Gregorio von Hildebrand
Fractional Chief AI Officer · founder of Sovran
Operator-founder. I ship agentic AI into real businesses and build the oversight that keeps it safe.
Bring me the part of your business that eats your week. We find where AI earns its place, and I build it with your team, on your own machines, so it keeps running after I leave. Twenty years in operations, a designer's eye, six languages, and every engagement delivered by me.
Two decades building operations. Now, with AI.
I trained as a designer in Switzerland, with further formation in Italy in graphics, film and advertising. Since then I have spent two decades across hospitality, luxury brands, regenerative development, entrepreneurship and technology, as a founder, a director and a team member, in Europe, Southeast Asia and Latin America.
I invested in AI in 2021 and could not see what the developers were really doing. So in 2023 I learned the tools myself. Today I build software, automations and AI systems, for my own projects and with the people I work with. Sovran was born from that.
I am not a tutor reciting documentation. I do this every day, and when we work together you get the shortcuts, the judgement and the structure that took me years to find.
Every engagement is led by me. No handoffs, no layers. You work with the person who built the platform and understands the operating reality behind it.
Most of what I build is public. Every morning at six an assistant writes down the previous day's work across my projects, named in the terms of its field. Read it before you decide anything.
Three ways to start
One session, a seat inside your company, or your whole team. You pick the rung.
What people who’ve taken a session say
“Gregorio has shone the light that I needed to find my footing on the path to agentic workflows. I had been looking on for a while since Claude Code was released but didn’t know where to dive in, or who to listen to. Gregorio helped me to find answers by illuminating the right questions. He showed me how ICM (Interpretable Context Methodology) was working practically for his own work, while maintaining custody of his own data, future-proofing his workflow against disruptive tech updates. Now I’m well on my AI power user’s journey thanks to him.”
“My session with Gregorio, simply put, marked the beginning of the rest of my career. As an entrepreneur I’ve never felt more empowered by the tools at hand. After 3 sessions I took off running — in a week I’ve put out multiple fully fledged, ready-for-market applications. Thanks to Gregorio’s folder structure I own all of the output and store it locally on my own hard drive. Gregorio is worth his weight in tokens 🙌”
“Learning how to use AI with Gregorio changed my life at 82. I can confidently talk about AI, use it, and rely on it for my work.”
“I want to say thank you to Gregorio, and recommend him to anyone thinking about exploring this. Coding and AI can sometimes feel like a cold subject. Technical, a little impersonal, something happening at a distance from you. My sessions with Gregorio weren't like that at all. He's endlessly curious, and it's contagious. He'll try things simply to see what happens. But what really made the difference for me was that he was genuinely interested in my project, not in demonstrating what the software can do. He wanted to understand what I was trying to achieve, and then we worked out together how AI could help me get there. That's the part I didn't expect. He doesn't just teach you how to use Claude through the Sovran approach. He helps you look at your own thinking differently, and then shows you how you might stretch it further. He's generous with his time, practical, and very easy to talk to. I came away with new tools and a better understanding of how to use them, but also with a much longer list of things I now want to try. If you're curious about AI and want a way into it that actually feels human, go and talk to Gregorio. Bring a coffee and bring an idea. You'll be surprised by what comes out of it.”
“I did a deep-dive session with Gregorio and he helped me to peak into a new world of possibilities with Claude AI. His warm patience is truly valuable for anyone, no matter what your experience with AI is. For those of us working in the world of a regenerative future for our planet, Gregorio can provide you with key insights into how to put this new technology at the service of noble causes.”
“Gregorio offered an impressive ion-line ntroduction to CLAUDE that was concise and appropriate to my start-up level. He was able to build my confidence to further explore this impressive newer AI technology! Just thrilled to have Gregorio's inspiration, and happy that I can seek his help in my next level of learning in another on-line course with him. Very well prepared instructor!!!”
“Hello, World ! During a call with Gregorio, he told me about Claude Code. At first, I wasn't convinced I needed to learn yet another platform, as my ChatGPT already fulfilled my needs. But I said, "Why not? Let's give it a try." So, I subscribed to a four-session, one-on-one pairing pack. After only two sessions, I started to discover its potential and quickly realized it was a game changer. At the end of the four sessions, I had all I needed to be fully independent with Code. It has now been a week, and it is absolutely a game changer. The potential for productivity is mind-blowing; it goes way beyond a chat box. I am now accomplishing work that would have taken me weeks in 2–3 hours. There is no way back. It's like moving from a fax machine to discovering email. We are all hearing about the revolution of AI, and Gregorio proved it to me. He is very knowledgeable and a superb teacher who understood my needs perfectly instead of just teaching a generic onboarding. His concept of data sovereignty and being AI-platform agnostic really prepared me for the future of computing while remaining human……and this message is typed by me, with no AI involved. I am Matthieu Rytz, an award-winning filmmaker who is working to make our living planet a better place, not by rejecting technology but by embracing it to empower positive change.”
“Gregorio is very informative and working with him has simplified my understanding of Claude. I began from a standpoint of having very little knowledge within most realms of AI but with his help I am building a solid foundation and seeing AI from a different perspective.”
“I came to Gregorio as a producer, not a developer. Within a week of his Claude Code pairing sessions, I'd built and launched websites, automated a big chunk of my business admin, and set up agents that now save me so much time! If you want to go from curious about AI to shipping real work, book him.”