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Mike B.
Last position:
Freelance UX-Researcher, Designer at Bodensee Schiffsbetriebe; Labhard-Medien
- UX research, UX concept development, and UX design for an AI dialogue system with information on events, locations, public transport timetables, and special trips. Observations, remote user tests, session recordings, analytics evaluations, RapidUserTests, prototyping, etc., using Figma/Figma Make, Claude Design, and OpenAI Codex (Design)
Patrick B.
Last position:
Senior Software Engineer at On AG
- Since August 2025 I'm working on the Conversational AI team. We are developing an internal platform for the future of Conversational Ecommerce, powering other teams to use the Agents in their user experience. I'm deeply focused on the architecture of this project, with a particular focus on the monitoring and live evaluation of the agents.
- Played a pivotal role in business-critical operations, including Adyen client upgrades, multi-account configuration for app releases, domain migration support, and implementing a crucial BFCM hotfix to resolve a 10-minute update query (on the checkout workflow) that was blocking sales.
- Served as a key member of the On-Call rotation for over a year, leading >15 incidents, contributing to system stability, and enhancing distributed tracing via New Relic integration, deepening system-wide understanding and operational excellence.
- Conceived and delivered an MVP for a "Low Stock in Key Variants" (LSKV) index within two weeks as part of the Conversion Rate Taskforce, using statistical analysis of size curves to identify OOS products; this initiative led to a (0.9%) CVR improvement post-handover.
- Led major performance and stability initiatives, including a Ruby upgrade (YJIT, Jmalloc) that slashed average response times from 220ms to <100ms, and initiated an "Order Table Cleanup" project to manage 10M+ order records, ensuring SOX compliance and database health.
- Architected and delivered a scalable CloudFlare Worker solution for critical Apple Pay domain validation, mitigating operational risks and establishing a best-practice, automated workflow that was subsequently leveraged by multiple teams, demonstrating cross-functional impact
- Drove substantial evolution of the core e-commerce backend through consistent, high-impact contributions (130+ merged PRs), spanning critical feature delivery, complex system optimizations, and enhancing platform stability."
Witali H.
Last position:
Founder & CEO at aiFEX
- Built an AI operating model in which specialized agents work with clear roles, precise briefings, review standards and governance boundaries; decision-making responsibility remains with humans.
- AI Transformation Lab as a real-world validation environment for agentic workflows, local/cloud AI models, automation and human-in-the-loop governance (details above).
- Applied transformation principles to AI: ownership, risk control, stakeholder alignment, quality review, traceability, delivery discipline; DEV/TEST/PROD mindset.
Yannick H.
Last position:
Managing Director and Trusted Advisor at ODCUS
ODCUS makes sure AI works alongside people in the day-to-day operations of Swiss SMEs while keeping their data secure: vendor-independent, pragmatic and without hidden agendas. We make a company's knowledge useful to AI, automate workflows and protect what matters.
I transform IT from a cost factor into a competitive advantage. As the founder of ODCUS, I advise Swiss SMEs and mid-sized companies—independently, with a focus on results and without hidden agendas.
What drives me: Too many companies invest in technology without knowing its business value. That is where we come in: we always advise on IT in the context of the business and its success.
My focus areas:
- Cybersecurity – Pragmatic protection that fits the business
- Compliance – NIS2, ISO 27001, EU AI Act without excessive bureaucracy
- IT costs – Create transparency, eliminate waste
- AI – From pilot project to measurable value creation
Kawahya T.
Last position:
Public Health Expert - Contract at Mercor
- Contributed to Project Atlas as a domain expert supporting the design of realistic, long-horizon professional tasks for AI agent evaluation. Developed complex, public health-relevant workflows that test an AI agent's ability to navigate ambiguous prompts, synthesise information across distributed files and systems, manage multi-step dependencies, handle errors, and produce high-quality professional deliverables.
- Applied public health expertise to design task scenarios involving emergency preparedness, operational readiness, health systems strengthening, risk assessment, surveillance, and policy-oriented decision-making. Responsibilities included creating task prompts, golden solutions, rubrics, and evaluation criteria aligned with real-world professional standards. At the same time, ensuring outputs were action-focused, ethically grounded, and suitable for assessing advanced AI performance in realistic organisational environments.
Piotr C.
Last position:
Full Stack Software Developer at Meteomatics AG
- Created the MetX Assistant and was its primary driver from concept through production with real users; designed and oversaw telemetry and presented the system in demos.
- Built React, TypeScript and Python features for MetX, a scientific weather visualization platform; integrated internal data APIs and improved caching, request handling and rendering workflows.
