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About MavenSolutions

An AI services firm built to carry the work from strategy through production.

Andrew Korolov at work in the MavenSolutions studio, with the A.G.E.N.T. framework poster
Austin, Texas. Where production AI systems get built.Andrew Korolov · Founder

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Who we work with

For leaders who own the business result, not just the AI initiative.

If you lead a mid-market business, call us when one costly workflow, stalled pilot, or production system needs a defensible decision and one accountable path forward.

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CEO or business-unit leader

You need one person accountable for the path from an AI investment decision to a measured operating result.

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COO or operations leader

You own a workflow that is costly, slow, or dependent on manual coordination, and need to know what AI can improve without adding a new liability.

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CIO or technology leader

You need to move a pilot or vendor promise through evaluation, integration, monitoring, and a handoff your team can support.

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CFO, board sponsor, or PE operating partner

You are responsible for the capital case and need a credible baseline, clear stop criteria, and evidence of what changed after launch.

A strong starting point

One bounded operating problem.

Your team brings the operating context and examples. We bring the evaluation and delivery method.

  • One workflow has an owner with authority to make decisions.
  • Its current cost, delay, error rate, or backlog is worth measuring.
  • Historical examples or real operating data are available for evaluation.
  • The evidence can lead to a build, buy, rescue, or stop decision.

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Why we exist

Strategy and engineering belong on one accountable team.

AI projects often split responsibility between the people who advise, the people who build, and the team expected to run the system. They work to different briefs and schedules. Important decisions get lost in the handoffs, leaving the client with a partial implementation that nobody is ready to run.

We watched this pattern repeat for fifteen years while running an ecommerce engineering company. The technology changed, but the handoff between advice and delivery did not. Clients still depended on expertise outside their company after the project ended.

At MavenSolutions, the same team evaluates the opportunity, builds or rescues the system, prepares it for production, and measures what changed. Your team remains in control, whether we hand off the work or continue to support it.

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Why now

Production AI makes focused projects practical.

Modern AI systems can make smaller, bounded projects worth pursuing. A workflow with a known cost and an operations owner once required a multi-quarter integration program. Today, the same work can often be delivered as a focused build that the operations team can own.

Some systems need an agent that can choose the next step. Many need a fixed workflow with AI used only where judgment helps. MavenSolutions builds the least complex system that can meet the agreed standard.

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Our principles

Four commitments, each a response to a failure we've watched repeat.

One accountable team.

Andrew Korolov leads each engagement and remains accountable for the work. Strategy, engineering, and measurement stay together from the first decision through handoff or ongoing operations.

Evidence before spend.

We define the evaluation and stop criteria before the expensive work begins. Without a baseline, we do not build.

Clear scope and terms.

Each engagement starts with a defined scope, price, and outcome. Ongoing operations are separate and optional.

Ownership transfer is a deliverable.

The engagement is designed to end with your team in control. At handoff, you own the code, evaluations, configuration, and runbook.

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Our team

A small team built around direct accountability.

MavenSolutions is a two-person firm today. Andrew leads each engagement and stays directly involved from the first decision through delivery and handoff.

Andrew Korolov, founder of MavenSolutions

Founder

Andrew Korolov

Andrew helped build Magento twenty years ago. That work taught him what breaks when software meets real traffic. He then spent fifteen years leading MavenEcommerce, an ecommerce engineering company whose client relationships ran as long as a decade. Hundreds of projects taught him which engagement shapes work and which reliably fail.

A.G.E.N.T. turns those lessons into a working method: define the evaluation first, keep the architecture small, instrument production, and leave the client able to run it. The same production discipline applies whether the right system is a fixed AI workflow or an agent.

See the framework

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Work with us

Help build AI systems that have to survive real work.

We are building a talent pool for future roles in AI engineering, product delivery, and operations. There is no open position attached to this invitation. Send a short note about the work you do and the problems you want to solve; we will keep it for future conversations.

Join the talent pool

Include only information you are comfortable sending by email. This is an expression of interest, not an application to a current opening.

Discuss an AI project

Bring the AI priority. We'll see whether we fit.

In 45 minutes, we'll review the opportunity, pilot, workflow, or production system in front of you. You leave with a clear next step.

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