Independent CTO/CDO & executive advisory

Technology
decisions
you can defend.

Decide where to invest, what to change and when to stop. Connect technology, data and AI choices to business priorities, organisational capability and risk.

I’m Christian Prokopp. I advise CEOs, boards and technology leaders on strategy and product direction. My CTO/CDO experience and engineering depth let me connect executive decisions with the technical assumptions they depend on.

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Experience behind the work

Data & analytics director
Holland & Barrett

Partner · 125+ people
Think Big / Teradata

Interim VP Data Strategy
Worldpay

01 / Working together

Where the decision
needs senior judgement.

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Strategy & investment decisions

Choose where to invest.

Assess product opportunities, platform direction, build-or-buy choices and AI proposals against business priorities, organisational capability and risk.

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Executive & product advisory

Bring independent judgement to the leadership team.

Work through technology and product direction, data strategy, organisation design and major supplier choices. Challenge assumptions and review decisions as evidence changes.

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Focused technical investigation

Resolve the uncertainty before you commit.

Investigate a technical or product assumption through an architecture review, targeted analysis or a focused prototype. Guide a small expert team and connect the findings to the strategic decision.

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02 / Analysis

2026-09-06 · Christian Prokopp

GPT-6 Astra: More Efficient Reasoning, Harder to Audit?

GPT-6 Astra can deliver better results with fewer tokens. What does its opaque reasoning mean for AI costs, auditability and trust in business applications?

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03 / Technical work behind the advice

Close enough
to test the advice.

My engineering background helps me judge when a technical detail changes the business decision. Where an important assumption needs testing, I can define the investigation, guide a prototype or examine the evidence with your team.

At Camunda, my prototypes informed early AI product direction. At Semaverse.ai, I combined product workflows, data partnerships and platform architecture.

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Start with the decision

What is at stake
for your business?

Considering a technology investment, a change in product direction or a different way of organising your teams? Tell me the decision, what is at stake and your timing.

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