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William N.

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Senior/Lead Business Analyst & AI Workflow Consultant | Requirements Engineering | BI | Workflow Automation | Claude Code

Berlin
William N.

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Power BI Solutions Architect/Engineer & AI Consultant at AVERDUNG GmbH

  • Redesign of the company's BI infrastructure: replacement of a fragmented landscape of manually maintained Excel solutions and CSV imports with a centralized Power BI environment featuring a unified data model as the company-wide single source of truth
  • Consolidation of previously isolated reporting logic into a central semantic model – eliminating redundant files, manual data transfers, and inconsistent metrics between departments
  • Forecasting & planning: Design and implementation of company-wide liquidity planning in Power BI – from business logic to a fully automated, data-source-driven planning model replacing the previous manual Excel process; enables rolling forecasts and continuously up-to-date cash flow transparency for management
  • Optimization of existing Power BI dashboards in terms of performance, structure, and analytical value using an AI-native approach
  • Analysis and improvement of the data model, including data quality analyses, data cleansing, and consistent modeling using star schema, DAX, and Power Query
  • Incident & anomaly analysis: Identification, investigation, and explanation of data anomalies, including root-cause analysis and concrete recommendations for action
  • AI solution architecture: Connecting Business Central and Power BI to LangDock via MCP (Model Context Protocol) for AI-supported data usage
  • Creation of a historical data layer as a basis for trend and time-series analyses
  • AI-supported automation: Design and development of AI skills, agents, loops, and processes for the automated analysis and interpretation of reports
  • Automated reporting workflow: Setup of scheduled, automated email distribution of AI-generated analyses and recommendations to stakeholders
  • Gathering and documentation of business requirements and coordination with business departments and IT as part of requirements engineering / product owner activities
  • Breaking down overall requirements into clearly defined work packages and tasks
  • Definition, prioritization, and management of milestones throughout the entire project lifecycle

Tools: POWER BI, M365, Copilot Studio, MIRO, Microsoft Business Central, Microsoft Fabric, Claude AI, ChatGPT, LangDock, MS VS Code

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Wolfgang H.

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Interim Manager

Schortens
Wolfgang H.

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Interim Supply Chain / SAP S/4HANA Transformation Manager at Solventum / global logistics service provider

Stabilization of a critical logistics outsourcing setup in the context of an SAP S/4HANA transformation. The focus was on restoring a reliable operational fact base between the client, logistics service provider, international supplier plants and the SAP/IT organization.

  • Coordination between the client, global logistics service provider, international supplier plants, SAP/IT teams, Quality Management and the operational shop floor.
  • Management, monitoring and operational correction of Inbound Deliveries; integration of Outbound Delivery processes.
  • Analysis of interface, posting, batch and master data errors between SAP S/4HANA, logistics service provider, supplier plants and internal business functions.
  • Significant reduction of critical inventory differences between the client and logistics service provider.
  • Improved operational management capability in the logistics environment and creation of a common fact base.
  • Reduction of recurring error patterns in the areas of Inbound Deliveries, inventory, interfaces, batch/posting logic and service provider processes.
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Patrick L.

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Senior AI Software Engineer with 9 years of experience delivering practical AI products for enterprise and public sector

Frankfurt am Main
Patrick L.

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Senior GenAI Fullstack Developer at SBH (Schulbau Hamburg)

Remote freelance role focused on Agentic AI strategy, secure application patterns, and reusable agentic workflows for a government agency.

  • Development and implementation of an open-source Agentic AI strategy for a government agency, with a focus on GDPR, security, and self-hosted solutions
  • Development of reusable agentic workflows and business applications that enable non-technical employees to solve business problems independently
  • Implementation of nine business applications with Single Sign-On (SSO) and Azure PostgreSQL integration on Hetzner Linux servers

Techstack: Python, Streamlit, Anthropic SDK (Claude), Azure, Linux, PostgreSQL, MS SQL, Angular

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Onur K.

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AI & Automation Consultant · Project Manager for AI Projects

Braunschweig
Onur K.

