Oct 15, 2026Article2 min read
Why we spun EdTech out of devtodev
The business case for separating Edvice from its parent analytics company — market fit, operating autonomy, and the cap-table mechanics of a strategic spin-off.
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Oct 15, 2026Article2 min read
Pivoting Edvice through the war in Ukraine
Relocating staff, rebuilding the business plan from scratch, and keeping an EdTech company alive under cross-border pressure. Decisions taken in the first three weeks and what actually held up.
Oct 15, 2026Article2 min read
Producing four educational projects with UNICEF Kazakhstan
What it takes to run four consecutive partner-funded projects back-to-back — requirements capture, timelines, and the habits that keep educational programs actually shippable.
Oct 15, 2026Article2 min read
Running a game incubator inside a university
Six game projects launched through the KBTU GameLab incubator, three shipping on Steam. Lessons on selection, mentorship, and keeping a pipeline moving through an academic calendar.
Oct 15, 2026Article2 min read
AI agents for applicants, and what halved our text volume
Notes on deploying AI-powered agents for applicants and staff at a university admissions office — what they handle, what they hand off, and why text-based inquiries dropped by about half.
Oct 15, 2026Article2 min read
Admissions is a product: what we changed at KBTU
How treating a university admissions funnel as a product — with data-governance standards, a centralised pipeline, and AI agents — cut document processing time by 30% and manual staff input by 70%.
Oct 15, 2026Project1 min read
Edvice
Chief Product Officer at Edvice — from post-investment idea to revenue-generating business. Xsolla-accelerator B2B contract, team relocation and replan through the war in Ukraine.
Oct 15, 2026Project1 min read
KBTU GameLab
Running the GameLab's educational offerings as end-to-end products: four UNICEF Kazakhstan projects delivered, five strategic partnerships, six incubator projects launched (three on Steam).
Oct 15, 2026Project2 min read
KBTU Admissions Digitalization
Redesigning a university admissions funnel around AI agents and data-governance standards. Document-processing time −30%, manual input −70%, data-entry errors cut to 1%.