0+years product and tech leadership
0patents as inventor
0public AI builds
0markets served as product owner

I build AI that runs real operations.

Product leader turned AI operator. I take AI from strategy to a tool people use every day, for complex product companies.

Jacob Skogström
Malmö, SwedenWorks remotely, meets in person
MSc Computer ScienceLTH, Lund University
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01What I'm doing now

Three engagements, one channel, all live.

Every line here is running this month. Company names are left out on purpose. Ask and I will tell you more.

0 roles in one engagement Sales, product and delivery at an enterprise AI platform vendor. Right now: AI-driven finance reporting for a consumer goods group. Ask me ↗
0 staff interviewed Current-state map of a business area at a municipal energy company. The gap list became work packages people recognise as their own. Ask me ↗
0 recruiting loop, end to end The full loop at an executive search firm, sourcing to placement, mapped together and turned into an automation proposal. Ask me ↗
0 public episodes Telling Technology. Every build shown end to end, with the exact prompts and the code to run it yourself. Watch ↗
02The loop I have run before

Map. Govern. Build. Train. Hand over.

Inside a heat pump manufacturer, next to my product owner role, I ran the company's AI programme from first idea to a handover the next person could pick up. Same loop, any company.

Step01

Map

Interviews and process walks turned scattered AI wishes into a use-case register with owner, value, next step and status. Ten use cases scoped. Most of them built.

  • use-case register
  • value and effort
  • one owner each
Output0use cases scoped, with owner and value
Step02

Govern

A governance vault aligned with NIST AI RMF, OWASP LLM Top 10, MITRE ATLAS and the EU AI Act. GDPR and DPIA clearance guides per use case, so "can we even do this?" stopped being the blocker.

  • NIST AI RMF
  • OWASP LLM Top 10
  • MITRE ATLAS
  • EU AI Act
  • DPIA guides
Output0frameworks in one vault, clearance per use case
Step03

Build

A contract intelligence layer for order handling. A bilingual product knowledge base and a support chatbot on top of it, with cited sources. A project status dashboard that replaced a fragile Excel file. Identity gating with Entra ID and a push-to-deploy pipeline on Azure.

  • knowledge base
  • support chatbot
  • status dashboard
  • Entra ID
  • Azure
Output0systems shipped and in use
Step04

Train

An ambassador programme so change ran through a network, not through my calendar. Setup tutorials on the intranet. Plain-language explanations for management, IT and the people who would use the tools.

  • ambassadors
  • intranet tutorials
  • management briefings
Output0ambassador network carrying the change
Step05

Hand over

A deliveries register and a written handover, designed so the initiative survives the person who started it. It did.

  • deliveries register
  • successor handover
Output0register the successor could pick up on day one
03On the record

Things that are easy to check.

Facts, not adjectives. Each one has a paper trail.

Inventor32 patentsFiled across Tactel, E.ON and beyond.
Proof page: constraints removed, KPIs moved
E.ON · IP manager52 patent familiesSecond largest portfolio in the E.ON group.
E.ON · engineering manager18-person teamBuilt ectocloud, a control platform for low-temperature heating grids.
Lund University · LTHMSc Computer Science1998 to 2003. One year in California before that.
Pocket Operator · 2026-08EU AI Act, Article 50Limited-risk gate passed. GDPR processor chain in place.
The proof page on Telling Technology: five real wins, each with the constraint, the KPI before and after, and the system that moved it.
04Who is Jacob

I have sat on both sides of the same transformation.

MScComputer Science, LTH
32patents as inventor
2025hands-on AI, every day since

I come from the technical side. An MSc from LTH, 32 patents, a software team of 18. Then the business side: regional manager with sixteen consultants, an IP portfolio to run, seven markets to turn into one product roadmap. I have been the person asking for the tool and the person shipping it.

Since 2025 I run my own AI operation every day. An operating system that onboards and audits its own projects, a hosted assistant with a compliance gate, a content engine that publishes itself. I build it in public on Telling Technology so anyone can see exactly how. Most "AI for business" stops at a chatbot demo. I build into the messy parts that move a company: operations, internal tooling, decision support, the work nobody wants to do twice.

