— About
Portrait of Marian Sanjur

Marian Sanjur

Innovation Manager at Nestlé. I build AI tools in the gap between an idea and a working version.

I spent a decade inside large companies, mostly working on the problems nobody wanted — the ones where the answer wasn't a campaign or a product, but a quiet rearrangement of how a team decided things. Somewhere along the way I stopped believing that big organizations fail because they lack ideas. They fail because good ideas arrive before anyone is ready to say yes to them, and by the time they're ready, someone else has already built it. I'm interested in the gap between those two moments, and what it takes to close it from the inside.

These days I work on that gap by building. I spend my weekends making small tools with AI, usually for problems of my own that no product is going to solve at my level of specificity. A Telegram bot that answers on my behalf. A weekly-review agent. A recipe site for my kitchen. Each one tests an idea I can't try fast enough inside a large organization. All of them teach me something I couldn't have learned by reading about it, which is that the distance between having an idea and having a working version of it just collapsed, and most people in my industry haven't noticed yet.

How I think

Five things I believe

  1. Most AI projects don't fail. They stall.
  2. Operational innovation vs. innovation theater.
  3. The human must confirm.
  4. Build the embarrassing version first.
  5. Deliver where people already are.
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Currently

SHIPPEDSolaar now shows its evidence before it releases anything
BUILDINGVitals: the path for the phone to read health data on its own
READINGThe Leadership Blueprint for Women
TALKMasterclass on AI assistant and AI agents.
EDUCATION

Where I studied

National Chiao Tung UniversityB.Sc. Computer Science & Electrical Engineering
Aden Business SchoolM.Sc. Digital Business
George Washington UniversitySpecialization, Digital Business
INCAE Business SchoolSpecialization, Innovation & Business Transformation