecture

Every number chosen to tell a story

Day 2–33/5

The Dashboard

Portfolio overview with traffic-light status across all projects. Role-based views for CEO, project manager, and site supervisor. Analytical mode and operational mode. Instant client-side filtering.

Three personas. One platform. No surprises.

Day 4–54/5

The AI Features

AI as decision support — not magic, not marketing

Day 75/5

Pitch-Ready

A complete, working prototype. Navigable by anyone. Dark mode. Mobile-responsive. German UI. The kind of thing you hand an iPad to the CEO and watch them explore without a word.

The platform doesn't exist. But after seeing it, the client asked when it could go live.

Day 01/5

The Brief

A mid-sized construction enterprise. Data fragmented across ERP, planning tools, BIM, and email. No executive visibility. No coherent AI story for stakeholders.

One conversation. One whiteboard. A clear vision.

Day 12/5

Mock Data Architecture

Every number chosen to tell a story

Day 2–33/5

The Dashboard

Portfolio overview with traffic-light status across all projects. Role-based views for CEO, project manager, and site supervisor. Analytical mode and operational mode. Instant client-side filtering.

Three personas. One platform. No surprises.

Day 4–54/5

The AI Features

AI as decision support — not magic, not marketing

Day 75/5

Pitch-Ready

A complete, working prototype. Navigable by anyone. Dark mode. Mobile-responsive. German UI. The kind of thing you hand an iPad to the CEO and watch them explore without a word.

The platform doesn't exist. But after seeing it, the client asked when it could go live.

“The platform doesn't exist. But after seeing it, the client asked when it could go live.”

Not a prototype. A conviction.

Strategic Fiction looks like rapid prototyping. It feels different — because the intent is different.

Traditional Prototype

Strategic Fiction

Proves technical feasibility

Proves business desirability

Generic placeholder data

Domain-realistic, story-driven data

Shown to the development team

Shown to the boardroom

Built to test technology

Built to accelerate decisions

Success = it runs

Success = they want it to be real

When does this make sense?

Strategic Fiction is not for every project. It's for the moments where the idea is bigger than the current reality — and that gap needs to close fast.

Investor & Board Pitch

Highest impact use case

You're raising capital or requesting budget for something new. A working product demo creates conviction that slides cannot. Let them click through the future.

Enterprise Pre-Sales

Win before you build

You need to win a contract before you've built anything. A Strategic Fiction prototype shows the client exactly what they're buying — in their language, with their data.

Internal Alignment

End the committee loop

Leadership is stuck in debate. A working prototype stops the conversation and starts the commitment. Make the abstract concrete — and watch consensus form.

Conference & Trade Show

Demonstrate, don't describe

Don't describe your product. Demonstrate it. A Strategic Fiction prototype turns a booth conversation into a product experience that visitors remember — and share.

Ready to make the first step?

Start with a focused conversation or a short proof. We'll align on the real problem, then use AI and craft to make it tangible—fast.

Get in touch

Try a 30-minute proof of concept

matthias.grieder@ebcont.com

Bring clarity to your product story

+43 664 60651845

Move from insight to working software

Vienna, Austria

Start Your Transformation

Human insight, AI acceleration—see how fast the right prototype can align your team and stakeholders.

Human insight. AI acceleration. Strategic design for the age of generated software.

Strategic FictionStrategic Fiction

The problem with big ideas

A slide deck doesn't make hearts race

Months of build before anyone sees anything

People say yes to a vision, not a spec

Three ingredients of Strategic Fiction

Real Data

Real UI

Real Story

How we built the future of a construction company

The Brief

Mock Data Architecture

The Dashboard

The AI Features

Pitch-Ready

The Brief

Mock Data Architecture

The Dashboard

The AI Features

Pitch-Ready

Not a prototype. A conviction.

When does this make sense?

Investor & Board Pitch

Enterprise Pre-Sales

Internal Alignment

Conference & Trade Show

Ready to make the first step?

Get in touch

Try a 30-minute proof of concept

Bring clarity to your product story

Move from insight to working software

Start Your Transformation

Strategic FictionStrategic Fiction

The problem with big ideas

A slide deck doesn't make hearts race

Months of build before anyone sees anything

People say yes to a vision, not a spec

Three ingredients of Strategic Fiction

Real Data

Real UI

Real Story

How we built the future of a construction company

The Brief

Mock Data Architecture

The Dashboard

The AI Features

Pitch-Ready

The Brief

Mock Data Architecture

The Dashboard

The AI Features

Pitch-Ready

Not a prototype. A conviction.

When does this make sense?

Investor & Board Pitch

Enterprise Pre-Sales

Internal Alignment

Conference & Trade Show

Ready to make the first step?

Get in touch

Try a 30-minute proof of concept

Bring clarity to your product story

Move from insight to working software

Start Your Transformation

Strategic Fiction

Strategic Fiction