Tephra d.o.o. is an AI studio consulting clients who are building AI-native solutions. Product strategy and hands-on delivery across generative AI, LLM integrations, AI agents, and automation workflows.
Peter Nemec
AI Product Builder · Vienna, Austria
I love turning the latest AI into successful products, from 0 to 1.
For the past nine years, I’ve built and scaled AI products. My work has ranged from API-first enterprise platforms processing more than one million articles a day to media intelligence systems for Bloomberg.
I take AI products from strategy to launch, turning complex technology into useful capabilities that customers can understand and adopt. I’ve worked in applied AI since well before the ChatGPT era, giving me a strong foundation in machine learning. Today, I focus on visual AI, advanced LLM integrations, and agentic systems.
I’m the founder of AI Studio Tephra d.o.o., where I help clients design and build AI-native solutions. Previously, I worked in product research at Bloomberg, served as CPO of NewsAPI.ai, and co-founded the climate startup Carbondrop.
Experience
Seven years of shipping enterprise AI products, from an AI climate-tech startup to global financial intelligence and news analytics platforms.
- Co-founded an AI-driven climate technology startup and defined the product strategy for a carbon removal (CDR) and MRV platform, from concept to product.
- Led end-to-end product management: discovery, roadmap planning, requirements, backlog prioritization, sprint execution, and KPI development.
- Designed AI-powered workflows for environmental data ingestion, validation, enrichment, and automated Measurement, Reporting & Verification (MRV).
- Collaborated with climate scientists, engineers, and enterprise stakeholders to turn scientific methodologies into scalable AI product capabilities.
- Integrated generative AI, LLMs, AI agents, and workflow automation to streamline carbon accounting for compliance reporting.
- Led Bloomberg’s AiQ analytics platform supporting global financial analysts and enterprise intelligence teams processing 1M+ news articles daily.
- Directed the product roadmap for large-scale NLP, metadata, and semantic search pipelines, improving search relevance and analyst workflows.
- Translated AI and machine learning research into production-ready analytics used across enterprise financial intelligence operations.
- Aligned engineering, AI, and product teams around enterprise requirements to improve AI classification and content enrichment.
- Optimized metadata architecture, search relevance, and platform performance for high-volume enterprise research environments.
- Accelerated AI feature delivery through agile roadmap execution and cross-functional coordination.
- Scaled an enterprise AI content-intelligence platform processing 1M+ daily articles with high-availability infrastructure across global customers.
- Increased ARR from $50K to $1M through enterprise feature expansion, product packaging, customer-driven roadmaps, and go-to-market alignment.
- Launched NLP and AI enrichment capabilities: sentiment analysis, semantic filtering, entity recognition, metadata extraction, and content classification.
- Directed the AI product roadmap across engineering and data science teams, accelerating releases and reducing delivery bottlenecks.
- Built KPI instrumentation and experimentation frameworks improving adoption tracking, retention analysis, and product performance measurement.
- Conducted enterprise customer discovery and partnered with engineering on API-first platform architecture, semantic search, and enterprise integrations.
- Worked hands-on with LLM workflows, AI automation systems, metadata pipelines, and large-scale information retrieval infrastructure.
Education & Interests
A systems thinker by training, with a design background applied to complex products and platforms.
Bachelor of Architecture & Urban Engineering
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia · 2012 – 2017
Focused on design thinking, data-driven urban development, systems architecture, and analytical problem-solving applied to complex infrastructure and scalable technology systems.
Mechanical Engineering Technician
Mechanical Technician high school diploma · 2008 – 2012
Achieved second place in a national robotics competition by designing and building a robot capable of following road markings.
Languages
Slovenian Native · Croatian Native · English C2 · German A2
Hobbies
Mountain biking · Windsurfing · Sailing · Tennis
Certificates
Google UX Design Professional Certificate
Tennis instructor for beginners certificate
Windsurfing instructor certificate
How I work
I move between strategy, AI execution, and commercial growth, using each to make the other better.
01
Shape the strategy
I build and validate products from early scientific evidence, partnering with large corporations and leading research labs, and participating in the Remove accelerator.
02
Ship the AI product
I lead engineering and data science teams to ship generative AI, LLM, and NLP capabilities that work reliably inside real enterprise workflows.
03
Scale the business
I carry product decisions into packaging, go-to-market, and enterprise adoption, and measure them against revenue, retention, and usage.
Core Competencies
The areas I operate in daily: product strategy, AI execution, and commercial growth.
AI Product Management & Strategy · Generative AI, LLMs & AI Agents · AI Workflow Automation & Enterprise AI Integration · API-First SaaS & Platform Architecture · Product Roadmaps, KPI Frameworks & Agile Delivery · Prompt Engineering & AI Workflow Design · Cross-Functional Leadership · Product KPIs, User Adoption & Commercial Growth · Customer Discovery & Product Execution · AI Platform Scaling, Search Relevance & Metadata · B2B SaaS & Enterprise Integrations · Technical Product Ownership
Open Source
Things I build in public: AI-native apps, tooling, and weekend projects. Source code lives on GitHub.
tailor-layer
Evidence-first security review for agent repositories, with source-linked findings, suggested fixes, and drift checks. Built and deployed, live at tailor-layer.vercel.app.
nexvi.xyz
An AI app that turns your experience into better job applications. Tailor, score, and humanize applications against specific job descriptions. Built in Lovable and running at nexvi.xyz.
silba
A conversational CRM that turns cold prospecting into instant sales conversations. A weekend project I built for myself to find, filter, and engage leads.
Start a conversation
Let’s build AI products people actually use and enterprises pay for.
Open to senior product leadership roles across AI SaaS, climate tech, and data platforms. Share the idea, the problem, or the rough brief, and we can start with a focused conversation about what the product needs.