Builder-Operator-Designer · Applied AI · Product / Ops Systems

Adam
Byrne

I turn founder-brain chaos into systems people can run, software can scale, and AI can accelerate.

Operator, designer, and builder of the useful machinery behind fast teams: workflows, interfaces, launch systems, media engines, and AI tools that make small teams feel unfairly large.

$10M
Annual Business Operated
200+
People Led
24–48h
Idea to Ship Loops
2
AI-Native Platforms Live
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The Short Version
Illustration of Adam working outdoors

Currently running two AI-native product builds with 24–48-hour concept-to-prototype cycles: PoolParty (founder, five-year build of a programmable public-broadcasting platform) and EPonGO (lead developer, AI-built streaming platform shipped end-to-end in four months). Former president of AquaStar, a $10M, 200+ person vertically-integrated manufacturer with a wholly-owned factory in Qingdao — where I built ERP-style operational systems from scratch and owned the P&L. The rare combination an early-stage founder needs: a one-person internal-tools team who has also actually run a company at scale.

What I'm Building
PoolParty Waterpark Map poolparty.io →
Founder · 2021 – Present

PoolParty

Programmable public broadcasting — a participatory media platform where the queue, rules, and economics of attention are visible by design.

poolparty.io →
5 years
In Development
2026
AI-Accelerated
  • Built the thesis, product, brand, and technical architecture for a platform turning public screens into programmable shared media spaces
  • Designed core primitives — Blocks, Pools, SuperBlocks — that unify creative participation, sponsor inventory, and value flow in a single visible accounting layer
  • Live programming partnership with Edge Esmeralda — channel programming, audience-submitted blocks via QR, sponsor airtime
  • AI-assisted development collapsed weeks of work into days; concept-to-shipped-prototype now runs at 24–48-hour cycles
  • One-person product / creative / strategy team across the full stack: thesis, UX, brand, technical scoping, vendor management, and fundraising
Lead Developer · Jan 2026 – Present

Tastemakers

AI-built streaming music platform — zero to live product in four months.

eponogo.com →
4 months
Zero to Live
24–48h
Feature Cycles
Tastemakers →
  • Shipped a full production platform end-to-end with AI-assisted development — frontend, backend, broadcast operations, creator tooling
  • One-person internal-tools team: lead scoring via Anthropic API, automation pipelines, CRM integrations, and AI content generation
  • Designed AI-powered workflow automations across content scheduling, broadcast operations, creator onboarding, and engagement tracking
What I've Run
President · 2011 – 2015

AquaStar, Inc.

$10M/year vertically integrated manufacturer. Wholly owned factory in Qingdao, China. 200+ employees. Successful equity exit in 2015.

$6M → $10M
ARR Growth
200+
Employees
2015
Equity Exit
  • Grew revenue every year of management tenure by launching new product categories and expanding manufacturing capability
  • Built ERP-style operational systems from scratch — structured data models, KPI dashboards, workflow management
  • Drove margin lift across all product lines via cost-down programs: materials redesign, process changes, tooling investments
  • Redesigned workflows across purchasing, inventory, production scheduling, QC, and margin tracking — from tribal knowledge to systems that scaled
  • Led cross-functional org design across production, engineering, sourcing, QC, logistics, sales, marketing — US and China
Core Capabilities
Applied AI & Agents

Daily production work with Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini, OpenAI. Agent design, multi-agent orchestration, prompt architecture, RAG, guardrails. I build the systems myself.

AI Workflow Automation

Anthropic APIs for lead scoring, Make.com / Zapier-class orchestration, CRM integrations, AI content generation, analytics dashboards. Production deployments running today.

Software Engineering

Full-stack web: Next.js, Supabase, Postgres, REST APIs, Git/GitHub, Vercel, database design, system integrations.

Ops & Leadership

Ran cross-country org across production, engineering, sourcing, QC, logistics, sales, marketing. CEO conversations to scale-house debugging.