Florian Follonier
I turn AI strategy into secure, operable systems, and I build my own products and open-source experiments to find out what actually holds up.
Senior Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft
Zurich area, Switzerland
I work on applied AI: agents, evaluation, and the engineering that takes a prototype into production. At Microsoft, I help teams turn AI ideas into systems they can use and operate.
Outside customer work, I build products and open-source experiments, from source-linked AI research and market tools to Swiss German speech benchmarks and robotics simulation. I also write about what I learn. More about me.
Recent writing
All writing →Selected projects
All projects →
AIUseCaseHub
LiveA public catalog of more than 4,000 real enterprise AI deployments, each traced to a public source, with insights and trend analysis on top.
Swiss German Voice Benchmark
Open sourceA local-first workbench for measuring how well voice models understand Swiss German dialects, with WER, CER, chrF, and streaming latency.
Milo: Embodied Robot Lab
In progressAn in-progress robotics research simulator for embodied agents, with a React operator cockpit, agent-guided navigation, sensor telemetry, and reproducible test scenarios.
AI Web Scraping Pipeline
Open sourceAn open-source agentic pipeline for discovering, extracting, deduplicating, and reviewing structured evidence from public websites. It powers AIUseCaseHub.
RFP Agent on Microsoft Foundry
Open sourceA Microsoft Agent Framework and Foundry demo that turns a customer opportunity into a cited, enterprise-ready solution proposal, visualized as a pixel-art agent office.
Currently exploring
Benchmarking voice models on Swiss German dialects. Across 200 SwissDial clips, Realtime 2.1 led Realtime 2 on both High German translation and verbatim dialect transcription.
Building Milo, a robotics simulator for embodied agents, where a local model makes navigation decisions and a larger model supervises tasks within explicit token and request budgets.
Opening AIUseCaseHub to agents with a hosted MCP server, and growing the record past 4,000 source-linked enterprise AI deployments.
Shipping public market-research tools: Rankoon for ML-ranked crypto signals with published hit rates, and PerpXray for read-only Hyperliquid trading analytics.
Selected research
All publications →My research at the University of Bremen explored service innovation, modularity, and collaboration in automotive engineering.
Patterns of Service Innovation: An Empirical Study of Automotive Engineering Services in Germany
University of Bremen · Doctoral dissertation
Service Innovation: Sensing with Information Systems
Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) · Conference paper
Schools of Thought in Service Modularity
European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) · Conference paper
Speaking & getting in touch
I give talks and workshops on AI agents, evaluation, and cloud architecture. For a session, a collaboration, or a project conversation, email me at hello@florianfollonier.com.