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# From AI Strategy to Production Value

> Roger Simões leads enterprise GenAI products, reasoning models, industrial AI delivery, and production computer vision. Author of Reboot Work.

Roger Simões is an AI product and technology leader who turns complex technical capabilities into products, deployed systems, and measurable business outcomes. His current work spans product leadership for a multi-model enterprise GenAI platform, self-improving reasoning models with formal verification, and customer-embedded delivery of computer vision, predictive maintenance, RAG, and automation in industrial environments.

A Mechanical Engineer and Computer Scientist, Roger brings more than 15 years across technology, product, innovation, and commercialization—including nine years leading a computer-vision platform in production. His broader experience in venture building, international partnerships, government engagement, and sovereign AI infrastructure helps him connect technical decisions with adoption, market context, and long-term strategy. He is based in Aracaju, Brazil, and is the author of two books on AI and work.

- **Years Production AI:** 9
- **Languages:** 3
- **Published Books:** 2

## Current Roles

- **Head of Product, Straits Institute for Applied AI:** Owns product strategy, roadmap, and go-to-market for AI+ Pro, a professional multi-model AI platform for enterprise, institutional, and public-sector use.
- **Product Lead, Reasoning Models, Eigenform:** Owns product definition, evaluation criteria, roadmap, and positioning for self-improving reasoning models with formal verification in Lean.
- **Chief Technology Officer, Timberstone and ConstruLabs:** Leads customer-embedded enterprise AI delivery across industrial environments, and construction AI at ConstruLabs in Ecuador.
- **Author:** Published "Reboot Work: How AI Redefined the Management Model" and "Empregos Humanos em Tempos de Robôs."

## Key Achievements

- Helped productize the PRISM structured-prompting framework through AI+ Pro, a templated platform integrating multiple foundation-model providers.
- Led delivery of computer vision, predictive maintenance, RAG, and automation systems producing 300%+ efficiency gains in industrial operations.
- Led development and enterprise deployment of Roeye’s real-time computer-vision platform over nine years in Brazil and international markets.
- Built open-source agent-memory tooling and autonomous AI workflow prototypes while contributing to strategic partnerships, market entry, and sovereign AI infrastructure initiatives.

## Areas of Expertise

AI product strategy and 0→1 development; enterprise GenAI and multi-model platforms; agentic workflows, RAG, memory, and evaluation; solutions architecture and customer delivery; computer vision, multimodal, and industrial AI; production adoption and integration; technology commercialization, strategic partnerships, and AI infrastructure.

## Quick facts

Roger Simões is an AI Product & Technology Leader based in Aracaju, Brazil. His work spans enterprise GenAI products, reasoning models, industrial AI delivery, and nine years of computer vision in production. He is the author of Reboot Work (2026, ISBN 978-6501957760) and Empregos Humanos em Tempos de Robôs (2024, ISBN 979-8224964611).

- **Current roles:** Head of Product, Straits Institute · Product Lead, Eigenform · CTO, Timberstone and ConstruLabs
- **Based in:** Aracaju, Sergipe, Brazil
- **Books:** Reboot Work (2026) · Empregos Humanos em Tempos de Robôs (2024)
- **Core capabilities:** AI products · Agentic systems · Solutions architecture · Production applied AI

## Frequently asked questions

### Who is Roger Simões?

Roger Simões is an AI Product & Technology Leader, Mechanical Engineer, Computer Scientist, and author. He works across enterprise GenAI products, reasoning models, industrial AI delivery, and production computer vision, connecting technical capability with product strategy and business outcomes.

### What AI product work does Roger lead?

He leads product strategy, roadmap, and go-to-market for AI+ Pro, a professional multi-model AI platform at the Straits Institute for Applied AI, and leads product for self-improving reasoning models with formal verification at Eigenform.

### What kinds of AI systems has Roger delivered?

His delivery experience includes computer vision, predictive maintenance, RAG, automation, multi-model GenAI applications, agent workflows, and AI-readiness assessments. He led a computer-vision platform in production for nine years and currently works with industrial clients from discovery through deployment.

### How do I hire Roger as a consultant?

Use the form at rogersimoes.com/en/consulting or email contact@rogersimoes.com. Roger offers AI-readiness assessments, fractional Head of AI or Head of Product roles, applied AI build and deployment, and AI infrastructure advisory. He works remotely worldwide, as a contractor or through an employer of record.

### Where can I buy Roger's books?

Reboot Work is available on Amazon US (amazon.com/dp/6501957761). Empregos Humanos em Tempos de Robôs is available on Amazon Brazil (amazon.com.br/dp/B0F2PSCDW8).