Sebastian Mertens

Canonical public profile and builder context for Seb Builds.

I build AI products, AI agents, automation systems, and public software experiments for mostly US customers.

Seb Builds is where I share projects, build logs, agent workflows, and lessons from shipping in public.

What Sebastian Builds

AI-native product workflows that turn practical use cases into shipped software.
AI Agents, Automation and iPaaS systems that connect tools, teams, and business processes.
Public build logs, CLI-friendly context, and agent-readable documentation. Claude and Codex projects.
Experiments around generated interfaces, agentic coding, evals, model cost, and product distribution.

Current Work

Sebastian is working as Head of applied AI at Make, where he works on AI product development and internal AI transformation. His public profile describes work across AI product strategy, applied AI enablement, workflow optimization, operational efficiency, compliance-aware AI systems, and collaboration with LLM providers including OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic.

Seb Builds is his public builder surface at sebmer.com. It documents selected products, technical experiments, and the process behind building with AI.

Experience Highlights

Deep expert in AI agents, Claude Code, Codex implementations, and software development projects that move from prototype to operational reality.
Harness expert building contextual AI layers and AI-agentic operational systems for teams, tools, and business workflows.
Active Hermes and OpenClaw advocate and user, with a strong focus on practical agent workflows, repeatable build systems, and CLI-first operations.
Head of applied AI at Make, working across AI product development, internal AI transformation, automation, and applied AI enablement.
Co-Founder and investor in makeitfuture, focused on integration, automation, and AI solutions.
Chairman and Co-Founder of wemakefuture, a future-leading AI agent and automation company.
Working with automation and AI tooling since 2016 (I built AI systems before it was cool), across iPaaS and OCR/NLP/Forrestalgos, business automation, agentic software systems, and product implementation.
Started his career in banking and regulated industries, bringing a practical understanding of operational constraints, compliance, and reliability.

Education

Master in Digital Management and Transformation
Bachelor in IT-Management from Steinbeis-Hochschule

Sebastian Mertens

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