When you want to lead productivity improvement with data rather than gut feel.
Advisor / Partner
Runner, cyclist, adventurer. A business leadership and technology professional. I have been improving companies’ operations and competitiveness with technology across three decades.
Tel: +358 45 279 2794
Email: lenni@astulabs.fi
AI Architect / Partner
Competitive marathon runner and keen escape room enthusiast. A technology professional with an engineering background, including experience of leading the entire service delivery of an IT outsourcing company.
Tel: +358 50 351 7410
Email: jouni@astulabs.fi
Business Development Consultant / Partner
A professional at bringing technology and business together. Father of two — and sport is a way of life for me. A curious problem-solver. At work, I am particularly drawn to how AI is reshaping companies’ business and strategy.
Born of a passion for technology and culture — step in and join our journey towards happier working lives and a more prosperous Northern Europe. Others develop the technology; we are the experts in putting it to work and in building the company culture to support it. We free your people for the creative and social work that makes your business more profitable.
- AI is now a permanent part of working life. Using it is no longer a choice.
- This is not about learning one more tool — it is about learning a new kind of working life and new ways of working.
- AI, ACI, AGI, agents, cognitive automation, processes, regulation... We know the direction of travel, and we will be at your side for every step where you need us.
Could your photo be on this page one day? Quite possibly — if these three things ring true:
- You have solid experience of bringing technology and business together: technology serves people and the business, not the other way round.
- You understand that AI and cognitive automation are a turning point — not a set of new tools, but a whole new way of working and of creating new business.
- You understand what strategy, management systems, processes and company culture mean for a company’s financial success — and besides IT and AI, you speak fluent leadership team and board.
Astu Labs’ three partners have a combined total of more than 20 years of leadership experience and more than 30 years of technology expertise. Each of us has worked both in leadership teams and in hands-on technology work.
Our previous roles include service director, IT architect, account director and software developer. We have gained experience in startups as well as in established organisations, in industries ranging from forestry to banking.
We have led organisations to Great Place to Work list placements, built an ISO 9001 quality management system all the way to certification, and raised customer satisfaction to the highest level in the history of the companies we led.
Our experience comes from leadership and specialist roles, not from consulting careers. We also bought consulting ourselves for years before we started selling it. We know from the client’s side what a good and a bad engagement look like.
The work is done by the same partners who take part in the first conversations. We don’t sell a senior and deliver a junior. The same person can discuss the leadership team’s strategic choices while understanding the constraints of the technical solutions.
Our starting point is that technology on its own changes nothing. The benefits of AI are decided by choices about culture, governance, skills and leadership.
The whole team.
In an AI transformation, the significant decisions are rarely purely technical. The same decision can be a question of leadership, skills, technology and governance all at once. For example, introducing a new AI tool often requires decisions about skills development, changes to ways of working and ground rules for use. If any of these is missing, the benefits won’t materialise.
That is why, in Astu Labs engagements, clients always have access to the business, leadership and technology perspectives. Each of our partners understands all of these areas well enough, but also brings their own deep expertise to the discussion.
In practice, the client’s toughest questions are often bounced between several partners. The client doesn’t get one consultant’s opinion, but a view formed together by three experienced leaders.
Our clients particularly value being able to discuss the leadership team’s strategic choices just as naturally as the practical implementation of AI. The work isn’t done by separate sales, consulting and delivery teams, but by the same people who take responsibility for the outcome.
