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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One argument about fintech and AI every two weeks, and the best of what I published.
Latest
AI Coding Agents in Finance: What to Hand Over, What to Keep
In this episode of The Curiosity Code podcast, host Alex Khomyakov tackles the question of which software work financial firms should hand to AI coding agents and which should stay with people, drawin
Who's Liable When AI Agents Make Payments? | Abril Benhumea
In this episode of The Curiosity Code podcast, host Alex Khomyakov speaks with Abril Benhumea, a fintech and payments executive and co-founder of Passport, about the infrastructure powering agentic co
Your Team Doesn't Need to Understand RAG. It Needs These 3 Things
In this episode of The Curiosity Code podcast, host Alex Khomyakov argues that most people in financial firms don't need to understand how RAG, agents, or models work internally—they need to know how
Teams of three now do what only eight could afford in 1975
Fred Brooks described our engineering team in 1975.
Brooks Described Our Team in 1975. Nobody Could Afford It Until Now.
Three people have 3 communication channels. Eight have 28. The formula is 50 years old, and the team structure it points to was designed in 1971 and was unaffordable.
Building an In-House Expert Network? Sourcing Is the Easy Part
More investment teams are finding their own experts instead of booking every call through a network. The list takes an afternoon. Running 150 compliant, comparable interviews off it is where the plan
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.