The practice
Agentic engineering, built in production — not on a slide.
Most of what's written about agentic engineering is hype or fear. mode41 is the practitioner's counterpoint: a practice built on methods designed, shipped, and measured inside real, high-stakes engineering organizations.
The belief
Done seriously, agentic engineering changes the SDLC — not just the tooling.
mode41's approach centers on spec-driven development: the specification becomes the primary artifact your team invests in, and agents implement against it. That reshapes how work gets planned, decomposed, reviewed, and delivered. Most organizations don't stall because the technology fails — they stall because they bolt agents onto a process built for humans typing every line, and speed without that process change is just faster technical debt. Getting an experienced engineering org across that gap is what mode41 does.
Where the method comes from
Proven where quality isn't negotiable.
mode41's methodology wasn't theorized. Our founder built it as CTO of nodeline GmbH, then spent several months refining and validating it inside a high-security, quality-critical corporate environment — designing and implementing that organization's agentic engineering strategy end to end, from leadership alignment to delivery teams. Engagements are led personally, to the same standard the method was validated against.
Founder
Founder & Experienced Tech Lead
Dr. Florian Patzer
Dr. Florian Patzer is the founder and principal of mode41 — a practitioner with a strong background in agentic engineering, software architecture, and technology strategy, from conception through implementation. He is co-founder and CTO of nodeline GmbH, a former leading scientist at Fraunhofer, and an agentic engineering consultant at Bundesdruckerei. This is experience from doing agentic engineering in production, applying the mode41 methodology — not repackaging it secondhand.