Forward Deployed AI Engineering

Your AI pilot stalled. The technology was never the problem.

95% of generative-AI pilots never reach production. We embed a Forward Deployed AI Engineer inside your operation — on the floor, in the field, at the front desk — until the work is visible, measurable, and owned by your team.

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What we do

An engineer who stays until it actually works.

Most engagements end at the handoff. Ours start on your floor and end when your team owns a system that pays for itself.

An engineer, embedded

We deploy a Forward Deployed AI Engineer inside your operation — on the floor, in the field, at the front desk — until SOTA AI survives contact with your real workflows.

Built in the real workflow

No dashboards lobbed over the wall. We build inside the tools and processes your team already uses, so adoption is the default — not a change-management project.

Owned by your team

Continuity by design. We hand over a system your people run and extend themselves — a capability that stays, not a dependency on us.

The clinical method

We treat your operation like a patient.

Examine the workflow, diagnose what actually costs you, treat the value chain, then monitor the result — the discipline of a clinic, applied to how your business runs.

01
Collect

Examine

We embed on the floor and connect to the systems your team already runs — no migration, no new system of record.

02
Pinpoint

Diagnose

We find the bottleneck that quietly costs you the most — not the one that shouts loudest in the room.

03
Deploy & connect

Treat

We build the fix into the real workflow and wire it across the value chain, so each module makes the others smarter.

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Operate

Monitor

We measure the outcome in your own numbers and hand over a system your team owns, runs and extends.

Built for SMEs

Quick wins first. Connected systems later.

Like hiring a few super-efficient interns — faster and cheaper than a transformation program. Start with a door-opener that pays for itself in two weeks, then connect modules into a system you own. The same AI gains the enterprises get, at SME cost and risk.

Phase 1 · Quick winsLow risk

One product, live in ~2 weeks

A single door-opener that pays for itself before you commit to anything bigger. Cancel any time.

Phase 2 · Connected systemsCompounding

Modules wired across the chain

Add solutions that reinforce each other across your value chain — owned, run and extended by your team.

Philippe Küng

Founder · The Human API

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The Founder
"The engineer who leaves the lab, embeds with the customer, and makes sure the technology survives contact with reality."

— Philippe Küng · Former Head of Data & AI, Crayon AG

A battle-tested generalist bridging Founder Agility and Enterprise Rigor. Philippe trained the "Human Stack" at EHL Lausanne and the "Deep Tech Stack" at MIT — then spent a decade productionising AI inside regulated European enterprises: a national energy grid, a global classification society, hospitals and bio-exporters.

Chosen by Crayon AG — Microsoft's top global gold partner — to build their Swiss Data & AI unit from scratch, he founded Clinic of AI in 2023 to embed elite Forward Deployed engineers directly inside mid-market operations.

82%of 40k+ expert inquiries auto-routed (DNV)
60%manual review time cut by an agentic swarm
€1Mconsultancy bootstrapped & scaled in 3 years
Case Studies

Proof from production, not the lab.

Selected deployments from the founder's track record across regulated European enterprises — energy, finance, safety and the public sector.

Maritime classification
DNV · Classification Society 82% of 40k+ annual inquiries auto-routed

Expert routing engine

An NLP engine trained on 200,000 legacy emails across 650 categories routes technical inquiries to 400 experts under a guaranteed 4-hour SLA — saving ~$200k in manual overhead.

NLP routing650 categories4h SLA
Agentic compliance swarm — particle-swarm convergence to the global optimum
Project Chimera · Private Wealth −60% manual compliance review time

Agentic compliance swarm

A multi-agent review swarm on secure GCP extracts unstructured data, analyses vectorised rules and auto-audits — cutting review time 60% and lifting anomaly detection 25% for a Swiss private-wealth firm.

AutoGenMulti-agentGCP
Project Citadel — sovereign AI hub
Project Citadel · Public Sector −75% model memory footprint

Sovereign LLM, air-gapped

A Llama-class 70B model productionised in an air-gapped Red Hat OpenShift cluster for a national ministry. LoRA fine-tuning and 4-bit AWQ quantization cut the footprint 75% to meet strict latency SLAs.

Llama 70BLoRA4-bit AWQ
Field safety
Project Guardian · Downer Group 80% field reports matched to controls

Safety RAG — Corporate Cortex

Ten-plus years of safety reports vectorised into Weaviate with a custom Cohere ReRank model — instantly matching incoming field reports to 16,000 regulatory controls.

Hybrid RAGWeaviateCohere ReRank
Energy grid
NTE · National Energy Grid Real-time telemetry unified on one platform

National grid data platform

A cloud-native platform on Azure Synapse and Databricks unifies real-time telemetry from wind, hydro and solar networks — replacing legacy systems for compliant governance of critical national infrastructure.

