# Nicola Cavani — Experimentation Architect × AI Explorer

> I run experiments for a living. I experiment on everything else for fun. Cologne-based experimentation architect and AI explorer. Currently Experimentation Manager at Eurowings Digital; open to selected freelance engagements in experimentation strategy, AI workflow design, and international expansion/localisation. Speaks IT / EN / DE (+ ES / RU / FR as source languages).

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## Core

- [Homepage](https://nicola.cavani.de/): Full interactive portfolio
- [Full content dump](https://nicola.cavani.de/llms-full.txt): Every section as flat markdown, for LLM ingestion

## Sections

- [Who I Am](https://nicola.cavani.de/#who-i-am): Career timeline, education, core values, tool stack
- [The Lab](https://nicola.cavani.de/#the-lab): Current / paused / done projects, manga strips, learning wall
- [On My Radar](https://nicola.cavani.de/#next): Next roles I'm exploring, consulting services, brand inspiration deck
- [Beyond the Desk](https://nicola.cavani.de/#beyond): Hobbies and cities lived / visited / on the bucket list
- [Let's Talk](https://nicola.cavani.de/#lets-talk): How to reach me

## Services

- [Experimentation Consultant/Fractional Lead](https://nicola.cavani.de/#next): Build the engine, not just the test
- [AI Workflow Consultant](https://nicola.cavani.de/#next): From prompts to production workflows
- [Expansion & Localisation Consultant](https://nicola.cavani.de/#next): Growth that speaks the language

## Projects

- 🤖 System Thinking for Agentic Workflow (LIVE): The Experimentation Squad. I built a suite of agentic AI workflows across Atlassian & Copilot that help me enforcing standards, smoothing c…
- 🏰 Game Mode — Buried Realm (LIVE): A quiet, opt-in mini-RPG that lives alongside this site. Walk the halls, meet three companions, battle a scope-creep slime, and leave with…
- 🎌 Vibe-Quest spiralling towards the Singularity (IN PROGRESS): Chronicles of Vinny's solo adventures after parting ways with his twin — manga strips starring the AI Spirit Guides, teaching experimentati…
- 📖 Book & Substack (IN PROGRESS): Writing a book on Europe and planning a Substack. One slowly progressing. The other stuck at language choice.
- 💧 Rugiada (PAUSED): Claude artifact to help sis make decisions on some job offerings & budget management. Discontinued for now. Fun.
- ✈️ VoyageFlow (PAUSED): Vibe-coded a travel planner for my Asia trip as a Claude artifact. Broke something minor. App went unusable. Trip still happened.
- 🗾 Flowtilla (LIVE): Second iteration of VoyageFlow, two years later. The travel planner I will actually use for my second Japan trip — built on a proper repo t…
- 🎨 Figma Make Experiment (DONE): Built a UI in Figma Make. Looked sharp. Then it pushed code to GitHub. The PR was a crime scene — unmaintainable, brittle, fighting the exi…
- 🥂 Master Thesis (DONE): The implementation of Food, Wine & Spirits-driven activities as a new engine of value creation — a study on luxury with a Case Study on Fal…
- 🗣️ Bachelor Thesis (DONE): Comparative lexicology and active research: the basis for building functional interlanguages — spanning Italian, Russian, Spanish and Germa…
- 📦 Unwrappy (BETA OPEN): Born from an obsessive Xmas 2025 sprint where I wanted to gift some food to friends. Now live as a PWA beta.
- 🧪 Other AI Use Case Exploration (IN PROGRESS): Currently exploring 5+ other AI use cases — from a validation methodology picker, a Confluence cleaner and docu/ingester, to a Jira tickets…
- 🗺️ Life Management OS (LIVE): Transformed my Life map excel & 5-year plans obsessive flow into a more fun and colourful artifact. Currently covers: objective setting, fi…

## Contact

- Email: n.cavani.de@gmail.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolacavani/
- Location: Cologne, Germany — remote-first, relocation open