We were building in AI in 2022, before the LLM boom. After building and selling startups and working with companies across markets, we kept seeing the same problem: people could see the potential of AI, but needed help making it useful in the work in front of them.
We started Specialty Tokens to get closer to those people. To sit with their teams, understand what is difficult, and build solutions around it. That work can start with one person's daily frustration and grow into a new way for an entire department to operate.
Nik and Thomas bring the experience of building companies to the work of changing them. Today, they lead Specialty Tokens across engineering, products, education, and community.
Director
Engineer and founder. Former Chief of Staff at Soona, founder and CEO of Mokker, grown to over one million users before its acquisition.
At Specialty Tokens, Nik works with teams on the problems they want AI to solve, from the first working session to the engineering and workshops that bring it into everyday use.
He studied Industrial Engineering and Mechanical Engineering at the Technische Universität Wien, speaks German and English, and is a keen golfer.
Director
Builder, operator and educator. Founder of Agentbase in San Francisco and former CPO of New Software. Teaches AI online to more than 75,000 subscribers.
Before Specialty Tokens, Thomas founded Agentbase, a San Francisco managed agent platform, and was CPO of New Software, a venture-backed revenue operations platform for ERP systems. Earlier, he worked at Corecam Family Office.
He studied Mandarin Chinese at the University of Ottawa, speaks German and English, and is a former track and field athlete.
Specialty Tokens brings together bespoke engineering, a global community of AI practitioners, and rooms full of people ready to put the technology to work.
We work alongside your people to build agents, integrations, and software around the way your business actually runs.
We bring AI engineers, executives, and founders together in private working sessions. Participants come from organizations including OpenAI, Google, Adobe, Citadel, and Zurich Airport. We also welcome select clients to exchange ideas and work through difficult problems with the group.Explore the group and apply →
We get teams working with AI on their own tasks and bring executives together to explore what it means for their organizations.
We actively build software, including our central AI platform for connecting AI agents to company systems. Our own engineering work informs what we build with you.
Close to the people using the technology. Deep in the engineering that makes it useful.
Sit with the team. Understand the task, the workarounds, and what gets in the way before deciding what to build.
The disconnected system, the unusual process, the problem a standard tool cannot solve. That is where we like to work.
Design around your systems, data, and responsibilities. Test the work with the people who will use it every day.
Give people clear ways to review, correct, and guide the work. Decisions involving money, contracts, or customers need explicit boundaries.
Use real tasks in workshops. Make room for questions and experimentation so people can see where AI helps and where their judgment matters.
Stay close to the technology through our own products and our engineering community. Bring what holds up in practice into the next problem.
Our people, our community, and the work we do.
Specialty Tokens is an AI engineering firm based in Vienna, Austria. We build bespoke AI systems alongside company teams, run practical workshops, bring executives together, and lead a global community of working AI engineers. We also build our own products, including a central AI platform.
Nik Redl and Thomas Schlossmacher founded and lead Specialty Tokens. Both were working in AI in 2022, before the LLM boom. Their experience building businesses and working with companies across markets shaped the firm: stay close to people and solve the problems they face in their day-to-day work.
Vienna, Austria. EU residency by default. We work with teams across Europe, the UK, and the US.
We build custom AI agents, connect business systems, and develop software for workflows that standard tools do not cover. Alongside engineering, we run workshops using teams' real tasks and gather executives to explore how AI can change their organizations.
We bring AI engineers, executives, and founders together in private working sessions. Participants come from organizations including OpenAI, Google, Adobe, Citadel, and Zurich Airport. We also welcome select clients to exchange ideas and work through difficult problems with the group. Admission is by invitation or application.
Our central AI platform is the enterprise MCP and agent platform maintained by Specialty Tokens. It connects employees and agents to company systems and runs end-to-end automation in the cloud.
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