About
I'm Marcus, a developer from Norway. I build trale.ai at Supercompany, and I got here the long way: two years in the Norwegian Army, four years on a shipyard crane crew, and a lot of studying in break rooms.
I own features end to end, the way a product person would: what it should be, how it should feel, and then all of the build. That means the AI behind it, the infrastructure it runs on, the interface on web and iOS, and how it is packaged into plans.
On the side I ship my own things. lerret.app is live, and personaforge.me I built, launched and sold.
The long way here
01The army, and a detour
Before any of this there were two years in the Norwegian Army, including squad leader school (lagførerskolen). No code, no laptop, no product. Just early mornings and a haircut I didn't choose.
I also modelled for a while, signed with Rebel Models, including a job for Dale of Norway. It is still the only time anyone has paid me to stand still.
paid to blend in 
paid to stand out 02The yard
After the army I spent four years in construction, as a crane signalman at a shipyard, on the crew that built the Johan Castberg oil tanker.
I wanted to build software, so I studied around the shifts: first a one-year degree in backend development, then the first two years of my bachelor. The laptop came with me to the yard. Somewhere in there I also ran Solvify, doing outbound sales automation for early-stage startups. Automating my own work is how I started building software, and I never stopped.
Day job: building an oil tanker. 
Break room job: building software. 03Two jobs
Then Trale took me on as a development intern. For about a year and two months I did both: hi-vis at the yard, code for Trale in every hour around it, and the bachelor on top.
The Trale team. All five of us. 04Handing in the helmet
When Trale could scale up, I went full time as the first employee and quit the yard. We are still five people with two developers.
In under two years Trale went from launch to more than 200 business customers across Europe, profitable and without outside capital, and in November 2026 Lime Technologies, listed on Nasdaq Stockholm, bought a majority of the company. I'm still finishing the degree, Data Science at Noroff, to understand what actually happens under the hood of the AI tools I build every day.
New office. No helmet required. 
Same habit, bigger screen. 05And one for fun
In spring 2026, right around when I went full time, four friends and I entered the Oslo Enhanced Hackathon, hosted by Knowit, and won it: first place and 30,000 NOK.
The task was a tool that translates TypeScript to Python, with no LLM allowed to do the translating. So we built an agent loop instead: it changes the code, runs the 135 tests, keeps what improves the score, throws away what doesn't, and goes again. We wrote the protocol, the loop wrote the translator.
Read the post on LinkedIn
First place, Oslo Enhanced Hackathon.
Away from the screen
I train most days: gym through the week, and a race now and then to keep me honest. My first half marathon was Bergen in 2023, on two weeks of preparation, in 2:16. The full one took 4 hours 46 minutes, and next time I'm aiming for around four. I also spent a month training muay thai in Thailand.
When I'm not training
I watch a lot of movies, and I work from a desk near the sea whenever remote work allows it.
A friend and I worked at a festival, and there we met two guys who were, no exaggeration, us in thirty years. Same band, same shirts. Tap the photo to meet them.
Some friends and I once walked from Espe to Trolltunga and back: three days, straight across the mountains. We brought an instant camera, so this is the documentation.
