About Me
Expertise in AI implementation and strategic transformation
Kai Wöllstein
AI & Automation Consultant
AI
Automation
Process Optimization
Strategic Transformation
Based in Kronberg im Taunus, Germany
Professional Summary
As an AI & Automation Consultant, I conduct independent research, development, and consulting to rapidly prototype experimental AI pipelines. Applying a first-principles approach, I translate novel machine learning frameworks into practical automation solutions for complex analytical challenges. My expertise spans the intersection of technology, life sciences, and business: from pioneering SeRP_HMM, a novel machine learning framework that revealed previously unseen molecular dynamics, to building M&A automation platforms delivering over €1M in value on single deals, to translating complex legal strategies for Fortune 10 companies into robust technical solutions for €10B+ litigations.
Professional Background
AI & Automation Consultant
AutoK.ai
Aug. 2025 – Present
- Conduct independent research, development, and consulting to rapidly prototype experimental AI pipelines, applying a first-principles approach to translate novel machine learning frameworks into practical automation solutions for complex analytical challenges
Legal Tech (Part Time)
Freshfields
Apr. 2023 – Jul. 2025
- Translated complex legal strategies into precise technical specifications, bridging the legal-engineering gap to ensure software directly met critical case requirements, including for multiple Fortune 10 clients
- Designed and built a full-stack automated risk and settlement calculator for a €10B+ litigation, codifying complex German Civil Code (BGB) logic into JavaScript to determine liability and damages
- Engineered AI/ML solutions, from a claimant de-duplication system using fuzzy matching for risk mitigation, to GenAI pipelines, analyzing thousands of patent and privileged documents to accelerate research
Product Manager and M&A Tech Analyst
Razor Group
Mar. 2021 – Jul. 2022
- Owned the product strategy and implementation of the M&A tech platform, cutting the time for valuation and offer generation from weeks to hours, enabling the global market leading e-commerce aggregator of today to rapidly scale to a €1B+ valuation and €400M+ revenue in just 1.5 years since founding
- Led 50+ M&A deals while building the Vector Accelerated Reconciliation (VAR) platform on AWS to semi-automate valuation and due diligence by calculating a P&L from millions of transactions and by automatically generating investment committee slides, delivering €1M+ in value on single deals
- Saved 1000+ hours/month by both personally developing key automations and strategically managing the agile product development including technical leadership of the development team
Student Assistant
Metzler Asset Management
Jun. 2018 – May 2020
- Executed quantitative, market-beating strategies in Fixed Income & Asset Allocation
- Engineered and automated complex financial models (e.g., Merton Distance-to-Default) implementing object-oriented programming and data pipelines to enhance portfolio analytics and decision-making
- Analyzed bond issuers via thorough credit analysis and direct intelligence gathering at financial roadshows
Education
M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Technical University of Darmstadt
Apr. 2026 – Sep. 2028
- Engineering intelligence to solve everything else: synthesizing work in biological, economic, and legal systems to build the tools that safely tackle humanity's hardest challenges
B.Sc. in Bioinformatics
Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
Oct. 2022 – Oct. 2025
- Specialized in RNA & Genetics; developed a Hidden Markov Model (HMM) achieving 97%-100% reading frame accuracy in translatomics and learned advanced lab techniques including CRISPR-Cas9
- Pioneered SeRP_HMM (thesis): a novel HMM that replaces heuristic thresholds with a probabilistic, ML framework, decoding noisy SeRP data to robustly model importin-nascent chain binding dynamics, resolving enduring from transient interactions, and revealing a novel pre-commitment phase
- Built the Multimodal Parliament Explorer for Bundestag debate analysis, engineering a full-stack solution with a Java/Javalin REST backend, NLP pipeline (Whisper/spaCy), and d3.js sentiment visualizations
Economics and Business Administration
Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
Apr. 2017 – Mar. 2022
- Dean's List Award recipient; exchange at University of Malaya across Business, Economics, and Science
Leadership & Technical Capabilities
Programming Languages
Python
Java
TypeScript/React
C++
SQL/NoSQL
R
Infrastructure & Systems
Docker
Redis
Git
GCP
AWS
Azure
RESTful APIs
ETL/Pipelines
CI/CD
Microservices
Cloud-Native
Serverless
Monitoring
AI/ML & Quant
GenAI (RAG, Agents, Fine-tuning, Context/Prompt Engineering, Embeddings)
Vector DBs
LangChain/LangGraph
Hugging Face
Responsible AI
PyTorch
TensorFlow
scikit-learn
pandas
NumPy
MLOps
HMMs
Time-Series Analysis
Probabilistic/Computational Modeling
Feature Engineering
Monte-Carlo Simulation
Leadership & Methods
Stakeholder & Risk Management
Agile/Scrum (Jira)
Product Strategy
UX Design (Figma)
KPIs/OKRs
Executive Presentations
Cross-Functional Teams
Solution Architecture
Data Governance
Quality & Compliance
IT-Compliance
Document Processing
Unit-/Performance-Tests
BDD
Data Validation & Integrity
Languages
German (Native)
English (Fluent)
Interests
Geopolitical Analysis
Game Theory
Behavioral Economics
First-Principles
Human Optimization