Arthur Liebhardt
I work at the intersection of applied AI, technical enablement, and enterprise communication.
As part of SAP Business AI's Advocacy team, I translate emerging AI capabilities into executive-ready demos, technical narratives, and solution concepts presented by SAP's CTO and senior leadership at flagship events such as SAPPHIRE and TechEd.
My role combines hands-on technical depth with cross-functional leadership. I work across product, engineering, design, and senior stakeholders to make new AI capabilities tangible, relevant, and understandable for different audiences. A core part of my work is helping teams connect technical innovation to real business value and adoption.
More recently, I have been leading SAP's Global Agent-Assisted Coding Initiative, driving enablement sessions and community talks that help teams across SAP adopt AI-assisted workflows at scale. Last year, I led a team of five to deliver the SAP-RPT-1 Playground for TechEd 2025, a high-impact interactive showcase for SAP's new Tabular AI model, shipped on a compressed timeline with the help of AI-native workflows.
Outside SAP, I actively build SaaS products end to end to stay close to fast-moving tooling and modern product development practices, covering architecture, backend, billing, and deployment. Earlier in my career, I co-founded si:cross, a B2B SaaS platform for AI-powered podcast planning and hosting, where I led four developers in a fully remote, async-first setup and owned the full product lifecycle. That combination of enterprise leadership and founder-style execution continues to shape how I work today.
Why me
Trusted Advisor for AI Adoption
A core strength I bring is the ability to make new AI capabilities understandable, credible, and actionable for different audiences. At SAP, I regularly work at the intersection of technical innovation and business communication, translating complex AI topics into tangible experiences, clear narratives, and practical adoption paths. I am strongest when helping stakeholders understand where AI creates real value, how it fits into existing workflows, and what it takes to move from exploration to meaningful use.
AI-Native Engineering and Practical Workflow Expertise
I have embedded AI into every stage of my work since these tools first became available, from code generation with GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and Claude Code to product planning, research, prototyping, and stakeholder communication. I rely on AI tooling daily to architect, build, and communicate more effectively, which gives me a practical and grounded perspective when advising others on what AI-native ways of working actually change in practice.
Enablement and Organizational Adoption
At SAP, I lead the Global Agent-Assisted Coding Initiative, driving adoption of AI-powered development workflows across teams. My work includes enablement, internal advocacy, practical education, and building a decentralized network of regional catalysts to scale hands-on knowledge across the organization. I enjoy helping different audiences understand where these tools create meaningful value and how to apply them in a way that is pragmatic, scalable, and aligned with real team needs.
Hands-On Technical Credibility
I bring more than 10 years of experience building production applications across cloud platforms, combined with a strong understanding of how technical decisions connect to product value and organizational priorities. My work spans the AI product lifecycle, from contributing to SAP's Document Grounding Service, where I helped build the pipeline API for automated document indexing and retrieval in SAP AI Core, to leading the delivery of the SAP-RPT-1 Playground as a compliant product release in just four weeks, in a process that would normally take significantly longer. This allows me to engage credibly with engineering teams while also communicating effectively with senior stakeholders.
Cross-Functional Leadership and Business Relevance
I regularly lead initiatives that span multiple disciplines, aligning engineering, product, design, and leadership stakeholders around clear outcomes. Whether shaping multi-product demo storylines, driving internal AI adoption, or helping turn new capabilities into business-relevant experiences, I am comfortable operating across technical and strategic layers. What I bring is not just technical depth, but the ability to connect that depth to the priorities of the broader organization.
Founder-Style Ownership
I bring a strong sense of ownership, a bias toward execution, and comfort operating in ambiguity. Across independently shipped SaaS products and enterprise AI initiatives, I have repeatedly taken ideas from concept to production. That constant cycle of building keeps me close to what developers and end users actually need, and gives me a practical edge when evaluating new platforms, workflows, and product opportunities.
Projects
today-md is a native, local-first macOS task manager built for lightweight planning across Today, This Week, and Backlog. It combines kanban-style organization with subtasks, Markdown notes, fast full-text search, and JSON/Markdown export, so tasks stay easy to manage inside the app and portable outside it.
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Product
Built at SAP for TechEd 2025 in record time, this playground was a major announcement that enables users to test SAP's new model SAP-RPT-1. Users can experiment with their own test data or use SAP-provided example datasets to explore the capabilities of the new AI model.
I led this project wearing multiple hats including Product Manager, Product Owner, Architect, Developer, and Code Reviewer. I successfully led a team of 5 people to deliver this high-impact project on an accelerated timeline for SAP's flagship technology event.
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AI-powered monitoring across all social platforms. Track competitors, keywords, and brand mentions in real-time. Know what's being said, where it matters, when it happens.
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AI Media Studio is a SaaS platform that empowers businesses and creators to generate professional-quality images and videos using advanced AI models, without complex prompts required. The platform offers over 50+ unique styles, seamless AI-powered editing tools, making it ideal for marketing, social media, and creative projects.
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Ecom Design Lab is a SaaS platform that enables fashion brands and online retailers to offer AI-powered virtual try-on experiences, allowing customers to visualize products on themselves through personalized model shots without the need for traditional photoshoots. Designed and implemented a custom AI image generation pipeline, combining garment analysis, model personalization, pose alignment, and inpainting to deliver high-fidelity virtual try-on visuals.
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Podpally is an AI-powered SaaS platform that streamlines podcast preparation by transforming hours of guest research into instant, actionable insights. It analyzes guests' LinkedIn profiles and recent posts to generate unique topic ideas, up-to-date guest insights, and thought-provoking interview questions, enabling hosts to deliver more impactful and engaging episodes. The platform is designed to save podcasters significant time, letting them focus on content creation while ensuring every interview is well-informed and memorable.
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Developed an async hiring platform to streamline candidate screening and early-stage recruitment workflows. I implemented custom application forms like video response features to enable faster identification of top talent. It should enhance team productivity by centralizing applicant management and optimizing onboarding procedures.
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audio-docs is a SaaS platform that leverages AI to automatically transcribe, summarize, and organize audio files, streamlining documentation workflows for professionals. The solution supports multiple languages, enabling users to efficiently convert spoken content into actionable documents.
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Built a legal-tech prototype using React Flow to visualize complex company structures and ownership hierarchies where I developed a custom algorithm to identify "beneficial owners" based on legal requirements for German compliance. I collaborated here with a lawyer and designer in a lean startup experiment to validate market demand - ultimately we decided to sunset the project due to lack of traction.
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si:cross was founded in 2019 with the idea of introducing podcasts and asynchronous communication to businesses. Following positive feedback from major companies in Germany, we developed a mobile MVP and a web app for uploading and managing podcasts.
In 2021, we secured a pre-seed investment round to enhance our product and expand our team, which I now believe was a misstep as we did not have product-market fit. We hired three new developers and a working student. I led the development team with my technical co-founder, establishing a mixed environment that combined asynchronous and synchronous workflows.
In late 2021, we acquired our initial enterprise customer and introduced additional features. By the end of 2022, we decided to revamp the landing page and web app using Tailwind, inspired by Refactoring UI. The landing page used components from the tailwind CSS library.
Over the years, we developed a full-fledged mobile podcast player using React Native, accessible on the App Store and Google Play Store. In the web app, users could create, manage and plan podcasts and episodes. In early 2023, we integrated AI features to suggest episode ideas and assist in structuring interviews.
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