Co-founder & COO · Business Solution Architect

Natalia
Mikhaleva

I build things that actually ship.
Marketplaces, AI tools, operations, teams —
from zero to working in production.

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The invisible layer.
Everything depends
on it.

I came into marketing because I loved how good advertising talks to people — not at them. Somewhere along the way I became the person who builds the infrastructure that makes the product possible.

For six years at 1C — one of Russia's largest software distributors — I ran business development and marketing for Microsoft Cloud, ABBYY, Kaspersky and 17 other vendors. I started as a brand marketer and grew to lead 20+ directions.

Then I spent the last two years building from scratch: a B2B SaaS marketplace, an ad platform catalog, a freelance exchange, a contractor payments service, an AI tools marketplace. Every operational block. Every process. Every hire.

I am the kind of person who wakes up at 3am with a product idea, opens a doc, and by morning has a landing page, a unit economics model, and three reasons it might not work. I find this completely normal.

15+
Years in B2B & IT
300+
SaaS vendors onboarded
236
Startups consulted

Operations & Scale

I design the systems that let products run without me in the room. Partner onboarding, contracts, team structure, KPIs, playbooks — the boring parts that determine whether anything works at scale.

Product & AI

I lead a 5-person AI product team. I write specs, design agent workflows, prioritize backlogs. I know what pgvector is for. I can have a real conversation with my developers — not just nod and hope.

GTM & Partnerships

I've negotiated and signed with 300+ SaaS vendors, 78 ad platforms, and international software brands. I know the difference between a pitch and a performance — and which one closes deals.

2025 – present
Co-founder & COO

RnD Hypothesis Tracker

AI-native system for R&D teams. Hypotheses, projects, and agent tasks in one interface. Team expertise gets encoded into YAML skill manifests — knowledge survives vacations, onboarding, and whoever just quit.

MVP · Piloting
2025 – present
Co-founder · Side project

Kuhnerking

30-day business basics course-bot for micro-entrepreneurs. Built with co-founder Anya Korzuk (ex-VK, ex-Netology). Filmed on iPhone, built with vibe-coding, zero budget — because good knowledge shouldn't cost a fortune.

Live
2024
Product lead

AI Tools Marketplace

Russian-market catalog of AI tools — "there's an AI for that" for a market that needed its own version. Built with 5-person team from zero to production with first paying customers.

Launched
2023 – 2024
Operations lead

B2B SaaS Marketplace

300+ software vendors onboarded. Full operational block built from scratch — contracts, onboarding flows, training materials, sales infrastructure.

Launched
2023 – 2024
Operations & team lead

AdTech Marketplace

78 advertising platforms integrated. Hired and managed a team of 5. Built all operational and sales infrastructure from zero.

Launched
2019 – 2023
Program lead · 1C

SaaS Accelerator

236 startups consulted on unit economics and positioning. Internal corporate program, zero external budget. 4 years running.

Completed
01

Technology should work for people. Not the other way around. This sounds obvious. It isn't — I've spent 15 years watching companies forget it.

02

Marketing lost its way when it stopped seeing humans behind the metrics. I find this personally offensive, and I say so out loud at conferences.

03

AI doesn't make teams more effective automatically. It exposes whether you have a research culture. Most teams discover this the expensive way.

04

Expertise that lives only inside someone's head is a liability. Encode it. Document it. Build systems that survive the person.

Let's
talk.

Open to projects, collaborations, and conversations — especially if you're building something in AI or SaaS and need an operator who's been there.

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