The new AI days: delivering more in a week than most ship in a month
AI is not a trend. It is a new operating system for the food industry. And the organizations that adopt it now — with the right partners — are creating a lead that will be difficult to catch.
Productivity has been redefined
For months, people have talked about the AI revolution as something that is coming. At Day of Week, it is already here. In just a short time, we have built more than we would previously have built in months. Not because anyone suddenly became a better developer — but because the way we build has fundamentally changed.
This is the core of the new AI days: you no longer wait for the next sprint, the next roadmap cycle, or the next budget approval. You build now.
Øyvind Brekkhus Sandåker
Co-Founder & Chief AI Officer
Day of Week
From generic tools to industry-native solutions
Traditionally, organizations bought off-the-shelf tools — feedback systems, internal dashboards, reporting platforms. The problem? Generic software rarely understands the nuances of your industry. In AgriFoodTech, the intersection of food production, restaurant operations, and food experiences demands a specificity that no horizontal platform can deliver.
The answer is not to build everything yourself — it is to work with a partner that combines deep domain expertise with AI-native development speed. We call this Software Development as a Service: purpose-built solutions, delivered at startup velocity, with AI intertwined in every step of the pipeline.
“It is not about having the biggest tech team. It is about how fast you can move from idea to working solution — and having a partner who makes that possible.”
Øyvind Brekkhus Sandåker, Chief AI Officer
The modern stack: built for speed
Database
A frictionless foundation
We use Convex — Postgres under the hood, but with direct TypeScript type integration. The real impact is practical: fewer mistakes, faster iteration, and dramatically reduced development friction.
Deployment
Production in minutes
Hosted on Vercel, production deployments happen in minutes. What used to require infrastructure planning now requires a click. That changes how bold you can be.
Data residency
European by default
Data location matters more than ever. Both Convex and Vercel support European regions, making compliance and data governance significantly simpler for a startup.
Authentication
No friction, full control
Authentication can easily become a time sink. We use Clerk for its strong TypeScript support and extensibility — letting us focus on building value instead of rebuilding fundamentals.
AI models are your new colleagues
The biggest shift comes from AI coding systems. Today, we primarily work with Anthropic's Claude Code and Opus models, alongside OpenAI's Codex. Both are extraordinary. They do not just write code — they propose architecture, catch errors, improve structure, generate tests, and write documentation.
The most powerful aspect is that they explain what they are doing as they do it. That changes development from reactive correction to proactive steering — you can interrupt, guide, and correct direction before the wrong thing gets built.
“I like that the model talks through its process. I can interrupt it, guide it, and correct direction before it builds the wrong thing.”
Øyvind Brekkhus Sandåker, Chief AI Officer
Rethinking food industry operations
Across the food value chain — from producers and distributors to restaurants and food tourism operators — organizations are constrained by manual tasks. Menu planning done by hand, supplier coordination over email, quality documentation that consumes hours, and guest experiences that could be personalized but never are.
AI does not remove people from the equation. It gives people leverage. And in the AgriFoodTech space, that leverage creates entirely new possibilities — from AI-powered food experiences to automated compliance and traceability.
The mindset shift
“If you can describe it, we can build it.”
That is the promise of Software Development as a Service — your vision, built at AI speed, with industry expertise baked in.
“Don't just think 10x productivity. Think 100x.”
Øyvind Brekkhus Sandåker — Co-Founder & CAIO, Day of Week
Open source as a force multiplier
Another powerful development is the accessibility of open-source AI agent frameworks. Projects like OpenClaw demonstrate how AI agents can operate across systems. But they also highlight a critical reality: without guardrails, AI agents can create risk.
Productivity without security is a liability. AI adoption must be paired with thoughtful architecture, boundaries, and oversight. The system prompt is not just text — it is a security mechanism.
Why we are building Yggdrasil
As part of our AI-first approach, we are developing a platform called Yggdrasil — named after the world tree in Norse mythology. It is designed to power the intersection of food, tourism, and technology — orchestrating AI-driven systems across the entire AgriFoodTech value chain.
Yggdrasil connects the products we build for the food industry — Designer, where restaurants craft AI-powered menus and food experiences, Creator, where producers manage and showcase their goods, and a growing ecosystem of tools in the pipeline. Rather than isolated apps, the vision is a connected intelligence layer across the food value chain: shared context, shared learning, shared leverage.
Strategically, it represents something bigger than any single product. It is the foundation for becoming truly AI-first — not as a label, but as an operational reality.
Principle
Experiment boldly — fail safely
- Clear access control
- Logging and audit trails
- Strict permission scopes for agents
- Thorough testing before production
“We need to fail in order to learn. But we need to fail in a secure way.”
Øyvind Brekkhus Sandåker, Chief AI Officer
What this means for you
If you operate in the food industry — whether you are a restaurant chain, a producer, a distributor, or a food tourism operator — this is not just a technology discussion. It is a competitiveness discussion. The organizations that move fastest will not be the ones with the largest IT departments. They will be the ones who partner with teams that build at AI speed.
Many people see AI as a writing assistant or a coding accelerator. That is too small a vision. AI is a new operating layer for the entire food value chain — from farm to fork, from kitchen to guest experience.
A practical starting point
If you are thinking, “we should probably do something with AI,” you are already aware of the shift. The next step is not hiring a development team or buying another generic platform. It is finding a partner who understands your industry and builds at AI speed. Start with one challenge, see it solved in days, and expand from there.
The organizations partnering with the right builders today are defining tomorrow's baseline.
“Go explore. And have fun along the way.”
Øyvind Brekkhus Sandåker, Chief AI Officer