Max van der Linden
PartnershipsMax helps partners begin: clear conversations, honest scope, and a path into the work. Based in Italy.
Since 2026
Capabilities
Intelligence shaped around your business.
Custom AI tools and agents designed around your data, rules, and infrastructure.
Capabilities
Intelligence shaped around your business.
Custom AI tools and agents designed around your data, rules, and infrastructure.
Project Atlas
A living map of shipped systems, ongoing work, and ideas in motion.
Why Atarashi
We help turn unclear product ideas into working systems: listening first, making the work visible early.
Atarashi comes from the Japanese word for new: renewal, attention, care, and a fresh way forward.
We work with teams when something should exist but the path is still unclear. We help shape it into something real by listening closely, making the idea visible early, and building with care.
Atarashi is built by two people who have known each other since university and worked closely together since 2018. That shared trust covers product, AI, infrastructure, interface, and delivery.
Max van der Linden helps partners begin: clear conversations from Italy that turn into real work, with energy to open the door and care to keep it human.
Max helps partners begin: clear conversations, honest scope, and a path into the work. Based in Italy.
Adrian brings care for infrastructure, frontend, visibility and the systems that keep products stable, useful and easy to reach.
Thewind brings care for AI, applications, product logic and the technical paths that turn ideas into useful systems.
Approach
We listen, suggest useful directions, make ideas visible early, and refine them around how you really work.
In the agentic world, it's tempting to automate everything, but we should resist the urge and first think hard about whether the process should exist at all.
Delete, then automate.
Start something better
Rebuilding a workflow, shaping an AI product,
or rethinking an interface? Let's design it well.