25 years building the systems companies run on.
Now focusing on grant-funded AI that pays for itself.
14,000+ LinkedIn followers
I have been doing the same job for 25 years: finding new ways to speed things up with machines.
Happy to brainstorm your current project — and to tell you honestly where AI helps and where it does not.
Aug 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 1 mo
Tallinn, Estonia
EIS grant-funded AI projects with a combined budget of €500K+, delivering 2–5× improvements in throughput and staff efficiency. Most recent: Kopra-Transport OÜ, approx. €300K, July 2025 – June 2026.
Kasv.ai is the 2026 brand for work previously done independently and via Laanevend OÜ.
Aug 2014 – Dec 2022 · 8 yrs 5 mos
Co-founded and ran a software company for eight years, leading a team of ten developers. I held a 46% stake and sold it when I exited in December 2022 to move into AI.
Qstep helps Omniva service international e-commerce
Qstep built the software for Post11, a subsidiary of Omniva and one of the largest Chinese courier companies, S.F. Express.
Sisuhaldus.ee
Aug 2001 – Aug 2013 · 12 yrs 1 mo
Built one of Estonia's first CMS platforms. Launched hundreds of websites and e-commerce sites on it, including Living.ee. From 2008 the company moved into a different kind of software: logistics systems for Estonian companies such as Ball Transport, Ospentos International, ML Express, Herentes and Kauritel.
Bachelor of Technology, Information Technology
Specialisation: Network Software and Intelligent Systems.
Facebook blog archive, since 2011
A reminder that life is not a problem to solve or a résumé to complete. You may achieve things if they bring you alive, but you do not have to earn your right to be here. Live today, let the other flowers grow their own way, and keep growing too.
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A short piece on why plans rarely move anyone, and dreams do. It argues for setting goals big enough that you cannot yet see the road to them, and for deliberately leaving the middle of the plan blank. Written after that habit turned a CTO role into a CEO one.
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A note on what a company owner should actually measure. The biggest win was not a new client or a record month, but one week when the business ran well and the laptop stayed shut. It is about building a team and a system that does not need you.
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