Melvin Zerigue

• Selected for the inaugural cohort (10 builders) of a venture studio mentored by YC founders; built ventures from scratch on a 3-month sprint with intensive AI leverage
• Ran field customer discovery (cold calls, on-site visits) and turned it into prototypes: an enterprise ontology layer with human-in-the-loop validation, a condition-assessment test protocol on Universal Robots cobots

• Shipped a full-stack AI debate app solo to the App Store in under 5 months, self-taught; 1,000+ users and 5 major releases
• Built an agent pipeline (live analysis and fact-checking in under 15s) that automated 80%+ of operations; owned architecture, UX/UI, data, deployment and analytics
• Paused the product after 10 months once infrastructure costs outweighed revenue

• Designed 4 innovative concepts currently in patent filing, combining CAD modeling with cross-departmental feasibility analysis
• Coordinated 4 cross-functional projects across C-level, Design, Marketing and Logistics; led one from ideation to validated prototype under regulatory and supplier compliance

• Built a Power Apps platform on live enterprise databases, cutting reporting time by 30% across 4 departments; drove adoption through workshops and training for 50+ users

• Richemont: digitalized the FMEA quality system in Power Apps. Vacheron Constantin: Lean 5S with 60 operators, 30+ tools designed and produced (3D printing, laser, CNC). EMS: root-caused a manufacturing issue worth ~100,000 CHF/month in savings from 5 years of GMP production data

Automated in-service inspection for humanoids: an independent test station on the operator's site, one 15-minute pass per robot; development paused in September 2026.

AI-native ERP POC for small companies: PRD, system architecture (GraphRAG, MCP), agent harness with sub-agents and human validation; 600+ files ingested.