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Get support for AI strategy, use case design, LLM and chatbot projects, data readiness, and model selection. Find vetted freelancers who can turn ideas into clear deliverables and work with your team in Frankfurt or remotely.
About the role
AI strategy An AI Consultant helps you decide where AI creates value and where it does not. The work starts with business goals, data reality, and process fit. Typical deliverables include use case maps, feasibility checks, prioritization, and a rollout plan that your team can act on.
What they deliver
- AI use case discovery and scoping
- Data and process assessment
- Model, tool, and vendor recommendations
- Governance, risk, and operating model input
- Pilot design and implementation support
Core expertise Strong AI Consultants combine product thinking with technical depth. They understand machine learning, generative AI, prompt design, LLM integration, MLOps, analytics, and data quality. They also know how to explain trade-offs to leadership, IT, legal, and operations without jargon.
When companies hire one Companies bring in a freelance AI Consultant when the need is urgent, the scope is unclear, or the team lacks hands-on AI experience. This is common before a pilot, after a failed proof of concept, or when an existing process needs automation. In Frankfurt, banks, insurers, logistics firms, and B2B companies often need someone who can bridge business and technology fast.
Tools and specializations
- Python, SQL, cloud AI services, and notebook-based analysis
- LLM use cases such as assistants, search, document processing, and workflow support
- Machine learning for forecasting, classification, and recommendation
- Responsible AI, data protection, and model governance
- Integration with CRM, ERP, support, and knowledge systems
What good looks like A strong consultant asks sharp questions, defines the problem clearly, and avoids weak use cases. They can write a practical brief, align stakeholders, and stay close to delivery. In Frankfurt projects, clear communication in English and often German helps keep business and technical teams aligned.
Meet FRATCH AI Consultants
Sebastian Zwiesler
Project Manager & Business Consultant AI & CX
Last position:
CRM Consultant at Adevinta / kleinanzeigen.de
- Goal: Development and optimization of loyalty and CRM measures for a leading e-commerce platform
- Solution: Identification of promising users, increase in engagement, and long-term retention to drive revenue growth
- Definition of local CRM direct communication for specific segments
- Translation of research insights into actionable recommendations
- Planning and implementation of CRM campaigns in close collaboration with marketing and product teams
- Identification of optimization potential in direct communication
- Collaboration with external agencies on creative solutions, prototyping, and UAT
- Measurement and reporting of key KPIs
Nick Schäfer
Fractional People Leader
Last position:
Interim HR Manager & HR AI Consultant at Nick's Advisory
I founded Nick's Advisory to make HR management, HR project delivery, and AI expertise available to companies on a temporary basis when internal capacity or experience is lacking.
Services:
- HR interim management: taking over the HR business partner or HR manager role during restructuring, growth, or a vacant leadership position, on a daily or hourly basis
- HR consulting: projects around reorganization, talent acquisition, separation processes, and building HR structures
- AI consulting for HR teams: selection, introduction, and use of AI tools in HR processes
Nick Schäfer
Fractional People Leader
Last position:
Interim HR Manager & HR AI Consultant at Nick's Advisory
I founded Nick's Advisory to make HR management, HR project delivery, and AI expertise available to companies on a temporary basis when internal capacity or experience is lacking.
Services:
I founded Nick's Advisory to make HR management, HR project delivery, and AI expertise available to companies on a temporary basis when internal capacity or experience is lacking.
Services:
- HR interim management: taking over the HR business partner or HR manager role during restructuring, growth, or a vacant leadership position, on a daily or hourly basis
- HR consulting: projects around reorganization, talent acquisition, separation processes, and building HR structures
- AI consulting for HR teams: selection, introduction, and use of AI tools in HR processes
- HR interim management: taking over the HR business partner or HR manager role during restructuring, growth, or a vacant leadership position, on a daily or hourly basis
- HR consulting: projects around reorganization, talent acquisition, separation processes, and building HR structures
- AI consulting for HR teams: selection, introduction, and use of AI tools in HR processes
Martina Peukert
CEO / Producer
Last position:
CEO / Producer at Programmaker Filmproduktion
- As a producer, I bring emotions to the screen and showcase your company in an unparalleled way.
- With my creative eye and technical know-how, I make your vision shine.
- Show the world who you are and what you have to offer.
- Let your audience dive into the captivating story your brand tells.
- Turn prospects into customers and boost your success.
Martina Peukert
CEO / Producer
Last position:
CEO / Producer at Programmaker Filmproduktion
- As a producer, I bring emotions to the screen and showcase your company in an unparalleled way.
- With my creative eye and technical know-how, I make your vision shine.
- As a producer, I bring emotions to the screen and showcase your company in an unparalleled way.
- With my creative eye and technical know-how, I make your vision shine.
- Show the world who you are and what you have to offer.
- Let your audience dive into the captivating story your brand tells.
- Turn prospects into customers and boost your success.
- Show the world who you are and what you have to offer.
- Let your audience dive into the captivating story your brand tells.
- Turn prospects into customers and boost your success.
