Alex Key Independent AI contractor

Spatial software
is changing.

Users are moving from operating every tool, algorithm, and parameter to describing the outcome they want. I help vendors turn that shift into embedded AI agents inside their existing products.

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What I can do for you
This is not a SaaS product

I build AI agents into your existing spatial software.

Contract or fractional engineering support for product teams that already have users, workflows, and domain tools.

Agents that are deeply integrated into your existing software, or use your tools to automate workflows.

Prototypes, production-oriented architecture, evaluation, and handoff to your internal engineering team.

You keep the product. I help you make it agent-native.

01 - Selected work

The future
of spatial software

Ⅰ - tool use

An agent that drives CloudCompare

Agents are most powerful when they can reach for the tools experts already use. Here an AI agent I built drives CloudCompare to run a volume calculation for slope monitoring.

Ⅱ - panoriq

An agent for 3D point clouds

My own R&D: an agent that edits and queries point clouds in plain English - ninety seconds, no narration. The kind of agentic tooling I build for spatial-software teams.

Ⅲ - facade analysis

An agent for building facade analysis

The same agentic approach applied to imagery: the agent scans a building facade, identifies structural elements, and counts windows and objects - no manual annotation.

Ⅳ - Research Accepted · ISPRS 2026

LLM-Supervised Point Cloud Processing

From unsupervised 3D scene-graph generation to interactive scene manipulation - pairing graph-based point-cloud segmentation with an LLM agent that reasons over a scene and edits it to spec. To be presented at the XXV ISPRS Congress 2026, Toronto.

Full paper available after the congress - get in touch for a copy
Ⅴ - Course

Online course

The Spatial AI Operating System, built together with Dr. Florent Poux. Students build their own AI agent that works with spatial data - hands-on, from first principles to a working pipeline.

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02 - About

Fifteen years
shipping software.

I'm an independent AI engineer based in Germany. I work hands-on - from rapid prototyping to production-oriented system design.

My focus is LLM agents and orchestration, retrieval pipelines, spatial and 3D data reasoning, and the evaluation and observability that keep them reliable. Before AI, I led software and product teams at BMW, Audi, and DriveNow, and ran my own engineering studio, Kawunu, delivering production systems for enterprise and industrial clients across mobility, manufacturing, healthcare, and logistics.

For the longer version, see my background on LinkedIn.

LangGraph LangChain LangSmith Python
03 - Work with me

Are you building spatial data software?
Let's make it Agentic

I take on a small number of engineering and R&D engagements at a time. If you build software for spatial, geospatial, or 3D data, get in touch.

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