01
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.
Andrey Putin — entrepreneur
Andrey Putin
I build systems where people stop pretending to work.
Co-founder of KT.Team, Circulera, and Osno-va. I break old work models and assemble new ones: small strong teams, AI at the core, full responsibility for outcomes.
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 · Businesses
What I started and where I am looking now
Five active loops. One main front and four at different stages of maturity.
01
KT.Team
2013 — now
Main front
AI-native consulting
Rebuilding the company so developers own the whole workflow and the CEO becomes AI. The case becomes the product.
kt.team ↗
02
Circulera Materials
2025 — now
Strategy and deals
Biopolymers, GCC
Infrastructure for packaging that disappears in soil and sea without industrial composting. Launching in Bahrain and KSA.
circulera.io ↗
03
Osno-va
2024 — now
SaaS
AI accounting
Management accounting without surviving the audit. Financial clarity for mid-sized businesses.
osno-va.com ↗
04
AI Workshops
2024 — now
Education
Applied AI
Embedding AI into engineering processes of enterprise teams: not tool usage, but systematic change in development.
ai-workshops.kt-team.ru ↗
05
Stilt
2018 — now
Exiting
24/7 support
1,500+ incidents per month, 20+ projects, 35+ engineers. A strong model, but not my main front.
stilt-itil.com ↗
04 · 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.
These photos come from iCloud Favorites: alive, family-first, and not staged as a public showroom.
05 · For partners
Who I am looking for
Not subordinates, not an entourage, not an audience. Three types of people.
Strategic partners
Circulera needs production, distribution, and contracts in GCC and Africa. KT.Team needs enterprise clients for AI-native transformation.
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. People whose problems are bigger or more precise than mine, and with whom growth comes through honest questions.
06 · 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
07 · Contact
Let us change something together.
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