Mohammad Speen
AI Consultant | Digital Transformation | AI Solutions
Last position:
AI instructor (German & English)
Presenting AI-related topics in German and English, supporting learners, and working in a highly project-oriented way.
Mohammad Speen
AI Consultant | Digital Transformation | AI Solutions
Last position:
AI instructor (German & English)
Presenting AI-related topics in German and English, supporting learners, and working in a highly project-oriented way.
Presenting AI-related topics in German and English, supporting learners, and working in a highly project-oriented way.
Farhan Haider
AI Governance Consultant for Implementing a GenAI for Process Automation
Last position:
AI Governance Consultant for Implementing a GenAI for Process Automation at a bank
- Ensuring the overall project goal with the Product Owner
- Onboarding a new service provider, including sourcing and contract negotiations with relevant stakeholders (e.g., procurement, legal)
- Implementing and executing the necessary governance processes
- Integrating new extraction software/GenAI tools to improve data extraction and processing within a document management workflow
- Ongoing agile management of deliverables, including building the project organization and controlling time, quality, and costs in the context of the overall project
- Sub-project organization, especially requirements management, structuring, agile planning, and prioritization
- Organizing and optimizing workstream communication for an end-to-end process
- Facilitating and leading meetings and workshops
- Change management consulting through targeted influence, coaching, and incentive systems
Farhan Haider
AI Governance Consultant for Implementing a GenAI for Process Automation
Last position:
AI Governance Consultant for Implementing a GenAI for Process Automation at a bank
- Ensuring the overall project goal with the Product Owner
- Onboarding a new service provider, including sourcing and contract negotiations with relevant stakeholders (e.g., procurement, legal)
- Implementing and executing the necessary governance processes
- Ensuring the overall project goal with the Product Owner
- Onboarding a new service provider, including sourcing and contract negotiations with relevant stakeholders (e.g., procurement, legal)
- Implementing and executing the necessary governance processes
- Integrating new extraction software/GenAI tools to improve data extraction and processing within a document management workflow
- Ongoing agile management of deliverables, including building the project organization and controlling time, quality, and costs in the context of the overall project
- Sub-project organization, especially requirements management, structuring, agile planning, and prioritization
- Organizing and optimizing workstream communication for an end-to-end process
- Facilitating and leading meetings and workshops
- Change management consulting through targeted influence, coaching, and incentive systems
- Integrating new extraction software/GenAI tools to improve data extraction and processing within a document management workflow
- Ongoing agile management of deliverables, including building the project organization and controlling time, quality, and costs in the context of the overall project
- Sub-project organization, especially requirements management, structuring, agile planning, and prioritization
- Organizing and optimizing workstream communication for an end-to-end process
- Facilitating and leading meetings and workshops
- Change management consulting through targeted influence, coaching, and incentive systems
Mathew Divine
Data Science Expert and AI Strategist
Last position:
Data Science Expert and AI Strategist at Freelancer
- Built an API to ingest, clean, translate, and index EU tenders documents in Neo4j, enabling hybrid search with RAG and Cypher queries via a Streamlit dashboard
- Deployed the API on AWS Lightsail container services with CI/CD automation via GitHub Actions, ensuring stability through pytest unit and integration tests
- Designed and developed a comprehensive online course on data analysis using ChatGPT for professionals and learners, creating instructional videos and interactive Jupyter notebooks
- Utilized OBS and professional audio equipment to ensure high-quality video and audio content
- Led a CRM data normalization and cleaning project visualized via a Sankey diagram to aid customer understanding and pipeline development
- Implemented and validated a genAI-driven web crawling strategy on AWS, ensuring data quality, scalability, and CRM data augmentation
Mathew Divine
Data Science Expert and AI Strategist
Last position:
Data Science Expert and AI Strategist at Freelancer
- Built an API to ingest, clean, translate, and index EU tenders documents in Neo4j, enabling hybrid search with RAG and Cypher queries via a Streamlit dashboard
- Deployed the API on AWS Lightsail container services with CI/CD automation via GitHub Actions, ensuring stability through pytest unit and integration tests
- Built an API to ingest, clean, translate, and index EU tenders documents in Neo4j, enabling hybrid search with RAG and Cypher queries via a Streamlit dashboard
- Deployed the API on AWS Lightsail container services with CI/CD automation via GitHub Actions, ensuring stability through pytest unit and integration tests
- Designed and developed a comprehensive online course on data analysis using ChatGPT for professionals and learners, creating instructional videos and interactive Jupyter notebooks
- Utilized OBS and professional audio equipment to ensure high-quality video and audio content
- Led a CRM data normalization and cleaning project visualized via a Sankey diagram to aid customer understanding and pipeline development
- Implemented and validated a genAI-driven web crawling strategy on AWS, ensuring data quality, scalability, and CRM data augmentation
- Designed and developed a comprehensive online course on data analysis using ChatGPT for professionals and learners, creating instructional videos and interactive Jupyter notebooks
- Utilized OBS and professional audio equipment to ensure high-quality video and audio content
- Led a CRM data normalization and cleaning project visualized via a Sankey diagram to aid customer understanding and pipeline development
- Implemented and validated a genAI-driven web crawling strategy on AWS, ensuring data quality, scalability, and CRM data augmentation
Driss Chaouat
Freelancer – Senior IT Consultant | Modern Workplace & AI
Last position:
Freelancer – IT Service Manager at E.ON (Westnetz GmbH)
- Support and optimization of incident, change & problem processes based on ITIL for >10,000 users.
