ZenBiz Services

• Manage partnerships with key customer stakeholders, including C-level executives, and demonstrate commitment to customer’s success as their strategic technical advisor

• Provide leadership across AI and Modernization domains, inspiring innovation and fostering a culture of continuous improvements

• Set technical vision and build the end to end engineering roadmap from design to launch to scale

• Manage creation of internal and external assets (technical demos, white-papers, frameworks) to drive and support enablement and thought leadership

Co-Founder

Hustle Fund

Angel Squad Member

AI-driven expert specializing in data analytics, collaboration, CRM consultations at GLG.

Technology Expert

Horsley Bridge Partners

• Design and implement enterprise solution architecture (Snowflake, FiveTran, Tableau) increasing private equity data reporting performance by 35%

• Lead a cross functional team to implement CRM and ERP solutions, resulting in 25% increase in fundraising, marketing  and back-office capacity

• Manage vendor relationships and contract negotiations. Co-author success showcase studies and present at user conferences

• Develop staff through coaching and development plans, improving employee performance metrics by 25%

Director of Information Systems

Senior Product Manager

Kattelo Labs

• Developed and implemented technology solutions in various industries, resulting in a 40% increase in revenue and a 30% increase in customer satisfaction

• Led a team of 30+ engineers and designers to deliver high-quality software solutions on-time and on-budget, resulting in a 25% increase in project success rate

• Built and maintained relationships with key technology partners, including AWS and Microsoft Azure, resulting in a 25% increase in new business opportunities

• Drove inbound marketing efforts by publishing customer success case studies and speaking at industry events, resulting in a 30% increase in website traffic and lead generation

Co-Founder/CTO

Dotfully (Acquired)

• Built and launched online marketplace in 45 days with 1 front-end developer and 1 UX designer
Accelerated fulfillment processes by 70% and increased transactions by 30% by integrating Stripe and Shippo APIs 

• Detected fraudulent registration activities and incentivized 40% of “offenders” into becoming customer champions

• Curated product roadmap and prioritized feature releases and bug fixes with user research and site analytics

• Designed A/B testing, analyzed shopping cart behavioral data to increase signups by 80%, viral invites by 60%, and revenue by 100-150% month-over-month

Booz Allen Hamilton

Senior Technical Manager

BearingPoint

Solutions Architect

Synetics for Management Decisions

Senior Technical Lead

KPMG US

Business Analyst

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I am a Co-Founder at ZenBiz Services, with over 20 years of experience in leading cross-functional teams and driving innovation in the technology sector. I have a passion for developing and implementing cutting-edge solutions that leverage AI and data science to optimize business processes and enhance customer experiences.

As a seasoned technology leader, I have a proven track record of delivering complex technology projects on-time and within budget, while maintaining a focus on driving revenue growth and staying ahead of industry trends. I have also co-authored and contributed to multiple publications and books on technology topics, and hold professional certificates in corporate finance, data science, and blockchain fundamentals. My goal is to bring my experience and expertise to a new role as a technology leader, where I can collaborate with other visionaries and create value for a dynamic and growth-focused organization.

Kenneth Lo

used to hide my biking. 

even got an ultimatum once:
the bike or the marriage.

but when my cup’s empty, 
i ride. every damn time.

honor your guts. do your cardio.

Managing Partner @ Arc5 Ventures | Backing AI-Driven Solutions in Boring Industries | Founder-First Investor

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every great founder has a moment where 
they admit they were building the wrong thing.

the next decision after that
is the one funders bet on.

Smiling person in cycling helmet and rain poncho gripping an orange chainsaw, standing on a round base with bright green cycling shoes.

typeform has the features. not the price.

google forms is still the ugly duckling.
jotform gets close but feels heavy.
tally hits the sweet spot.

am i missing a sleeper tool?

stage fright is real
building in public feels like walking out without pants

here’s the cheat
share the lesson, not the panic
share the progress, not the pressure

that’s enough to build trust without losing your mind

every startup is a cult until payroll hits.

vision’s easy when rent’s paid. 
culture is what’s left when the hype dies

and you still show up.

