Dmitry Kotov
Investors & partners

One company and three products, built the same way, by the person who writes the code

Neuron Expert is the company. The three products next to it started the same way, as a system built to solve an operating problem, and are at earlier stages; their pages say so. All four are documented in public: the problem, the product, the business model, and what is not working yet. For both sides, that is a faster filter than a deck.

The portfolio

Each has its own page with the full argument — the problem, the product, the model, and why it generalizes.

Neuron Expert

Production

Neuron keeps a person's identity, expertise, and working memory intact, and grows a company around them — instead of asking them to adapt to a stack of disconnected tools.

Model:
Personal → Business → Network
Core:
From $99/month
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Friends.energy

Production

The Russian-speaking diaspora in the US organises itself in scattered chats. Friends.energy turns that into a city-by-city platform where jobs, housing, services, and events are searchable — and businesses can be found.

Coverage:
Miami · New York · LA · SF · Chicago
Audience:
Russian-speaking communities in the US
Distribution:
Web plus per-city Telegram channels
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FindSupport.ai

Live · peer support in rollout

People who need a therapist do not fail at searching — they fail at the first message. FindSupport takes a description of the situation instead of a filter query, matches it to specialists who fit, and delivers that first message through the platform.

Directory:
2,748 therapist profiles · 147 US cities
Paid step:
Contacting a specialist, not browsing
Peer support:
Free for the person seeking help
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Atlas Trader

Live terminal · paper accounts

Retail trading tools are built to make you trade. Atlas is built to tell you when not to — it reads market structure across 26 CME futures, ranks what it finds, and answers WAIT more often than anything else.

Coverage:
26 CME futures · 1-minute to weekly
Cadence:
30-second marks · 5-minute rescan
Validation:
2-year sweeps, in- and out-of-sample
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What these companies have in common

Problems too boring to be crowded

A missed phone call at a plumbing company. A room advertised in a chat that scrolls past in an hour. The message a person cannot bring themselves to write to a therapist. Few founders go after them, and each one costs somebody money every day.

Distribution built into the product

Each platform generates the pages that bring its own customers — local service pages, city hubs, topic pages. Acquisition is built into the software rather than bought from a separate marketing budget.

Priced on the customer's outcome

Per completed job rather than per seat; for access to a contact rather than for browsing. Revenue moves with the customer's revenue. That shortens the sales conversation, and when a customer leaves, the reason shows up in their numbers first.

One codebase, many markets

A trade, a city, or a language is a parameter in each of these systems, not a rebuild. Expanding costs content and moderation, not an engineering programme. That is the difference between a product and an agency.

Who this is written for

Angels and operators who have run something in field services, marketplaces, community platforms, or trading infrastructure, and who want to help beyond the cheque. Here, an introduction to a first customer is worth more than the marginal dollar.

Funds that invest early in applied AI and are comfortable with vertical software: unglamorous customers, paying revenue, no consumer growth curve. If your thesis needs a hockey stick by month six, these are the wrong companies.

Strategic partners in the same verticals — a franchise network, a brokerage, a clinic group — where a commercial agreement is the natural first step, and an investment, if there is one, follows from working together.

How a conversation goes

  1. Step 01

    You write, with your context

    Who you are, what you invest in, and which venture interests you and why. There is no form and no deck to request first: the public pages already carry what a deck would.

  2. Step 02

    A call with the founder, not a team

    The person who designed the systems answers the questions, including the ones about what is not working. Expect specifics on architecture, unit economics, and where each product actually is.

  3. Step 03

    Materials under NDA

    If there is mutual interest, the detailed materials follow privately — metrics, financials, corporate structure, and the current plan. Anything specific to terms is discussed there rather than published here.

What is available privately

Published on this site: the problem, the product, the model, and the technical architecture of every venture. Shared after a conversation, under NDA:

Operating metrics
Current usage, revenue, retention, and acquisition cost per venture, with the measurement definitions attached.
Financials and runway
Historical statements, current burn, and the plan the money funds.
Corporate structure
Entities, jurisdictions, cap table, and existing commitments or obligations.
Product roadmap
What ships next in each venture, what it depends on, and the risks that would change the order.
Customer references
Introductions to operators using the products, arranged with their consent.

Verify before you talk

Two of the four products are live and open to anyone, no introduction needed. The press archive on this site links directly to every outlet instead of quoting selectively. Pieces that are wire syndication rather than independent reporting are labelled as such.

The systems pages describe how each platform is built, in enough detail that technical diligence can start from the architecture itself rather than a summary of it.

Questions asked first

Are you currently raising?
Deal-specific questions (whether a round is open, on what terms, at what size) are answered in a conversation, not published. A public page describing an offering counts as general solicitation, which changes which exemptions are available and what verification every investor has to go through. Write, and you will get a direct answer.
Why is there no deck on this page?
Because the pages for each venture already contain what a deck would: the problem, why it is unsolved, what the product does, how it earns, and why it generalises. A deck adds design and subtracts detail. If your internal process needs one, ask and you will get it.
Can I invest in one product rather than the whole portfolio?
In principle, yes. The right structure depends on the product, its stage, and who you are, so it is one of the first things to discuss.
What do you want besides money?
Distribution. A single introduction to a franchise network, a brokerage, a clinic group, or a city community is worth more to these companies at this stage than the marginal dollar, because every one of them earns per customer served rather than per seat sold.
What are the biggest risks?
Concentration in one operator, products at different stages of maturity, and markets where the incumbent is not a competitor but the status quo — a business that keeps missing calls is not switching to anything. These are discussed openly, not steered around.

Write, with your context

Who you are, what you invest in, and which of the products you want to talk about. It goes straight to the founder.

What this page is not

This page is provided for information only. It is not an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy, any security or interest in any of the companies described, and nothing on this site should be read as a recommendation, a projection, or a promise of any result.

Any investment discussion happens privately, subject to the applicable securities laws of the relevant jurisdiction, and only with investors who qualify under them. Figures published elsewhere on this site describe products and coverage rather than financial performance.