AI & Software Consulting

I build AI systems that survive contact with reality.

Your team spends hours on manual data entry, document searches, and quality checks that AI can handle in seconds. I turn those bottlenecks into automated workflows — built on 18 years bridging industrial operations and software.

Get in Touch → See What I Solve

"We waste hours searching for information across scattered documents."

→ AI-powered search that gives sourced answers in seconds

"Our team manually re-types data from paperwork into systems all day."

→ Automated extraction that turns any document into structured data

"Quality inspection depends on who's on shift — results are inconsistent."

→ Computer vision that delivers the same assessment every time

"We know AI could help, but we don't know where to start."

→ A prioritized roadmap showing exactly where AI delivers ROI

"We tried ChatGPT but need something integrated into our actual workflow."

→ Custom AI that plugs into your existing tools and systems

"Knowledge walks out the door every time someone leaves the company."

→ Institutional memory that never quits — AI over your internal docs

How I Solve It

Production-tested. Not hand-waving.

Every approach below is something I've built and deployed in production — across my own products and client work.

RAG

Ask Your Documents Anything

Your team types a question, gets a sourced answer in seconds — from thousands of documents, SOPs, or compliance files. No more digging through folders or asking "who knows where this is?"

AGENTS

Automate Multi-Step Workflows

AI agents that handle entire processes — classify incoming documents, extract the right data, route to the right person, verify results. What used to take a team hours happens automatically.

GRAPH

See Connections You're Missing

Discover hidden relationships across your documents and data — which regulations affect which projects, how suppliers connect to certifications, what risks link to what contracts — on Neo4j knowledge graphs.

VISION

Consistent Quality, Every Inspection

Upload a photo, get an assessment in seconds. AI-powered visual inspection that doesn't depend on who's on shift, how tired they are, or how they're feeling about edge cases today.

EXTRACT

End Manual Data Entry

Certifications, invoices, compliance docs, forms — AI reads them and puts clean, structured data straight into your systems. Your team stops retyping and starts doing actual work.

LLM

AI That Fits Your Systems

Not an off-the-shelf chatbot — custom AI integrated into your existing tools and workflows. Works with OpenAI, Claude, local models, or Polish-language models like Bielik. Your data stays where you need it.

Services

From first question to working system.

Structured engagements designed to deliver results — not reports that gather dust.

AI Readiness Audit

Not sure where AI fits? You get a clear, prioritized roadmap — which processes to automate first, expected ROI, effort estimates, and a concrete implementation sequence. Decisions, not guesswork.

Proof-of-Concept Build

See AI working on your actual data within 2-3 weeks. Not a slideshow — a working prototype that proves the value before you commit to full implementation.

Full Implementation

End-to-end build and deployment — integrated into your existing tools and workflows. Your team keeps using what they know, but with AI doing the heavy lifting underneath.

Monthly AI Advisory

Don't need a full-time AI hire? I stay on call for tool evaluations, architecture reviews, team training, and spotting the next automation opportunity. Your fractional AI partner.

Built & Shipping

I don't just advise. I build and ship.

Real products solving real problems — across industries. Every project below is live and serving users.

Flexwelder

Co-Owner — Industrial AI

Welding inspectors used to fill paper forms and debate pass/fail calls. Now they upload a photo and get a consistent quality assessment in seconds. AI also extracts data from complex certification documents — eliminating hours of manual retyping.

flexwelder.com ↗

Code Horde

Creator — Open Source

Complex development tasks need more than a single AI prompt. Code Horde orchestrates 13+ specialized AI agents that collaborate on multi-step workflows — with security boundaries, intelligent model selection, and full human oversight.

github.com/szymon-konieczny/code-horde ↗

TakŻyli & PetMemory

Co-Founder — Consumer SaaS

Two full-stack products built from concept to launch — digital memorial platforms helping families preserve and share memories. Proves end-to-end delivery: market research, design, development, and go-to-market.

takzyli.pl ↗

Case Studies

Client work, shipped end-to-end.

