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@@ -244,6 +282,13 @@
 
 <header class="hero">
   <div class="wrap">
+    <div class="brand-row">
+      <div class="logo-mark">H</div>
+      <div>
+        <div class="brand-name">Jörn Hoppe</div>
+        <div class="brand-tag">Portfolio · Logistics &amp; AI</div>
+      </div>
+    </div>
     <p class="eyebrow">Jörn Hoppe</p>
     <h1>Senior Logistics Executive<br>AI in Logistics &amp; Supply Chain</h1>
     <p class="headline">20+ years leading international ocean freight teams and P&amp;L across Europe, Asia and the Americas — now building a second track record turning AI capabilities into governed, measurable improvements for logistics organizations.</p>
@@ -254,6 +299,7 @@
     </div>
     <div class="cta-row">
       <a class="btn btn-primary" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/joernhoppehk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Connect on LinkedIn</a>
+      <a class="btn btn-secondary" href="https://www.xing.com/profile/Joern_Hoppe3/portfolio?nwt_nav=profile" target="_blank" rel="noopener">XING Profile</a>
       <a class="btn btn-secondary" href="mailto:Joern_Hoppe@outlook.com">Joern_Hoppe@outlook.com</a>
     </div>
   </div>
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     <h2>AI, Innovation &amp; Entrepreneurial Focus</h2>
     <ul class="ai-list">
       <li><span class="dot"></span>Building a practical AI-in-logistics profile centered on implementation, adoption and measurable business value — not technology hype.</li>
-      <li><span class="dot"></span>Hands-on practitioner: runs a self-hosted AI agent platform and several self-built AI-powered apps in daily use — practical experience with agentic workflows, orchestration and knowledge automation.</li>
       <li><span class="dot"></span>Completed DHL Global Forwarding's full internal AI training curriculum; selected for the AI Pioneer Program (2026).</li>
       <li><span class="dot"></span>Long-term ambition: become an entrepreneurial AI expert for logistics and supply chain organizations, connecting deep industry experience with practical AI solution design.</li>
     </ul>
   </div>
 </section>
 
+<section id="ecosystem">
+  <div class="wrap">
+    <h2>AI &amp; Ecosystem — Hoppe.home</h2>
+    <p class="lede">Outside of my day job, I design, build and personally operate a private, production-grade AI and infrastructure platform — <strong>Hoppe.home</strong>. It's a real environment in daily use, not a lab or a demo, and it's where I turn my logistics-honed operating discipline into hands-on software and AI practice.</p>
+
+    <div class="grid-3" style="margin-top: 24px;">
+      <div class="card">
+        <div class="stat">12+</div>
+        <p>Self-managed servers across Windows and Linux, built out as a genuine enterprise-style environment — domain services, certificate authority, monitoring and automated backups.</p>
+      </div>
+      <div class="card">
+        <div class="stat">10+</div>
+        <p>Custom-built applications running in daily production use — spanning financial and tax tooling, monitoring dashboards, knowledge management and a browser-based game platform.</p>
+      </div>
+      <div class="card">
+        <div class="stat">24/7</div>
+        <p>A resident AI agent operates as a genuine working partner — handling day-to-day development, operations and monitoring continuously, always under my direct oversight.</p>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="ecosystem-note">
+      <h3>How it's run</h3>
+      <p>The platform is a real working partnership between human oversight and an autonomous AI operator: I set direction, priorities and guardrails; the AI handles day-to-day engineering, infrastructure operations, monitoring and documentation. Every significant change is tracked, reviewed and kept inside clear governance boundaries — the same operating discipline I apply professionally, brought home and applied at a personal scale.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</section>
+
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   <div class="wrap">
     <h2>Education</h2>
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   <div class="wrap">
     <div class="footer-links">
       <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/joernhoppehk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LinkedIn</a>
+      <a href="https://www.xing.com/profile/Joern_Hoppe3/portfolio?nwt_nav=profile" target="_blank" rel="noopener">XING</a>
       <a href="mailto:Joern_Hoppe@outlook.com">Email</a>
       <a href="https://github.com/JoernHoppe" target="_blank" rel="noopener">GitHub</a>
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