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Founder and Managing Partner at Amalgama

Kirill Kiryushin makes AI useful

Twenty years across consulting, enterprise technology and business ownership shape every practical AI decision.

Kirill Kiryushin, founder and managing partner of Amalgama
Kirill KiryushinFounder and Managing Partner

14+Years in software and AI

50+Clients across industries

$35M+Value delivered

98%Client retention

AI needs experience before it needs another model

Models produce plausible output. Businesses need something stricter. The result must fit existing tools, permissions, handoffs, review rules, budgets, and the way people actually work.

Delivery experience changes the order of the project. Start with the business problem. Map the data, people, approvals, failure modes, and economics. Then decide where AI belongs.

A demo can ignore the awkward cases. A working system cannot. Those cases decide whether AI saves time, creates risk, or becomes another tool nobody trusts.

The work behind the point of view

Four parts of the background matter when AI meets a live organisation.

01

Enterprise

Transformation and delivery across 2 major banks, 1 oil company and 3 global IT integrators

02

Consulting

Multiple projects with McKinsey, BCG, PwC, EY, Accenture and other global consulting teams

03

Operator

3 businesses built and 2 exits, with direct responsibility for the commercial outcome

04

Education

Master's degree in Management. Strategic is the leading CliftonStrengths theme

37.8M+assessments completed worldwide

Strategic, tested at global scale

CliftonStrengths is Gallup's 30-minute development assessment. It measures 34 research-validated talent themes built through decades of research. More than 37.8 million people have completed it worldwide.

Kirill's leading theme is Strategic. Gallup describes it as spotting relevant patterns, creating alternative routes and choosing a practical way forward when the situation is complex. It does not grade intelligence or seniority. It identifies recurring ways of thinking that can be developed into strengths.

What experience changes in an AI project

01

Choose the work

Find a workflow with enough volume, cost, delay, or risk to justify intervention.

02

Map the constraints

Account for systems, permissions, data quality, handoffs, exceptions, and the people who own them.

03

Keep control

Put review, confidence thresholds, logs, and escalation where the business consequence requires them.

04

Prove the result

Measure time, cost, accuracy, adoption, and business impact after the system meets real users.

Selected training and certifications

AI platforms, cloud, enterprise technology, and project delivery.

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Anthropic
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OpenAI
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IBM
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AWS
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Oracle
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PMBOK / PMI
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Google

Start with one workflow worth fixing.

A focused assessment identifies the strongest use case, the constraints, and the practical next step.