# About Benjamin Pollack

> Notes on building software where being wrong has consequences.

Fifteen years of building things institutions had to trust.

I have spent the last fifteen years building things that other people use to do consequential work — first as a founder of a custom-fabrication studio that put twenty-foot interactive sculptures in the lobbies of Hilton, Hard Rock Cafe, and Uber, then as a product leader inside three AI companies of varying scale.

What links those two lives, for me, is the same problem in different costumes: how do you build something that an institution will trust enough to put in front of its customers, its regulators, or its city council? The answer is almost never a feature. It is almost always a posture.

I write because the discipline of writing forces me to figure out what I actually believe. Most of what is here is an attempt to convert pattern-recognition into something I can hand to the next person who has to do this job.

## Trajectory

- **Sanai** — Head of Product (2025 —) · AI for Pharma
- **GameForge AI** — Founder (23 — 25) · AI game-dev platform
- **Cybernet** — Director of Product (24 — 25) · Consumer AI
- **One Earth Future** — Senior Strategy (21 — 22) · Applied ML, civic
- **Digital Ambiance** — Founder & Partner (14 — 21) · Civic art, fabrication

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