At Albaola, in Pasaia, they are rebuilding the San Juan, a 16th-century Basque whaling ship, with the techniques of the time, while visitors walk around the hull and watch it grow frame by frame. Ontziola works the same way: the projects I design and build are out in the open, even the ones that are still just a keel.
What has happened at Ontziola, with dates.
“I don't build to own ships. I build to understand how they're made, and to show others it can be done.”
Martín BeitiaOntziola opens.First public version of this page.
Horizontes is launched.A voyage through futures, sailable at horizontes.martinbeitia.com
martinbeitia.com is launched.The flagship: how I work, more than fifty case studies, talks and writing.
Raíces y Alas is launched.A year after the first keel, the tools finally caught up with the idea.
Cabina Abierta is launched.News prepared by agents and reviewed by people.
Cabina Abierta, second iteration.First AI-powered news monitoring: agents that track the industry and suggest what to cover.
Cabina Abierta, first iteration.A first prototype built with Lovable to test the idea.
Keel laid for Raíces y Alas.First prototypes. The technology wasn't ready yet, so the build waited on the slipway.
What brings me to Ontziola once the office lights go off.
Here I try things with no deck and no committee. If something doesn't work, I take it apart and start again. What I care about is the process, not being right.
I've always wanted to make things, but I was held back by not having the tools or the technical know-how. That has changed. Today I can take an idea from the notebook to something that works, and put my creativity into what really matters to me.
I want to know how far AI can go and where it breaks. I build to understand and to explore, and so that those of us who work with it keep getting better at it.
Like in a trainera, the Basque rowing boat, nobody moves forward alone here: every build has its crew, human and AI, and progress is won stroke by stroke, all together.
If you have a problem you'd like to see solved, or an idea you haven't been able to build, tell me about it. The best builds at Ontziola started as a conversation.