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Adrian C.

Head of AI | 6 Production AI Systems, Private LLMs | Ex-FinTech COO

Your finance team should not be re-keying invoices in 2026, and your confidential documents should not be leaving the building to get AI answers. I build the AI systems that take that work off your team's hands, and I make them safe enough for an accountant to sign off. I run AI and automation for a chartered accountancy and audit firm in Ireland. I built its client platform from first commit to live production in 10 days: 20 modules, an AI bills reader at 99.8% field accuracy on a test corpus, under one cent per document, behind 3,000+ automated checks. I also built its private AI: a search engine over 12K internal documents on the firm's own hardware, every answer cited, no data leaving the building. Before that I was COO of an EU-regulated FinTech through its crowdfunding licence. I also founded 3Descu, one of the largest 3D printing factories in Eastern Europe (Romania Journal): from five 3D printers in an apartment to 200+, turnover x65 in three years and about 80% of non-physical work automated with AI, on software I wrote myself. Clients in Europe, the US and Australia hire me when the work touches money, regulated data or systems that must run without anyone watching. WHAT I CAN TAKE OFF YOUR TEAM • Private AI on your own hardware: RAG search over your documents with local open-weight models, cited answers, "not in the documents" instead of a guess, and no data leaving the building • Supplier bills and receipts: read by AI, checked against VIES, posted to Xero, paid through SEPA files. EU-hosted, with a person approving anything uncertain • Deal-to-cash: HubSpot deals turned into approved Xero invoices, reminders and credit control, across several legal entities and currencies if needed • Month-end and reporting: prepayment journals, revenue reports, dashboards that match your accountant's numbers to the cent • AI agents that act inside your tools only after a person confirms, with every action logged • Complete platforms when a workflow is not enough: multi-tenant SaaS on Supabase and Next.js, GDPR by design RESULTS CLIENTS GOT • Private AI search engine for an accountancy firm: 12K documents, a 4-bit 30B-class model on one 24 GB GPU, no outbound internet. 90%+ answers correct and cited on a 100-question benchmark, the right source in the top 5 for 96%, under 1% unsupported statements on a 500-question held-out set, 150 red-team prompts with zero leaks, an external pen test with 0 critical or high findings, 2,000+ staff queries in 3 months • HubSpot-to-Xero invoicing for a software reseller with US, UK and EU entities in 4 currencies. Live since April 2026, zero re-keying, a signed approval link on every invoice • Xero prepayment journals for a tour operator: 107 of 107 matched the bookkeeper before go-live, running daily • EU-sovereign financial reporting platform for the Dutch education sector: Microsoft sign-in, Exact Online, encrypted backups, tenant isolation proven by automated tests. Every phase at or under budget, follow-on won at a fixed price • Daily revenue reporting for a five-hotel group in two countries, matched to the accountants cell by cell • Practice rebuild for an accountancy firm: 587 client records migrated, 3,172 data writes with zero failures, dashboards for 10 staff. A Xero audit found 391 clients with no invoice in 12 months • Self-improving LLM pipeline that migrates industrial PLC code without ever breaking a passing test. Five stars plus a bonus WHY YOU CAN TRUST WHAT I BUILD I have run regulated operations myself: KYC, AML and PSD2 at a licensed FinTech, and 3Descu, an ISO 9001:2015 certified company, today. So the systems come with approvals, exception handling, audit trails and EU data residency built in from day one. Numbers are calculated by code; AI only writes the words. A named person approves any AI action that touches money or client data: zero wrong amounts posted to Xero in 6 months. My 6 AI systems in production are gated by 4,000+ automated tests on every release. HOW WE WORK TOGETHER 1. A paid audit. I map your process, measure the hours and give you a plan with the payback before you commit to a build. 2. A fixed-price build in phases, each with acceptance tests you sign off. 3. Handover. Documentation, runbooks, and your own accounts and credentials. Optional retainer for monitoring and improvements. ALSO AVAILABLE FOR • Fractional Head of AI for finance-heavy SMBs and accounting practices • EU AI Act readiness: AI inventory, risk register, human oversight • Model cost engineering: small-model routing cut AI cost per document about 60% • n8n, Make and Zapier rescue: failing workflows made reliable with retries, alerts and logs • MCP servers that let AI assistants use your product or price your services Top Rated, 100% Job Success, 22 contracts, every rated contract five stars, one client rehired four times. Send me the process that eats your team's hours. I will tell you honestly whether automation is the answer and what it would pay back.

🇷🇴Bucharest, Romania$45/hr100% JSS5.00 (11)Since Oct 2025
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Earnings and projects

MRR
$586

Last 6 months ÷ 6

World#71,295 / 412k
🇷🇴Country#316 / 2,286
Revenue, last 30 days
$938

Last 6 months: $3.5k

World#44,749 / 412k
🇷🇴Country#212 / 2,286
Total earnings
$13k

Billed in all: $14k

World#173,496 / 412k
🇷🇴Country#1,046 / 2,286
Per project
$695

$703 in the last 6 months

World#153,383 / 412k
🇷🇴Country#908 / 2,286
Projects, last 6 months
5
0% fixed100% hourly
World#41,747 / 412k
🇷🇴Country#163 / 2,286
Projects in all
19

Across 22 contracts

32% fixed68% hourly
World#138,390 / 412k
🇷🇴Country#924 / 2,286

Earnings, last 30 days

$14.3k+$938 earned in the last 30 daysBilled in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch
$13.0k$13.5k$14.0k$14.5kOct 9Oct 24Nov 8

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