Engineering · SM-3
SM-3 department. Systems and engineering thinking as the base for everything else.
Entrepreneur · healthy business models
Andrey Putin
I look for healthy business models in a world where the business plan expires before approval.
I test them on my own projects: IT, AI, accounting, cross-border payments and new materials. A healthy business survives a technology shift, a currency move and its founder’s wandering attention. If everything depends on founder heroics, that is not resilience. It is a prolonged emergency.
01 · Foundation
Education and credentials
The base everything else stands on: engineering, finance, strategy — and the ability to hold a room of people together.
Finance · US GAAP
A management and finance lens under US GAAP: business as a system of decisions and numbers.
Executive · Praktikum, P9
Entrepreneurship and strategy at the owner level, not the hired manager.
I enjoy facilitating peer forum groups and belong to three myself.
02 · Projects
My projects
The projects are at different stages: established businesses, new projects and ventures I am no longer involved in.
01
KT.Team2013 — now
Not in operational managementAI-native change
We help enterprises change processes and IT with small, strong teams. Code is consumable inventory; value starts when people use the change and are willing to pay for what comes next.
02
Circulera Materials2025 — now
Strategy and dealsBiopolymers, GCC
The hardest hypothesis in the portfolio: can gas become PHA, agreements become a plant, and sustainability become sound economics without greenwashing?
03
OSNO-VA Pay2025 — now
Operating serviceForeign subscriptions
Subscription payments and digital-subscription management for companies from one window. So a company does not discover on Monday morning that someone forgot to renew its AI service.
04
Craft NA beer 0.0, Riyadh2026 — now
New projectElectrolytes · Saudi Arabia
Craft brewing without alcohol: an electrolyte drink in the non-alcoholic beer category. Not beer in the classic sense, but hydration for a market where alcohol is banned.
05
Stilt2022 — now
Not in operational management24/7 support
1,500+ incidents per month, 20+ projects and 35+ engineers. A working business and a useful reminder: a healthy model does not have to remain my favourite activity.
Earlier
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Sloy2026
Became part of KT.TeamCorporate memory for AI
A corporate memory service for AI agents. It became part of KT.Team and is no longer developed as a separate project.
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OSNO-VA2024 — 2026
Closed as a separate projectAI employees · 1C
An AI accountant, finance director and lawyer working under explicit rules and leaving an auditable trail. The project became part of KT.Team, so it is closed as a separate business.
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Apark2020 — 2026
ClosedTaxi-fleet SaaS
A single platform from vehicle to finance. A subscription model for a business where a car should earn money instead of starring in an endless dispatcher chat.
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lingo.ai2023 — 2024
ClosedAI · product listings
An AI-based service for managing product listings.
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Lookmall2016 — 2017
ClosedShopping centres online
A service that turned a shopping centre into an online store with product search and navigation between stores.
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Natsionalnye Kompyuternye Seti LLC1997 — 2000
ClosedInternet provider
One of the first internet providers in the Pechatniki district of Moscow. The starting point: infrastructure and access when the internet was still exotic.
03 · Family
Five children. My wife is a TV host and stand-up comedian.
Family is not a separate brand. It is the context where everything else gets tested.
My wife Jacklin is a TV host and stand-up comedian performing for a Russian-speaking audience with a reach of more than 10 million people a month. Black, the mother of our children, and the person beside whom my “I think” gets tested against “what is actually happening.”
Five children means five different people, each requiring a separate relationship. That is my growth area, not my achievement badge.
Birthdays, the road, the couch, winter walks.
04 · Strengths ·
Gallup Clifton Strengths
My CliftonStrengths 34 results. My leading domain is Influencing.
Executing
- 5 Arranger
- 6 Restorative
- 12 Responsibility
- 14 Focus
- 18 Deliberative
- 22 Belief
- 23 Discipline
- 25 Achiever
- 26 Consistency
Influencing
- 1 Command
- 2 Activator
- 3 Significance
- 11 Self-Assurance
- 15 Competition
- 29 Communication
- 32 Woo
- 34 Maximizer
Relationship Building
- 7 Adaptability
- 19 Connectedness
- 21 Relator
- 24 Positivity
- 27 Harmony
- 28 Individualization
- 30 Developer
- 31 Includer
- 33 Empathy
Strategic Thinking
- 4 Futuristic
- 8 Intellection
- 9 Ideation
- 10 Strategic
- 13 Input
- 16 Analytical
- 17 Learner
- 20 Context
Based on my Gallup CliftonStrengths report. Theme names and methodology belong to Gallup, Inc.
05 · For partners
Who I would like to work with
I am interested in projects where each person takes responsibility for what they do well.
What I do well
Starting new things, making decisions amid uncertainty and figuring out what is not working. I enjoy seeing what a business could become and bringing people and resources together to test it.
Developing an established business
I look for partners who enjoy turning a promising start into lasting results: maintaining focus, tracking deadlines and financial performance, improving the product and day-to-day work.
Working with the team
I want to work with people who notice others’ strengths, help them grow and can discuss difficulties. It matters to me that people can disagree with me and speak openly about problems.
06 · Channel
Videos about working in IT
I no longer run the IT channel, having stepped away from operational management of the IT business. These videos are a record of that experience: what I discussed and how closely I was involved in the work at KT.Team.
07 · Contact
Get in touch
Write if you would like to discuss a project or get acquainted. For a partnership, briefly describe what you do and what you have in mind.
