Roman Martins
Engineer turned PM. I've spent 10 years making complex things work — from LEGO's manufacturing floors to AI products I built and shipped myself. I write the spec and build the thing.
About
Engineering background.
Product instinct. Bias toward shipping.
Most PMs understand product or understand AI. I've spent a decade in engineering and four years building hands-on with AI. That combination is rare.
Career Arc
Leading a 10-person cross-functional product development department. Responsible for new product development and lifecycle upgrades of complex industrial equipment across Europe and China.
Led product strategy for a personalised AI-powered publishing platform. Built end-to-end AI workflows, prompt architectures, and QA systems — scaling to 300+ books produced. Also ran an AI automation agency building custom GPT-based systems for business clients.
Led cross-functional engineering teams delivering complex industrial and manufacturing solutions for global clients. Drove advanced manufacturing initiatives including additive manufacturing, aligning engineering execution with business strategy.
Grew from injection molding technician to Lead Professional in LEGO's Concept Factory. Led manufacturing innovation initiatives, established new technological test environments, and coordinated global engineering teams.
How I Work
Tools & Stack
Work
AI products I've built
Shipped products, not slide decks. Each project started with a real problem and ended with something working.
AI Children's Book Platform
End-to-end AI product. Parents input a child's name and theme — the platform generates a personalised story with AI-illustrated pages and routes it through print-on-demand fulfilment for physical delivery.
Ghost PM Signal — PM Intelligence Dashboard
Live PM intelligence for Ghost product decisions. Aggregates Ghost Forum feature votes (880+ topics), GitHub issues, ActivityPub strategic signals, HN community sentiment, and Kit competitor changelog — synthesised by Claude into a four-part PM decision brief.
Stakeholder Lens — AI Roadmap Translator
Paste your roadmap once. Get four audience-specific views — engineering, sales, exec, and customers — in seconds. Each view uses a distinct prompt architecture tuned to what that audience actually needs to hear.
AI Implementation Scoping Tool
Describe a business problem. Answer 3 AI-generated discovery questions. Get a structured implementation scope: recommended AI approach, process automation table, phased rollout, risks, success metrics.
Also built
Ranked map of AI opportunities — Quick Wins vs Strategic Bets, with effort, impact, and tool recommendations.
Contact
Let's build something
worth building
Interested in AI products, collaboration, or just want to connect? I'm always happy to talk to people working at the intersection of AI and product.