About
Between the lab and the boardroom.
I'm Jan Černý, Assistant Professor at the Prague University of Economics and Business (VŠE) and founder of Cerny.AI.
For over fifteen years I've stood on both sides of a line most people only know from one side: running real intelligence engagements (CI, TI, OSINT) in a business setting, and publishing the methods behind them in peer-reviewed journals and at international conferences.
That combination is the whole point. A method that wins a conference but can't survive a tight deadline is useless to you; a fast answer with no method behind it won't survive your board. I build at the intersection: academic precision in the fast-moving world of business.

Research
Five papers closest to my client work, newest first.
- 2027Automating Trademark Intelligence: An LLM-Based Multi-agent Framework.Černý J · Recent Trends and Challenges in Information Systems and Technologies · doi:10.1007/978-3-032-32026-1_31
- 2026A multi-stage agentic AI system for extracting information from large digital archives: case study on the Czechoslovak year 1968 in CIA's FOIA collection.Černý J, Avramov K, Pendse LR · The Electronic Library · doi:10.1108/EL-06-2025-0272
- 2026Fostering organizational resilience in the age of hypercompetition: unpacking the role of competitive intelligence through the dynamic capabilities view.Černý J, Potančok M, Novotný O et al. · Review of Managerial Science · doi:10.1007/s11846-025-00966-y
- 2025AI-Driven Generation of Key Intelligence Topics and Questions: Enhancing the Work of CI Professionals.Černý J · ECKM 2025 · doi:10.34190/eckm.26.1.4100
- 2025AI-Driven Patent Claim Construction: Opportunity or the Dawn of Inventive Cannibalism?Černý J · Business Information Systems · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-94193-1_9
Teaching
I work at the Department of Information Technologies (KIT), Faculty of Informatics and Statistics, VŠE. I teach Open Source Intelligence, Competitive Intelligence, and External Data and Information Sources to bachelor's students and to master's students training as data analysts.
I specialize in competitive intelligence, technology foresight, open data and information management. With the Faculty of Informatics and Statistics and the Faculty of International Relations I designed the master's specialization Intelligence Studies in Business, which prepares students to work with information in a complex global environment.
Consulting and training
In practice I advise on competitive intelligence, due diligence, patent and trademark analytics, and advanced research across the surface and deep web. I run training and workshops on technology intelligence, OSINT, digital investigation and prompt engineering for R&D teams, technology companies, public institutions and startups. My talks bring the context of geopolitical events, OSINT and artificial intelligence together.
What companies most often gain: the intelligence cycle built directly into their decision-making, practical AI at the individual level, from prompt engineering through the right tools to agentic systems, and sources they never knew existed. The result is a marked saving of time in getting verified data and sharper critical thinking across the team.
At first glance the academic and business worlds can look like they barely mix. The opposite is true, and that's exactly your advantage: I bring you the knowledge and experience of both.
Collaborations & references
Contact and profiles
- jan@cerny.ai
- /in/cerjan
- ORCID
- 0000-0001-9649-9093
- Scholar
- Google Scholar
- VŠE
- kit.vse.cz