Minsys

At Minsys we Bootstrap and Scale
Next-Gen AI-Native Ventures

Augmenting Human Ingenuity via Technology, Rather than Automating People Away.

What is Minsys ?

Minsys is a Business Ecosystem

Minsys is an Augmented Business Ecosystem focused on Bootstrapping and Scaling Next-Gen, AI-Native / Digital-Native Ventures, with an emphasis on Human Augmentation over Automation.

Who would Join Minsys ?

As a Key Stakeholder within the Ecosystem.

You are an Entrepreneur or a Business Owner, an Investor, a Technology Vendor/Integrator/Consultancy or a Talent Provider ? Join Minsys and seize Growth Opportunities as a Key Stakeholder of the Minsys Augmented Lean Ecosystem.
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Why Now is the Time to Join the Minsys Ecosystem ?

Materialize your Vision : harness the AI Revolution utilizing Minsys’s Ecosystem

You are now realizing that the AI revolution makes launching (Your) Next-Gen venture(s) possible.
Materialize your Vision and Achieve your Ambitions by leveraging the Minsys Ecosystem’s capabilities.

The current AI revolution has created unprecedented leverage and expanded economic opportunities, enabling nimble teams to build "deep tech" and "technically difficult companies" previously only accessible to much larger entities. Minsys is purpose-built to harness this shift , offering a premier Augmented Lean Ecosystem with core capabilities to co-create and co-scale next-generation AI-Native / Digital-Native ventures.

Join the Minsys Ecosystem as a Key Stakeholder

All Key Stakeholders of the Minsys Ecosystem focus on enabling and scaling net-new Digital-native/AI-native business models.

Business Partners

You are an Investor, a small or mid-sized Business Entrepreneur, or both ?

Partner with the Minsys Ecosystem to unlock new investment opportunities or augment your own business with Digital & AI for accelerated growth.

  • As an Investor, you will access a curated pipeline of tech ventures that have progressed beyond the initial pre-seed phase (MVP validated) and are aiming for product-market fit.
  • As a SMB Entrepreneur, you will leverage Minsys capabilities to augment your existing business, or co-create and scale YOUR new venture with reduced risk and accelerated time-to-market.

Third-Party Suppliers

You are a Technology Vendor, Integrator, Consultancy or a Talent Provider?

Access a consistent pipeline of innovative tech ventures and core organizational needs, unlocking opportunities to propose your expertise and sell your solutions.

  • As a Technology Vendor, Integrator or Consultancy, you will find a receptive market for your technology products, implementation services, or strategic advice as Minsys Ventures are actively building and scaling.
  • As the Talent Provider, you will tap into the Minsys Value Network to connect skilled individuals with cutting edge, growing product and service portfolio where Human Talent is at the very center.

Explore the Minsys Core Organization

Our Vision

Augmentation over Automation

"To establish a premier business ecosystem that centers around human ingenuity, leveraging technologies to foster and augment striving Individuals or Professionals, rather than replacing them."

Our Mission

To bootstrap an Augmented Lean Ecosystem

"To bootstrap an Augmented Lean Ecosystem harnessing Digital & AI technologies to empower ingenious people and businesses for tackling their everyday challenges."

Minsys relies on the following organization to bootstrap technology focused business ventures leveraging Minsys intellectual property, experimenting with the corresponding business models to be scaled-up (or pivoted...) while fostering collaboration within the ecosystem.

The Nexus

The Central Hub and Parent Company of the Minsys Organization.

Role:
To manage Minsys IP and orchestrate the phased growth of the Minsys Ecosystem.

The Venture Studio

The Company that Manages the Minsys's Business Ventures Portfolio.

Role:
To systematically bootstrap, nurture & manage ventures within the Minsys Ecosystem.

The MVP Factory

The Company that Operationalizes the Minsys Digital & AI Factory.

Role:
To produce and release Minimum Viable Products on Minsys Ventures demand for market validation.

