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#business
10 posts
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The market told me my price was wrong — in the other direction
Read the AI job listings of five large Russian tech companies as market research. The 450K sprint turned out to be cheap — the price was never the problem.
- 3 min read
Check the denominator first
How 70% of one service's tasks became 70% of a country's AI tokens — and why checking the denominator is working discipline.
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Next specialization: neonatology. Started with the sources
Expanding into medicine, starting with neonatology. The model wasn't the bottleneck — the sources were.
- 4 min read
Fine-tuning, RAG, and reasoning aren't alternatives — they're stack layers
Someone asked why my approach beats RAG and reasoning. It doesn't — it lives underneath them. Where each layer works and where each breaks.
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It's not a camera
Spent today sketching out a product that doesn't exist yet. By evening it was clear: it's not a camera. It's an AI system where the hard part runs on the phone — and I'm giving that part away free.
- 6 min read
Thirteen sites under 152-FZ in a day — and ten minutes down over a single dollar sign
Closed 152-FZ across thirteen csylabs sites in a day — and lost ten minutes of production over how docker compose reads $ in .env values.
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A website is not a system yet
Today I was finishing the Liga Zaliva application form — and it made the line between a landing page and an operating system obvious again.
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The headline was in the description
Rewrote the csylabs.com front page in an evening. The strongest copy was sitting in the description, not in the headline.
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Launched an LLM integration service — starting with education
Published the product page for an LLM integration service for Russian organizations. 60-90 days to pilot. Starting with education, then healthcare, then law.
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Handed over the podium
When your partner's interest aligns with yours — hand them the podium.