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ArtemGalkin

I build businesses where a system has to be created from scratch, or where something broken needs to be rebuilt.

20 years in sales and management. Co-founder and CEO of BENKONI, gift chocolate sets with about 25% of their category on Wildberries, Russia’s largest marketplace. Now I build AI products with my own hands.

Artem Galkin
Koh Samui, Thailand

20 years: from intern to CEO

At almost every step I either built a system from scratch or rebuilt one that wasn’t working.

  1. 2005 Alliance From intern to Commercial Director Ran the largest computer superstore in Vladimir
  2. 2008 Alfa Group Founder Top-3 IT supplier in the region within 2 years
  3. 2012 Askona Head of Federal District From last place out of 8 to company leader
  4. 2016 VseInstrumenty.ru Sales Director Team of 150, plan met at 100%+ every year
  5. 2021 GENBRAND CEO Company from scratch, $0.5M+ in contracts
  6. 2023 BENKONI Co-founder and CEO Revenue up 7x to $4M+ a year
  7. 2026 AI products Founder 9 products in a year, no dev team

What I’m building now

In 2026 I launched 9 products. I built all of them myself with AI, without a development team: from the idea and market validation to launch and payments.

ATATA app screens: an exercise, a mistake review, a summary

ATATA

Learning app for kids

Homework first, phone second: the child’s phone stays locked until they finish exercises in math, Russian and English based on the school curriculum. A placement test sets the level, mistakes are reviewed with explanations, and there’s a reading trainer, points for progress and a parent dashboard with schedule and stats.

Live, Android and web Open ATATA

More projects

Bazar Siam is open to everyone; the other tools run inside my projects.

  • Bazar SiamSecond-hand marketplace for Koh Samui: classifieds for Russian- and English-speaking residents of the island.Open the site
  • China sourcing agentTakes a villa furnishing estimate of 183 items and finds matches on 1688 and Alibaba, with landed cost and a supplier comparison.For my projects
  • CRM and wholesale catalog for BENKONIA CRM for field sales reps covering 14,000 retail outlets, plus a mobile catalog website the reps use when visiting stores.For the BENKONI team
  • ThaiStatSeller and category analytics for Shopee Thailand, a local counterpart of MPStats.On hold after market validation

How I work

I turn chaos into a working system

I come in where there are no processes or they’re broken, and build a machine that works: team, finance, sales, daily numbers.

I manage by the numbers

Budgets, management reporting, unit economics and daily tracking of 30+ metrics. At BENKONI this helped grow the EBITDA margin 5x.

I negotiate hard without burning bridges

With foreign suppliers, national retail chains, banks and investors. At BENKONI I raised about $1M in private and bank financing.

I speed businesses up with technology

At VseInstrumenty.ru I led sales automation across the website, ERP, CRM and warehouse. “Smart Search” made processing of large orders 12x faster. Now I build AI products myself.

Based in
Koh Samui, Thailand
Education
Corporate MBA, Plekhanov Russian University of Economics
Languages
Russian native, English intermediate (B1)

Let’s talk

Open to conversations with investors, funds and founders building AI products, in the US and worldwide. Telegram is the fastest way to reach me.