Henrik Werdelin
Founding Partner, Prehype | Co-founder, BARK | Author of The Acorn Method
Founding partner at venture development firm Prehype, co-founder of BARK, and author of 'The Acorn Method'. Teaches corporate executives and founders how to build internal AI ventures, deploy autonomous agent teams, and prototype AI-first business models in record time.
Areas of focus
Professional niches
Proof of Work
Autonomous Business Unit Prototyping Blueprint
Engineered structured playbooks enabling legacy enterprise corporations to incubate, test, and spin out autonomous AI-powered customer service and product recommendation startups in under 90 days.
Requires total separation from legacy corporate IT stacks during initial alpha testing phases.
Context: Prehype venture methodology, autonomous task decomposition, customer feedback loops.
View missionThe Minimum Viable AI Company (MVAC) Venture Architecture
Formulated the MVAC methodology detailing how small 3-person teams leverage agentic workflows and API-based models to achieve business outcomes previously requiring 50+ staff across sales, customer care, and operations.
High token costs can emerge if background agent retry loops lack strict financial throttling.
Context: Autonomous agents, Supabase backends, Stripe billing, LLM API scaffolding.
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