Roman Martins
10 years inside manufacturing operations – LEGO, industrial equipment, global teams. Now I build AI tools in production: Claude agents, prompt architectures, shipped products. The rare bridge between factory-floor reality and AI implementation.
About
Manufacturing roots. AI hands.
The bridge most AI PMs can't build.
Most AI PMs come from software. I came from factories. 10 years engineering complex industrial products, then 4 years building AI in production. That intersection is rare – and it's where the hardest AI problems actually live.
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 1,000+ 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
Products I've built
Each project started where software meets the physical world – and ended with something working.
Personalised 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.
Downtime Cost Calculator
Built for ops leaders who lose money every minute a production line is down. Input revenue figures and incident history – get real-time cost-per-minute of downtime, annual risk exposure, and a monitoring ROI breakdown with AI-generated executive insight.
Stakeholder Lens – AI Roadmap Translator
Paste your roadmap once. Get four audience-specific views – engineering, sales, exec, and customers – in seconds. Built for product leaders who present the same plan to factory engineers on Monday and the C-suite on Friday. Each view uses a distinct prompt architecture tuned to what that audience actually needs to hear.
Photo-to-Print Benchmark
Drop a photo. Get a printable STL with a printability score in ~40 seconds. Toggle Compare mode to run the same image through three open-source image-to-3D models (TRELLIS, Hunyuan3D-2, TripoSR) side-by-side, scored on the dimension nobody else benchmarks: does it actually print? The Concept→CAD bridge for Forkable Factory.
Feature Tree Doctor
Free public scorecard for Onshape Part Studio maintainability. Paste a Part Studio link, get a 0–100 score across 8 dimensions in ~15 seconds — naming, variables, redundancy, sketch health, references, organization, docs, regen. 3 Adam-fixable dimensions hand off to adam.new for cleanup. Strictly diagnostic: read-only by construction, never modifies the model, never stores geometry. Public methodology, CC-BY licensed rubric.
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.
Forkable Factory
the weekly signal report on agentic manufacturing.
every Tuesday: 5 signals · 1 leaderboard delta · 1 tactic · 1 keyword to watch · 5 min read
by Roman Martins · building the Forkable Factory
Contact
Let's build something
worth building
Interested in product, collaboration, or just want to connect? I'm always happy to talk to people who care about shipping great things.