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Project Manager & Outsourcing Manager at SENEC GmbH (EnBW Group)

  • Built a scalable nearshore IT developer hub (Croatia, Czech Republic, Poland) as an independent company through a BOT model (Build – Operate – Transfer)
  • Identified, selected, and managed full-service agencies; introduced management and control mechanisms, including KPIs, SLAs, and regular service reviews
  • Prepared and reviewed data processing agreements and framework contracts in coordination with Legal & Compliance; integrated regulatory requirements (including KRITIS) into process design
  • Advised on cloud vs. on-premise strategies, data storage, and authorization concepts; supported Procurement with tendering and service provider evaluations
  • Managed change and process harmonization between internal teams and nearshore partners; reported to executive management, CFO, and CIO

Result: Scalable IT developer hub with an audit-ready governance model, reduced operating costs, and accelerated product development.

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Stefan O.

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AI Product Leader

Berlin
Stefan O.

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Founder at ProtocolEngine.io

Evidence-led health intelligence platform turning published research into personal health protocols. It scores 430 habits, foods, and supplements against the studies behind them, and moves the score when the evidence moves. Built solo.

  • Built the daily ingestion pipeline across PubMed, bioRxiv, and medRxiv: 43,000+ papers from 3,400+ journals processed into 230,000+ typed evidence claims, each one traceable back to the study it came from.
  • Designed the six-factor evidence scoring model and the public changelog behind it, so no recommendation ever appears without the papers underneath it. 23,000+ grade changes recorded and explained to date.
  • Shipped an entity information model connecting every intervention to its mechanisms, biomarkers, and outcomes: 118 biomarkers with region-specific reference ranges, 77 mechanisms, 32 graded outcomes.
  • Built the personalisation layer: blood panel ingestion that reads lab PDFs with a vision model and corrects results for draw time against the user's wake anchor, plus Oura, WHOOP, and Withings integration for daily readiness context.
  • Operate eleven specialised review agents over the corpus and codebase, covering paper curation, retrieval quality, health-claim compliance across EU and US regimes, and security.
  • Shipped the Evidence Assistant, a RAG assistant that answers from the claim database and cites the underlying papers, plus a B2B practitioner tier, an Expo React Native app, and localisation across 3 languages and 7 markets.

Stack: Next.js 16, TypeScript, Supabase, pgvector, Anthropic Claude, Vercel, DeepInfra.

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Shamaila M.

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Senior Software and Platform Architect

Heilbronn
Shamaila M.

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Founder/Kubernetes and Cloud Architect at Kubekanvas

  • Developed a browser-based platform for Kubernetes no-code deployment and cluster management
  • Developed a CLI in TypeScript to deploy resources in the cluster without leaving the browser UI.
  • Implemented DevSecOps pipelines: image scanning, SBOM, policy enforcement, supply-chain security, and used Kyverno. Implemented IAM integration for the command-line utility tool.
  • Designed role and permission models for Keycloak, OAuth/OIDC, and social login flows.
  • Used LLMs to convert user intent into diagrams.
  • Worked on integration with multiple sovereign clouds like StackIT, Hetzner, CIVO, UpCloud, plus public clouds like AWS, GCP, and Azure
  • The technology stack includes Java, Spring Boot, Kubernetes, OpenAI, Kubernetes multi-tenancy using vCluster, Karpenter, RBAC for CLI, Helm, React
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Jens R.

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Technical Product Owner

Kerpen
Jens R.

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Platform Architect & Senior Developer at Direct client, industrial measurement technology, medium-sized company

  • Technical leadership across hardware, firmware, and software teams; scope: hardware/firmware team (4 people) and leadership group (5 people)
  • Consolidated and documented a product family that had grown over more than 15 years and aligned it with CRA compliance — from the bare-metal I/O module to the cloud interface.
  • Provided the most important customer product with the essential requirements and architecture documentation within two months — for a firmware landscape that had grown over more than 15 years. It now supports the customer’s modernization strategy.
  • Established a monthly reporting line to the supervisory board and executive board within three months: nine meetings since 12/2025. The report itself is versioned and built from the CI pipeline; it is based on automatically collected activity and release data instead of assessments.
  • Built a container-based CI/CD infrastructure from scratch: cross-compilation, host tests, and documentation builds in one continuous pipeline.
  • Introduced declarative QA gates for DevOps and development artifacts — from the start using lefthook instead of pre-commit, executed in a dedicated container image.

