About Vlad Tudor, AI expert in Bucharest, Romania
Vlad Tudor is an AI engineer and consultant based in Bucharest, Romania, with over 8 years of applied AI work. He founded Sapio AI in 2021, a studio that builds production AI systems for companies, and created ai-aflat.ro, Romania's free AI assistant for national legislation, used by 15,000+ people. He advises companies on where AI fits, runs hands-on AI workshops for their teams and speaks about AI in Romanian and English.
The short version.
- Name
- Vlad Tudor (Vlad-Ștefan Tudor)
- Based in
- Bucharest, Romania
- Role
- Founder & CEO, Sapio AI (since 2021)
- Built
- ai-aflat.ro (2024): 220,000+ Romanian legislative acts, updated daily; 15,000+ users
- Recognition
- Forbes Romania 30 Under 30 (2025); TEDx speaker, “The Story of AI”
- Education
- B.Sc. Automatic Control & Computer Science (2019) and M.Sc. Industrial Systems Engineering (2023), Politehnica University of Bucharest
- Teaching
- Four years as a teaching assistant at Politehnica University of Bucharest
- Community
- Co-founder of AI Leaders Romania (now Let's Talk AI); co-organiser of AI Collective Bucharest
- Languages
- Romanian, English
- Wikidata
- Q139864675
Four ways in.
AI consulting
For companies working out where AI fits: a free first conversation, a short audit of processes and data, and a roadmap of what to build, buy or leave alone.
AI workshops for teams
Full-day, hands-on sessions for management, legal, teaching and engineering teams, built on the team's own work. Romanian or English.
Talks, podcasts and press
Keynotes, panels and interviews on how AI works and what it changes in business, work, law and public institutions.
Builds, through Sapio AI
When the roadmap says build, Sapio AI, the studio he founded, builds it to production.
What Sapio AI builds:AI agentsAI process automationTech AuditAI engineers inside your team
What has been built and taught.
ai-aflat.ro, an AI assistant for Romanian law
Started as a side project in summer 2024. It searches 220,000+ legislative acts, updated daily, answers with the law cited and linked to the official source, and never gives a verdict. 15,000+ people have used it, with no marketing budget. A member of the UNBR Council started a pilot with the Romanian bar, and Primăria Slatina has a municipal prototype.
About ai-aflat.roProduction AI from before ChatGPT went mainstream
One of the first ChatGPT-based multilingual customer-support agents in production, built for a retail startup that went on to raise a $4.7M seed round. Before that, as an ML engineer, he trained what was then the best-performing Romanian speech-to-text model for a client.
Rooms that had to use it on Monday
An AI Fluency workshop at Cegeka, a session for about 100 lawyers at Baroul Cluj, and a talk for the teachers of Colegiul Laude-Reut on how students use AI.
AI workshopsFrom industrial automation to AI
He started as an automation engineer, programming PLCs and contributing to the control system for one of Romania's largest photovoltaic parks, then moved to machine learning and taught Automatic Control labs at Politehnica for four years.
The full story
What others have published.
Pages by other people and outlets that describe Vlad Tudor or his work. Each one opens on the original site.
- Press · RO2025Open
Forbes România
Forbes România 30 sub 30, the 2025 edition: “Vlad Tudor, Sapio AI: dincolo de algoritmi”.
- TV · RO2024Open
Știrile ProTV · iLikeIT
A live demo of ai-aflat.ro on national television: “Aplicația care îți oferă pe loc sfaturi juridice gratuite… Cum funcționează”.
- Radio · RO2026Open
RFI România
Interview on ai-aflat.ro and applied AI in the public interest.
- Podcast · ROOpen
Noi Venim Din Viitor
Episode “Vlad Tudor, fondator aiaflat.ro”: the idea, the build, and what 15,000 users asked a legal AI assistant.
- Podcast · ROOpen
Gândește Diferit
A long conversation with Radu Constantin on what AI can and can't do, chatbots that agree with you, jobs, and how ai-aflat.ro works.
- Podcast · ENOpen
REWIRED
With Marius Ciurariu and Emil Muthu, on why AI tools rarely pay off until the work is rewired around them.
- Radio · ROOpen
Radio Guerrilla · Sinele învinge
Live with Mihai Dobrovolschi: “Who's afraid of A.I.?”, introduced as founder of Sapio AI and of ai-aflat.ro.
- PanelOpen
AI Collective Bucharest
“AI and the Future of Work in the EU”, one of four panellists.
- PanelOpen
AD/01 × Bridging Gaps
“Human Wisdom vs. Synthesized Code: Engineering Leadership in an AI-First World”.
- CommunityOpen
AI Collective Bucharest
The chapter page lists him as Bucharest Chapter Co-Organizer & AI Engineering Lead.
- CommunityOpen
Let's Talk AI
The monthly Bucharest meetup, formerly AI Leaders Romania, which he has hosted since its first edition.
Questions people ask about Vlad Tudor.
Who is Vlad Tudor?
Vlad Tudor is a Romanian AI engineer and consultant based in Bucharest. He founded Sapio AI in 2021 and created ai-aflat.ro, Romania's free AI assistant for national legislation, used by 15,000+ people. He was named to the Forbes Romania 30 Under 30 list (2025) and is a TEDx speaker.
What does Vlad Tudor do?
He helps companies work out where AI fits in how they work, runs full-day AI workshops for their teams, and speaks at conferences, on podcasts and in the press. When a company decides to build, Sapio AI, the studio he founded, builds the system to production.
Does Vlad Tudor work as an AI consultant in Romania?
Yes. Engagements start with a free conversation, then a short audit of processes and data and a roadmap of what to build, buy or leave alone. In Romanian or English, remote or on-site in Bucharest. Details and the form are at vladtudor.com/consulting (in Romanian: vladtudor.com/consultant-ai).
What is Sapio AI?
Sapio AI is the AI studio Vlad Tudor founded in Bucharest in 2021. It builds AI agents, AI automation and custom AI software for companies, and puts AI engineers inside client teams. Its site is sapio.ro.
What is ai-aflat.ro?
A free AI assistant for Romanian law, built by Vlad Tudor in 2024. It covers 220,000+ legislative acts, updated daily, and answers questions in plain language with the relevant law cited and linked to the official source. It has been used by 15,000+ people.
How can I contact Vlad Tudor?
Through the form at vladtudor.com/consulting for consulting or workshops, or at vladtudor.com/speaker for talks, podcasts and press. He replies within 24 hours on working days. He is also on LinkedIn.
There is more than one Vlad Tudor online. Which one is this?
This is Vlad Tudor the Romanian AI engineer, founder of Sapio AI and creator of ai-aflat.ro, based in Bucharest. His Wikidata entry is Q139864675.
Working out where AI fits, or planning an event?
The first conversation is free. A few short questions, and the reply comes from me within 24 hours on working days.