ai software entrepreneur

5 years in AI. left big tech and a hedge fund to build my own company.

now i'm running a service business that's 90% AI inside — and sharing AI systems for marketing with 17K+ on youtube.

Oleg Melnikov

what i do

i run authority ai. we help B2B founders build authentic personal brands. you talk, our AI writes your content. one hour a week, five posts done for you.

i teach ai and claude code to 17,000+ people on youtube.

before this, i used AI to build trading algorithms at a hedge fund in amsterdam. then i left to build my own company.

results

1M+

views generated for clients

17K

youtube subscribers

500K+

youtube views

$6,600

first inbound deal for a client in 14 days

mike kamo

co-founder of NP Digital ($100M+ agency) — 80,000 views in 2 months using authority ai. time reduced from 3+ hrs/week to 45 min.

math & cs background

russian national math olympiad winner (2017, 2018). international math olympiad candidate. codeforces.com master. BS math & CS from saint petersburg state university.

building in public

sharing the real journey — failures, wins, and everything in between. no polished highlight reel, just honest progress.

watch

i share my journey building with ai on youtube.

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connect

let's connect — i'm always open to interesting conversations and collaborations.

cheers, oleg

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