About Hendrik Kleinwächter — AI advisor & engineer in Hamburg
I sit down with you and make AI real — advice for the C-level, and the engineering to back it up.
I've been shipping software for 20 years and building with LLMs since 2023 — 50+ AI applications in production. As CTO at AHEAD Automotive I built a RAG diagnostic platform used by more than 50,000 mechanics, processing 2M+ queries per month. I've founded three startups; one was acquired by trivago. I know the difference between a demo and a system that survives contact with real users.
- 20 years of software engineering
- 50+ AI applications in production
- 50,000+ mechanics served by the RAG platform I built as CTO
That's the whole pitch: I'm not a strategy consultant who hands you a deck, and I'm not a dev shop you have to translate for. I sit down with you, we decide what's worth building, and then I build it. AI sparring partner for C-level executives — and the engineer who ships the first system.
On the side I run The Bread Code, a YouTube channel with 300,000+ subscribers about the engineering of sourdough bread. It taught me the skill this work actually requires: making complicated things simple enough to act on.
The proof
- A RAG diagnostic platform for 50,000+ mechanics — shipped to production — built as CTO at AHEAD Automotive, 2M+ queries/month.
- Teaching 300,000+ people a hard technical craft — The Bread Code, the evidence behind AI Enablement.
- Founded three startups — one acquired by trivago — the judgment behind AI Discovery.
Where to go from here
The full professional history — roles, companies, dates — is in my CV.
Hendrik Kleinwächter is also written "Hendrik Kleinwaechter" — same person, ASCII spelling.