Technologies used: arc42, req42, tpo42, docToolchain, PlantUML, ArchiMate, C4 model, ADR, C, C++ (GTest), CMake, Bare Metal (ARM Cortex-M3/M7), OCI containers, Jenkins, lefthook, Prometheus, Grafana, SBOM, CRA, OPC, SCADA, PLC integration, IPv6 migration, Zero Trust, Sociocracy 3.0, Cynefin

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Jens H.

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Interim CTO / CDO & Enterprise Architect | AI Compliance & EU AI Act, Azure AI Foundry | Lawyer & Computer Scientist

Wathlingen
Jens H.

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Interim CTO (occasional assignments) at Fujitsu / FSAS

Stabilization of an Azure/.NET landscape in live operation.

  • Architecture, DevOps, and operational readiness; technical decisions under time pressure
  • Azure DevOps, monitoring, ETL/ELT, cloud security, FinOps, and data-mesh-related topics

Technologies: Azure DevOps, .NET, CI/CD, monitoring, FinOps

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Artur S.

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Senior Manager Business Transformation | PMO | Strategy & Product Owner

Zülpich
Artur S.

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Senior Marketing & Transformation Consultant at Stadtwerke Lübeck

  • Marketing consulting for the EDL@Home and Commodity (electricity & gas) business areas
  • Development of data-driven marketing and sales strategies
  • Definition and expansion of key channels (Web, App, Portal, Social, Paid, Sales Partners)
  • Target, annual and budget planning for the EDL@Home business area
  • Definition of business requirements for marketing platforms
  • KPI-based performance management
  • Development of dashboards to measure success
  • Performance reviews with management
  • Management of external service providers
  • Stakeholder management between Marketing, Sales, IT, Customer Service and Management
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Hans-Dieter G.

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AI Testing & Quality Manager | Test Management | Practical AI Development Experience

Wiehl
Hans-Dieter G.

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Training as an AI Expert

I continuously expand my expertise in AI and automation. I work with ChatGPT, OpenAI, Manus, Gemini, MS CoPilot, APIs, LangChain, Hugging Face, Manus, TensorFlow, and Auto-GPT, as well as Python-based ML frameworks and MLOps tools, to intelligently transform traditional software development, analysis, and testing processes.

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Fadi S.

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AI Engineer | Microsoft Fabric | Data Engineering | Enterprise AI | Document AI

Oberhausen
Fadi S.

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Development of a production-ready Enterprise Document AI & Recommendation Platform at Freelancer

  • Development of a production-ready Enterprise AI solution for the automated processing of invoices and business documents
  • Integration of Azure AI Document Intelligence and LLM technologies into existing business processes
  • Development of robust REST APIs for automated document processing and system integration
  • Extraction, validation, and storage of structured invoice data in Azure SQL as a base for analytics and machine learning models
  • Development of an AI-based recommendation engine with machine learning and deep learning to generate personalized product recommendations based on historical purchase data
  • Implementation of logging, monitoring, error handling, and validation mechanisms for stable production use
  • Collaboration with business teams to define business rules and integrate the solution into existing enterprise processes

Technologies: Python, Azure AI Document Intelligence, Azure OpenAI, Azure SQL Database, REST APIs, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, OCR, Pandas, JSON, Workflow Automation

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Luca B.

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Founder & CEO

Biblis
Luca B.

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Founder & CEO at Lube AI

  • Develop custom AI agents delivering 90%+ reduction in manual workload and significant efficiency gains
  • Provide end-to-end AI strategy consulting: from digital assessment to implementation and change management
  • Design and deliver tailored training programs and workshops on AI adoption, prompt engineering, and automation
  • Support clients in implementing scalable AI solutions integrated with existing technology stacks
  • Focus areas: AI strategy, automation, workflow optimization, and capability building
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Michael N.

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Senior ML Engineer | AI Engineer | Problem Solver

Eichenau
Michael N.