Explore the Minsys Ventures

Minsys Ventures are the dynamic, customer-facing entities within the Minsys Ecosystem. They serve as the primary channels through which innovations—conceived, developed, and validated as Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) by The MVP Factory—reach end-users and specific market segments. Each venture is meticulously designed to be a nimble, AI-native business, structured for rapid experimentation, validated learning, and strategic scaling.

Key Characteristics of Minsys Ventures

Structured as SPVs/SPEs

Minsys Ventures are essentially Joint Ventures or Limited Partnership structured as SPVs/SPEs between one or more Minsys’ Business Partner(s) and the Minsys Core Organization.

Next-Gen Ventures

Ventures experiment and scale (or pivot )Technology-Driven, AI-Native Digital-Native business models, that would address current and future market needs.

Augmented Ventures

Ventures are built from the ground up with Artificial Intelligence (Machine Learning, GenAI, Agentic AI..) and Digital. They are meant to be natively data-driven and inherently adaptive.

Customer Centricity

Deeply focused on solving real customer problems and delivering exceptional value, MVPs and subsequent product iterations are developed with continuous user involvement and feedback.

Lean & Agile Operations

Embracing Augmented Lean principles, Ventures operate with agility, iterating quickly based on market feedback, data analytics, and continuous learning cycles.

Ecosystem Synergy

Ventures benefit from and contribute to the Minsys Value Network, leveraging shared resources, core IP, strategic partnerships, knowledge, and facilitated market access.

Through these ventures, Minsys actively tests and refines novel business models, gathers crucial market intelligence, and cultivates customer-centric knowledge. The ultimate aim is to build sustainable, high-growth companies that not only achieve commercial success but also embody the core Minsys principle of augmenting human ingenuity with technology.

Explore the Minsys Augmented Lean Ecosystem

The Minsys Augmented Lean Ecosystem is structured as a Value Network, connecting the Minsys Core organization (The Nexus, The Venture Studio and The MVP Factory) with upstream Business Partners and third party Suppliers along with downstream channels to market: "The Minsys Ventures". Its defining characteristic is the strategic use of Digital and AI technologies to augment the abilities or capabilities of every member or entity within the ecosystem.

All stakeholders, individual, professionals or business entities focus on enabling and scaling net-new Digital-native/AI-native business models and are operating under Lean principles: People centricity, Value focused & Flow, Kaizen, Muda, Mura, Muri...

Augmentation over Automation

The foundational principle of Minsys is encapsulated in its vision: "Augmentation over Automation". Minsys positions itself as a proponent of human-centric technology widespread adoption: this to directly counters the mounting concern that technological advancements, especially in AI and Automation, inevitably lead to mass unemployment or iniquitous job displacements (a.k.a : "AI Doomers" viewpoint.)

Eliminating Toil 

Automation should focus on eliminating toil, and human stewardship is crucial in that effort.

At Minsys, we are deeply convinced that without human stewardship, automation, even more if executed systematically, will result in hardship and discouragement for Human Talents. Yet, Automation has its place, particularly for eliminating toil, repetitive, dull, or dangerous works: this approach leads to operational efficiency where Human ingenuity is "Augmented”.

Human Centricity 

At Minsys, we use a human-centric approach, leveraging Digital and AI technologies to Augment our Talented People.

At Minsys we leverage Digital & AI technologies to reduce cognitive load and complexity, augmenting our people and enable them to thrive through growth and productivity, rather than solely automating tasks. We emphasize a human-centric approach, empowering individuals and professionals, particularly those on the 'frontline,' fostering bottom-up innovation alongside top-down management guidance and leadership.

Minsys embraces Augmented Lean

The focus is on enabling rapid experimentation and continuous improvement, so People & Teams can iterate quickly in response to real-world feedback. By prioritizing human ingenuity, the ecosystem supports creative problem-solving and learning, ensuring that technology amplifies the unique strengths of each team member. It's about augmenting cognitive and creative processes, not just physical ones.

Origin : Augmented Lean

Augmented Lean, a management framework that integrates technologies to empower workers in Manufacturing.

