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Senior Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft

Florian Follonier

I turn AI strategy into secure, operable systems, and I build my own products and open-source experiments to find out what actually holds up.

I work on applied AI: agents, evaluation, and the engineering that takes a prototype into production. Outside customer work I build products and open-source experiments, and write about what I learn.

Florian Follonier
Zurich area, Switzerland
PhD, Univ. of Bremen
enterprise AI deployments cataloged
4,015
live products I run
4
projects with public code
7
research publications
7

Selected work

Things I've built and run

Live products, open-source tools, and research prototypes, each built to answer a real question.

All projects
AIUseCaseHub homepage showing 4,015 tracked AI deploymentsLive

AI Products

AIUseCaseHub

A public catalog of more than 4,000 real enterprise AI deployments, each traced to a public source, with insights and trend analysis on top.

4,015source-linked AI deployments

Swiss German speech lab benchmark setupOpen source

Evaluation

Swiss German Voice Benchmark

A local-first workbench for measuring how well voice models understand Swiss German dialects, with WER, CER, chrF, and streaming latency.

200SwissDial clips, 25 per dialect

Milo simulator scenario previewsIn progress

Agents

Milo: Embodied Robot Lab

An in-progress robotics research simulator for embodied agents, with a React operator cockpit, agent-guided navigation, sensor telemetry, and reproducible test scenarios.

20+reproducible test scenarios

AI web scraping pipeline schematicOpen source

Data Pipelines

AI Web Scraping Pipeline

An open-source agentic pipeline for discovering, extracting, deduplicating, and reviewing structured evidence from public websites. It powers AIUseCaseHub.

3agents: discovery, extraction, review

Harness Office showing a live agent work planOpen source

Agents

RFP Agent on Microsoft Foundry

A Microsoft Agent Framework and Foundry demo that turns a customer opportunity into a cited, enterprise-ready solution proposal, visualized as a pixel-art agent office.

5progressive demos, from baseline to observability

Rankoon homepage with market state gauges and live signalsLive

Market Research

Rankoon

Crypto signals, daily model rankings, market research, and paper portfolios, built on XGBoost ranking models and walk-forward validation.

Dailymodel rankings across the ranked universe

Writing

Recent notes and results

All writing

Now

Currently exploring

01

Benchmarking voice models on Swiss German dialects. Across 200 SwissDial clips, Realtime 2.1 led Realtime 2 on both High German translation and verbatim dialect transcription.

02

Building Milo, a robotics simulator for embodied agents, where a local model makes navigation decisions and a larger model supervises tasks within explicit token and request budgets.

03

Opening AIUseCaseHub to agents with a hosted MCP server, and growing the record past 4,000 source-linked enterprise AI deployments.

04

Shipping public market-research tools: Rankoon for ML-ranked crypto signals with published hit rates, and PerpXray for read-only Hyperliquid trading analytics.

Research

Selected publications

My research at the University of Bremen explored service innovation, modularity, and collaboration in automotive engineering.

All publications
  1. Service Innovation: Sensing with Information Systems

    Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) · Conference paper

  2. Schools of Thought in Service Modularity

    European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) · Conference paper

Speaking & collaboration

Let’s talk about your AI project.

I give talks and workshops on AI agents, evaluation, and cloud architecture, and I’m happy to discuss a session, a collaboration, or a project.