How to build an AI-native company: an intensive with Ilya Krasinsky in Almaty

Almaty hosted a Techgarden intensive with Ilya Krasinsky, an expert in product analytics and unit economics. The topic was building AI-native companies: not "deploy a neural network in the marketing department" but design the business so AI is part of the operating model — from customer service to decision-making.

The difference shows in numbers. A company that bought AI tool subscriptions saves percentage points — employees write emails faster. A company that rebuilt a process around AI changes its cost structure: what five people did is done by one person with agents, while the rest do what genuinely requires humans. The second path is harder — it means rewriting processes, not buying licenses.

For an established business in Kazakhstan, AI-native sounds like a startup luxury, yet moving that way is possible with running processes too. The sensible mechanic is one process at a time: take the most costly one, design it "as if built from scratch with AI," compare the economics. At 1Cifer we watch this transition live: companies open a workspace for a department or a project, and inside it processes are built around agents from day one — AI-native in miniature, without stopping the core business.