Hi, I’m Dirk Platts.

I’m a consultant and entrepreneur in the digital world of AI and IT, based in Königstein im Taunus in the Frankfurt Rhine-Main area. For more than 25 years I’ve been helping businesses make their IT work – reliably, securely and without unnecessary complexity.

I started out in IT support in the late 1990s while finishing school in the evenings, then spent the dotcom years running servers and networks for an internet provider and building intranet portals for banks and telecom companies. In 2001 I co-founded my first company, an IT and telecom service provider. From 2004 to 2011 I worked as a system engineer at a management consultancy, looking after its Windows and Linux infrastructure and building web and SharePoint applications.

Since then I’ve worked independently: Microsoft 365 and Power Platform solutions, online promotional campaigns for a global consumer goods brand, and websites and hosting for clients of all sizes. Today, much of my work is about putting AI to practical use – from smart automation to custom AI applications.

How I can help

Depending on what you need, you’ll find me in one of two places:

• vonbeust.digital – IT consulting and hands-on services: Microsoft 365, cloud, AI automation and web development, for whenever you need advice or an extra pair of hands.
• DIPLANET GmbH – complete digital solutions, from AI applications and websites to IT infrastructure, delivered by the company I founded in 2010.

Curriculum vitae (password-protected)