Beyond my own products, I deliver custom builds for clients — and hands-on demos of what I can ship for you.

E-commerce · Headless commerce

Lunula Botanique

A custom headless store for a natural-cosmetics brand, built from scratch — tailored to its sales model and the Polish market, on a reusable white-label foundation.

AI-powered product-selection assistant (Claude)
Bidirectional ingredient lexicon ↔ products
B2C + B2B pricing, Paynow (BLIK) & InPost lockers
Instagram comment → DM automation

Next.js 15 Medusa.js v2 TypeScript Claude API PostgreSQL

View case study →

Demo Build · Customer Support · RAG

AI Support Bot

A chatbot trained only on a store's own content — answering 24/7, citing its sources, and handing off to a human when it isn't sure.

Deflects ~40% of routine tickets
Every answer linked to its source — no hallucinated policies
Web widget or WhatsApp / Messenger

RAG Claude Vector search FastAPI

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Demo Build · Workflow Automation

AI Cart-Recovery Automation

Turns each abandoned checkout into a personal, AI-written recovery email naming the exact items — then sends it and alerts the team, with guardrails.

A unique email per cart — not a generic blast
Never invents discounts or emails buyers who already purchased
Shopify-native, wired in ~2 weeks

n8n / Make Claude Shopify Slack

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Demo Build · Knowledge Assistant · RAG

AI Knowledge Assistant

Ask your knowledge base anything — a Google Workspace Shared Drive and Obsidian notes — straight from Telegram, by text or voice. Answers grounded in your own documents.

RAG over two sources at once — Drive (Docs/PDFs/Sheets) + Obsidian notes
Hybrid search with cited, grounded answers — every claim traces to a source
Knowledge graph maps the relations between notes & documents
Text or voice — voice messages transcribed, then answered
Reachable from Telegram (or Slack / WhatsApp), no new app

RAG Claude Hybrid search Knowledge graph Google Workspace Obsidian Telegram

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Background

From factory floors to AI systems.

Szymon Konieczny — founder of Progrise, AI & software consultant — Szymon Konieczny Founder · AI & Software Consultant

I spent 8 years working with measurement equipment, electrical systems, and production lines before writing my first line of professional code. Flow meters, gas detectors, radar probes, switchgear cabinets — I know how physical businesses operate.

That background taught me something most AI consultants never learn: where the real friction is, how production workers actually use tools, and why most "smart" solutions fail when they hit the shop floor.

Today I combine that industrial understanding with 7+ years of software engineering and hands-on AI implementation. I build systems that work in reality — not just in demos.

FAQ

Questions, answered.

What does Progrise do?

Progrise is an AI & software consulting practice that builds practical AI systems for businesses — document search (RAG), document data extraction, computer-vision quality inspection, knowledge graphs, and multi-agent workflow automation. It's run by Szymon Konieczny and based in Katowice, Poland, serving clients worldwide.

What is an AI Readiness Audit?

A structured assessment of your operations that pinpoints the highest-ROI opportunities for AI and delivers a prioritized roadmap — so you know exactly where to start before committing to a build.

Which AI models and technologies does Progrise work with?

OpenAI, Claude (Anthropic), local open-source models, and Polish-language models like Bielik, with multi-model routing. The stack covers Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Neo4j knowledge graphs, computer vision, and document data extraction — integrated into your existing tools rather than an off-the-shelf chatbot.

Who is behind Progrise?

Szymon Konieczny — 18+ years of professional experience, including 8 years with industrial measurement equipment, electrical systems and production lines, and 7+ years in software engineering. That industrial background means AI systems built to work on the shop floor, not just in demos.

How do you start working with Progrise?

Reach out by email at simon@progrise.dev. Engagements range from a single proof-of-concept to full implementation and ongoing monthly advisory, and usually begin with an honest conversation or an AI Readiness Audit to map the highest-value opportunities.

Let's Talk

Ready to see where AI fits in your business?

No pitch — just an honest conversation about what's possible. Tell me what you're working on.

or reach me directly

simon@progrise.dev +48 731 905 527 LinkedIn