Available for contract work · Switzerland & remote

I bring order to your data β€” and make it ready for AI.

Data and knowledge graph architect. I turn messy enterprise data β€” multi-source, poorly structured or legacy β€” into reliable, usable models, ready for analytics and artificial intelligence.

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Approach

I don't sell magic AI.

27 years building data-driven business platforms. I master the whole chain: understanding the business, modeling the data, designing the architecture and coding the system. I make data clean, structured and intelligible enough for analytics and AI to finally become useful.

My signature: a single object / attribute / relation meta-model, built and refined for 25 years β€” knowledge graphs before the term existed.

In plain terms: a classic database tells you what you own; a knowledge graph knows how everything is connected β€” and answers questions a table cannot handle, like “if this supplier fails, which products are affected?”.

I work with SMEs, manufacturers, product groups and organizations whose business data is rich, historical and scattered β€” across Excel, ERPs, internal databases, documents and line-of-business tools.

Services

Three ways to make your data talk.

From a quick diagnostic to advanced exploitation β€” most start with a short, scoped engagement. Do you recognize one of these situations?

1

Understand your data

First, know what your data really says β€” and where it betrays you.Deliverable: a map of your data, its inconsistencies and quick wins.

Audit & AI-readiness

What your data truly allows, and what holds it back.

Make your management figures trustworthy

Detect late, batched or after-the-fact entries that skew your dashboards.

2

Put things in order

Clean, connect, migrate: turn a scattered data estate into a reliable repository.Deliverable: a consolidated, reliable, ready-to-use repository.

Untangle what your categories lump together

Tell apart the different realities hidden under a single label.

Succeed in your migration to a new ERP

Own the gap between the old system and SAP, and catch unworkable rules before go-live.

Prepare your data for AI

Structure scattered documents and histories into a reliable corpus an AI assistant can use.

3

Make your data talk

Once the data is solid, turn it into decisions: trends, signals, predictions, memory.Deliverable: indicators, signals and first usable ML/AI models.

Compare your sites on a level playing field

Neutralize structural effects to see the real drifts, invisible in averages.

Anticipate your risk peaks

Separate the seasonal cycle from the real anomaly, and focus prevention at the right time.

Spot the talent about to leave

Cross reviews, actual tasks and career paths to see a departure brewing.

Put a number on the hidden cost

Cross operations with finance to price what nags you.

Give your decisions a memory

Trace decisions and effects: “in a similar case, here is what was decided, and the result”.

The outcome always depends on your data and your context. What I guarantee is not a number promised in advance β€” it is a rigorous method to look for it, and the honesty to tell you when a lead goes nowhere.

Where we start

Most engagements begin with a short diagnostic: a review of your sources, inconsistencies, hidden rules, migration risks and AI potential.

Deliverable: a map of your data, priorities, quick wins and an architecture recommendation.

My method

Concretely, how I go about it.

No prefab solution, no technical jargon. A simple approach you can follow end to end.

01

I listen, and I look at your real data

I start from your business problem and your data as it is β€” not from a theoretical model imposed from outside.

02

I look for the hidden rules

I fit your data into as few rules as possible. Each exception that resists reveals a business rule or a forgotten piece of history β€” and the real model emerges.

03

I test, and I document everything

What works and what doesn't. You always know where we stand, and why.

04

I deliver inside your systems, not in slides

The result lives in your tools and keeps serving long after I am gone.

Track Record

Systems that have stood the test of time.

Three proofs, three qualities: maturity, robustness, pedigree.

Luxury · PIM

Product repository for a major watchmaking group

  • 800-attribute model
  • 10+ brands across the group
  • Commercial and legal validation
  • 10+ years in production
Watchmaking · Industry

Component management platform

  • 15+ clients deployed
  • Up to 100,000 components per catalog
  • Still running ~20 years later
  • Integrated a 50–100Γ— larger volume without a rewrite
International sport

Secure extranets at the dawn of the Internet

  • ~200 national committees
  • ~1,000 users
  • Fine-grained access control
  • ~10 years in service, replicated three times
Today

Qibud β€” the living proof of my approach.

Qibud is the strategy-execution steering platform I design and keep evolving. A temporal knowledge graph that embeds machine learning and AI — the same object / attribute / relation model I have refined for 25 years, taken to its full expression. It is where I keep my craft at the frontier, and it is that rigor I bring to your data.

Temporal knowledge graph ML & AI built in Deployed in production

Used by demanding organizations, from luxury jewelry to construction.

My client mandates stay the priority, delivered with a clear commitment to availability and deliverables. Qibud is my lab, not a scheduling conflict.

Qibud is not a prerequisite: I work directly within your existing systems, tools and data.

Experience

A single idea, matured over 25 years.

2018 β€” present

Qibud β€” Architect & developer

Strategy-execution platform built on a universal object / attribute / relation model. Temporal knowledge graph, embeddings, ML/AI indicators as time series.

late 2024 β€” present

Grisoni β€” Data contract (via Agilbility)

Processing and structuring of high-volume business data; ERP-to-SAP migration.

2019 β€” 2025

EPFL β€” IProduct

Platform linking patents and products, born from EPFL research. Large-scale crawling, parsing and machine learning, funded notably by the Sloan Foundation.

2015 β€” 2018

Abraxas β€” Senior developer, technical lead

Back office for the cantonal vehicle registration services. An extranet designed back then is still running today.

2003 β€” 2015

Utopix β€” Lead architect & team manager

Designer of Centrix (PIM) for luxury and industry: Swatch Group, LVMH, Richemont, Tornos. Graph architecture, automated imports of complex data. Team of ~12 engineers.

2001 β€” 2003

DXD2 β€” Co-founder & CTO

“Orange Mate”: automated generation of a 300-page weekly report, replacing an insecure Excel file.

1999 β€” 2001

Swissquote / Marvel Communications

12th employee. Extranet framework for the International Olympic Committee; the mINTEGRATE product showcased at the Orbit trade fair in Basel.

About

It all started by sorting data without knowing it.

At eleven, on an Amstrad, I was programming hockey league simulations: I weighted the teams, ran standings and cup brackets. I was already handling data without knowing its name. Thirty-five years later, I do the same thing at the scale of major industrial groups.

For a long time, I thought I had held several jobs. In reality, I refined a single idea: a model where everything is object, attribute and relation, able to absorb business complexity without locking the company into a rigid architecture.

What I love: receiving “messy” data, 80% correct, and fitting the rest into as few rules as possible. Each rule reveals a business exception or a forgotten piece of history. When everything clicks into place, I know the model is right β€” and that the data can finally speak.

Contact

Is your data fighting back? Let’s talk.

Available for contract work in Switzerland and remotely.

Email
samuel@agilbility.com
LinkedIn
/in/sarnodprin
Phone
on request
Based in
1800 Vevey, Switzerland
Tell me about your data problem β†’

Data & knowledge graph architect · 27 years of experience · available for contract work · billing via Agilbility SΓ rl.