Sergei Kobe
AI-native product and functional architect

Sergei Kobe

I design the product and the system. AI agents build it. Review gates decide what ships.

Seven months, about three thousand pull requests across 21 repositories: fintech, PropTech, retail and my own agent infrastructure. I run the product and design work and write the plans, contracts and quality gates. Agents and teams write the code.

Black-and-white portrait of Sergei Kobe against charred wood
≈3,000pull requests since March 2026
88%written by AI agents under my plans
348multi-agent workflows run
2,613review findings logged and tracked
21repositories in active work
5MCP servers designed

How I work

The same loop runs on every project, from a trading platform to a hiring tool. It is written down, enforced by hooks and checked by reviewers who know nothing about the session.

  1. Start from the person who will use it

    Every product starts with the people who will use it: their day, their pain and the decision they need to make. The answer becomes a short brief with what we promise, what we refuse to promise and how we will know it works.

    a decision log on every project
  2. The plan is the contract

    Every feature starts as a work package: data model, API contract, edge cases, test plan. When the tests and the code disagree, the plan decides.

    264 architecture decisions on record
  3. Blind build

    Two agents work from the same plan in separate worktrees. One writes the tests, the other writes the code, and neither sees the other's work until they meet.

    405 test writers · 408 implementers
  4. Review on both ends

    An architect agent reviews the plan before any code exists. Reviewers with no session history read the code before merge, and refuters try to kill each finding.

    ≈875 review agents
  5. Ship by runbook

    Production moves only from main, through a written runbook, with a smoke test after every deploy and a rollback path decided in advance.

    44 projects with living roadmaps
  6. Incidents become gates

    Every incident ends as a rule, and every rule that can become a hook or a CI check does. Agents once broke one rule nine times in a night; a pre-commit gate ended it.

    19 lessons · 50 feedback rules

Selected work

Clients stay unnamed. Each case carries one number that can be checked.

Fintech · trading

Algorithmic trading platform

Nine event-driven services with paper and live execution on perpetual futures, three-level risk control with a kill switch, and a decision log that explains every trade taken or refused.

567 merged PRs in 8 months
Fintech · market data

Real-time market data

A streaming pipeline for 400+ perpetual futures. One-minute bars become signals within seconds, and ingestion heals itself after gaps.

p50 2.2 s · p99 3.8 s
Fintech · AI

AI analyst for traders

An MCP server with 21 tools over dashboards, time series and a backtester: strategy correlation and portfolio Monte Carlo on request.

16 days · 436 tests
Fintech · analytics

Market analytics and alerts

Margin flows, open interest, liquidations and order-book depth across 400+ tokens, with dashboards and subscriber alerts.

400+ tokens tracked
PropTech · Bali

AI platform for a villa-rental company

Thirty-five internal AI tools under one sign-on: sales chat, listing quality, hiring, owner reports and staff operations. I set the product direction and decided what each tool had to do first.

448 live sales conversations in 3.5 months
PropTech · product research

What guest reviews say about revenue

Reviews from two booking platforms turned into themes, revenue impact and a list of the best and worst units, so the next product decisions start from evidence rather than opinion.

744 guest reviews analysed
PropTech · growth

Villa landing factory

A listing link becomes a landing site on its own subdomain, with a booking calendar and a lead form, assembled from one admin screen.

1,810 tests
PropTech · mobile

One app for four audiences

A single mobile app for buyers, sellers, owners and guests, built one audience at a time, with the guest cabinet first.

737 tests · 94.7% coverage on the first night
Retail · beauty

Owner cabinet for a beauty franchise

Bookings, accounting and analytics in one place, with MCP servers over the booking and accounting systems.

≈7,000 tests
Retail · print

Multi-tenant cabinet on a reusable kernel

A copy-shop chain's cabinet built on a kernel that I reuse to start new products in days instead of weeks.

2,427 tests
Events

AI platform for an event agency

A staged interface built around the agency's real production flow, one use case at a time.

2,218 tests
Own system

Twelve specialised agents

An operations system of topic-routed agents, each in its own sandbox with egress control and git-tracked memory. When hosted CI stalled, the same setup ran a self-hosted CI by evening.

12 agents · 4 runtimes

Skill set

Twelve areas I work in every week.

AI-native product management

Product discoveryProduct strategySpecs & acceptance criteriaRoadmaps of shippable blocksCustomer researchLaunch metrics

Product & UX design

UX flowsInteractive prototypesDesign systemsMobile-first UIAccessibility auditsLanding pages

Functional architecture

Plan-driven developmentWork packagesADRDesign reviewsMutation testing

Multi-agent orchestration

Claude CodeAgent workflowsBlind A/B agentsAdversarial reviewHooks & gates

Trading & market-data systems

Execution & riskMarket-data pipelinesBacktestingTime-series analyticsPerpetual futures

LLM applications for operations

AI sales chatDocument AI / OCRAI scoringLLM evaluationCost control

MCP servers & integrations

MCP serversCRMAccounting dataProduct analyticsScoped access

Internal platforms

SSO / RBACModular monolithMulti-tenant cabinetsReusable kernels

PropTech & hospitality

Villa operationsOwner & guest appsListing quality

Data & analytics

BI dashboardsProduct analyticsNPS / VoCVictoriaMetrics · Grafana

Content & search

SEO / GEOMultilingual sitesContent factories

Self-hosting & operations

Docker ComposeSelf-hosted CISandboxed agentsObservabilityRunbooks

Where I can help

For partners, investors and teams who want to build with AI agents at production quality.

AI-native product management

From a customer's pain to a product in use

Discovery with the people who will use it, a spec with acceptance criteria, an interactive prototype within days, then a roadmap of blocks that each ship whole. After launch, the numbers choose the next block.

Product & UX design

Interfaces people can use on day one

UX flows, design systems and interactive prototypes, checked on real phones and contrast-audited on every page before launch.

AI-native engineering

Set up a team where agents ship production code

The playbook, blind test-and-code pairs, review gates, CI and runbooks. Your team runs the same loop from the second week.

Functional architecture

From an idea to a running product

Spec, contracts and a plan of blocks that each ship on their own and are useful the day they land. I lead it through launch.

Trading systems

Execution, risk and market data

Signal-driven trading infrastructure that explains every decision it makes, with analytics and an AI analyst on top.

Internal AI platforms

AI tools behind one sign-on

Sales, operations, hiring and analytics tools with role-based access, an access log and usage analytics.

MCP & integrations

AI that can read your business

Read-only MCP servers over CRM, accounting and analytics, with scoped tokens and access denied by default.

Agent operations

Agents on your own hardware, safely

Sandboxed hosts, egress control, self-hosted CI, observability, and a rule from every incident.

Let's talk.

Partners, investors and future colleagues: a short message with what you are building is the best start.