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Friedrich Hirler
roleSystems · delivery · analysis
basedAzores · Frankfurt
languagesEN / DE · PT / FR
backgroundProduct & ops · political science
the operator
One accountable operator.
hirler.works is Friedrich Hirler. Political scientist by training, product and operations lead by work history, hands-on AI builder by recent practice. I help small teams turn messy workflows and AI adoption into systems they can actually run and govern. Remote from the Azores and Frankfurt, in English and German.
How I work.
Make it legible
Enter the messy system, map how work actually runs, name what is actually broken. A habit from research training that turned out to be the job.
Translate between worlds
Technical systems, organisational reality, and the people in between. Most coordination problems are translation problems.
Working beats elegant
Structures the team actually uses, built inside your constraints. A simple system people run every day beats a sophisticated one they avoid.
Say the hard part
Honest, critical feedback, and not just on AI. Strategy, operations, how clients and people are handled. What I don't know yet and what will take longer, said early.
The through-line.
Reading complex systems
Trained as a political scientist in peace and conflict research at Goethe University Frankfurt, with a JRC traineeship on dual-use technology and strategic dependencies. The habit stuck: enter a complex system, make it legible.
Rebuilding how teams run
Product and operations across distributed teams. Rebuilt Quantenwerft's ticketing, HR, and documentation, and the Security & Sustainability Guide's team, editorial standards, and partnerships. Systems built to outlast the engagement.
AI that stays accountable
Multi-agent pipelines with mandatory review gates. My own operation, and the engine behind Clockwork installs and products like Surfaced and Securesustain.org.
How working together starts.
A systems call.
Forty-five minutes on where the coordination load actually sits. No deck, no pitch.
A scoped audit.
If there's a fit, the call ends with a scope and price for the audit: a few calls, access to your tools, and time to see how work actually runs.
The written plan.
The audit's output. What gets installed or built, what it costs, what you keep if we stop. In writing before any commitment.
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