Athena B.-AI Consultant
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Lead AI Consultant
Go Local AI
Founded an AI consultancy focused on practical, measurable AI adoption; secured £100k pre-seed investment on the strength of proprietary model-routing technology and market analysis, and grew it into a working practice.
- Lead client engagements end-to-end including discovery workshops, AI opportunity identification, solution design, build, rollout and adoption across SME and enterprise clients.
- Advise C-suite and senior management on AI strategy: model selection, cloud-vs-self-hosted deployment, running-cost optimisation and GDPR-compliant data sovereignty.
- Designed and built a smart AI request-routing system that classifies each prompt to the optimal model tier and reasoning level, cutting token and inference costs by up to 80% in live client workflows.
- Deployed self-hosted open-weight models into clients' existing Azure and AWS environments and on-premise hardware; integrated multiple MCP servers into a single pipeline, giving users one interface from intake to final report.
- Rolled out and deployed new AI interfaces, tools and workflows across client businesses, also assisted in getting teams to adopt previously existing AI tools.
- Adjusted and fine-tuned existing implementations of OpenAI Chatgpt, Claude by Anthropic, Microsoft Copilot across entire businesses and individual workflows to reduce costs and increase effectiveness via adjusting model settings, system prompts, and workflow orchestration.
Freelance AI & IT Consultant
Self-employed
- Built and deployed a locally run translation model that let a client onboard international customers at near-zero per-query cost, replacing a paid cloud translation service.
- Rolled out ChatGPT, Claude and Microsoft Copilot across client businesses with tuned system prompts and settings; led enablement workshops on prompting, practical AI use and cost control to drive adoption.
- Developed an intelligent retrieval chatbot and interface for one of the UK's largest private education firms. The custom-built LLM searched across multiple databases and web sources serving accurate and current course information to sales staff and applicants.
- Tuned and humanised a client's AI outreach system, improving tone and consistency and lifting revenue by raising the cold-response rate from 0.3% to 0.7%
- Automated a multi-channel web store, syncing one product catalogue across Vinted, eBay and Depop via a local AI model and removing the need for manual relisting.
- Ran live demos for senior management and led workshops for client teams on adopting AI and new systems.
- Trained client teams in prompt design and token-cost reduction, cutting cloud AI bills by ~60%.
Personal Assistant to a High-Net-Worth Individual
Freelance
- Primary point of contact for investors, C-suite individuals and other senior stakeholders, representing the principal in all communications.
- Built and ran a suite of agentic AI assistants that automated day-to-day operations and materially reduced the principal's workload.
Styling Assistant & PA to a Creative / Film Director
Freelance
- Coordinated brands, PR firms and photographers; managed communications, diary and logistics for senior creatives, including at London Fashion Week.
Industry experience
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Experienced in Fashion, Media and Entertainment, Education, Retail, Information Technology, and Professional Services.
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Experienced in Operations, Information Technology, Customer Service, Logistics, Marketing, and Sales.
Summary
AI Consultant and founder based in London, helping SME and enterprise clients implement cloud and self-hosted AI systems and tools into their workflows. Track record of finding high-value use cases, building the solution, and leading teams through to rollout and adoption. Advises C-suite and senior stakeholders and translates the technical side into plain commercial terms, with GDPR, data sovereignty and responsible AI built in throughout. Fluent in English and German.
Skills
- Ai Strategy & Advisory: Opportunity Identification & Prioritisation, Ai Roadmaps, Operating Models, Business Cases & Roi, Responsible Ai, Governance & Gdpr, C-Suite Advisory
- Consulting & Delivery: End-To-End Discovery-Through-Adoption, Workshops, Demos & Enablement, Change Management, Stakeholder Management, Mvp/Poc Delivery, Product–Engineering Coordination
- Ai: Solution Design, Agentic Workflows, Rag Chatbots, Llm Routing, Prompt Engineering, Self-Hosted Models, Finetuning, Inference Optimisation, Microsoft Copilot & Copilot Studio, Litellm & Bifrost, Vllm, Llama.Cpp, Very Experienced With Openrouter And Huggingface, Aws Bedrock & Azure Openai/Foundry, N8n, Lora/Qlora, Claude Code
- Technical: Python, Mcp, Docker
Languages
Education
Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien
Fine Art · Vienna, Austria
Certifications & licenses
AWS ML
Azure AI-900
BCS Essential Certificate in AI
Statistics
Experience
Global experience
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Qualifications
Profile
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Athena is based in London, United Kingdom and can operate in on-site, hybrid, and remote work models.
Athena speaks the following languages: German (Native), English (Native).
Athena has at least 3 years of experience. During this time, Athena has worked in at least 4 different roles and for 3 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 1 year and 10 months. Note that Athena may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.
Based on recent experience, Athena would be well-suited for roles such as: Lead AI Consultant, Freelance AI & IT Consultant, Personal Assistant to a High-Net-Worth Individual.
Athena's most recent position is Lead AI Consultant at Go Local AI.
In recent years, Athena has worked for Go Local AI, Self-employed, and Freelance.
Athena is most experienced in industries like Fashion, Media and Entertainment, and Education. Athena also has some experience in Retail, Information Technology, and Professional Services.
Athena is most experienced in business areas like Operations, Information Technology, and Customer Service. Athena also has some experience in Logistics, Marketing, and Sales.
Athena attended Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien for Fine Art.
Athena has 3 certificates. These include: AWS ML, Azure AI-900, and BCS Essential Certificate in AI.
Athena is immediately available part-time for suitable projects.
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