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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Crypto-Backed Lending Explained | Himanshu Sahay
In this episode of The Curiosity Code podcast, host Alex Khomyakov speaks with Himanshu Sahay, co-founder and Chief Revenue Officer of Arch Lending, about the collapse of the first era of crypto-backe
AI Agents in Fintech: Are They Out of Control?
In this episode of The Curiosity Code podcast, host Alex Khomyakov explores whether AI agents in fintech are getting out of control, using the July Hugging Face incident and conflicting expert views a
Crypto Won. So Where Did the Money Go? | Colin Butler
In this episode of The Curiosity Code podcast, host Alex Khomyakov speaks with Colin Butler about his provocative thesis that crypto has already won, but not for the vast majority of its participants.
Building an In-House Expert Network? Sourcing Is the Easy Part
More investment teams are finding their own experts instead of booking every call through a network. The list takes an afternoon. Running 150 compliant, comparable interviews off it is where the plan
Enhanced Multilingual Support: Non-English Interviews, Delivered in English
Conducting interviews in 30+ languages was never the hard part. What changes when the transcript, summary and quotes come back in the language your analysts actually read.
AI-Driven Fintech Development: The 3-Person Team That Replaces Your 8-Person Squad
Fintech engineering used to require a small army. AI changes the math — but only with the right team composition. Here's what an AI-driven fintech development team actually looks like, and where it ea
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.