We are curly.

Progress doesn't move in straight lines. It never has.

Every breakthrough, every meaningful step forward has followed a winding path—full of unexpected turns and discoveries that only revealed themselves because someone was willing to follow where the conversation led. 

Straight lines are efficient. They get you from A to B without deviation. Predictable, measurable, safe. But they only work when you already know where B is.


Curly lines are different.

They twist. They adapt. They follow the natural shape of human conversation—bending toward curiosity, curving around nuance, spiraling deeper when they sense something worth exploring. They don't force reality into rigid grids. They honor its complexity.

This is how real understanding happens. Not through sterile surveys demanding straight answers to straight questions. But through conversations that meander, backtrack, surprise. Through listening that follows the thread wherever it goes, even—especially—when it doesn't go where you expected.


We're curly because we believe the best insights don't live on straight paths.

They hide in the detours. In the pause before someone says what they really think. In the pattern that emerges when a hundred winding conversations interweave into something you couldn't have designed from the start. 

Straight lines optimize for speed. Curly paths optimize for truth. And when you're building tomorrow, when you're making decisions that matter—truth beats speed every single time.

So we're curly. Proudly, unapologetically curly. Because the shortest distance between two points might be a straight line. But the most interesting discoveries happen along the bends.

Our Vision

A tomorrow guided by human voices.

We envision a world where every decision—every product, every strategy, every leap forward—is shaped by the people it affects. Not after the fact, but from the very beginning. Where human voices aren't just heard, they guide. Where progress does not necessarily come from the top down, but from the ground truth up. Tomorrow isn't built on guesses. It's woven from conversations.

Our Mission

We turn conversations into confident decisions.

This is what we do, and why we exist: we make deep human understanding scalable. We transform what was once rare and expensive—qualitative insight, emotional nuance, the "why" behind the "what"—into something continuous, accessible, and impossibly fast. We don't replace human judgment. We arm it with collective intelligence. So when you decide, you don't hope. You know.

Who we are.

Who we are.

Built by experienced entrepreneurs who have been there.

Built by experienced entrepreneurs who have been there.

Philipp Nastaly

Co-Founder & CEO

Experienced AI founder who built and scaled CHAPTR, an AI-first startup, before everybody else jumped on the AI bandwagon. A hands-on entrepreneur who prioritizes solving real customer problems over flashy tech—while sharing his strategic insights and experiences as keynote speaker and advisor.

Philipp Nastaly

Co-Founder & CEO

Experienced AI founder who built and scaled CHAPTR, an AI-first startup, before everybody else jumped on the AI bandwagon. A hands-on entrepreneur who prioritizes solving real customer problems over flashy tech—while sharing his strategic insights and experiences as keynote speaker and advisor.

Paul Büchter

Co-Founder & CPTO

McKinsey strategist turned B2B growth expert who drove exponential ARR growth at FINN through customer-obsessed execution. A results-driven professional with technical capabilities bridging strategy and implementation—bringing both consulting rigor & hands-on problem-solving to AI transformations.

Paul Büchter

Co-Founder & CPTO

McKinsey strategist turned B2B growth expert who drove exponential ARR growth at FINN through customer-obsessed execution. A results-driven professional with technical capabilities bridging strategy and implementation—bringing both consulting rigor & hands-on problem-solving to AI transformations.

Connect

Email: philipp@curly.de