What does it take to build secure, reliable software at AI speed that businesses can trust with sensitive employee data? In this case study, founder Tim Niemeier shares how he is building clever.hr, an AI-native HR and payroll platform, with coding agents working around the clock. He explores the engineering behind that delivery speed: structuring tasks, coordinating agents, testing changes and maintaining human oversight of architecture, security and quality.
With concrete examples and transparent cost figures, Tim examines what shipped, which approaches accelerated delivery and reduced costs, and where automation still needs human judgment. The session closes with a question for every product leader: when implementation becomes dramatically faster, how do you keep decisions, validation and releases moving at the same pace?
Founder clever.hr. Ex-Rocket Internet and Etribes.
Tim is a serial founder and hands-on technology leader with 15 years of experience building startups and delivering complex enterprise software. Formerly CTO of Rocket Internet and Global Founders Capital, he co-founded Tirendo, Minodes, ROQ Technology and led major projects for companies including TAKKT AG, Swisscom, METRO, Bosch Rexroth and numerous startups and scaleups. Today, he combines hands-on development of clever.hr with helping tech leaders adopt agentic engineering. As a trainer at alphalist’s CTO AI Bootcamps and AI workshops, he helps CTOs rethink architecture, engineering workflows and team structures, thereby bringing practical experience in both building software and leading organizations through change.