Freelancer → agency owner → SaaS founder.

Now running Botster.io → an all-in-one tool that helps digital businesses extract, monitor, and weaponize web data.

Posting SaaS learnings, automation tricks, technical deep dives.

If you’re building anything online - you’ll probably find something useful here.

If you're looking to automate your business - text me, DMs are open.

Denis Grammakov

Get an OFFICE. Pay for it.
Go into debt if you have to.

I visited a guy recently who “works from home.”

His office was:

- a wobble-ball "chair"
- two monitors jammed into the corner of the living room
- kids running around
- wife cooking two meters away
- toys, noise, chaos, distractions
- honey, can you take out the trash please

And he wonders why he can’t focus or scale.
Why nothing gets finished.

HERE is the TRUTH:

You are NOT building anything meaningful if your work environment is set up like that.

An office isn’t a luxury.

For $200/month you can rent:

- a quiet room
- a coworking space
- a spare office in someone else’s building
- anywhere with a DOOR that closes

And suddenly your productivity triples. WOW didn't see that coming! 

Your standards rise.
Your thinking sharpens.
Your business becomes real.
You're happy to get home once your day is finished. 

People say:

“I’ll get an office when I’m successful.”

No. It works the opposite way:

You get an office TO BECOME successful.

Environment is everything. Respect your work. Buy silence.

Denis Gramm

Solofounder @ Botster & StayAPI // B2B Web Scraping & Workflow Automation // I blog about my journey and findings

Product managers are the new rockstars.

I hit up a PM I used to work with. Asked how the AI era is treating him.

Pretty darn good, it turns out

He’s working at a company that manages big brand sites (200+).

You know what he told me?

“I don’t need devs anymore. I build everything myself with ChatGPT and Cursor.”

Visual regression systems? Done.
Monitoring plugins? Done.
Internal dashboards and message automation? Done.

All by himself. No meetings. No JIRA tickets. No begging engineers.

Why?

Because he understands products. Understands what a good product should look like and how it should behave.

Those who know what to build don’t have to wait for anyone anymore.

They open Cursor.
Prompt AI.
Ship.

If nobody emails me that it’s broken — it’s NOT broken.

I spent SIX MONTHS building features nobody asked for
for users who didn’t even EXIST
for revenue that wasn’t coming

This was when I was building my first startup:

Pixel-perfect design.
Every page “needed” to exist. Cookie policy? VERY important.
Company address with a map widget? A MUST-HAVE
Perfect UI and UX (so I thought)
Perfect everything (so I thought)

Now?

If Sentry doesn’t light up - it’s not a bug.
If customers don’t ask - it’s not a feature.
If nobody misses it - it doesn’t exist.

Real example from a few weeks ago:

A user emailed:

“Hey, your payment gateway isn’t working.”

Of course it wasn’t working.
There was no payment gateway.

I processed his payment manually, wrote back:

“Payment processor was acting up on my side — fixed now.”

30 minutes later I added the integration.

The next customer paid successfully.

Done. Shipped. Nobody died.

Don’t build what nobody asked for.
Don’t polish what nobody will use.
Don’t delay your launch for imaginary problems.

If the pain is real, people will ASK.

Ship now.
Fix later.

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100+ hospitality developers signed up for StayAPI since launch 🎉

All organic. Many from LinkedIn.

Now I’ve got a few dozen of DMs, requests, feature suggestions, use cases I didn’t even think about.

I’m going to be busy the next few weeks.

(Not complaining)

Ship → get feedback → iterate → grow.

More tools, more endpoints, more speed — coming fast.

If you're in hotel-tech, give https://stayapi.com a try!

Google had ONE JOB — beat Claude at coding.

Instead, they gave us Gemini 3.0 Pro Preview which is indistinguishable from Gemini 2.5 Pro.

In the coming days you’re going to read a lot of praise towards Gemini on LinkedIn from people who never wrote a “hello world” program.

So I’m going to save you some time.

“You are absolutely right” — still here.

No interactive debugging — still here.

Hallucinated “robust” fixes — still here.

Copy-paste the same code while pretending it was updated — still here.