Jacob Skogström
Jacob, Malmö. The same person on the call and in the repo.
05Twenty years, one direction

From building the thing to deciding what gets built.

2006TactelSoftware project manager, Sony Ericsson programmes.
2007Tactel InnovationFounded on my own proposal. Five people. Product manager for the Mobical platform.
2011Apptus TechnologiesDepartment manager and project manager.
2012KnightecRegional manager. Sixteen consultants, sales, budget, management team.
2017E.ON · ectocloudEngineering manager. Eighteen people building a control platform for heating grids.
2020E.ON · ectogridIP manager. 52 patent families, second largest in the group.
2023Heat pump manufacturerProduct owner across display, app and cloud. Ran the AI programme alongside.
2025Telling TechnologyLearning in public. Thirty-one builds, every prompt shown.
2026Scandinavian Communication SC ABAI consultant. Enterprise AI platform vendor, municipal energy, executive search.
06Same job in every build

Shown end to end, prompts included.

A few of the thirty-one episodes on Telling Technology. Click any to read how it was made.

07What people say

Published with written approval. Names and roles, never companies.

Jacob turned our TechDoc output into a searchable, bilingual wiki. The AI caught template leaks, cut re-publish review time, and surfaced gaps nobody had flagged. Everything we've built with AI since rests on that foundation.

NiklasTechnical Documentation Manager

Jacob set up single sign-on for three of our internal tools through a proper Microsoft Entra app registration, so only our own company accounts get in. He also built the publishing pipeline. Push to GitHub, Azure deploys it automatically, no build servers to babysit.

DominicRevenue Operations Manager

Compliance documents used to eat a full day each. Jacob built a tool where I pick the document type, toggle the sections I need, and get a live preview as I go. What took a day now takes an hour, and the export is ready, PDF or Word.

Michael MDirector, Energy Solution Design
Invite only · beta

Pocket Operator

Your first AI employee. Lives in Telegram, ships real deliverables, exports your data on request. Nothing locked in. Built and run by me, EU AI Act Article 50 assessment done.

Chat & memoryMessage it like a person. It remembers every conversation, in plain files you can read.Included
Todos & notes"Add todo: renew passport." Captured from your pocket, organised without an app.Included
Smart model chooserCheap model for lookups, frontier model for hard reasoning. Your subscription lasts longer.Coming soon
Bring your own AISign in with your own provider credentials. Claude first, more after.Coming soon
Weekly feedback digestThumbs up or down on any reply. Every weekend it shows what to keep and what to fix.Coming soon

One new AI build, every week.

Or write to me directly.

//JacobJacob Skogström · Malmö
08How this page was made

Built in one evening. Here is the recipe.

The same working loop I use for client work, applied to my own resume. It took 35 minutes from start to goal, and 15 of those were spent by Claude crunching, me on the couch watching TV.

  1. 01 Learn
    Watch the people who are ahead, then capture it.

    I ask my AI to follow the leading AI YouTubers, Nate Herk first. The /watch command lets it watch a whole YouTube video in minutes, like when you want to build a great web page, for example. What matters goes into my own wiki, so the next session starts with context instead of from zero. This page borrows the structure of Nate's homepage.

  2. 02 Context
    Keep one place that knows who I am.

    My AIOS holds my career, my builds, my numbers and how I write. Claude Code (Fable 5.1) pulled every claim on this page from there. Every number is traceable to a file.

  3. 03 Reuse
    Do not design twice.

    Design tokens, headshot and episode renders came straight from tellingtechnology.skogstrom.se. The reference site was studied with scroll screenshots before a single line was written.

  4. 04 Verify
    Look at real pixels, not the code.

    Playwright took scroll screenshots at eight positions on desktop and eight on phone. Anything out of bounds got fixed and re-shot until a pass came back clean.

  5. 05 Loop
    Let it iterate itself, unattended.

    A self-paced /loop ran polish rounds on its own, no input from me between them: read the changelog, make a small change, screenshot itself with Playwright, check the result, write a short report, sleep until the next round. 29 versions later, this is the one that stuck. Built with a loop-setup skill I wrote for exactly this kind of unattended iteration.

  6. 06 Hand off
    Get pinged, not stuck.

    The session sent me a Telegram message when it was done. I reviewed, asked for two changes, and it was live.