What kind of companies have the founders worked at?

Our founders have built and scaled products at major technology ecosystems competing with companies like Uber, Amazon, Google, DoorDash, Revolut, and Booking — across search, ride-hailing, food delivery, q-commerce, car-sharing, micromobility, cross-border ecommerce, and digital banking.

Where is your team based?

Our founders and client-facing leadership operate with US business hours coverage. Our engineering team is distributed across Europe and CIS, which allows us to combine senior global expertise with a competitive cost structure.

How experienced is the engineering team?

Our engineers carry an average of 5–7 years of senior-level experience, with a culture shaped by working at and alongside top-tier global technology companies. Every project is led directly by a founder.

Do you only do AI projects?

Our focus is AI development, AI agents, and intelligent automation. We also do the supporting work that makes AI actually function in production — backends, integrations, data pipelines, and dashboards.

How fast can you start?

For most projects, we can start discovery within 1–2 weeks and begin engineering work within 2–4 weeks. Our founders have a track record of building businesses from 0 to $40M+ revenue within 6 months — speed is in our DNA.

How do you protect client data and IP?

We sign NDAs by default, use secure development practices, and structure projects so that clients fully own the code, data, models, and documentation we produce.

What size of projects do you take on?

We work on projects ranging from focused 4–8 week engagements to multi-month builds (full AI platforms, internal copilots, custom systems integrated with your business).

Why should we work with you instead of a US-based agency?

You get founder-level product and engineering expertise — the kind of people who have built and scaled $10M–$100M businesses — combined with senior engineering execution at a better cost structure. We compete on outcomes, senior expertise, and execution speed, not on rates alone.

About Us | AI Development Studio for US Businesses

Who we are

Our studio was founded by product and engineering leaders with 10+ years of experience each, who previously held Head of Product and Head of Business Unit roles at the largest technology companies in our region — businesses that compete locally and globally with Uber, Amazon, Google, DoorDash, Instacart, Shopify, Revolut, Stripe, Booking, Airbnb, Lyft, and Wolt.

Our culture is built on the engineering and product standards of top-tier global tech companies — fast iteration, data-driven decisions, real ownership of outcomes, and a strong bias toward measurable business impact.

Between us, the founding team has built and scaled products across:

search and recommendation systems

ride-hailing and mobility

food delivery and q-commerce

car-sharing and micromobility

cross-border ecommerce and marketplace logistics

digital banking and fintech

The numbers behind our experience

We are not a typical agency. Before starting this studio, our founders built and operated businesses at the kind of scale most US SMB and mid-market companies aspire to reach.

$

10 M+

annual P&L managed across product directions

$

100 M+

GMV generated by businesses we have led

15 M+

active users served by products we built

Tens of millions

customers across fintech and ecommerce ecosystems

100 +

people across product, engineering, ops, and sales

30 +

products and major features shipped from 0 to production

10 +

years

senior product & engineering leadership per founder

These are not theoretical numbers from slide decks. These are real businesses we have built, scaled, and operated.

Track record of building from 0 to scale — fast

Our founders have a repeatable track record of taking products from zero to meaningful scale in short timeframes.

Scooter-sharing business

built from 0 to a $40M+ annualized run rate in a single season, including full service architecture, operations, and product — delivered within 6 months.

Advertising business

currently scaling from $16M to $30M+ ARR (2x growth target within 12 months).

Cross-border ecommerce logistics

designed and launched logistics infrastructure for one of the largest marketplaces in our region.

AI and ML systems in production

dynamic pricing, surge pricing, personalized discounts, demand forecasting, recommendations, and fraud prevention — running at the scale of millions of users.

This is the kind of execution speed and product thinking we now bring to US retail, real estate, and construction businesses.

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Why this matters for your business

Most agencies hire engineers who have only ever worked in agencies. We are different. If your business is doing $1M–$50M in revenue and you want to grow with AI — you are talking to the people who have already walked that exact path, multiple times, inside some of the most competitive tech environments in the world.

Our founders have already solved — at production scale — the exact problems most US SMB and mid-market companies are just starting to face:

ecommerce and marketplace platforms serving millions of users

real-time logistics, dispatch, and routing systems

demand forecasting and dynamic inventory across large catalogs

AI-driven pricing, personalization, search, and recommendations

fintech-grade reliability, security, and fraud prevention

large-scale data pipelines and analytics infrastructure

AI assistants and support automation serving millions of customers

We bring this enterprise-grade thinking to small and mid-sized businesses — without the enterprise price tag or enterprise complexity.

Case studies: AI solutions we've built

We don't just talk about AI development — we ship it. Below are recent examples of how we apply enterprise-grade product thinking to real business problems for US retail, real estate, and construction clients.

Retail & Ecommerce

AI Product Description Generator for a 10,000+ SKU catalog

Cut listing production time by 80% and improved SEO traffic to product pages.

