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Bernhard Götzendorfer

Bernhard Götzendorfer · Vienna

I build prototypes with AI agents.

Daily, since late 2024, over 250 by now. At AI Factory Austria I turn that into ventures.

Portrait of Bernhard Götzendorfer
Portrait: AI-generated

Who's building this

I got into IT in 2015, through an apprenticeship. Then iOS apps for brands every Austrian knows. Then almost four years running my own company, then corporate IT: projects, public tenders, handovers. On the side I taught myself AI and the dev skills that come with it, evening after evening, prototype after prototype. At some point the job no longer matched what I was building after hours. Early 2026 we parted on good terms. Today I build agent systems that keep running without me.

Bernhard Götzendorfer in a dark shirt over a black tee, seated at the Vienna Software Architecture Meetup panel, smiling towards the audience.
Panel at the Vienna Software Architecture Meetup, June 2026

The tool

Everything here was built with session-orchestrator, my open-source plugin for Claude Code. It gives coding agents a process: understand, plan, build in waves, close out on evidence.

/plugin install session-orchestrator@kanevry

Built with it

I also build

  • FeedFoundry, internal: an Instagram content tool for my own brands. Text is rendered deterministically rather than generated; only the optional AI backgrounds pass a vision gate that rejects on doubt.

  • hermes-agent, a fork of the Nous Research agent: was my messaging hub, no longer developed.

  • ai-gateway, an internal LLM proxy: all agents run through one point, so costs and model choice live in one place.

  • sven, the third generation of my own agent infrastructure (first BIGG, then clank, now sven): works through mail, calendar, and notes every day, every action with an approval step.

  • A standalone community agent built on the same learnings: runs around the clock on its own server, answers semi-autonomously.

  • A B2B lead pipeline that merges 19 data sources across 3 servers every day.

  • A screening that finds SME succession candidates via managing-director age and digitization level.

  • A security layer for agent tool calls: prompt-injection detection with over 180 patterns, built in one hackathon weekend.

  • AI enablement in practice: weekly build sessions where people build with agents on their own projects. Not watching, doing.

How I work

Every session follows the same pattern: understand first, then plan, then the agents work through it in waves. A full build session runs a median of twelve agents; the peak was 117. I write the briefs, review the diffs, and approve when the result holds up in reality. Of the past 60 days, 58 looked exactly like that. Not an experiment anymore, everyday work. And I get teams working this way themselves: weekly build sessions, hands-on with their own projects.

“Today three agents ran in parallel. One builds, one tests, one documents, and I check in every two hours to see if the direction still holds. That's all it takes.”

This repository: 164 sessions, Apr 17 – Aug 14, 2026 · 1,263 agents in 414 waves · 97.1% complete · 13 runs without outcome tracking
Roles in detail
RoleWavesAgents
Discovery57151
Impl-Core62174
Impl-Polish59151
Quality56175
Finalization5530
Ad-hoc roles2629

Right now

  • Venture studio at AI Factory Austria: turning signals into ventures.
  • AI working group: weekly build sessions where 15+ people build with agents on their own projects.
  • WalkAITalkie is on the App Store, AgenticCutter edits the videos about it on the side.

Where I have been

Four dates from the past six months.

View from the back over some twenty heads in the audience onto a large screen showing the session-orchestrator README, chapter “Lifecycle at a glance”. At the lectern on the left, next to the web3 hub vienna sign, Bernhard Götzendorfer stands with a microphone, small and backlit.
session-orchestrator shown live, the lifecycle up on screen. web3 hub vienna, June 2026 Read the recapLive demo with a co-host. The full lifecycle, from planning through review, straight from the open README.
Four men side by side in front of an AI Impact Mission roll-up. Bernhard Götzendorfer, second from left in a blue polo shirt, holds the BitGN PAC Hackathon certificate.
Award ceremony at the Vienna hub, I am second from left holding the certificate. BitGN PAC Hackathon, April 2026 Read the write-upBuilt solo in three hours on site. A self-contained agent with five security layers, the last one a human sign-off.
Five people on a stage at the Technical Museum Vienna, all wearing wireless headphones. Bernhard Götzendorfer, second from left in a dark polo, shakes the host’s hand. His name is on the screen behind them.
Five role models on stage, I am second from left. Future Fit Festival at the Technisches Museum, June 2026 Read the recapRole model at the Code your Career fair, one of nineteen. On AI at work and on changing careers.
Six panellists on bar stools in front of an Accenture photo wall. Bernhard Götzendorfer is second from left, dark shirt and beard.
Panel in English, I am second from left. Vienna Software Architecture Meetup, June 2026 Event pagePanel alongside Accenture, SQUER, fab4minds. The only one there without a company behind me.

If you're working on AI ventures, agent systems, or prototypes: get in touch.

What I'm not the right fit for: slides without a build, maintaining someone else's systems.