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// Crew
Who’s behind Autopilot.
A small crew. Deep experience. One clear promise: You work with us, not through a team of juniors.
// Managing director & Account owner
Martin Zielinski
Managing director & Account owner
I come from venture building and management — not from consulting. At Autopilot I’m your fixed point of contact: I take in your needs, orchestrate the team, and stand behind every output that reaches you. Few mandates, full engagement.
// Expert pool
Nine roles, booked as needed.
For each mandate, the account lead pulls in the specialists the topic actually needs. No all-purpose consultants — people who have done this one thing for years. Whoever is at the table appears in the sign-off block of every output.
EU-AI-Act Specialist
Classifies every AI application as low-risk, limited or high-risk — and writes the documentation your compliance team needs for the reporting obligation.
Read moreGDPR Specialist
Impact assessments for AI workflows, DPA review, anonymised data flows. Before the build, not after the data leak.
Read moreMake-or-Buy Researcher
Scans the tool market for every request. Says clearly when building in-house makes sense — and when the off-the-shelf tool is the better deal.
Read moreWorkflow Architect
Breaks business processes apart so AI lands in them meaningfully. n8n, Make, RPA, native integrations — neutral to whatever fits your stack.
Read moreRAG & Knowledge Engineer
Builds company knowledge bases that still work in two years. Vector DBs, semantic search, source citation per answer.
Read moreHosting Architect
Decides with you: on-prem, EU cloud, hybrid. Knows the trade-offs and names them before the decision, not after.
Read moreAdoption Lead
Walks alongside the rollout in your team. No mandatory training, no usage dashboards. Listens to where things grind in daily work.
Read moreIndustry Domain Lead
Per mandate, a specialist from your industry — machinery, tax law, construction, service operations. Depth that generic consultants don’t have.
Read moreReviewer & Sign-Off Lead
Reads every output. Fact-check, tonality, risk classification. Their name appears in the sign-off block — and so does the responsibility.
Read moreSome roles are staffed in-house, others we bring in per mandate through trusted partners. The account lead decides who’s at the table. You always know who reviewed — see the sign-off block at the end of every output.
// In our network
We don’t stand alone.
Autopilot is part of a small network of brands and partners. Each with a clear role.
Noorder Partners
Sister brand for on-site Mittelstand transformation, Hamburg. When a mandate needs full transformation support with training, we go in together.
External partners
Easy.BI for AI-first engineering, more specialists for law, compliance, data protection. Vendor-agnostic — we choose with you.