So what do we get?

A model that sounds smart, but can’t work.

Not a match to my Codex + Claude combo.

Google had all the money. All the data. All the time.

And still fumbled the bag.

Sad.

Startups don’t get copied in weeks anymore. They get cloned in hours.

Someone posts on X that they got into Y Combinator.

The next day three different people ship the EXACT SAME product. Oh and it’s free. 

Good luck competing. 

Some dude launched an AI-powered MVP and showcased it.

And it had a couple of cool ideas to it.

Two days later, I copy those ideas and roll them out to prod.

The speed is insane.

I used to scroll Twitter to find one good product per week. Test it, form an opinion. 

Now? It’s an endless flood of apps. AI tools spitting out products every damn day.

New directories. New apps. New agents.

Most of them half-baked. Most of them pointless.

But it’s still impossible to keep up.

And this is before agents start building agents.

Where this is all heading? I have no idea. No one does.

Hold on tight.

Yeah… freelancers are cooked.

I barely hire anyone anymore.

And I’m saying this as someone who spent over $300,000 on Upwork over the years.

In the last 2 months I only hired one developer only to write a Python boilerplate so I could hand it off to AI and never need him again.

Closed the contract 
Fed the code to Opus 4.5 (which feels like alien tech).

That’s it.

Yesterday I asked Nano Banana to draw a simple “whiteboard style explanation” for one of my blog posts.

See attached. I was shocked it even worked.

It took 10 seconds to understand the request and output the image.

No revisions.
No back-and-forth.
No invoice.

Just done.

Who’s going to hire illustrators for blog content now?
Or $400/month diagram designers?
Or “brand visuals specialists”?

The market isn’t shrinking, it’s evaporating.

AI replacement is real. Anyone with working eyesight can see what’s happening.

If you’re a one-type-of-gig freelancer… I honestly don’t know what to tell you.

Get a job, maybe.
And after you get one — hold onto it with both hands.

Big tech AI is coming for your web scraping business.

I tried one of those Y Combinator-funded AI scraping startups the other day.

The promise was to turn any website into an API feed. 

I fed it three live websites.

A tough one
an average one
and an easy one.

It failed on all three.

I was not impressed. 

So no — client-centric custom scraping isn’t dead (yet).

But the “copy-paste BeautifulSoup from StackOverflow” era is.

What’s left?

Enterprise scraping.
Anti-bot engineering.
Monitoring + maintenance.
Pipelines that don’t fall apart when the button ID changes.

That’s exactly where you should be building.

THIS is how you make yourself UNFIREABLE in 2026

Not “more valuable.”
Not “harder to replace.”
UNFIREABLE.

FIRST Make a list of every SaaS your company pays for.
All of it.
CRM, dashboards, reporting tools, chat tools, automations - everything.

THEN Write down how much each one costs.
Most employees have no idea their company is casually bleeding $300… $500… $1200/month per tool.

AFTER THAT Pick the easiest one.

The one that:

- costs the most
- does the least
- has ONE feature you FULLY understand

NEXT - VIBE-CODE that feature.
Not perfectly.
Not enterprise-ready.
Not “rewrite the whole product.”

Just recreate the ONE feature your team actually uses — even if the code is dumb, ugly, stitched together with safety pins. 

Use whatever - Replit, LOVEABLE or n8n - AI will hold your hand.

Build it in a week after work.

SHOWTIME: Show it to your boss.
“Hey, we’re paying $500/month for this.
I built the part we actually use.
Costs $20/month to run.
I can add unlimited features and fixes.”

Watch what happens next:

Your boss goes BALLISTIC
That $500/mo subscription gets CANCELLED immediately.
Your app becomes “mission CRITICAL”
YOU become "the automation guy"
Every workflow now routes through you.
You get trust, leverage, and JOB SECURITY.

Congratulations.

You just became the person who SAVES the company money instead of the person who COSTS the company money.

And companies don’t fire the people who SAVE them MONEY.

They fire the people who can’t do what you just did.

That’s how you stay employed FOREVER.

That’s how you survive the AI wave.

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