AI engineer. Designer. Researcher of how AI creates organizational value.

I'm Jan-David Stütz. I build the AI systems organizations actually run on — the agents, pipelines, and backends that do the work, and, when a person needs to stay in the picture, the interface that keeps them there. My design instincts come from years of treating every screen as a decision the user is about to make. The judgment comes from a PhD in Information Systems at Leibniz University Hannover on user-centered and neuro-symbolic AI, and from six peer-reviewed papers that are still being written. Five years of applied work — Robert Bosch GmbH, eccenca GmbH and MyActivities GmbH — sit underneath all of it.

The hard call on any AI project isn't which model to use. It's deciding where the machine should act alone and where a person belongs in the room — and being able to defend that line afterward, on cost, on efficiency, on whether anyone will adopt the thing six months in. Most AI projects don't fail on the model; they fail on that call. Drawing that line well is the service I offer, and research is how I hold the standard: every decision has to survive contact with how organizations actually absorb new tools. It's a question of judgment before it's a question of engineering, and judgment is what doctoral training was for.