AI made it easy for anyone to look good. But if everyone looks good, it becomes harder for people to trust you.
In this keynote, Benjamin Hies, a German solopreneur running multiple businesses from Bangkok with no employees, opens up his one-person operating system: where AI works in his business every day, and the exact points where it stops.
Ben credits AI with letting one person do what used to take a team. The keynote shows where he draws the line: what he hands to the machine, what he keeps, and why the human side of that line decides whether the business works at all.
The business Ben opens up on stage is under a year old, built from zero with no prior experience in online business, writing, coaching, or AI.
AI is a big part of why it worked that fast. He outsourced the mechanics of becoming an online entrepreneur, and kept the parts that make people buy. On stage he shows both sides: real workflows and real numbers, including what didn't work.
If you're building with AI every day, you'll leave knowing which parts of your business AI can run, and which parts you can't outsource.
About Benjamin Hies
Benjamin Hies is an entrepreneur, consultant, and relocation expert. Drawing on a career of building companies across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, and a life lived across six countries and five residencies, he founded Digital Citizen, a publication and private advisory that guides Americans through moving abroad, banking internationally, and earning a second citizenship.
His path covers three worlds of business: corporate consulting for clients like Mercedes-Benz and BP, brick-and-mortar ventures from Cyprus to Bangkok, and now his first fully online company, built from zero in under a year with AI.
He is on a mission to help people build options beyond their home country, for themselves and for their money. In his spare time, he reads tax codes and residency programs the way other people read novels, and writes about what he finds on Substack.