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Senior AI Engineer | Forward Deployed Engineer at Tiefbau

  • Development of an AI-powered project organization tool for a civil engineering company that intelligently links project, task, tender, schedule, and document data through a knowledge graph.
  • Implementation of AI features for document analysis, information extraction, context-based assistance, and voice-based data capture based on Microsoft Azure AI, reducing administrative effort, making information available faster, and supporting project teams in decision-making.
  • Tech stack: Python, React, TypeScript, FastAPI, Claude Code, Codex, Graphify, PostgreSQL, Microsoft Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Speech, Azure AI Document Intelligence, Microsoft Graph, Microsoft Entra ID, Docker, Git, CI/CD.
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Mirza K.

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Agentic AI for a DeepResearch project

München
Mirza K.

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Agentic Automation and a RAG system

  • This project involved extraction of intelligence data to support report writing for a company that provides geopolitical, global, commercial intelligence. The data have been gathered from a number of resources (interview transcripts, online data, internal documents), and then a knowledge base has been build from it. This was the basis of a complex RAG system, that was evaluated against a golden dataset. Agents have been used to find out the contradicting intelligence, the statements supporting each other, and to store back the generated knowledge.

Used: Python, RAG, LangGraph, LangChain, deepeval, MCP

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Statistics of experts using OpenAI

Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.

Experience

15 years

OpenAI experts have 15 years of professional experience on average.

Position duration

2.8 years

OpenAI experts stay in a single position for 2.8 years on average.

Positions per freelancer

11

OpenAI experts have completed 11 positions on average over the course of their careers.

Top business areas

Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management

OpenAI experts have gathered most of their hands-on project experience in Information Technology, Product Development, and Project Management.

Top industries

Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Professional Services

OpenAI experts are most in demand in Information Technology, Banking and Finance, and Professional Services.

Certification focus areas

Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management

OpenAI experts earn their certifications most often in Information Technology, Product Development, and Project Management.

Bachelor's degree or higher

90%

90% of OpenAI experts hold at least a Bachelor's degree.

Master's degree or higher

61%

61% of OpenAI experts hold at least a Master's degree.

Doctorate

10%

10% of OpenAI experts have a doctorate (PhD).

Certifications per freelancer

3

OpenAI experts hold 3 professional certifications on average.

Most common languages

German, English, French

OpenAI experts most often speak German, English, and French.

Speak two or more languages

98%

98% of OpenAI experts speak two or more languages.

Based on our profile pool as of 26 Sep 2026.

Daily rate distribution

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7% of OpenAI experts charge less than €400 per day.
45% of OpenAI experts charge between €400 and €800 per day.
39% of OpenAI experts charge between €800 and €1200 per day.
8% of OpenAI experts charge between €1200 and €1600 per day.
1% of OpenAI experts charge €1600 or more per day.
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The chart shows how the daily rates of experts in this technology 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 using OpenAI

Rates are based on recent contracts and do not include FRATCH margin.

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Daily rate avg. 758 €

The average daily rate is the mean of all daily rates from recent contracts of comparable freelancers on our platform.

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Median rate 776 €

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 26 Sep 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.

OpenAI 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 (95%)
  • Banking and Finance (46%)
  • Professional Services (43%)
  • Automotive (39%)
  • Healthcare (36%)
  • Manufacturing (36%)
  • Retail (35%)
  • Education (34%)

Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.

About the technology

What OpenAI provides

OpenAI develops artificial intelligence models and services for language, vision, audio and structured task execution. Companies use the OpenAI API and ChatGPT to add natural-language interfaces, content generation, document analysis, summarization, classification and conversational support to digital products. The work can range from a focused internal assistant to an AI feature embedded in a customer-facing application.

Common applications

OpenAI specialists turn model capabilities into controlled product features and business workflows.

  • Build chat assistants for support, sales and internal knowledge
  • Create retrieval-augmented generation with company documents
  • Extract, classify and transform information from unstructured files
  • Add speech, image understanding or multilingual interaction
  • Automate drafting, review and routing tasks with human oversight

Ecosystem and tooling

OpenAI projects often combine API integration with application development, data services and operational controls. Relevant tools include the OpenAI SDKs, function calling, embeddings, vector databases, orchestration frameworks and evaluation pipelines. Strong specialists also understand prompt design, structured outputs, model selection, token usage, latency, observability and secure handling of sensitive data.

