Smartificial is an engineering team with 10+ years of building software

We combine scientific discipline with years of hands-on product development to create solutions that make a measurable impact.

About us

Backend, web, mobile, cloud, data and AI in one team. We build new products and take over or modernise the ones you already run

Engineering experience

Our engineers have built backend, web, mobile and data systems for more than a decade.

10+ years

Team at scale

A new project gets its own team, and the projects already running keep theirs.

120+ engineers

We stay hands-on

Some clients have kept us on for more than six years after launch, and we stay for as long as they need us.

6+ years
of support

Across industries

Streaming, healthcare, legal, retail, real estate and more. The engineering carries across

12+ industries

Custom AI Solutions

We design and integrate AI systems that work inside real products and business processes. That can mean building a solution from scratch, integrating existing AI tools into your infrastructure, or extending the systems you already have.

Technologies we work with include:

LLM systems & RAG architectures
Voice AI and speech processing
Predictive and analytical models
Data pipelines and AI infrastructure

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Engineering Services

We provide full-cycle software development and dedicated engineering teams for companies building digital products.

Our engineering stack includes:

Backend systems (.NET, Java, Node.js, Go)
Web development (React, Next.js)
Mobile applications (Flutter, Android)
Cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, Kubernetes)

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Examples of what we’ve built

Engineering Services

We build web and mobile applications, backend systems and cloud infrastructure, and help teams scale existing platforms or modernise legacy systems.

WhiteWater / Vantage

One shared core, a new instance for every park

A shared platform architecture that could support multiple venues from a single foundation while still allowing each deployment to be customised for local requirements.

Pluto TV

Seven years building Android streaming applications at production scale

Since 2020, we have been embedded into Pluto TV’s Android development process, contributing to both Android TV and Android Mobile products as part of the long-term engineering team.

Robosport

An IoT mobile app that controls Robosport's robotic batting tee

It all works from a phone over Bluetooth, and that phone app is the part we built.

ClubLab

A booking app that pulled private courts off the marketplaces

We built the mobile app for iOS and Android that people use to find a court and book it.

Rayz Kids

The app connecting parents with their child care providers

The app has been in the stores for around four years, and we are the team that builds and extends it.

NDA

A content studio for an adaptive learning platform

We are building the front end of that tool, from scratch, and it is in active use while the work continues.

HESS Cash Systems GmbH

The app employees open to charge their car at work

HESS and their BillEVe product bills the electricity back through the employee's payroll. We built the app they use.

Hommys

An app for legally employing household staff

We built the app from the ground up, with two roles inside it and the full employment cycle in one flow.

iSEE tap

Turning a shelf tap into campaign analytics

iSEE Store Innovations designs the displays that brands and retailers use to stand out in convenience and grocery stores. We built the platform behind that.

PriceMDs

One platform to coordinate every patient, facility, and procedure

We rebuilt the platform from the ground up so they could run the business on it

CHAOS Architects

Turning complex real estate data into natural language analysis

Business intelligence platform for smarter growth in real estate, combining location intelligence and AI to enable better decisions.

NDA

Applying retrieval-augmented AI to legal guidance

AI assistant that searches through laws and regulations, answers complex questions and simplifies legal research.

NDA

Building an agentic system for subjective product discovery

A recommendation system that collects product data from marketplaces and review sites, then ranks options for what a shopper asked for.

Our team

We are a team of experienced engineers building NLP, voice and data systems for years. Our work is shaped by a strong engineering culture and guided by a scientific approach.

Daniil Krasnoproshin

Data Scientist & AI/ML Engineer

Daniil brings a research-driven approach to AI development, focusing on careful data preparation, structured evaluation and a clear understanding of how models behave in production.

He has extensive experience building NLP and voice systems, RAG-based assistants and full agentic architectures, with a focus on reliability, low latency and cost efficiency in production.
Ilya Kislenka

Founder & CTO

Ilya is the founder and CTO of the company with over a decade of hands-on engineering and leadership experience.

