Alex
Khomyakov
Building AI products at the intersection of expert knowledge, fintech, and compliance.
About
Over the past decade, I've gone from managing $11M capital projects in manufacturing to building AI-powered SaaS platforms used by thousands of analysts in financial services.
I bootstrapped and exited a company in under two years, grew Productera into a 40+ person product engineering company, and now I'm building InsightAgent — an AI platform that transforms how expert interviews and research calls are conducted, scaled, and captured.
Trilingual (Russian, French, English). Based between Lisbon and New York. Mechanical engineer by training, builder by nature.
What I'm Building
InsightAgent
AI-moderated expert interview platform for research firms and expert networks. Autonomous interviews across 29 languages with structured transcripts, summaries, and data ready in minutes.
Learn moreProductera
Product engineering for the AI era. 40+ person team shipping production-grade software for founders and enterprises across fintech, insurtech, and regulated industries. 50+ products delivered.
Learn moreCuriosityCode Podcast
Conversations with builders, founders, and engineers about the craft of creating technology products and navigating the startup journey.
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Commercial Due Diligence with AI-Moderated Expert Interviews
A methodology for running commercial due diligence at interview scale — the 6 interview types that matter, what to capture in each, and a week-by-week timeline.
Cognitive Debt vs Technical Debt: You're Probably Treating the Wrong One
The two debts have identical symptoms and opposite cures. Here’s a differential diagnosis for founders of AI-built startups — and why the wrong treatment is worse than none.
Market Sizing with Expert Interviews: A Consulting Methodology
How strategy consultancies validate TAM and segmentation through primary research — the 4 expert types, what to ask, and how to triangulate a defensible number.
Primary Research for Consulting Insights Teams: A Playbook
A playbook for Insights Managers at strategy consultancies — how to scale primary research for case teams without growing headcount.
What a $5K Technical Audit Actually Finds
We audited a Series A startup in 48 hours. Here's what showed up across 7 categories — and what each finding means for your business.
Blockchain in Banking: Threat or Opportunity | Artur Kartshikyan
Digital banking transformation in Armenia and Central Asia: ACBA Bank's Head of Digital Banking reveals how banks are navigating blockchain adoption, payment infrastructure gaps, and compliance challe
The Journey
I started my career on factory floors in Russia, programming PLCs and managing fire protection systems. That led to mechanical engineering in Canada, then managing multi-million dollar capital projects at Philip Morris across Quebec and Toronto.
In 2017, I made the leap to tech — founding Productera as a one-person consultancy and growing it into a product engineering company with 40+ people and 50+ products shipped. As AI changed how software gets built, we became the team that takes projects from prototype to production in fintech, insurtech, and regulated industries.
Today, I'm obsessed with a simple question: how can AI make expert knowledge more accessible without sacrificing the trust and rigor that industries like finance demand? That's what InsightAgent is about.