Read the case study

Demand Forecasting for a Multi-Channel Retailer

Reduced stockouts by 35% and overstock by 20% within the first quarter.

Read the case study

AI-Powered Ecommerce Analytics with Anomaly Detection

Replaced static dashboards with proactive alerts that catch revenue drops within hours, not weeks.

Read the case study

More industries coming soon

We're actively building solutions for real estate and construction clients.

Case studies from these industries will be published as projects complete.

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Founder-led engagements, senior-heavy delivery

Every project at our studio is led directly by a founder with deep product and engineering experience. When you work with us, you are not handed off to a junior team after the sales call. You work directly with the people who have built and scaled $10M–$100M businesses serving millions of customers.

Our engineering team is built on the same principle. Our developers carry an average of 5–7 years of senior-level experience and a culture shaped by working alongside the standards of the world's leading technology companies.

Vladislav Volovik

Data & Analytics Lead

E-commerce data analyst at Sephora (LVMH Group) in Paris. Previously five years at Allianz Technology as a consultant, where he built BI solutions on SAP Analytics for IT cost optimization across the group. EDHEC Business School, MSc in Consulting & Digital Transformation. He designs the data models and BI layer on every engagement — the part that decides whether reporting takes one click or one analyst.

Alexander Soldatov

Product Lead

Ten years in product leadership at Yandex, AliExpress, and Tinkoff. Built Yandex.Scooters operations from zero and scaled the team to 23 specialists; led Yandex.Shuttle; ran cross-border logistics products at AliExpress Russia, launching China and Turkey corridors that delivered 3.5% GMV growth and 25% faster order fulfillment. He owns hypothesis validation and MVP scoping here — deciding what gets built first and what gets cut.

Sergey Rodin

Managing Partner

Founder of Lava Media, a video marketing agency in San Diego. Produced 900+ campaigns for Reebok, Rimmel, 3M, Vivo, and Meizu, managing monthly media budgets north of $20,000 and taking Meizu to 4% market share in a new market. He runs client engagements end to end — scoping, commercials, and delivery.

Our focus: AI development and intelligent agents

We specialize in AI development and agentic systems — the technologies that are reshaping how retail, real estate, and construction businesses operate.

LLM-powered applications

assistants, copilots, internal AI tools

AI agents and multi-agent systems

autonomous workflows that handle real business tasks

RAG and knowledge systems

AI that understands your business data

AI-driven automation

replacing manual workflows with intelligent pipelines

Forecasting and predictive ML

demand, inventory, pricing, operational forecasting

Document AI and OCR

extracting structured data from unstructured sources

Custom software engineering

systems and integrations that make AI work in production

We choose the stack after defining the case — never the other way around.

What you get when you work with us

Direct access to founders on every engagement

Senior engineers with 5–7+ years of experience — no bait-and-switch staffing

Product thinking, not just code — we challenge assumptions and design for outcomes

Execution speed shaped by hyper-growth environments — 0-to-$40M businesses in 6 months

Transparent communication in US business hours

Full IP ownership — you own everything we build. NDA and data protection by default

Let's talk about your project

If you are exploring AI development for retail, real estate, or construction — or if you have a custom AI or software idea and want a senior team to help you build it — we are happy to discuss the case.

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About Our Team

Founded by product and engineering leaders from the largest tech ecosystems in our region

Who we are

Between us, the founding team has built and scaled products across:

The numbers behind our experience

$

10

M+

$

100

M+

15

M+

Tens of millions

100

+

30

+

10

+

years

Track record of building from 0 to scale — fast

Scooter-sharing business

Advertising business

Cross-border ecommerce logistics

AI and ML systems in production

This is the kind of execution speed and product thinking we now bring to US retail, real estate, and construction businesses.

Why this matters for your business

We bring this enterprise-grade thinking to small and mid-sized businesses — without the enterprise price tag or enterprise complexity.

Case studies: AI solutions we've built

Retail & Ecommerce

AI Product Description Generator for a 10,000+ SKU catalog

Demand Forecasting for a Multi-Channel Retailer

AI-Powered Ecommerce Analytics with Anomaly Detection

More industries coming soon

We're actively building solutions for real estate and construction clients.

Founder-led engagements, senior-heavy delivery

Our focus: AI development and intelligent agents

We choose the stack after defining the case — never the other way around.

What you get when you work with us

Direct access to founders on every engagement

Senior engineers with 5–7+ years of experience — no bait-and-switch staffing

Product thinking, not just code — we challenge assumptions and design for outcomes

Execution speed shaped by hyper-growth environments — 0-to-$40M businesses in 6 months

Transparent communication in US business hours

Full IP ownership — you own everything we build. NDA and data protection by default

Let's talk about your project

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