Enabling Safe AI Experimentation for Non-Technical Founders
Inga Pflaumer shares how a pre-seed startup without technical leadership was able to quickly build and iterate on their product using AI without sacrificing safety, focusing on setting up the right foundations and lightweight guardrails so non-technical founders could experiment independently while staying within secure and scalable boundaries.
The result was a team able to move fast with confidence, turning AI from a risky shortcut into a reliable way to build.
Inga Pflaumer
With 15+ years in tech and a background in AI and web3, Inga Pflaumer has led teams across startups and scaleups. Inga is also a mentor, diversity advocate, and part-time game developer who believes great engineering is equal parts logic, curiosity, and emotional intelligence
Inga was formerly Head of Engineering at Relevance AI, where she built agentic workflows that automate the painful parts of work - including her own.