Senior specialists · fixed scope · one European contract

Ship production AI workflows with de-risked delivery.

We connect international teams with vetted European AI specialists — and take the delivery risk off your desk. One contracting party, a fixed scope, formal acceptance, and GDPR and AI Act questions settled before the work starts.

One contract
We carry the warranty, not you
Fixed scope
Formal acceptance, not open hours
EU by default
GDPR and AI Act handled upfront
Named people
Real names and CVs after briefing

An outcome, not hours.

Most freelance sourcing hands you a person and leaves the delivery risk with you. We hand you a result and keep the risk with us.

01 · Single-point liability

You commission us, not a stranger

Scope and acceptance criteria are agreed before work begins. half-work is your contracting party and carries the warranty; the specialist works as our subcontractor. One contract, one invoice, one address for escalation.

02 · Rights and compliance

The result is yours to use

Code, prompts and architecture are handed over in machine-readable form with full commercial usage rights and no lock-in. Data-processing agreement, DPIA template and AI Act classification come with the handover, not as an afterthought.

03 · Built to survive production

Workflows, not prompt demos

LLM workflows, RAG pipelines and agent infrastructure built into your stack — with evaluation, observability and a human escalation path. We do not promise perfect output; we make errors visible and bounded.

Three steps, no bidding.

01

Scope & match

A 30-minute call to define the objective. We match it against the roster and come back with one to three named specialists, usually within a week.

02

Contract & start

One B2B contract covering scope, acceptance criteria, usage rights and confidentiality. Fixed price or a monthly retainer — your choice.

03

Review & accept

You get the working system, documentation and handover assets, with fourteen days to review. The final half of the fee falls due on acceptance.

A private roster, not a marketplace.

We are deliberately not an open platform. The roster is small, curated and pseudonymous: the specialists are working principal engineers and domain leads, and we keep them off the recruiter radar so they can focus on delivery. Towards you they are fully transparent after the briefing — real name, CV, photo.

“You are not talking to a sales team here, you are talking to me. I know every person on the roster personally — and if none of them fits, I will tell you that in the briefing instead of selling you just anyone.”
— Finn Malte Hinrichsen · Owner, half-work.com
  • Senior only. At least five years of hands-on practice in the core field — no generalists.
  • AI skill documented. We list the tools each person actually commands, and at what depth.
  • Sovereign hosting available. Agents can run on an EU platform with its own model pools and no US endpoints in the path.

What buyers ask first.

Why contract with a German entity if my team is not in Germany?

Because it gives your procurement one accountable vendor instead of a set of freelance relationships across jurisdictions. German work-contract law provides a defined deliverable, formal acceptance and statutory warranty — and for EU work, GDPR is the starting point rather than a retrofit. Place of jurisdiction is Hamburg.

How do you handle AI accuracy and hallucination?

Honestly: we do not promise perfect output, because language models are probabilistic. What we deliver is evaluation, an audit trail, confidence tuning and a defined human escalation path — so errors become visible and bounded rather than silent.

Who can use the result afterwards?

You can, without restriction and without lock-in. The accepted work is handed over in machine-readable form with full commercial usage rights, and it stays yours when ongoing support ends. The precise wording is in our German terms, which remain the binding version.

How is this priced?

The briefing is free. Engagements run at a fixed price or as a monthly retainer, and every specialist's rate range is visible in the roster before you talk to us. No platform surcharge on top — our margin is priced into the rate. See pricing.

Bring us the task you would rather not carry alone.

Thirty minutes, free, no sales pitch — you talk to the owner. At the end you get one to three named specialists, or an honest “not a fit right now”.

See the roster first