The One MileThe One Mile
Dennis Luks
Vendor-side
10 years

The startup scout
for enterprise innovation.

I find it. Vet it. Ship it. 90 days.

SCOUTING PARTNERS

Guidde
Nominis
Jedify
JFrog
Yuki Data
Impala AI
Enterprises
move slow, scale wide
Startups
innovate fast, scale slow

The gap between them?

That's the one mile.

18-month initiatives become 90-day wins. Pre-vetted startup tech, enterprise-ready.

Q2 2026 / SCOUTING DESK

Six initiatives.
One mile each.

A curated shortlist of vendors I've already vetted, sourced, and stress-tested for enterprise. Click one to see the brief.

EXPERIENCE

Ten years
on the other
side of the table.

I sold enterprise software for almost a decade. Now I help buyers ask the questions vendors hope they won't.

Same person from scout call to go-live to ongoing contact person. No handoffs or layered fees.

PREVIOUSLY

  • 01MongoDB
  • 02JFrog
  • 03Sisense
  • 04SAP
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TRAJECTORY
LANGUAGESDE · EN · HE · FR
ZURICH · CH01

Application Developer EFZ.

Four-year Swiss vocational apprenticeship. Built software before I sold it.

TEL AVIV · IL02

10 years in the cyber + startup nation.

Where I learned how enterprise software actually gets sold.

GLOBAL · 25/2603

Dozens of conferences this cycle.

In the rooms where the next category leaders are being decided.

RECENT CIRCUIT

SF Tech Week/Money 20/20 Vegas/Money 20/20 Asia/dbt Coalesce/Consensus Hong Kong/Sydney Policy Week

IN THE FIELD

Where the work
actually happens.

Dennis at the JFrog booth during AWS Summit, talking with attendees about DevSecOps.

JFROG / AWS SUMMIT

Vendor side

The booth, the conversations, the questions buyers actually ask.

Group photo at Citi Innovation Lab during a Digital Assets innovation session.

CITI INNOVATION LAB / DIGITAL ASSETS

Buyer side

Inside the rooms where enterprises decide what to build, buy, and bury.

Dennis at the Secret Berlin Dinner, an executive dinner for embedded analytics leaders.

SECRET BERLIN DINNER / EMBEDDED ANALYTICS EXECS

Real conversations

Where the unfiltered version of every product story finally comes out.

SWIPE

$0 to you.

You pay the vendor. Not me. No hourly rates. No SOWs. No surprises.

01

Schedule

30-minute briefing with Dennis.

02

Review

Your challenge, stack, and constraints.

03

Roadmap

A 90-day plan with the right partner.

No pitch deck. Just your problem.