Azure SynapseDatabricksPySpark
Norwegian bio-production
TINE · National Bio-Exporter +40% accuracy vs legacy baselines

24-month production forecasting

Deterministic time-series models forecast bio-production metrics 24 months out at 40% higher accuracy than established legacy baselines — turning planning from guesswork into a schedule.

TensorFlowTime-seriesForecasting
Wind-turbine maintenanceCrayon AG
Crayon AG · Energy 1 week advance warning on critical alarms

Wind-turbine predictive maintenance

A predictive model trained on 600+ turbine sensors and 350+ alarm codes flagged critical failures a full week in advance — turning unplanned outages into scheduled service windows across the fleet.

600+ sensors350+ alarm codesIndustrial ML
Swiss startup ecosystem
The Code Venture · Founder €1M revenue built in three years

A services business, scaled and run

Founded and grew a tech consultancy to €1M revenue with a team of 13, serving 30+ Swiss startups end-to-end — proof this team knows how to hire, deliver and sustain, not just prototype.

30+ startupsTeam of 133 years
Workforce transition
Government Program · Public Sector 100s professionals reskilled into tech roles

Workforce transformation at scale

After the 2008 crisis, co-led a government-funded program that moved hundreds of displaced professionals into high-demand tech roles — structured pathways with real placements, not certificates. The AI transition, rehearsed.

Government-backedReskillingReal placements

Built on the platforms your data team already trusts

DatabricksDatabricks Google CloudGoogle Cloud SparkSpark NVIDIANVIDIA PyTorchPyTorch TensorFlowTensorFlow Hugging FaceHugging Face KafkaKafka pandaspandas SnowflakeSnowflake AWSAWS MicrosoftMicrosoft RedshiftRedshift LangChainLangChain PineconePinecone Nous HermesNous Hermes OllamaOllama LM StudioLM Studio UnslothUnsloth AgentOSAgentOS CrewAICrewAI ClaudeClaude ElevenLabsElevenLabs HeyGenHeyGen ComfyUIComfyUI
Industries we serve

AI solutions across sectors.

We are your partner for AI research and development, regardless of your size, expertise, or financial constraints. We help you succeed and always stay one step ahead of the curve.

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What teams say

Trusted by people who count every euro.

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Marta R.Operations lead · Lisboa

“The engineer sat with our schedulers for a week, then automated the part everyone hated. Four hours a cycle, gone.”

JC
João C.Estate agent · Porto

“The agent qualified a lead at 2 a.m. and booked the viewing. I woke up to a signed visit — that used to be lost.”

AF
Ana F.Plant manager · Braga

“They told us not to build two of the modules we asked for — the payback wasn't there yet. That's when we trusted them.”

LM
Lukas M.Hotel owner · Zürich

“Occupancy up, and we never hired a revenue team. The pricing just runs now, quietly, every night.”

MR
Marta R.Operations lead · Lisboa

“The engineer sat with our schedulers for a week, then automated the part everyone hated. Four hours a cycle, gone.”

JC
João C.Estate agent · Porto

“The agent qualified a lead at 2 a.m. and booked the viewing. I woke up to a signed visit — that used to be lost.”

AF
Ana F.Plant manager · Braga

“They told us not to build two of the modules we asked for — the payback wasn't there yet. That's when we trusted them.”

LM
Lukas M.Hotel owner · Zürich

“Occupancy up, and we never hired a revenue team. The pricing just runs now, quietly, every night.”

SD
Sofia D.Finance director · Geneva

“Every euro is accounted for. Reporting that used to take two days is now instant and we own it.”

TP
Tomás P.Retail ops · Lisboa

“Waste dropped because the forecast finally matches the floor. Simple, and built around how we work.”

NA
Nuno A.Logistics · Aveiro

“Routing that used to be guesswork is a model we trust now. Fewer trucks, same deliveries.”

CV
Clara V.Clinic director · Basel

“Intake, triage and follow-up — quietly handled. My staff got their afternoons back.”

SD
Sofia D.Finance director · Geneva

“Every euro is accounted for. Reporting that used to take two days is now instant and we own it.”

TP
Tomás P.Retail ops · Lisboa

“Waste dropped because the forecast finally matches the floor. Simple, and built around how we work.”

NA
Nuno A.Logistics · Aveiro

“Routing that used to be guesswork is a model we trust now. Fewer trucks, same deliveries.”

CV
Clara V.Clinic director · Basel

“Intake, triage and follow-up — quietly handled. My staff got their afternoons back.”

Make AI survive contact with reality.

20 minutes with a Forward Deployed engineer. No pitch deck — we'll tell you in 5 whether we can help. You leave with a clear, costed plan either way.