Team & company
A small team that runs the loop it sells.
A founder, a co-founder, an advisor, and four engineers. We built Ship while running our own delivery on it. Every routine, specialist, and process on this site has been used in anger before it left the workshop.
Why we built this
AI made the demo loud and the system quiet.
Every founder we've sat with has the same story. A capable model opens pull requests. The demo wins the meeting. Then Monday arrives and the dashboards stop being honest — duplicate PRs against the same file, labels that mean one thing in the morning and another by afternoon, a scheduler that lied about the wall clock. Ship is the answer we built for ourselves first: a workspace where the quiet failures get named before they become folklore. The forty chapters of the book are the long version. This team is the short one.
Headquarters
Kyiv & remote, EU
Distributed across CET / EET timezones.
Reference deployment
ElMundi
Our tools were built and pressure-tested running ElMundi's own delivery.
Stage
Closed beta
Onboarding founder workspaces by invite, cohort by cohort.
Leadership & advisors
Three people own the shape of the company.
Denys Kuzin
@denyskuzin
Founder
Started Ship after running engineering teams where every promising AI demo turned into Monday-morning churn. Built the first version on his own delivery — the same workspace this site describes — and wrote down what worked across forty chapters. Author of the book.
askslayer
@askslayer
Co-founder
Co-founder. Owns the product surface — Navigator, console, the shape of every screen an operator sees. Has the strongest opinions about which features earn the page and which ones don't.
Nikolai Chesalin
Board advisor · Client strategy
Board advisor on client strategy and go-to-market. Spent two decades shipping enterprise software in regulated verticals, which is the audit-trail audience Ship was built for.
Engineering team
The crew that ships Ship.
Four engineers split across development and QA. Every one of them drives Ship's own delivery loop on the same workspace this site describes.