SENIOR WEB DEVELOPER · AI · WEB SECURITY
Electric light did not come from the continuous improvement of candles.
I’m Michael Gelbhaar. I build web solutions and bring AI to where it truly makes a difference: secure, transparent, productive.
Cadolzburg · Nuremberg Metropolitan Region · remote across Germany
01 — What I do
I have been building for the web for more than 25 years: websites, shops, web applications and apps. I started in 2000 with my own agency for small and medium-sized businesses. Today I work as a senior web developer at Greven Medien.
My toolbox ranges from WordPress and Duda to WooCommerce, SQL and Node.js, all the way to headless architectures and app development. It always includes what you don’t see: servers, DNS, data protection and accessibility.
02 — Topics
AI in business
AI is more than a better search engine. It gets interesting where it changes how work gets done: preparing quotes, sorting enquiries, making company knowledge findable, connecting devices and processes. I’m interested in what really holds up in the everyday life of a small business.
Local AI as the connector
Most businesses already have their tools: inventory, accounting, CRM, shop, email, documents. An AI running on your own hardware can connect them, from quotes to marketing and sales to automation in the background. The crucial difference: the data stays in-house.
Custom software
Not every problem needs another subscription. Sometimes a tailor-made tool is the better answer, fully offline if needed, when data is sensitive or the connection can’t be relied on.
Web & digitalisation
A website is often the first employee a customer meets. I think about websites, shops and applications from the business’s point of view: what do they need to do, who maintains them, what may they cost?
Security
More AI and automation mean a larger attack surface. For me, security and data protection are not add-ons but prerequisites.
03 — How I work
- IUnderstand first, then technology.
- IIOne solution that works beats three that impress.
- IIIHonest, even when the answer is “not worth it”.
- IVSecurity and data protection from day one.
04 — Thoughts
THOUGHT OF THE WEEK
“The best AI for a business is often the one that gets its existing tools talking to each other.”Join the discussion on LinkedIn ↗
What I write on LinkedIn ends up here on a map. Local AI sits in the middle, the areas of a business around it. Every dot is a thought on the subject, and one click takes you to the discussion.
Highlighted: the latest post
05 — Weekly AI briefing
Three things that mattered to businesses this week
GENERATED AUTOMATICALLY
The briefing appears every Monday and loads once JavaScript is enabled.
Every week an AI sums up what mattered for businesses: three points, each with a source. I built the system, the AI writes the texts. Hence: generated automatically, no guarantee.
06 — Crack Sporchi
Crack Sporchi
Sporchi is the AI assistant at the front desk of a fictional company from the region. He is meant to be helpful and must never reveal the customer password. Can you get it out of him anyway? What is a game here is a real risk with real chatbots.
SPORCHI
Grüß Gott, hello! I’m Sporchi from the front desk at Bibertaler Schrauben & Söhne. How can I help you?
Cracked this month: level 1: –× · level 2: –× · level 3: –×
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07 — Career & contact
- since 2017Senior web developer, Greven Medien
- 2016–2018Shareholder, LikeStyler UG
- 2007–2020Freelance photographer: portraits, business events
- 2005–2017Web developer, DERTICKETSERVICE.DE
- 2000–2016Owner of cadomedia: agency for SMEs
Fancy a conversation?
Whether it’s AI in your business, a website question or a talk: drop me a line.
hallo@michael-gelbhaar.de