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Value is not code.
Most IT teams think in commits and tasks. That is inventory, not outcome. Until a product is used, the work is not done.
Founder-architect · AI-native systems
Andrey Putin
I build systems where people stop pretending to work — and start creating measurable value.
I step into a tangled system and assemble a new norm of work: context → process → roles → AI → metrics → money. Co-founder of KT.Team, Circulera, and Osno-va. Looking for people who turn value into contracts and capital — and people who care how it is built inside.
01 · Manifesto
Four statements everything else grew from
02
Complexity signals weak thinking.
If explaining the model takes three slides, the model is not assembled. If a project needs ten roles, the system is broken.
03
Small teams beat large ones.
Three to seven people with engineering thinking can deliver what burns out teams of fifty. Less coordination, more delivery.
04
Recurring or nothing.
No one-off deals. Every project must either create recurring flow or become the foundation for a product that does.
02 · How I work
I do not manage. I rebuild.
Enter
Find the contradiction. Not the symptom, the cause.
Model
Turn the new norm into a simple formula.
Team
Assemble the smallest group that can carry it.
Exit
Reduce involvement. The system continues without me.
03 · Foundation
Education and credentials
The base everything else stands on: engineering, finance, strategy — and the ability to hold a room of people together.
Engineering · SM-3
SM-3 department. Systems and engineering thinking as the base for everything else.
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.
Beyond building systems, I facilitate strategic sessions and align people around a shared model.
04 · Businesses
What I started and where I am looking now
Seven active loops. One main front and the rest at different stages of maturity.
01
KT.Team2013 — now
Main frontAI-native agency
An AI-native agency for enterprise: we accelerate IT development and deliver strategic change projects, acting as the IT partner for a company’s business units.
02
Circulera Materials2025 — now
Strategy and dealsBiopolymers, GCC
Infrastructure for packaging that disappears in soil and sea without industrial composting. Launching in Bahrain and KSA.
03
Osno-va2024 — now
SaaSAI accounting
Management accounting without surviving the audit. Financial clarity for mid-sized businesses.
04
Sloy2026 — now
ProductCorporate memory for AI
Lightweight corporate memory for AI agents: connects chats, email, Drive, Jira, Git and finance. Context belongs to the company, not to employee chats.
05
Apark2020 — now
SaaS for taxi fleetsFleet management platform
From vehicle to finance: a single platform to run a taxi fleet. Web back office plus driver and service apps — remote car handover, service and repair, fines, parking and toll roads with automatic billing and integration with government services. From 99 ₽ per vehicle per month.
06
AI Workshops2026 — now
EducationAgentic AI development
Workshops on agentic AI development for advanced engineers and teams. A KT.Team subproject.
07
Stilt2022 — now
Exiting24/7 support
1,500+ incidents per month, 20+ projects, 35+ engineers. A strong model, but not my main front.
Earlier
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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.
05 · Family
Five children, a stand-up comedian wife, an interracial marriage.
Family is not a separate brand. It is the context where everything else gets tested.
My wife Jacklin is a stand-up comedian, 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.
06 · For partners
Who I am looking for
Not subordinates, not an entourage, not an audience. Three types of people — and some of them cover my weak spots.
People who close the loop to money
My weak side is taking a finished model all the way to a contract, an owner, an off-take, a metric. I look for people strong exactly there: sales, distribution, deals in GCC and Africa.
Capital allocators
I am moving from “building businesses” toward “owning assets” and want to learn from people who see deals as investors, not operators.
Peer entrepreneurs
Equals who care how the system is built inside. People whose problems are bigger or more precise than mine, and with whom growth comes through honest questions.
07 · Speaking
Where I spoke
Not publicity for its own sake. Only when the audience is ready to change its operating model.
2026High Level ForumSales as a leadership function in the AI eraDubai
2026Tochka-SborSmall teams and Total Cost of OwnershipMoscow
2025KT Team Open DayL10 / L20 / L30 — a new grade modelOnline
2025GCC circular economyNative ecology: an antidote to greenwashingRiyadh
08 · Channel
How I think about IT
Counterintuitive principles for running IT teams: small teams, AI at the core, ownership of outcomes. The core question — how to manage change when the required speed exceeds one manager’s limit.
09 · Contact
Let us change something together.
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