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About me

Useful systems for complicated realities.

I am a Stockholm-based engineer, consultant and AI builder. My work sits between strategy and implementation: understanding complicated environments, identifying what matters, and turning that understanding into models, products and practical tools.

I am especially interested in problems where technology alone is not enough. The difficult part is often coordinating people, incentives, information, regulation and existing ways of working.

Portrait of Isaak Lagerman
Engineer · Consultant · Builder

The recurring question

Different projects. The same underlying question.

Much of my work keeps returning to one question: how do people and organisations make good decisions when they have different incentives, incomplete information and limited time?

That question has taken different forms. I built the economic engine behind a four-stakeholder simulation of Sweden's energy transition. I developed a regulator-defensible forecasting model adopted by approximately 25% of Swedish electricity distributors. I studied why capable consultants struggled to adopt generative AI, then translated the findings into practical recommendations.

The output changes. The underlying work remains similar: understand the system, reduce unnecessary complexity, and build something people can actually use.

~25%

of Swedish electricity distributors adopted a forecasting model I built

4+ yrs

of continued reuse for an energy-transition simulation

200+

person division assessed for practical AI opportunities

127.5

ECTS in humanities and political theory alongside engineering studies

Two sides of the profile

Technical depth, with a wider lens.

My education and work have developed along two parallel tracks. Together, they shape how I approach difficult decisions and new technology.

01

Engineering and building

I studied Industrial Engineering and Management at KTH, specialising in Financial Mathematics. My work includes forecasting, statistical analysis, Python simulation, React and Next.js applications, AI workflows and decision-support products.

Financial mathematicsPythonJavaScriptReactNext.jsForecastingAI workflows
02

People, institutions and judgment

Alongside engineering, I completed extensive coursework in philosophy, political science and literature at Stockholm University. That parallel track shaped how I approach technology: as something that operates inside organisations, regulations, cultures and human systems.

Political philosophyPolitical scienceEthicsLiteratureOrganisations

How I work

Three principles behind the output.

01

Understand before prescribing

Start with the actual incentives, constraints and available information.

02

Make complexity usable

A sophisticated solution is only valuable when people can understand and apply it.

03

Build toward adoption

The goal is not merely a correct analysis, but a model, product or decision that survives contact with reality.

Current focus

Exploring practical AI through a cross-disciplinary collective.

I am currently building the Independent AI Collective, a five-person group bringing together engineering, design and creative practice to explore practical AI automation for Swedish SMEs.

The focus is deliberately concrete: finding workflows where a small, well-designed system can create measurable value for the people using it.

Two members of the collective working from a lakeside house.
Isaak sitting aboard a sailboat.

Beyond the work

A technical path, never only technical.

Outside work, I have spent more than ten years playing classical piano and drums. I also care deeply about literature, art, photography, fitness, and the kinds of questions that rarely have purely technical answers. The photographs throughout this site are my own.

Bring me a difficult question.

I work best on problems that require analytical depth, practical judgment and a willingness to build.

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