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State-of-the-art AI, advised and shipped.

Agentic AI and knowledge systems for startups, mid-sized companies, enterprises and organisations with no tech department. Vendor-independent, EU-native from Vienna — and every engagement ends in an artifact you own.

I build the systems I advise on — the tools on this site are that work, published and runnable.

the five formats

Five formats, one ladder

Each rung ends in an artifact you keep, is priced per phase, and can be stopped at its first gate. You can enter at any rung — most organisations start at 01.

01AI Readiness Check

2–3 weeks, fixed scope

Two to three weeks to know exactly where AI is used in your organisation, what it touches, and which duties already apply.

You receive: a scorecard report — the AI inventory including the tools your staff signed up for themselves, a risk class per use, the data-protection triggers, and an action list ranked by exposure: keep, scale, kill.

who it is for
first purchase for an SMB, an enterprise or a public body — the trigger is a board question, an upcoming audit, a supplier promise, or a pilot nobody owns.
not for
not a strategy — the strategy comes after the inventory.

public administration15 working days, fixed price, written German deliverable, worded so it can go into a direct-award justification.

02Agentic Systems Review

2–3 weeks, fixed price, one system per review

A two-week technical second opinion on the agent, the LLM feature or the retrieval system you already run — or on the proposal you are about to sign.

You receive: a written decision memo — an architecture decision record, an eval-rig specification, and a remediation list ranked by severity, where every finding names the cheapest test that proves it. Plus a 90-minute walk-through with your team.

who it is for
enterprises and SMBs with a pilot, a proof of concept or a vendor offer; startups after their first build; non-technical organisations whose provider promised something.
not for
not a rebuild and not a takeover — the review does not become maintenance.

public administrationthe technical annex to your procurement decision, in German.

03Agentic Build Sprint

4–6 weeks, fixed price per artifact, one workflow

One workflow, four to six weeks, and it is running — with an eval suite, a run-book, and your team trained to own it.

You receive: the working system, its eval suite, a run-book, a handover session for your team, and — with your approval — a short public build log with the measured number.

who it is for
SMBs and non-technical organisations that need something working rather than a strategy; startups that need speed; enterprises with one bounded, high-value workflow. One named internal owner is required — no owner, no sprint.
not for
not a software house and not a maintenance contract.

public administrationa bounded unit description at fixed price, with the documentation the supervisory file expects.

04Strategy & Governance

phases of 4–8 weeks, fixed price per phase, ends in a plan plus one pilot

Phased work that ends in a decision you can defend — the roadmap, the target architecture, the governance design, or, for a public body, the FRIA dossier.

You receive: one fixed artifact per phase — the roadmap (use cases with effort, value and a twelve-month sequence), the target architecture (a diagram plus a decision record, bounded to interfaces and the local-versus-cloud posture), or the governance design (an AI register, an acceptable-use policy, a risk classification, a named owner, and a lightweight management layer aligned to ISO/IEC 42001 — a voluntary standard, not a legal requirement). Public-sector variant: the FRIA dossier.

who it is for
enterprises and regulated groups; SMBs that have just finished a readiness check; public bodies with uses in the high-risk class; boards that have to show a defensible decision.
not for
not a slide deck and not an open-ended retainer.

standing-role tierFractional AI Lead — fixed monthly days, documented architecture and governance decisions, owns the eval bar, reviews vendor claims, no commissions. Six-month minimum, quarterly review, defined days per cycle, written exit terms.

public administrationthe FRIA dossier (the seven elements of Art. 27, the data-protection bridge, notification preparation) plus the deployer procedures — supervisory-ready documentation, written in German.

05AI Literacy Programme (Art. 4)

role-tiered — all-staff awareness (90 minutes), department practitioners (half a day), leadership briefing. Open cohorts or in-house.

The training your staff need — and the record an auditor asks for: who was trained in what, when, with which materials.

You receive: the evidence package — a role-specific curriculum, participation records, and a policy snippet naming who was trained in what. The teaching is the smaller half; the documented coverage is the deliverable.

who it is for
HR, L&D and compliance owners in enterprises and public bodies; non-technical organisations that have to be able to show competence.
not for
not a keynote and not a certificate — no certificate is issued, because Art. 4(1) sets no statutory level; what you get is evidence of coverage.

public administrationaligned to the administration's own AI guidance, with participation records over certificates-for-CVs.

where to start

Two ways in, and neither is a sales call

The check takes two minutes and needs no email address. The call takes sixty minutes and ends with an assessment — whether or not the next step is one of mine.

The five-question AI-use check

five questions, two minutes, no email address. You get an honest reading of where your organisation stands and which duties already apply.

run the five-question check →

The 60-minute call

companies bring the inventory questions; public bodies bring their duties. The call ends with a concrete next step.

book the 60-minute call →

The scope note

what the engagement covers, who does what, how long it runs, and what you hold at the end — in writing, before anything is agreed.

request the scope note →

who it is for

Four kinds of organisation, one public-administration variant

The formats do not change with the organisation; the language, the first purchase and the artifact’s size do.

Startups & scale-ups

Weeks, not quarters: one workflow defined on Monday, running and evaluated before the next board meeting — and your engineers own the code from day one.

first purchase · 02 · Agentic Systems Review, or 03 · Agentic Build Sprint

SMB / KMU

No AI department needed: I start with what your team already does by hand, one process at a time, and everything you get back is in plain language and stays yours.

first purchase · 01 · AI Readiness Check

Enterprises & regulated groups

It fits the process you already have: fixed-price phases, decision records your architects can file, governance artifacts your auditors accept — and nothing that requires you to adopt my stack.

first purchase · 02 · Agentic Systems Review, or 04 · Strategy & Governance

Non-tech organisations

No jargon and no new tools to learn: I begin with the work your team already does, in your language, and the result is a document you can hand to a board or a supervisor.

first purchase · 05 · AI Literacy Programme (Art. 4), or 01 · AI Readiness Check

Public administration

Same five formats, procurement-shaped: fixed, describable units, written German deliverables, dated duties, and an on-premise option that is a first-class answer rather than a footnote. I work with the supervisory authority, not against it.

the public-administration block →

the evidence

Why the advisory claim is admissible

The publications, the tutorials and the tools are not the offer — they are the reason the offer can be checked. Counts are read from the registry, never typed.

articles
27
tutorials
70
courses
05
tools
10

how i work

Transform, without the drama

“With ease” is not a slogan here — it is four mechanical commitments, each one checkable before you commit to anything.

  1. 01

    One thing at a time

    one workflow (03), one system per review (02), one artifact per phase (04). The scope is written down, and it does not grow quietly.

  2. 02

    Fixed price per phase

    the number is agreed at the scope call. No day rate without a ceiling, no open meter.

  3. 03

    A kill gate after week one

    the first week of a sprint ends in a decision memo. Stopping there costs nothing, and you keep the memo.

  4. 04

    Handover by default

    everything is written to be used without me in the room. Documentation, evals and a run-book are part of the deliverable, not an extra.

I am vendor-independent: no commissions, no licence resale, and I am not paid by anyone whose product I assess.

Not a software shop, not a body shop, not a legal practice, not a vendor channel. Regulatory statements here are dated and sourced; this page describes services, not legal advice.

how I work, in detail →

the next step

Bring the workflow you want to stop doing by hand.

Or bring the proposal you have been asked to sign, or the question your board asked last week. Sixty minutes is enough to tell whether there is a format for it — and if there is not, I will say so.