- Problem-solving for >1,000 complex cases/year across different service towers (File Services, Identity, Citrix, ANF).
- Work in the security cluster: vulnerability analysis and firewall change coordination.
- Governance & migration of file services to Azure NetApp Files (M365, Citrix, PowerShell), including data optimization.
- Creation and maintenance of business-critical process & operational services, enterprise documentation.
- Focus on stabilization, security (endpoint hardening), and optimization through AI solutions.
Driss Chaouat
Freelancer – Senior IT Consultant | Modern Workplace & AI
Last position:
Freelancer – IT Service Manager at E.ON (Westnetz GmbH)
- Support and optimization of incident, change & problem processes based on ITIL for >10,000 users.
- Problem-solving for >1,000 complex cases/year across different service towers (File Services, Identity, Citrix, ANF).
- Work in the security cluster: vulnerability analysis and firewall change coordination.
- Support and optimization of incident, change & problem processes based on ITIL for >10,000 users.
- Problem-solving for >1,000 complex cases/year across different service towers (File Services, Identity, Citrix, ANF).
- Work in the security cluster: vulnerability analysis and firewall change coordination.
- Governance & migration of file services to Azure NetApp Files (M365, Citrix, PowerShell), including data optimization.
- Creation and maintenance of business-critical process & operational services, enterprise documentation.
- Focus on stabilization, security (endpoint hardening), and optimization through AI solutions.
- Governance & migration of file services to Azure NetApp Files (M365, Citrix, PowerShell), including data optimization.
- Creation and maintenance of business-critical process & operational services, enterprise documentation.
- Focus on stabilization, security (endpoint hardening), and optimization through AI solutions.
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AI Consultants statistics
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
11 years
Position duration
2.7 years
Positions per freelancer
8
Top business areas
Information Technology, Operations, Project Management
Top industries
Information Technology, Professional Services, Banking and Finance
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Strategy, Business Intelligence
Bachelor's degree or higher
100%
Master's degree or higher
50%
Doctorate
17%
Certifications per freelancer
3
Most common languages
German, English, Arabic
Speak two or more languages
100%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Want to know more? Check out our simple guide about FRATCH
A AI Consultant turns a business problem into a workable AI plan. That can include use case discovery, data review, tool selection, pilot design, and guidance during implementation. Good consultants focus on outcomes, not just models.
Hire a freelance AI Consultant when you need focused expertise for a defined challenge, such as a pilot, a platform decision, or a short-term transformation program. A freelancer is also useful when internal teams are busy but the decision must move now. If you need long-term ownership of a product or team, a permanent hire may fit better.
The best AI consultants combine strategy, data understanding, and hands-on technical literacy. They should understand machine learning, generative AI, prompt design, data pipelines, and how to assess risks like bias, privacy, and poor data quality. Communication is just as important as technical depth.
An AI Consultant usually works one level closer to the business problem. They define the use case, choose the right approach, and guide delivery, while a machine learning engineer focuses more on building and operating models in production. Some freelancers cover both, but the priorities are different.
Yes, that is one of the most common reasons companies bring in an AI strategist or consultant. They can help shape chatbot scope, select the right architecture, design prompts, review data sources, and plan integration into existing systems. They are especially useful when the team needs to move from ideas to a controlled pilot.
Many machine learning consultants can work remotely for scoping, research, and strategy. On-site time in Frankfurt helps when workshops involve multiple departments, sensitive data, or complex stakeholder alignment. A hybrid setup is often the best fit for consulting work.
Look for clear problem framing, realistic trade-offs, and deliverables that your team can use. A strong AI Consultant can explain why a use case is worth doing, what data is needed, what the risks are, and what success looks like. Ask for examples of pilots, rollout plans, or advisory work that led to real business decisions.
Share the business goal, the current process, available data, and any technical constraints. The best AI Consultant work starts faster when the brief includes stakeholders, systems, and the decision you need to make. That helps the consultant focus on the right use case and avoid wasted analysis.
The average hourly rate for AI Consultants in Frankfurt is 103 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 828 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers working as AI Consultants in Frankfurt, 100% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 50% hold at least a Master's degree, and 17% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers working as AI Consultants in Frankfurt have 11 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.7 years.
The most common languages among freelancers working as AI Consultants in Frankfurt are German (100%), English (100%), and Arabic (14%).
The most common industries among freelancers working as AI Consultants in Frankfurt are Information Technology (86%), Professional Services (71%), and Banking and Finance (43%).
The most common business areas among freelancers working as AI Consultants in Frankfurt are Information Technology (100%), Operations (86%), and Project Management (71%).
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