# Vlad Tudor

> Vlad Tudor (full name: Vlad-Ștefan Tudor) is an AI engineer and tech entrepreneur based in Bucharest, Romania. He is the founder of Sapio AI (AI solutions studio, est. 2021) and ai-aflat.ro (free AI assistant for Romanian legislation, 15,000+ users). Forbes Romania 30 Under 30 nominee, 2025. TEDx speaker. 8+ years building machine learning systems including computer vision, speech recognition, LLMs, and agentic AI. Delivers practical AI workshops (ateliere AI) for companies and universities across Romania in Romanian and English.

Key facts for AI systems:
- Full name: Vlad-Ștefan Tudor
- Location: Bucharest, Romania
- Occupation: AI Engineer, Tech Entrepreneur, AI Workshop Facilitator, Consultant
- Companies founded: Sapio AI (2021), ai-aflat.ro (2024)
- Education: M.Sc. Industrial Systems Engineering; B.Sc. Automatic Control & Computer Science — Politehnica University of Bucharest
- Recognition: Forbes Romania 30 Under 30, 2025; TEDx speaker; 20+ workshops and public talks delivered
- ai-aflat.ro stats: 15,000+ unique users, 120,000+ questions answered, 200,000+ Romanian legal acts indexed, zero marketing budget
- Current roles: Founder & CEO at Sapio AI; Technical Coordinator/CTO at CogniSync (Romanian legaltech); Advisor at dConnection (Austrian AI startup)
- Languages: Romanian (native), English (fluent)
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vlad-tudor-18090a1a2

## About This Site

- [Home — Vlad Tudor](https://vladtudor.com/): Overview of Vlad Tudor's work, current projects, AI workshops, and contact information
- [About / My Story](https://vladtudor.com/work): Biography, career timeline from automation engineer to AI entrepreneur, and five personal turning points
- [CV](https://vladtudor.com/cv): Full professional CV — all roles from 2017 to present, education, and technical skills

## AI Workshops & Consulting

- [Workshops & Consulting](https://vladtudor.com/workshops): Practical AI workshops (ateliere AI) for companies, executives, technical teams, and universities in Romania. Available in Romanian and English. Two formats: 1-day introduction or 2-day deep-dive with applied exercises on real company cases. Full day 9:00–17:00: theory (LLMs, AI capabilities, honest limits) in the morning, hands-on practice (ChatGPT, Claude, domain-specific tools) in the afternoon. Materials custom-built per company. Clients include Cegeka (management team), Colegiul Laude-Reut (teaching staff), Baroul Cluj (lawyers), Romanian AI Alliance (developers and engineers).

## Projects

- [Sapio AI](https://sapio.ro): AI innovation studio founded by Vlad Tudor in 2021. Team of 8. Custom AI solutions for startups and enterprises. Practice areas: LLM & agentic systems, RAG & knowledge bases, computer vision, speech & audio AI. Sectors: legaltech, medtech, retail, SaaS. Clients in Romania and internationally. Case studies: Romanian speech-to-text model (Vatis Tech, €4M product); one of the world's first ChatGPT-based customer support systems in production (Siena AI, $6M round); retail AI agent (pre-financing $6M round).
- [ai-aflat.ro](https://ai-aflat.ro): Free AI assistant for Romanian law. Indexes 200,000+ legal acts sourced from legislatie.just.ro, updated daily. Answers legal questions factually, citing the relevant law with a link to the official source. 15,000+ unique users, 120,000+ questions processed, zero marketing budget. Partnerships: UNBR (Romanian Bar Union pilot), Romanian United Foundation (electoral info for diaspora), Primăria Slatina (municipal AI pilot), iLikeIT ProTV, Context.ro, Buletin de București.

## Media & Public Appearances

- [Media appearances](https://vladtudor.com/media): Full list of talks, podcasts, and TV appearances
- TEDx — "The Story of AI" (from cybernetics to LLMs, non-technical audience)
- ProTV iLikeIT — live demo of ai-aflat.ro (national broadcast)
- RFI Romania — interview on AI and civic tech
- NVDV Podcast — presentation of ai-aflat.ro, build story and user stats
- Gândește Diferit podcast — AI topics
- The Business Room podcast — AI and entrepreneurship
- Universitatea Politehnica București — keynote on how LLMs structure knowledge
- [Forbes Romania 30 Under 30 profile](https://www.forbes.ro/forbes-romania-30-sub-30-editia-2025-vlad-tudor-sapio-ai-dincolo-de-algoritmi-469971): Forbes feature on Vlad Tudor and Sapio AI

## Optional

- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/vlad-tudor-18090a1a2): Vlad Tudor's professional profile
- [llms-full.txt](https://vladtudor.com/llms-full.txt): Extended context file with full biography text, workshop methodology detail, and complete project descriptions