Philippe's achievements · Credentials & projects

Corporate strategy, AI/ML and emerging technology. Now built for smaller businesses.

Philippe Küng with a workshop team after a working session

I combine executive business judgment, production AI/ML and emerging agent technology in one accountable, forward-deployed role. We start with a focused product around the bottleneck costing you most, prove it in your real workflow, then connect more when it works.

Philippe Küng with a workshop team after a working session
Real teams · real adoption
Philippe stays close to the people doing the work. Because trust is part of deployment.
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One productchosen around a painful, visible bottleneck
Fast proofmeasured inside the workflow that matters
6 industriesmapped across the full value chain
One teamPhilippe plus specialist builders who stay
One painful problem One useful product Built in the real workflow Your tools, connected Useful gain, agreed up front Extend only when it works One painful problem One useful product Built in the real workflow Your tools, connected Useful gain, agreed up front Extend only when it works
What we do

One accountable partner from business problem to working product.

I combine domain knowledge, business strategy and AI engineering. My team adds the specialist depth needed to build, secure and support the product inside your operation.

Business before technology

I start with how your operation makes money, where it loses time and which decision is worth improving first.

Built in the real workflow

My team and I build inside the tools and processes your people already use, so the product becomes part of the work instead of another login.

Support that stays

We measure the result, improve the product and remain available after launch. You can stop at one win, connect more, or bring me into the team.

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 connect it across the value chain, so each useful product can share context with the next.

04
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.

The first purchase solves a problem you already recognise. Once it proves useful, the same foundation can connect more of your value chain without forcing a transformation programme up front.

Phase 1 · Quick winsLow risk

One product, scoped to a fast gain

Commission only the product tied to the bottleneck you want removed. We agree the useful result before we build.

Phase 2 · Connected systemsCompounding

Modules wired across the chain

Add products that share context across the value chain, then bring Philippe into the team when closer partnership creates more value.

Philippe Küng

Founder · The Human API

Direct access to the person leading the work
EHL Lausanne MIT Schwarzman ex-Crayon AG Zurich, CH 5 languages
The Founder
"Large companies spread strategy, domain expertise, AI/ML and emerging technology across departments. I bring that combination to smaller businesses through one focused product and one accountable lead."

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

Philippe combines hospitality and domain training from EHL with AI and computing depth from MIT, then applied both inside regulated European enterprises, national infrastructure and live operating teams.

That means smaller companies can access corporate business judgment, production machine learning, emerging agent systems and entrepreneurial execution without first building a corporate-sized AI department.

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

Start with your pain point. See the whole value chain behind it.

Each industry page shows the products you can commission now and how they connect. The first decision stays deliberately small; the wider expertise is there when you need it.

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2 minutes. The full picture.

The Clinic of AI team planning a deployment
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Bring me the bottleneck you want removed first.

Bring the workflow that is costing you time, money or visibility. We will identify whether a focused product has a credible business case and what it would need to prove.