Alex Key Independent AI engineer

I build AI agents for spatial data

I help spatial, geospatial, and 3D software vendors put agentic workflows on top of the products and data pipelines they already have - hands-on, from prototype to production.

01 - Selected work

A few things
I've built.

Ⅰ - panoriq

An agent for 3D point clouds

My own R&D: an agent that edits and queries point clouds in plain English - ninety seconds, no narration. The kind of agentic tooling I build for spatial-software teams.

Ⅱ - Research Accepted · ISPRS 2026

LLM-Supervised Point Cloud Processing

From unsupervised 3D scene-graph generation to interactive scene manipulation - pairing graph-based point-cloud segmentation with an LLM agent that reasons over a scene and edits it to spec. To be presented at the XXV ISPRS Congress 2026, Toronto.

Full paper available after the congress
Ⅲ - Course

Online course

The Spatial AI Operating System, built together with Dr. Florent Poux. Students build their own AI agent that works with spatial data - hands-on, from first principles to a working pipeline.

View the course
02 - About

Fifteen years
shipping software.

I'm an independent AI engineer based in Germany. I work hands-on - from rapid prototyping to production-oriented system design.

My focus is LLM agents and orchestration, retrieval pipelines, spatial and 3D data reasoning, and the evaluation and observability that keep them reliable. Before AI, I led software and product teams at BMW, Audi, and DriveNow, and ran my own engineering studio, Kawunu, delivering production systems for enterprise and industrial clients across mobility, manufacturing, healthcare, and logistics.

LangGraph LangChain LangSmith Python
03 - Work with me

Have a spatial-data product?
Let's add an agent to it.

I take on a small number of engineering and R&D engagements at a time. If you build software for spatial, geospatial, or 3D data, get in touch.