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The Founder · Philippe Küng

I bring the best of the corporate world, AI/ML and emerging technology into smaller companies.

I have led data and AI inside major enterprises, built and scaled a services company, and worked across live operations and national infrastructure. I now put that combination behind one useful product, close to the team and accountable to the business result.

The combined profile

Three worlds smaller companies rarely find in one partner. I bring them together.

Operations & People

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.

AI/ML & Emerging Tech

MIT Schwarzman College of Computing

Data Science, Machine Learning & Data Engineering

Production machine learning, data engineering, generative AI and agent systems — enough breadth to choose the right technology and enough depth to make it operate beyond a demo.

Corporate & Entrepreneurial

The Code Venture · Founder & CSO

30+ Swiss startups · 13-person team · €1M in 3 years

Founded and scaled a consulting agency supporting Swiss startups from idea to launch. Built the hiring and development culture behind a highly skilled team with low turnover — then applied that founder discipline inside enterprise Data & AI leadership.

Verified learning

Formal depth behind the applied work.

Selected credentials spanning data science, AI development, local language models and generative-AI instruction.

Source documents available
Accountability map

Philippe leads. Specialists strengthen the build behind him.

You hire one accountable lead, not a loose bench. Philippe owns the business problem and the product direction; focused specialists support his delivery where their depth is needed.

Accountable lead

Philippe Küng

Founder · Forward-Deployed AI Lead

Philippe owns diagnosis, product strategy, domain translation, architecture and the client relationship. He remains at the head of the engagement from the first bottleneck through adoption.

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Philippe Küng discussing technology on camera
Beyond the proposal
DS

David Santos

AI/ML engineering

Supports production engineering, model development and tooling when the product requires deeper build capacity.

BR

Bruno Reis

Security & data integrity

Supports security and privacy decisions where operational or client data needs additional scrutiny.

Selected specialists

Domain · integration · delivery

Additional depth is selected for the exact operating problem and works under Philippe's direction.

You do not manage the bench. Philippe does.

2026 engineering portfolio

The depth normally reserved for enterprise AI programmes. Applied to focused business problems.

These systems show the range behind the product catalogue: governed agent architecture, sovereign deployment, compliance workflows and retrieval over operational evidence.

Flagship research build · June 2026

Datakult 2.0: governed AI self-improvement

Philippe built and operated a cognitive software stack in which stochastic LLM workers can propose repairs, while deterministic gates and an append-only audit record retain authority. A 60-day technical study documents the operating pattern, its evidence and its limits.

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Datakult five-system cognitive stack showing governed recursive self-improvement
The five-system cognitive stack documented in the June 2026 paper.
Project Chimera · Compliance

Multi-agent compliance review

A governed agent workflow for a Swiss private-wealth environment, dividing document extraction, rule analysis and audit support into specialised responsibilities.

Project Citadel · Sovereign AI

Air-gapped LLM operations

A sovereign deployment architecture for a Llama-class model on Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes, designed for controlled infrastructure and strict data boundaries.

Project Guardian · Safety

Operational safety retrieval

A retrieval system connecting more than a decade of safety reports to a large regulatory-control library, helping teams surface relevant precedent from field evidence.

Client identities and implementation detail are shared only where permissions and confidentiality allow.

Track record

A decade productionising AI inside regulated enterprises.

A generalist who combines founder agility with enterprise rigor — building a services business from zero, then deploying production AI for regulated operations and 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

Talk to the engineer who'll be in the room.

Bring the operational problem. Philippe will help establish whether a focused product has a credible first use case.

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