- Contributed to company MCP tooling and led AI workshops and internal automation initiatives, including experiments connecting AI agents with Slack, Jira and Git.
- Acted as the team's Observability and DevOps subject matter expert, supporting service reliability, deployment workflows, monitoring and troubleshooting.
- Participated in Security, Observability and AI Communities of Practice.
Hanspeter J.
Last position:
Lead Consultant Salesforce DACH at DXC Technology
- Recording, validating and coordinating customer requirements
- Analyzing commercial processes at customers, as well as designing and implementing solution designs in Salesforce
- Designing and developing Salesforce architectures based on Sales and Service Cloud
- Maintaining and expanding own competence in order to know the new functions of Salesforce
- Taking an active role in the pre-sales phase and working closely with the sales and pre-sales teams
- Building and consolidating maturity within the team in new topics
- Actively helping to define and align own role within the DXC Best Practice
- MC Growth implementation
- AI Agentforce Agents Builder
- Agent Designer with elements.cloud
- Salesforce ORG assessments
- Process configuration mining
- Single point of contact for SFDC contacts global
- Project coordination with the EMEA and global head
- Proposal presales work with Salesforce AE and client partners for global accounts
Robin O.
Last position:
Co-Founder & AI Solutions Architect at airdys
- Product strategy, architecture, and technical co-direction
- AI workshops, client onboarding and go-to-market activities
- Design and implementation of AI architectures (LLMs, RAG, MCP, agents, voice, automation)
- Hands-on development of prototypes and production-ready AI integrations
- Consulting clients on AI adoption, workflows, and integration into existing infrastructure
- Collaboration with co-founders on strategic direction
- Collaboration in sales and customer acquisition
Tools and Technologies: OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure, Vercel AI SDK, RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), MCP (Model Context Protocol), FastAgent, VAPI, n8n, make.com, LibreChat, PostgreSQL, OpenAPI, Next.js, Vercel, Docker
Gwang Jin K.
Last position:
Data Scientist / Applied AI, Automation & Data Systems Researcher at Independent
- Built and explored applied GenAI, RAG, GraphRAG, local LLM, agentic AI and document-intelligence prototypes for structured analysis, evidence extraction, semantic search, technical reasoning and decision-useful reporting
- Developed private local-LLM workflows and AI system patterns focused on privacy, reproducibility, reviewability, low-cost inference and practical user control
- Built reproducible Python/R workflows for data analysis, automation, API-driven tooling, validation logic, technical documentation and AI-assisted software development
- Designed workflows around explicit assumptions, traceable inputs, reviewable outputs and failure-mode awareness rather than black-box “looks good” demonstrations
- Supported RAHN AG in a chemical/regulatory environment with data extraction and processing around WERCS, a regulatory application for chemical product and compliance data
- Explored complex application/database schemas and wrote nested SQL queries to extract information for mixture calculations, component relationships, regulatory rules and reporting logic
- Continued hands-on development in Git/GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket, Docker/Linux deployment patterns, REST/API workflows, error handling, technical writing and fast AI-assisted prototyping
- Built technical writing and documentation workflows that turn complex systems into clear runbooks, checklists, decision notes and user-facing explanations
Rainer T.
Last position:
Managing Director at Tolksdorf.digital GmbH
- Independent consulting for digital transformation, quick checks and business case development
- Delivered systems and digital engineering, Industrie 4.0, workflow & AI agents
- Implemented digital sales and service solutions, KMU open source introduction, data migration, hosting and maintenance of customer IT systems
- Applied methods: Lean Innovation, ISO 9001:2015, Scrum; managed teams of 2–80 people and project volumes up to 22 Mi0 USD
Matthias I.
Last position:
Fractional CTO (Principal Engineer / Technical Architect)
- Designed large-scale systems and APIs serving thousands of concurrent users.
- Refactored a 650k-LOC monolith and led full AWS migration for stable performance.
- Introduced SLO-based observability, improving reliability and recovery flow.
- Optimised cloud and databases, achieving significant cost and latency reduction.
- Delivered LLM, RAG, and document-automation pipelines adopted in production.
Fabian K.
Last position:
Lecturer at HWZ University of Applied Sciences
- Co-teach in CAS AI Management and CAS AI Innovation programs for future AI managers
- Cover topics including data platforms, AI architecture, technology adoption foundations, and factors influencing enterprise AI initiative success
Eko S.
Last position:
Forward Deployed Engineer at Kistler Group
- Talked with business units to scope, build, and ship on-premise AI bots and chatbots
- Shipped a general-purpose agentic AI assistant on MCP architecture
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Statistics of experts using AI Agents
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
21 years

