Tippel is deliberately a one-engineer company. When you work with Tippel, you work with me — Lukas Friedrich, AI engineer with a Master's degree and years of experience across the full stack: from neural networks trained on HPC clusters to multi-agent systems, Kubernetes infrastructure, and the web applications on top. My first deep-tech company, built on one conviction: the German Mittelstand deserves production-grade AI without agency overhead.
AI agents that execute business processes, RAG systems over company knowledge, fine-tuned open-source LLMs, and the MLOps to run it all — on your infrastructure if you want. Everything at a fixed price with defined scope and acceptance criteria. See what I've built.
No junior developers learning on your budget. No telephone game between sales, PM, and engineering. The person who scopes your project writes the code, and the person who writes the code answers your calls. What doesn't fit in one engineer's hands, I say no to — that's part of the deal.
The fair question about a one-engineer company: what if he's unavailable? Every project ships with full source code ownership, written documentation, and reproducible deployment — so from week one you hold working, documented software that any competent engineer could take over. No proprietary black box, no lock-in.
Open-source stack, no vendor lock-in. GDPR by architecture, not by disclaimer. Weekly working increments, honest verdicts — including "don't build this" in the AI Readiness Check when that's the right answer.