About

I've spent twenty years building digital products that millions of people open every day. I started as an engineer and CTO; the job underneath every title has been the same — find what people actually need, then build the simplest thing that delivers it at scale.

That produced two of the largest online parenting communities in Eastern Europe — the region's #1 mobile social network for moms and its #1 parenting platform, together over 10 million members and 500+ brand partnerships. I still run them today.

By training I'm a mathematician — Master of Science in Mathematics, mathematical statistics. It shows up in odd places. A few years back our communities had a narrow, stubborn problem: how to route a health question, typed out by someone who's worried, to the right kind of specialist. I ran that project on our side, with an academic supervisor and a group of researchers on theirs, and the data was my job — the raw material, the training sets, the labeling by specialty, question by question. The model we fine-tuned on it gets the right specialty more than 92% of the time. The work went through peer review and came out in Automation and Remote Control in 2024, six of us on the paper.

Alongside the communities, I advise companies on AI: building one-person AI companies, bringing AI processes into existing teams, and getting found in AI search. I explore AI hands-on every day — my own products are my laboratory — and most of what I learn ends up on this blog first. Most clients wrote to me after reading something here.

None of this is an accident. My godfather and first business mentor was Manuel Jalón — the Spanish engineer who invented the modern mop and sold 60 million of them in 40 countries. He never chased prestige. He found problems millions of ordinary people had stopped noticing, and solved them with something simple and impossible to ignore. Serve real people, keep it simple, let it scale — that's the through-line of everything I make, and of most of what I write.

This blog is where I think in public: about AI and robots (the Honest Machines series), about building products alone with agents, and about the craft of noticing problems everyone else has stopped seeing.

Contact

Email: andrey@soloviev.me
LinkedIn: in/solovievandrey