Position duration
2.8 years

Positions per freelancer
11

Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management

Top industries
Information Technology, Professional Services, Banking and Finance

Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Product Development
Bachelor's degree or higher
100%
Master's degree or higher
50%
Doctorate
20%

Certifications per freelancer
3

Most common languages
English, German, French

Speak two or more languages
100%
Based on our profile pool as of 29 Oct 2026.
Daily rate distribution
The chart shows how the daily rates of experts in this technology in Switzerland are distributed, based on recent contracts on our platform. Each bar covers a rate range — its height shows the share of experts charging within that range.
Average rates of experts in Switzerland using AI Agents
Rates are based on recent contracts and do not include FRATCH margin.
The average daily rate is the mean of all daily rates from recent contracts of comparable freelancers on our platform.
The median daily rate is the middle value of all daily rates — half of comparable freelancers charge less, half charge more. Unlike the average, it is barely affected by outliers.
Calculated based on our freelancers’ daily rates as of 29 Oct 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
AI Agents experts industry focus
See which industries our matched freelancers work in most often — every figure is calculated live from the freelancers on FRATCH.
- Information Technology (92%)
- Professional Services (54%)
- Banking and Finance (46%)
- Education (38%)
- Manufacturing (38%)
- Insurance (23%)
- Transportation (23%)
- Government and Administration (23%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
What AI Agents Do
AI agents are software systems that interpret goals, plan actions and use tools to complete multi-step work. They combine large language models with memory, APIs, business rules and feedback loops. Unlike a basic chatbot, an agent can decide what to do next, retrieve information, call services and return a structured result.
Common Applications
Companies use AI agents to handle work that crosses documents, databases and operational systems:
- Customer support triage, response drafting and case routing
- Research, summarisation and knowledge-base search
- Sales qualification, proposal preparation and CRM updates
- Internal assistants for finance, procurement and operations
- Workflow automation with approvals and human hand-offs
Ecosystem and Tooling
Strong work with AI agents combines model providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic and Google with orchestration libraries including LangChain, LlamaIndex and Semantic Kernel. Specialists also work with vector databases, retrieval-augmented generation, function calling, structured outputs and evaluation frameworks. Python and TypeScript are common, alongside REST APIs, event queues, cloud services and observability tools.
When to Bring in Expertise
Freelance expertise is useful when a proof of concept must become a dependable product, or when an existing assistant produces inconsistent results. Companies in Switzerland may need agents connected to multilingual support, regulated processes or established enterprise systems. Specialists can define the right boundaries between autonomous actions, approvals and human review.
Reliable Agent Design
A capable professional treats an agent as a software system, not just a prompt. They establish clear task scopes, tool permissions, fallback paths and audit trails. They test factuality, retrieval quality, latency, cost and failure recovery with representative data. Secure handling of confidential information and protection against prompt injection belong in the design from the start.
Choosing the Right Specialist
Look for evidence of production workflows, not only impressive demonstrations. Ask how the professional measures task success, limits unsafe actions and monitors changes in model behaviour. Relevant adjacent skills include API integration, data engineering, cloud deployment, product discovery and security. For remote work, clear documentation and fluent communication in the project’s working language are essential; on-site collaboration can help with complex process mapping.
Frequently asked questions
Quick answers to the questions that come up most around AI Agents.
AI agents are used for tasks that require several decisions or system actions, such as support triage, research, document processing and CRM updates. They can retrieve information, call approved tools and pass uncertain cases to a person.
AI agents can interpret an objective, choose among available tools and adapt their next step based on results. A chatbot usually responds to a message, while fixed automation follows predefined rules; an agent can combine both approaches with human approval where needed.
A strong AI agents specialist usually understands API integration, retrieval-augmented generation, vector search, prompt and model evaluation, cloud deployment and data protection. Experience with Python or TypeScript, workflow orchestration and observability is also valuable.
The right level depends on the risk and scope of the workflow rather than the label of the project. A small internal prototype may need focused model and API knowledge, while customer-facing or regulated use cases require proven testing, security, monitoring and fallback design.
AI agents work can often be delivered remotely when system access, documentation and decision owners are clear. On-site workshops may help when the specialist must map complex processes with Swiss teams, and the working language should match the users, stakeholders and source material.
AI agents fit work involving variable language, uncertain inputs and several possible actions. A workflow tool or conventional software is often preferable when the rules are stable, outcomes must be fully deterministic or the process has little unstructured information.
A quality review of AI agents should examine task completion, factual accuracy, tool permissions, data exposure and behaviour on unclear or adversarial inputs. Ask for representative test cases, traceable logs, defined escalation paths and a plan for monitoring model or data changes.
An AI agents professional may deliver the use-case design, agent workflow, tool integrations, retrieval layer, evaluation set and deployment documentation. Freelancers also commonly define approval rules, observability, security controls and a handover plan so the system can be maintained after launch.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Switzerland who have used AI Agents in their recent projects is 124 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 990 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Switzerland who have used AI Agents in their recent projects, 100% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 50% hold at least a Master's degree, and 20% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Switzerland who have used AI Agents in their recent projects have 21 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.8 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Switzerland who have used AI Agents in their recent projects are English (100%), German (85%), and French (38%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Switzerland who have used AI Agents in their recent projects are Information Technology (92%), Professional Services (54%), and Banking and Finance (46%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Switzerland who have used AI Agents in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (85%), and Project Management (54%).
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