Sascha Busse
I was never interested in an industry. I was interested in how I could design my own life.
I’m Sascha — entrepreneur and investor. I build my own systems: crypto with clear rules for my capital, AI systems as leverage for my time. Here I explain how I think — and why the two belong together.
To me, freedom means one thing above all: having options.
Not owning as much money as possible, or being on vacation all the time. It means being able to decide how I spend my time. Understanding what happens with my money. Not being blindly dependent on others. And being able to make decisions because I understand the structure behind them.
For me, money and technology are tools to expand freedom of choice — not the meaning of life.
Capital is one lever for that. Time, structure and execution are the other. That’s why I work on both: crypto with clear rules and AI systems I use myself. Each is useful on its own. Together they give me more options.
That’s also why technology, AI, and automation don’t interest me because they’re impressive. They interest me when they give me back time, reduce complexity, and enable better decisions. That’s exactly how I work with it – with my own AI system and on the business side with AI Presence.
A system may take work off my plate. It may not take the understanding.
From chasing the next opportunity to building my own structure.
I used to be more fascinated by opportunities and possibilities than by the structure behind them. I believed freedom came from spotting the right investment, the right trend, or the next big move early enough.
My clearest lesson in that came from crypto: I experienced firsthand what happens when conviction and speed outweigh structure and risk awareness. It was expensive — and exactly because of that, formative.
Since then, my perspective has shifted. I no longer believe freedom comes from finding the next opportunity. It comes from understanding what you’re doing, being able to carry risk, and building systems that still work once the euphoria is gone.
How I make decisions.
With difficult decisions, I first separate emotion from decision. I want to understand exactly what I’m deciding, what risk I’m taking on, and what consequences I can carry. I don’t have to be maximally committed right away — I’d rather start small, observe, learn, and only grow once my understanding has grown with it. Fear and euphoria are poor decision-making systems, as far as I’m concerned.
Just as important is what I don’t do. I don’t want to make people dependent on me. I don’t promise returns nobody can control. I don’t sell signals that replace understanding. And I don’t make a decision just because everyone else is jumping on it right now. If I don’t understand why I’m doing something, that’s a warning sign to me — not a reason to move faster.
Where my two systems come from.
Capital · Crypto Compass
Crypto Compass grew out of that expensive lesson: the desire to structure capital, crypto, and technology in a way that lets people make better decisions for themselves.
If you want to see how the system behind it is actually built, you’ll find everything else here.
Discover the system →AI · My system
My AI system grew out of a simpler wish: not starting from zero every single day. New chat, explain the company, explain the project, justify the same decision for the third time.
What came out of it — and what I never hand over — I show here.
See my AI system →So, what now?
What the next step looks like for you depends on what brought you here.
You want to structure your capital clearly.
See Crypto CompassYou want to see how I work with AI.
See my AI systemBesides crypto and AI there is one more room I rarely talk about. It’s more personal, and it’s not for everyone. The Initiation