Originating from the work of Natan Linder and Trond Arne Undheim, Augmented Lean is presented as a management framework that prioritizes human empowerment in manufacturing by integrating technology in a human-centric way. The authors argue that traditional lean manufacturing and "Industry 4.0" often overemphasize automation, overlooking the crucial role of frontline workers. They advocate for augmentation over mere automation, transforming workers into knowledge workers through accessible, app-based technologies that enhance their decision-making and problem-solving abilities.

Application to Technology Ventures

Minsys advocates for Augmented Lean while tailoring the framework to fit to the Technology sector.

For Minsys, a technology focused business ecosystem, augmenting "the frontline worker" means creating an environment where technology is intentionally designed to empower –not replace– every contributor, every Team. Inspired by the Augmented Lean Framework as well as by the work of Mary and Tom Poppendieck or David J. Anderson (About applying Lean Principles to Software Development), we synthesized the whole into our own Framework, where Digital and AI tools are leveraged to streamline the Minsys' Lean-Agile workflows (Scaled Agile, Scrum & Kanban, DevOps, SRE & Platform Engineering), foster seamless cross-functional collaboration, and accelerate the transformation of data into actionable insights and shared knowledge.

The Minsys Ecosystem as a Value network

Unlike linear value chains, value networks emphasize multi-directional interactions and the importance of relationships. They capture the complex, dynamic interactions and co-creation of value across multiple stakeholders in an ecosystem, including customers, partners and suppliers. The concept of Value Network is better suited for understanding Value creation in networked and service-oriented businesses where value often arises from interactions beyond a single firm's boundaries.

Value Co-Creation

Minsys's 'Ecosystem' is a 'Value Network' where all stakeholders collaborate to co-create tangible and intangible value.

Minsys structures its 'Ecosystem' as a 'Value Network'. Unlike linear value chains, value networks emphasize multi-directional interactions and the importance of relationships. We consider the Clayton Christensen's definition : 'The collection of upstream suppliers, downstream channels to market, and ancillary providers that support a common business model within an industry'. In particular for the Minsys Ecosystem, inspired by the work of John Hagel III and Marc Singer, we identified and selected 4 roles : 'The Customer', the upstream roles : 'Suppliers' (cf : third party Suppliers), 'Partners' (cf : Business Partners) and the downstream channels to market roles : 'Distributors' (cf : 'The Minsys Ventures'). Because focusing on value co-creation that is aligned with Lean Thinking, we appreciate Verna Allee's definition : 'A complex webs of relationships and dynamic exchanges between stakeholders ( two or more individuals, groups or organizations) focused on co-creating both tangible (goods, services, revenue) and intangible (knowledge, strategic information) value'.

Flow of Value

The Minsys Value Network features a cyclical Flow of Value for economic return.

This flow is globally designed for Centralized IP Leverage, allowing core innovations to be experimented and exploited in diverse markets via different business Ventures as well as enabling portfolio diversification, by spreading investment risk across multiple independent ventures.

Operationally, The Minsys Value network features a cyclical and networked value flow designed for synergy and continuous improvement:

  • The Feedback Loop triggers a new cycle
  • The Nexus Provides Strategic Direction, Bootstrapped Funding, and Core IP
  • The Venture Studio Transforms Nexus inputs into validated ideas and Augmented Founding Teams.
  • The MVP Factory takes business models from the Venture Studio and builds ready to be scaled MVPs.
  • The Business Ventures are the customer-facing entities of the ecosystem, thus the direct channels to markets. Ventures experiment the business models by distributing the MVPs to the end customer.
  • Feedback Loop : Successful Business Ventures generate 'Financial Returns'. Others are pivoted. Every Venture collect Market Data/Performance Metrics, Build-up and gather Customer centric knowledge which feed back into the Nexus for strategy, the Venture Studio for portfolio management/market research, the MVP Factory for the next MVP iteration (if any) and even trigger improvements in the MVP Factory itself (e.g., Better TTM, Quality, or Security...).

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