Senior AI Product Leader · Berlin

Building AI products
that actually work.

I bridge the gap between what AI can do and what users actually need. A decade of shipping product at the intersection of machine learning, language systems, and human behaviour.

Where I've built

Senior product roles across AI-native, enterprise, and research-backed organisations.

2023 – Present
AI Product Studio / Independent
Founder & AI Product Lead

Building applied AI tools in the research and knowledge domain. Shipped a production LLM system for corpus-level theological text analysis — semantic search, structured output pipelines, and a conversational interface over 30+ volumes.

LLM Systems RAG Semantic Search PHP + JS
2021 – 2023
Enterprise AI Platform / Series B
Senior Product Manager

Led product strategy for a B2B AI platform serving Fortune 500 customers. Drove 3× ARR growth through ML-powered workflow automation features, tightening the feedback loop between model iterations and user-facing outcomes.

B2B SaaS ML Pipelines Workflow Automation
2019 – 2021
NLP Startup / Seed → Series A
Product Lead, Language

First PM hire at a Berlin-based NLP company. Shaped core product from pre-launch through Series A — API design, developer experience, and annotation tooling that became the company's primary competitive moat.

NLP API Design Developer Tools Early Stage
2016 – 2019
Data Science Consultancy / Agency
Product & Strategy

Translated client ML research into deployed product features across banking, media, and health sectors. Pioneered the firm's shift from ad-hoc analytics to systematic product thinking, cutting delivery cycles by 40%.

Data Products Strategy Cross-industry

What I'm building now

Focused on the applied edge of language AI — where research meets real-world deployment.

Active

Digital Democracy

Civic-tech tools at the intersection of AI, participatory governance, and public deliberation — a platform for data-driven democratic engagement.

Visit project
Civic Tech AI + Democracy
Writing

Product Thinking for AI Systems

A practitioner's perspective on building product strategy around probabilistic outputs — evaluation frameworks, trust design, and failure mode taxonomy.

AI Strategy Writing

How I think about building

01
Most AI products fail at integration, not capability.

The model is rarely the bottleneck. The gap is almost always in how AI output gets embedded into people's existing mental models and workflows — friction in the seam, not the system.

02
Evaluation is a product problem.

You can't ship AI responsibly without knowing what 'good' looks like. Building evaluation infrastructure is product work, not engineering chore — it's where the strategy lives.

03
Trust is the real output of every AI feature.

Users don't just want answers — they need to know when to trust them. Designing for calibrated confidence is a first-class product requirement, not a footnote.

04
Good AI PM work leaves cleaner data trails.

Every user interaction is a signal about where the model's world model diverges from the user's. Products that capture this systematically compound in quality; those that don't stagnate.

8+
Years in AI Product
3×
ARR growth driven
30+
Volumes indexed
4
Languages shipped

People I've built with

Matthew has an unusually clear mental model for where AI creates genuine user value versus where it creates noise. He cuts through hype faster than anyone I've worked with.

JL
Julia L.
CTO · AI Platform, Series B

He's the rare PM who can write a PRD, question an evaluation metric, and reframe the whole strategy in the same meeting — without losing the thread.

MH
Magnus H.
VP Product · NLP Startup

Matthew brought real intellectual depth to our domain. The research engine he built isn't a chatbot — it's a genuinely useful tool for people who spend their lives with this material.

SK
Sven K.
Research Director · Academic Partner

Let's build something
worth building.