When companies need specialists

External expertise helps when a team must move from a promising prototype to a dependable service. Companies bring in freelance professionals to select an architecture, connect private data, improve answer quality, establish safeguards or integrate OpenAI into existing CRM, support, analytics and workflow systems. Specialists are also useful when internal teams need a clear evaluation method before committing to a larger rollout.

What quality looks like

A capable OpenAI professional separates a compelling demo from a production-ready system. They define the task, source data and failure conditions before tuning prompts, then test outputs against representative cases. They protect personal and confidential information, manage permissions, handle rate limits and design fallback paths when the model is uncertain. Clear documentation lets product and engineering teams maintain the solution after delivery.

Collaboration and delivery

OpenAI work can be delivered remotely when requirements, access and review processes are well defined. On-site collaboration may help when the project involves sensitive operations, complex stakeholder workshops or close integration with existing teams. Useful deliverables include a tested API integration, prompt and schema specifications, retrieval configuration, evaluation reports, monitoring guidance and a handover plan. Experience with cloud services, Python or JavaScript, APIs and data security often adds practical value.

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Frequently asked questions

Curious about OpenAI? Here are the answers that come up again and again.

OpenAI is used to add language, vision, audio and conversational capabilities to software and business processes. Typical projects include support assistants, document search, content workflows, data extraction and applications that let users interact with information in natural language.

OpenAI is often assessed against open-source models and other hosted model providers. The right choice depends on output quality, supported modalities, deployment control, data requirements, latency, integration effort and the level of operational responsibility a company wants to keep in-house.

A strong OpenAI specialist usually combines API integration with prompt design, structured outputs, retrieval, vector search and evaluation. Experience with cloud infrastructure, application security, data protection, Python or JavaScript and user experience is valuable for production work.

The required experience depends on the risk and scope of the project rather than on the API alone. A simple prototype may need focused integration skills, while a customer-facing or regulated workflow calls for proven evaluation, security, monitoring, data handling and failure-management practices.

OpenAI projects are often suitable for remote collaboration when access, documentation and review points are clear. On-site work can be useful for sensitive data, process discovery or close workshops with subject-matter teams, while language requirements should match the users and source material involved.

Look for an OpenAI professional who can explain trade-offs instead of promising perfect answers. Ask how they test representative cases, protect confidential data, measure failure modes, control costs and latency, and provide fallbacks, monitoring and documentation.

OpenAI complements conventional software rather than replacing it. Reliable products still need authentication, databases, interfaces, business rules, testing, observability and human review around model-generated results.

Before engaging an OpenAI specialist, define the user problem, source data, permitted actions, quality criteria and privacy boundaries. A useful brief also describes the existing systems, expected deliverables, review process and what should happen when the model cannot answer safely.

The average hourly rate of freelancers who have used OpenAI in their recent projects is 95 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 758 € based on an 8-hour working day.

Of the freelancers who have used OpenAI in their recent projects, 90% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 61% hold at least a Master's degree, and 10% hold a doctorate.

On average, freelancers who have used OpenAI in their recent projects have 15 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.8 years.

The most common languages among freelancers who have used OpenAI in their recent projects are German (98%), English (98%), and French (14%).

The most common industries among freelancers who have used OpenAI in their recent projects are Information Technology (95%), Banking and Finance (46%), and Professional Services (43%).

The most common business areas among freelancers who have used OpenAI in their recent projects are Information Technology (97%), Product Development (90%), and Project Management (56%).

Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used OpenAI

Our freelancers and interim experts are at home all over Germany — available on-site in Berlin, Hamburg, Munich and every major business hub, or fully remote. Choose a city to discover matched specialists, local market insights and up-to-date availability.

In Austria our freelancers and interim experts support companies from Vienna to Graz — on-site where your project needs them, or fully remote. Choose a city to discover matched specialists, local market insights and up-to-date availability.

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Across Switzerland our specialists are active in Zurich, Geneva, Basel and Bern — working on-site or fully remote. Choose a city to discover matched specialists, local market insights and up-to-date availability.

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