- Founded NewsBeat, a real-time news graph that gives AI agents a stable beat to follow.
- Own the product end to end, from the news-graph data model and ingestion pipeline to the agent-facing API and discovery experience.
- Design the core agent workflow: an agent describes a task and receives a consistent, source-linked stream of news for its beat.
- Build for traders, creators, AI agents, and media teams that need reliable, real-time news intelligence.
Peter Nemec
Product Leader · AI & B2B SaaS · Vienna, Austria
I love turning the latest AI into successful products, from 0 to 1.
Product leader with eight years of experience building AI and data products across commercial, product, and founder roles. At NewsAPI.ai, I joined in Business Development, moved into product as customer work increasingly shaped the roadmap, and eventually became CPO. Over seven years, I helped grow the business from $50K to $1M+ ARR while scaling an API-first news intelligence platform processing more than one million articles a day. Since 2025, I have also built companies in climate tech and applied AI. I am now looking to bring that breadth back into a senior product role at an AI-first company.
I’m the founder of NewsBeat, a real-time news graph for AI agents. Previously CPO of NewsAPI.ai, product consultant for Bloomberg Media, and co-founder of Carbondrop.
Highlights
- Progressed from Business Development to CPO at NewsAPI.ai, helping grow ARR from $50K to $1M+.
- Helped scale an API-first news intelligence platform to process more than one million articles a day, and later led product work on AI analytics for Bloomberg Media.
- Shipped five production NLP services across entity recognition, sentiment, classification, semantic filtering, and metadata extraction.
Experience
Founder, product, and commercial roles across AI and B2B SaaS.
- Co-founded and led Carbondrop, taking a carbon-removal and MRV concept from early research to a working product and field deployment.
- Worked with climate scientists and enterprise partners such as Novonesis to turn complex measurement and compliance methodologies into product requirements, automated data workflows, and reporting. Participated in REMOVE, a leading European carbon-removal accelerator.
- Started in Business Development, moved into product as customer work increasingly shaped the roadmap, and ultimately took ownership of the product organization as CPO.
- Helped grow ARR from $50K to $1M+ by reshaping pricing and packaging and building enterprise features around real customer needs and usage.
- Owned product for an API-first platform processing more than one million articles a day, spanning roadmap, customer discovery, developer experience, and enterprise integrations.
- Shipped five production NLP services across entity recognition, sentiment, classification, semantic filtering, and metadata extraction, turning research capabilities into commercial product features.
- Worked across engineering and data science to move research prototypes into production with clearer evaluation, prioritization, and release processes.
- Combined product analytics with continuous customer discovery, using usage data and enterprise conversations to validate roadmap decisions before committing engineering resources.
- Owned the roadmap for the NLP, metadata, and semantic-search pipelines behind AIQ, used by financial analysts and enterprise intelligence teams.
- Worked across research, engineering, and product to move machine-learning capabilities into production analytics workflows.
- Redesigned the metadata architecture to improve query performance and reduce manual tagging in high-volume research workflows.
- Worked on EU Horizon projects covering NLP, information retrieval, and knowledge graphs alongside my role at NewsAPI.ai.
- Built commercial cases for three research spin-offs, defining target segments, pricing, and routes to market for lab-stage technology.
Education & Languages
A systems thinker by training, with a design background applied to complex products and platforms.
BSc Architecture and Urban Engineering
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia · 2012 – 2017
Languages
Slovenian Native · Croatian Native · English C2 · German A2
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.
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.
Open Source
Things I build in public: AI-native apps, tooling, and weekend projects. Source code lives on GitHub.
newsbeat.dev
Access to a real-time news graph. An agent describes a task, receives a stable beat. Live at newsbeat.dev.
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.
I’m looking to bring my breadth back into a senior product role at an AI-first company. Share the idea, the problem, or the rough brief, and we can start with a focused conversation about what the product needs.