Essentialisms

A good fit for

• Startups and scale-ups seeking hands-on fractional CTO and AI engineering leadership who embed with teams and ship production AI features.
• Investors and acquirers requiring independent technical due diligence and AI capability audits for seed to growth-stage investments.

Know the limitations

• Services are provided primarily via monthly retainers starting at €5,000, which may be a barrier for smaller projects or budgets.
• Availability is limited with bookings currently scheduled from October 2026 through March 2027, indicating potential wait times for new clients.

What you can do

• Startups and scale-ups needing fractional CTO leadership, AI engineering, and technical leadership to build and ship AI features.
• Teams with existing products wanting to integrate LLM features, RAG systems, AI agents, or custom ML with senior AI engineering support.

Features

• LLM integration and prompt engineering with OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, and open-source models.
• RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) systems using pgvector, Pinecone, Weaviate, and Qdrant.
• AI agents and copilots built with Claude Agent SDK, OpenAI Agents SDK, LangGraph, and MCP.
• Evaluation and observability pipelines using Braintrust, LangSmith, and Ragas.
• Machine learning pipelines deployed on cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, Modal, and Cloudflare.

Integrations

Not confirmed yet.

Platforms & data export

Not confirmed yet.