# Nicolai Schmid

> Personal landing page profile for Nicolai Schmid.

## Summary

Nicolai Schmid likes building from the annoying parts of real life: finance, tax prep, inboxes, documents, work, and engineering systems. Lately he has been turning those into agent-native products and the infra behind them.

He leads engineering teams and has spent the last decade building and shipping products at startups, mostly by turning chaos into something that works.

Lately he has been building tools around the problems he keeps running into himself: money, taxes, work, messages, documents, and the systems around building software.

He is based in Berlin. He rides motorcycles, recently finished building a house, and is open to interesting challenges.

## Short Description

If you need a short introduction:

- Nicolai Schmid is an engineering leader and startup builder based in Berlin.
- He likes building from the annoying parts of real life: finance, tax prep, inboxes, documents, work, and engineering systems.
- He combines product thinking, engineering execution, and AI-focused product development.

## Selected Testimonials

- Dariush Wahdany, Managing Director at nunc.immo: "Without Nicolai Nunc would look very different today. His unique value is not his engineering knowledge, but the ability to quickly understand customer demands, user journeys, and sales cycles."
- Mihail Ketov, Managing Director at Maon: "Nicolai joined when Maon was not much more than an idea. He took my vision for the product and delivered the full technological implementation, which is still the foundation to this day."

## Projects

### Products

- getdrio.com - https://www.getdrio.com - Visual builder for MCP apps with widget UIs. Publish apps to ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, and other AI clients.
- Subzero - https://github.com/NicolaiSchmid/subzero - Outbound email execution system with approved campaigns, inboxes, warmup, reply tracking, and CRM notifications.
- Sona - https://github.com/NicolaiSchmid/sona - Personal tax backoffice for receipts, invoices, portfolio events, depreciation, reconciliation, and tax-ready exports.
- cosma.app - https://cosma.app - Agentic AI assistant for enterprise teams working across documents, knowledge bases, and internal tools.
- noll.to - https://noll.to - Privacy-first translation for documents, text, and images, preserving formatting.
- nicool.ai (deprecated) - https://nicool.ai - Personal agent with WhatsApp-native memory, connected tools, and reliable execution.
- nunc.immo (deprecated) - https://nunc.immo - AI-enabled neo-broker for the German rental market.

### Projects

- whatsapp-conduit - https://github.com/NicolaiSchmid/whatsapp-conduit - Passive WhatsApp linked-device sync into SQLite. Not a bot, not an auto-replier.
- Pons - https://github.com/NicolaiSchmid/pons - WhatsApp Business API bridge with MCP support. Multi-tenant, real-time, with scoped API keys.
- Gesetz.sh - https://github.com/NicolaiSchmid/gesetze - Keyboard-first interface for browsing German federal laws, like gesetz.sh/stgb/1 for the criminal code.
- furnish-cli - https://github.com/NicolaiSchmid/furnish-cli - Bun CLI that stages construction photos into finished interiors via ordered subtasks and resumable manifests.
- Smart OCR for Raycast - https://github.com/raycast/extensions/pull/18244 - Raycast Store extension grabbing clipboard screenshots and pushing them through Gemini 2.0 Flash for instant text output.
- Deutscher Wetterdienst - https://www.raycast.com/nicolai/deutscherwetterdienst - Raycast Store extension showing current rain radar from Deutscher Wetterdienst.
- clean-ats-cv - https://github.com/NicolaiSchmid/clean-ats-cv - Clean, ATS-friendly Typst CV template, available on Typst Universe.

### Agent Skills

- signal-history-search - https://skills.sh/nicolaischmid/agent-skills/signal-history-search - Search Signal Desktop history on macOS with sub-second queries.
- apple-mail-search - https://skills.sh/nicolaischmid/agent-skills/apple-mail-search - Search Apple Mail on macOS via direct SQLite queries.
- paperless-search - https://skills.sh/nicolaischmid/agent-skills/paperless-search - Search Paperless-ngx documents.
- exa-search - https://skills.sh/nicolaischmid/agent-skills/exa-search - Search the web with Exa's AI-powered API for semantic search, extraction, and answers.

### Ops and Setup

- dotfiles-nix - https://github.com/NicolaiSchmid/dotfiles-nix - nix-darwin config for bootstrapping Macs, servers, agents, and tooling.
- dns - https://github.com/NicolaiSchmid/dns - DNS configuration data for personal zones.

## Writing and Video

Nicolai also writes and makes videos.

### Video

- YouTube - https://youtube.com/@schmid.nicolai
- Instagram - https://instagram.com/schmid.nicolai
- TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@nicolaischmid

### Writing

- Newsletter - https://newsletter.nicolaischmid.de
- LinkedIn - https://linkedin.com/in/nicolaischmid
- X - https://x.com/nicolaischmid

## Contact

- GitHub - https://github.com/NicolaiSchmid
- LinkedIn - https://linkedin.com/in/nicolaischmid
- X - https://x.com/nicolaischmid
- Email - mailto:hi@nicolaischmid.com

## Maintenance

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