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Everyone is talking about AI.
Let's turn it into a clear decision.

The most expensive AI mistakes happen in the first 90 days. I've been shipping AI in production since 2019, three years before it became a job title.

2019Before ChatGPT
9,000+Production hours
1,000+Monthly active users
6Enterprise clients
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What clients say →
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You want a straight answer on whether AI makes sense for your business.

  • You keep hearing “you need AI” but no one has given you a concrete plan
  • You’ve tried ChatGPT and want to know what’s actually buildable for your use case
  • You want an honest answer from someone who builds this stuff for a living

You want guaranteed results or someone to build everything for you.

  • You want someone to promise AI will save your business overnight
  • You're looking for someone to validate a decision you've already made
  • You want generic AI inspiration you could get from a blog post

What happened after clients got a clear answer

3x
Accessibility experts preferred the chatbot I designed over standard AI answers, in blind benchmarks.
DevTools company · Tel Aviv
1,000+
Monthly active users on a publisher chatbot I built with RAG pipelines and evaluation systems that kept answer quality high.
Publishing startup · Holtzbrinck Group
14
AI tools evaluated head-to-head for a client choosing between build, buy, or wait. They picked two and skipped twelve.
IoT & analytics company
Ema Ilic presenting the Noa AI chatbot to publishers at Pan Macmillan headquarters in London
Ema Ilic on stage presenting on LLM capabilities at Pan Macmillan

Demoing Noa chatbot to publishers · Pan Macmillan HQ, London

What people say after working with me

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Here's what actually happens.

01

Book and pay

Click the button, pay €500, done. No long intake forms. No back-and-forth emails to lock in a time.

02

Send a short brief

After booking you'll receive a short intake. Five minutes. Describe your business, your goal, and what's on your mind. That's all I need.

03

60 minutes, then a written summary

We meet on Google Meet or WhatsApp. I come prepared. After the session you receive a short written summary: what’s worth building, what isn’t, and where to start.

Three ways to work together

Consulting · 4 sessions per month · Open to longer engagements by application
02

Deeper engagement

AI Opportunity Audit

€2,500 / project

A structured diagnostic of your business. Answers: what should you build, and why? You get prioritized opportunities and trade-offs in a written report your team can act on.

  • 2 structured calls: discovery + debrief
  • Written report with prioritized opportunities
  • Honest effort-to-value assessment: what's a quick win, what isn't worth building yet, and why
  • Delivered in 5-10 business days
  • Optional 30-minute follow-up after delivery
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1 engagement open per month

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Full engagement

AI Implementation Roadmap

€4,500 / project

For when you’ve decided to build and need to know how. A technical roadmap your dev team can execute: tools, timeline, team needs, and scoped specs.

  • Everything in the Audit, plus:
  • Full technical architecture document
  • Tool and vendor recommendations
  • Build-vs-buy analysis
  • Developer-ready specs: system architecture, component breakdown, API integration points, recommended libraries, and a suggested build sequence with effort estimates (not source code)
  • Follow-up call 2 weeks after delivery
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1 engagement open per month

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Hour

One hour. A clear answer. €500.

Pick a time and tell me what you’re working on. We’ll talk the same week.

Currently taking 4 sessions per month · I'll respond shortly after booking

20-minute guarantee: if it's not useful, I refund you in full.

I’m an engineer first, and I consult because I’m good at turning technical options into decisions teams can act on.

I’ve spent seven years shipping AI into production: RAG pipelines, LLM agents, chatbots, MLOps. My work was featured at Google I/O and published at SwissText, and the systems I’ve built serve thousands of people across six enterprise engagements. I consult because non-technical founders and operators need someone who can turn all of that into a clear next step.

I occasionally take on longer advisory engagements with funded startups. If that’s what you’re looking for, get in touch.

Google I/O 2023San Francisco
SwissText Conference 2022Lugano, Switzerland
MSc Data ScienceUniversity of Pisa
Merit ScholarshipUniversity of Pisa
1,000+ MAU AI productCHAPTR

Core expertise

RAG SystemsLLM AgentsMCPAI EvaluationPrompt Engineering

Infrastructure

GCPAWSDockerTerraformGitHub ActionsFastAPI

AI Stack

LangChainOpenAIAnthropic ClaudePineconeLangfuseHuggingFace

Languages & frameworks

PythonTypeScriptReactNode.js

Selected work

Full history on LinkedIn →

Industries

Publishing IoT Biopharma DevTools Solar Energy

Read my blog

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Send me a message

If you’re not ready to book yet, tell me what you’re building and what decision you’re trying to make.

Direct email
ema.ilic9@gmail.com
I typically reply within a few hours.

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