Production AI agents
for regulated industries

AI advisory, Claude Code training, and custom agent implementation for teams moving LLM prototypes into GDPR-compliant production workflows.

Co-founder at Caidera · DFKI research background · Charité collaboration · AI NATION Top 15

Selected signals

  • AI Nation Top 15 — Caidera recognition
  • Stanford University
  • Charité Berlin — medical AI collaboration
  • DFKI — German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence
  • Microsoft
Daniel Fernau, AI architect and Caidera co-founder, Berlin
Top 15
AI Nation · 500 Startups
About Me

Research depth, production ownership, regulated-domain focus

My work sits where AI demos usually break: domain-specific workflows, reliability requirements, and enterprise adoption. At Caidera, I help regulated-industry teams move from promising LLM concepts to production agent systems.

3
Peer-reviewed papers
15+
Enterprise clients through Caidera
Top 15
of 500 AI Startups

Expertise

Focus areas
AI AdvisoryAI CoachingAgent Implementation
Agent architecture
LLMsEvalsWorkflows
Regulated delivery
GovernanceReliabilityAdoption
Work With Me

Custom AI agents, Claude Code training, and AI workshops

Concrete ways to bring regulated-grade AI capability into your team — custom agent builds for production, Claude Code training for engineering teams, and hands-on AI workshops for upskilling.

AI Agents · Regulated · DSGVO

Custom AI Agent Development for Regulated Industries

Bespoke AI agents and workflows for healthcare, pharma, and other GDPR / DSGVO-regulated operations — designed for compliance, reliability, and team handover.

  • Company brain
  • Connect your systems to AI
  • AI Operating System
  • AI Workflows
Outcome

A production-grade, GDPR-compliant AI system tailored to your operations and ready to scale.

Claude Code · Training

Claude Code Training for Engineering Teams

Hands-on Claude Code enablement for engineering teams shipping in regulated and high-stakes environments — from setup and CLAUDE.md conventions to advanced agent workflows.

  • Setting up CLAUDE.md and project memory
  • Team collaboration processes
  • Ticketing and PR workflows
  • Advanced agent patterns
Outcome

Engineers integrate Claude Code into daily work — shipping faster with audit-ready quality.

Workshop · Hands-on · KI

AI Workshops for Teams

Hands-on AI workshops (KI-Workshops) for teams getting started with AI or scaling to a team-wide AI operating system. Practical, regulated-aware, no slideware.

  • Fundamentals
    Prompting basics and shipping your first AI system.
  • Intermediate
    Set up an AI operating system for your team.
Outcome

Your team leaves with a shared mental model and a concrete AI use case ready to ship.

Selected Work

Evidence across product, research, and operations

Selected work that shows the pattern: applied AI systems, real operating constraints, and measurable scale.

Caidera Platform
AI AgentsCo-Founder

Caidera Platform

Co-founded and architected an AI agent platform for regulated industries, supporting enterprise teams from prototype to production.

Medical AI Assistant
Healthcare AICharité

Medical AI Assistant

Developed a medical AI assistant in collaboration with Charité, grounding product work in real clinical and research constraints.

DRK Social Services
Enterprise Scale600K Documents

DRK Social Services

Built document-processing workflows for German Red Cross social services operations across 600K+ documents.

Regulated AI Delivery
Architecture15+ Clients

Regulated AI Delivery

Designed and shipped AI workflows for regulated and high-stakes teams with a focus on reliability, handover, and adoption.

Experience

From AI research to production ownership

A background shaped by applied research, full-stack engineering, and client-facing delivery in regulated industries.

2022 - Now
Present

Co-Founder & AI Solutions Architect

Caidera (AI NATION Top 15)

Co-Founder

Co-founded and architected an AI agent platform for regulated industries. Led product and engineering work from research prototypes to production deployments for 15+ enterprise clients.

AI ArchitectureAgent WorkflowsRegulated IndustriesTeam Leadership
2020 - 2022
2 years

AI Solutions Engineer

Life Sciences Technology Sector

Full-time

Built AI applications for healthcare, pharmaceutical, and medical technology teams, including medical AI work with research partners such as Charité.

Healthcare AIMedical TechnologyResearch CollaborationPython
2019 - 2020
1 year

AI Research Engineer

Academic & Industry Collaboration

Research

Researched conversational AI and personality-aware systems, producing peer-reviewed work that later shaped applied agent product thinking.

Machine LearningResearch PublicationsConversational AIDFKI
2017 - 2019
2 years

Full-Stack Developer

Technology Solutions

Full-time

Built full-stack products and software architecture foundations that now support end-to-end AI solution delivery.

Full-Stack DevelopmentSoftware ArchitectureWeb Technologies

Education & Recognition

TU Berlin — Technical University of BerlinDFKI — German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence

Computer Science & AI

TU Berlin · DFKI

Specialized in AI and machine learning systems

Caidera — AI agent platform for regulated industriesAI Nation Top 15 — Caidera recognition

AI NATION Top 15

Caidera · AI NATION 2024

Top 15 of 500 AI Startups

Other

  • Google
  • Microsoft
  • Stanford University
Let's Connect

Building in a regulated AI environment?

Talk to me if you are moving from LLM prototype to production workflow and need advisory, coaching, or implementation support.

Get in touch

Making AI and AI agents actually work for your team and organization. Bonus: experience in regulated industries.

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Daniel Fernau
Daniel Fernau
Location
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