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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Run Your Pre-Call Screening as a Gate — and Get an Audit Trail for Free
Expert-call screening is usually an unverifiable checkbox. Make it a gate the conversation can't get past until your own criteria are met — with the handoff itself as the record.
One Interview Script Can't Do Justice to Every Expert
Why a single interview prompt underserves a CTO and a sales VP alike — and how an interview pipeline that adapts at the vetting stage fixes it without nine separate projects.
Introducing Adaptive Interviews: One Pipeline, Every Expert
A single interview pipeline that adapts to who is actually on the call — role-aware questioning, your own pre-call screening as a gate, one call instead of two, native-language coverage. Configuration
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
How to Hire an AI-Driven Engineering Team for Your Fintech (Without Getting Vibecoders in Disguise)
Every engineering shop now claims to be AI-driven. Most are staff augmentation with extra steps. Here's how to evaluate an AI-driven engineering team for your fintech build — the red flags, the questi
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.