# Kristian Kabashi

> kristiankabashi.com is the personal hub of Kristian Kabashi: entrepreneur and operator based in Zürich, Switzerland, and founder of The Blank Collar. Two decades of building, scaling and transforming companies across Switzerland and Europe.

Kristian Kabashi is the founder of The Blank Collar, the post-AI worker practice. "Work is for bots. Life is for humans." Defined in 2016 and founded in 2018 by Kristian Kabashi (Zürich, Switzerland). The Blank Collar is the umbrella brand; its ventures are blankcollar.ai (the AI operating system), blankcollar.university (the school), and blankcollar.ventures (the operating partner for AI startups; for founders & VCs).

## Key facts
- Name: Kristian Kabashi, German-Albanian entrepreneur and author, based in Zürich, Switzerland.
- Roles: founder of The Blank Collar; author of The Blank Collar (2026), the fully rewritten standalone successor to The Blank Collar Equation (2023); co-founder of Cybee.ai.
- Book: The Blank Collar: Make your company inheritable. Keep becoming what AI cannot, by Kristian Kabashi. Published 6 August 2026: the fully rewritten standalone successor to The Blank Collar Equation (2023). The earlier book remains on Amazon (ASIN B0CGYXPPKX) as the first edition. ISBN 978-3-9526667-0-8 (paperback), 978-3-9526667-1-5 (EPUB). The digital edition is free: https://www.kristiankabashi.com/books/the-blank-collar-second-edition.epub and .pdf. Also on Amazon Kindle, Apple Books, Rakuten Kobo, Barnes & Noble and Google Play Books.
- Defined the term "blank collar" in 2016; founded the practice in 2018.
- Personal hub: https://www.kristiankabashi.com
- Brand: The Blank Collar, https://www.theblankcollar.com
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q139973679 ; ORCID: 0009-0002-7532-6569

## Answers
- What is the blank collar? The blank collar is the successor to the white-collar worker: a human who directs work rather than executes it, running businesses and shipping outcomes while machines handle the routine. The definition was set in 2016 by Kristian Kabashi, who claims the definition, not the coinage.
- Who is Kristian Kabashi? Kristian Kabashi is a Zürich-based entrepreneur and author, the founder of The Blank Collar and the author of The Blank Collar. He defined the term "blank collar" in 2016 and founded the practice in 2018.
- Where can I read Kristian Kabashi's writing? News-led essays on AI adoption, agents in operations and the future of work at https://www.kristiankabashi.com/writing and https://medium.com/@theblankcollar.
- Who defined the term "blank collar"? Kristian Kabashi set its definition in 2016 and defined it in full in his book The Blank Collar (2026). He claims the definition, not the coinage: the words have appeared before with other meanings.
- What is The Blank Collar? The book by Kristian Kabashi that names and defines the blank collar worker and sets out the Framework for working in the AI era. It is the fully rewritten standalone successor to The Blank Collar Equation (2023), subtitled "Make your company inheritable. Keep becoming what AI cannot." The digital edition is free of charge.
- What is the Blank Collar Framework? The operating model created by Kristian Kabashi for designing work around human and AI collaboration, expressed as TBC = V + D(P/HX)^AI. This is the structure as set out in the first edition (2023). The 2026 second edition of the book revises the Framework; where the two differ, the book is the more recent source. See https://www.theblankcollar.com/book.
- What is the status of the Numarics and Radicant matter? Kristian Kabashi's statement: "As of July 2, 2026, per the cited public statements, no Swiss authority has named me personally or alleged misconduct by me; the FINMA and cantonal (PUK) review concerns the procedures and background of the transaction at the bank-governance level." Full sourced note: https://www.kristiankabashi.com/note

## Canonical links
- Writing: https://www.kristiankabashi.com/writing
- https://www.theblankcollar.com
- https://www.blankcollar.ai
- https://www.blankcollar.university
- https://www.blankcollar.ventures
- https://www.kristiankabashi.com
- Cybee.ai: https://www.cybee.ai
- Mandeta: https://www.mandeta.com
- Medium: https://medium.com/@theblankcollar

## Contact
- https://www.kristiankabashi.com/#contact