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The Founder · Philippe Küng

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

Forward-Deployed AI Architect — "The Human API." Philippe operates with equal comfort across on-the-ground IT teams, legacy DBAs and C-suite decision-makers, de-escalating organisational friction and translating ambiguous priorities into rigorous technical specifications. That is how he defeats the standard 95% AI pilot failure rate.

The unique profile

Two stacks most engineers never combine.

The Human Stack

École hôtelière de Lausanne

BSc, Hospitality

Elite training in reading people, de-escalating operational tension, and stakeholder communication — the soft infrastructure that decides whether software is adopted or abandoned on the floor.

The Deep Tech Stack

MIT Schwarzman College of Computing

Data Science, Machine Learning & Data Engineering

Advanced execution in productionising ML and scaling statistical data systems — the depth to personally write critical production code and architect the data estate, not just advise on it.

The team

Three people who will work on your business.

Not a wall of headshots. Each person owns a critical capability — strategy & domain, engineering, and security. The Forward Deployed model, in one small team.

The Polymath

Philippe Küng

Founder & AI Architect — Lead FDE · Strategy & Domain Expertise

The reason this company exists and the reason it works across verticals. EHL Lausanne gave him the operational language of hotels and restaurants natively; MIT added the technical depth. He scaled The Code Venture to €1M and 30+ Swiss startups, and as Head of Data & AI at Crayon AG led production ML — including predictive maintenance on wind turbines using 600+ sensors to predict failures a week in advance.

EHL LausanneMITCrayon AGThe Code Venture30+ startups
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The Builder

David Santos

Lead AI/ML Engineer · Engineering

Graduated from the top polytechnical university in Portugal in computer science, and has devoted his career not just to using AI tools but to creating new ones and contributing to AI/ML research. When a prospect asks who actually builds the systems, David is the answer — the engineering backbone that turns strategic vision into production systems that run inside client operations.

Top Portuguese polytechnicAI/ML researchProduction systemsTool builder
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The Guardian

Bruno Reis

Cybersecurity Specialist · Security

Bruno ensures every solution Clinic of AI deploys is secure by design. With manufacturing facing 41% of all cyberattacks and SMBs increasingly targeted, his role is critical — especially for manufacturing, real estate and any client handling sensitive data. He brings GDPR compliance for European clients and the trust signal that data protection is taken seriously from day one.

Secure by designGDPR complianceManufacturing securityData integrity
Track record

A decade productionising AI inside regulated enterprises.

A battle-tested generalist who bridges Founder Agility (zero-to-one) and Enterprise Rigor (scale & security) — bootstrapping and exiting startups to seven-figure revenue, then deploying SOTA AI for critical national infrastructure.

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Languages

English · Native / BilingualPortuguese · Native / BilingualSpanish · ProfessionalFrench & German · Working

Global mobility

Dual Swiss & Portuguese national, 100% prepared to deploy on-site globally — UAE/Dubai, US, EU — for 6+ months to embed with strategic customer teams.

Community builds

Open Brain — a retro terminal-style sandbox for mastering multi-agent orchestration. ETH Juniors Alliance — a Horizon 2030 (€1.5M) consortium for an on-chain AI learning metaverse.

Operating principles

How we work inside client operations.

One partner, not disconnected tools

One partner who connects solutions across the value chain and keeps them running.

Workflow-first implementation

We map the real workflow, not the org-chart version. Solutions go where teams already make daily decisions.

Side-by-side delivery

We work inside operations teams so adoption happens in context, not in a slide-deck handoff.

Continuity by design

Transfer of ownership is built in, so your team runs the system without permanent vendor dependency.

Client & partner proof

References shared in qualified conversations.

Some engagements include confidential operational data. We share named references, implementation evidence and contactable proof during qualification and NDA-aligned calls.

30+Startups served · Swiss ecosystem
3Core capabilities · Strategy, Eng, Security
€1MRevenue built · The Code Venture
Hospitality operations teamsManufacturing plantsProfessional services firmsSwiss startup ecosystemPublic workforce transition programs

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