AI Architect
An AI architect for AI that runs in production. Evaluated, cost-controlled, inside your permissions.
AI features inside your product, agents that run a business process end to end, and the evals and controls that keep them predictable once they are live. Monthly as a service, or on demand.
- Monthly or on demand
- Start within days
- EU and US hours
Also as Fractional CTO and Product Lead, or as a fixed-price SaaS & AI product launch.
Where you are
Sound familiar? This is when an AI architect pays off.
- An AI feature that works in a demo and has to hold in production.
- A process that runs on people copying data between tools.
- A team choosing models and frameworks, and deciding where AI belongs at all.
- An agent that needs approvals and an audit trail before anyone trusts it.
What I own
AI features
Where AI creates real value in the product, built on Claude or OpenAI.
Agent systems
Specialised agents sharing one task, each inside a permission boundary you control.
A person in the loop
Whenever an agent's action departs from plan, a person decides, and every decision is logged.
Search over your data
Embeddings and vector search in PostgreSQL, tuned against real queries.
Evals
Golden datasets and regression evals for every prompt and model version.
Cost and latency
Budgets per feature, tracked in production, with alerts before they are exceeded.
Who you work with
Fractional CTO and product lead, Vienna
I design and run AI agents in production, from multi-agent systems to back-office flows, and I build my own agent products. Before AI, I spent 25 years in software architecture.
“Kristian is certainly one of the top picks in his field.”
AI in production is an architecture decision. Evals, permissions and cost come first.
- 25 years
- In software architecture and product, in Europe and North America.
- 50+
- Product launches across startups and enterprises.
- 5.0★★★★★
- Upwork rating, Top Rated Plus, more than $500K earned.
How it starts
- 1
A call
The process or feature, the data behind it, and what a wrong answer would cost.
- 2
Architecture and evals
Models, agents, permissions and the eval set, written down before anything is built.
- 3
Build and stay on
Your team and AI agents build it under my review, and I own its quality in production.
Pricing
A steady lead, or help when you need it. Monthly as a service, or on demand.
Pick the weekly hours that fit, as a monthly service you can change or cancel any month. For a defined piece of work, take me on demand.
Advisor
As a service$2,600/ month
4 h per week
A weekly session on where AI belongs, and every AI design reviewed before it is built.
Book a callLead
As a service$5,200/ month
8 h per week
I design the agents and their evals, and review every change your team makes to them.
Book a callEmbedded
As a service$10,400/ month
16 h per week
Two days a week inside your team: agents built, evaluated and run in production with you.
Book a callOn demand
On demandLet's talk
Hourly contract
An AI feasibility review, an eval design or a short burst of hands-on work, billed by the hour.
Talk it through- Monthly, cancel any month
- Hours logged and visible
- Written decisions
- EU and US hours
One person, three roles
One person. The roles a product needs.
Product, technology and AI decisions sit with one person, so they never contradict each other. Most engagements combine two of the roles, or deliver one of the outcomes.
SaaS & AI product launch
Agentic frame included
A SaaS or AI MVP launched for paying customers, at a fixed price, in weeks.
Enterprise AI agents
Every decision has an owner
Multi-agent workflows across your business, with human review where it matters.
AI agent evaluation
Right problem, solved right
AI agents that solve the right problem, proven with evals end to end.
Fractional CTO
Technical direction you can trust
Technical direction, architecture calls and your development team, owned part-time.
Product Lead
What to build, and why
What gets built and in which order, turned into specs your team can ship.
AI Architect
This page · AI that holds in production
AI features and agents that hold in production, with evals and permissions.
Industries
See it in your industry. Where AI belongs depends on your field.
Each page shows how the role works in that industry.
- Software and SaaS companies
- Digital and marketing agencies
- Healthcare and HealthTech
- FinTech, financial services and M&A
- Real estate and PropTech
- Education and EdTech
- B2B e-commerce and wholesale
- Media and digital content
- Insurance and InsurTech
- Life sciences and regulated software
- Restaurants and hospitality
- Mobility, travel and aviation
- Government and public sector
Questions
FAQ
How is it priced?
As a monthly service at 4, 8 or 16 hours a week, or on demand on an hourly contract. You see the hours as they are logged.
Which models and tools?
Claude and OpenAI models, the Vercel AI SDK, MCP servers and n8n, with Supabase and pgvector for data. The choice follows the task and its cost.
Can you lead the whole product too?
Yes. I am also a fractional CTO and product lead, so the AI decisions sit with the product and architecture decisions.
Get in touch
Start with a call.
We go through your product and your team, and agree which role you need first.
Services: SaaS & AI product launchEnterprise AI agentsAI agent evaluationFractional CTOProduct LeadAI Architect