For the past five years, he has led delivery and technology management — from early pre-sale discussions to overseeing engineering teams, technical standards and internal infrastructure. He focuses on structure, clarity and building systems that are reliable in production, not just on paper.
Gregory Paprauka

Senior Developer

Gregory leads core engineering across Smartificial projects. With strong experience in Golang, Java, Node.js and AWS, he oversees technical execution, system architecture and code quality across client solutions.

All production systems and integrations are built and reviewed under his supervision. His focus is on performance, infrastructure efficiency and ensuring complex systems remain maintainable as they scale.
Michael Tavis

Co-founder and US Partner

A graduate of Dartmouth College (BA) and Princeton University (MPA), Michael transitioned from Wall Street to a 25 year international career founding and building companies in Eastern Europe.

Michael is based in Boston, Massachusetts, developing new business for the company and acting as an “always available” liaison between our US clients and Ilya and his technical team.

How we work

We treat every project as an engineering task and build it to keep working long after launch.

01 —
Initial Call

05 —
After Launch

We map the problem, understand the goal and check technical feasibility. If the task is clear, we prepare a proposal within a few days.

Once the system is live, we watch how it behaves, fix what breaks and build what you need next. When you want to take it in-house, we hand it over with the documentation and the context to run it.

02 —
Pre-Cycle (for complex projects)

We run a series of calls with a business analyst. The goal is to fully decompose the product: features, data, workflows, constraints. The analyst then translates everything into a detailed brief for an engineering team.

04 —
Development & Integration

We build the solution end-to-end. The development team integrates the system into the client’s product with minimal disruption.

03 —
Proposal & Planning

We outline the approach, timeline and team, and agree who owns what after launch: code, data, infrastructure and access. Then we start.

Annie Delaney
Co-Founder & CEO Rayz Kidz

Software development

We already had a working version of our app, but we wanted to add more complexity while reducing its overall size and boosting speed and performance.

Coming from a non-technical background myself, I really appreciated how collaborative the team is. They take the time to understand what we're trying to accomplish first, then work alongside us to find the most efficient and effective way to get there.

They found solutions to every challenge we handed them. The app is now fast, and they managed to add more features while continuing to improve performance along the way.

Alex Kharkauski
COO Geomotiv

Software development

Five years ago we needed a development partner who could scale with us rather than just fill seats. We were looking for a team that would take ownership of the technical side so we could focus on our clients and we needed that relationship to survive changing priorities.

Smartificial has been consistently straight with us: realistic estimates instead of optimistic ones and early warnings instead of late surprises. They are great guys and our right hand in many areas, so we are happy to have such a valuable partner in our roster. We've worked together on a number of projects over the years, and it's been steady the whole way.

We stopped treating development as something to worry about, and Smartificial became the default answer whenever a new project comes up.

Chris Bray,
Founder and CEO Speedvirtual

App development

We brought in Smartificial to build the mobile app for a batting tee product we helped design, having already had a great experience with them on previous projects.

The team took full ownership from day one. They defined the requirements, handled the design, and coordinated the hardware integration directly with EnCata, with minimal input needed from me. In three months, we delivered the device and the app to our client just before Christmas. The client rated both the functionality and the design 10 out of 10.

Smartificial proved once again to be the right software partner: professional, autonomous, and focused on results. I'd gladly work with them again.

CHAOS Architects Oy

Software development and AI engineering

When we came to Smartificial, we were looking for a partner to take on outsourced software development and AI engineering tasks. The collaboration grew to span several projects over time.

What we valued most was the team's responsiveness and genuine willingness to engage with our requests throughout. Communication stayed open, and we always felt they put real effort into understanding our needs and keeping the work moving forward.

The impact has been concrete. One of the project was implementation of product usage tracking. We had very limited visibility in how product is used before. After the implementation we have created live dashboards, automated weekly reports that is now used across teams.

Most projects begin with a simple conversation. If you have an idea, a bottleneck or a product you want to strengthen, we’re here to explore it with you.

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Let’s see what’s possible

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