Karsten Richter is a co-founder of Picasi, a market intelligence platform built for SMB teams who need to track competitors, suppliers, and industry voices systematically but without an enterprise analytics department behind them. He developed the concept of Source-First Intelligence: a monitoring approach that shifts the starting point from keywords to sources. Instead of deciding which keyword to watch (brand name, trends, competitors), you first define the sources that matter: a competitor, a key account, an analyst. Only then do you start observing every channel they publish on simultaneously. The output is signals, not sheer content volume. While founding Picasi as a side-gig, Karsten serves as an executive at an energy SaaS company in the DACH region, where he saw repeatedly how...