Benedikt Koehler
Co-Founder at HybridAI
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolBenedikt Koehler is a veteran founder and AI-driven market research pioneer with 14 years of experience building products that turn weeks-long studies into actionable insights in hours. He has founded and led multiple companies—currently DataLion, Factor168, and HybridAI—where he architects ML pipelines, synthetic respondent systems, and LLM-powered automation to generate statistically validated responses across diverse demographics. Trained as a social scientist with a PhD and a background in information visualization and probability theory, he uniquely combines rigorous research methods with hands-on ML engineering. His career spans early social media analytics and sentiment algorithms to cutting-edge context engineering for autonomous research, reflecting a consistent focus on making complex data usable for business decisions. Based in Munich, he also brings media and community-building experience from co-founding a successful tech web TV show and industry groups, which informs his product and go-to-market instincts.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Sociology Ethnology Psychology, PhD Sociology Ethnology Psychology at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenInternationale Deutsche Schule Brüssel (iDSB)
German, English, French, Dutch, Spanish
Github Skills (49)
python9
statistics9
ai9
gdpr9
data-analysis8
anthropic8
machine-learning8
llm8
codex8
openai8
twitter-bootstrap8
jquery-plugin8
data-science8
chatgpt8
scikit-learn7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
HybridAIOne/hybridclaw
Feb 2026 - Jul 2026
Enterprise-ready self-hosted AI assistant runtime with sandboxed execution, secure credentials, approvals, and memory
Contributions:13 releases, 8 reviews, 95 PRs in 4 months
aienterprise-aigdprlocal-llmproactive-agent
furukama/blog
May 2025 - Sep 2025
Blog
Contributions:3 PRs, 95 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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