Vladimir Gorlanov · engineer and entrepreneur
by referral · one handshake away

Your business shouldn't run on your memory.

I build internal systems that make the work run itself — so you can see the company without asking people.

for ten years I built these systems for my own business — before I started building them for others
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the system flies on its own — you hold the string
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since 2015systems inside real companies
Go Rent co-founderDubai + 3 cities
one engineerno subcontractors
01 · adoptionVladimir Gorlanov
A man carries an enormous black rectangle on his back
a system somebody bought that nobody uses

Systems don't fail to take root because they are badly built. They fail because nobody embedded them into how people actually work.

That is why my job is not finished when the code is written — it is finished when your people actually use the system.

Adoption has a measure: what share of the work runs through the system.

02 · symptomsVladimir Gorlanov

You are your company's entire knowledge base

What's the price for this client? Ask the owner. Was the deposit returned? Ask the owner. Who's working Saturday — you get the idea. No engineer would design a server this way. Yet that's exactly how companies end up once they've grown.

people constantly ask each other for information
→
everyone sees what they need on their own
the truth about the business lives in heads and chats — everyone has their own version
→
the truth lives in the system, one version for everyone
the same data is entered several times
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data is entered once — then reused automatically
someone leaves — and the know-how leaves with them
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the know-how stays in the system
you learn about problems when it's already too late
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the system reports important events by itself

If you recognized at least two of these — your business already has work that can be handed over to a system. And you don't have to know which: you see the friction, I'll turn it into a task.

“Oh, that takes us only five minutes”

— what I usually hear at the first meeting

An hour later it turns out those “five minutes” add up to several hours a day.

A colonnade: a strict rhythm of light and shadow
built-in order works on its own
03 · this is normalVladimir Gorlanov
A worn footpath cutting diagonally across a strict grid of tiles, a person walking in the distance
people walk where it's convenient

I have never seen a perfectly organized business

Almost no business starts with a perfect system. Processes grow one step at a time: first a spreadsheet, then a chat, then another spreadsheet, then a person who “just knows how things work around here”.

First we look at how people actually work — the way a gardener first watches where people prefer to walk, and only then lays the paths.

And I have never looked for one.

04 · what's already builtVladimir Gorlanov

Payroll stopped being something to argue about

in daily use

A silhouette behind glass panels
transparency instead of guesswork

the problem

Every month the owner and the staff burn hours on the same questions:

  • what time did the employee come in?
  • why was overtime added?
  • why the fine?
  • why this salary amount?
  • where can I even see the history?

what we did

Employees clock in and out from their phone, with geolocation when needed. The system counts hours, shifts and overtime, calculates salaries, bonuses and fines by your rules, and shows each employee their pay in real time. Non-standard cases the manager adjusts manually — with a comment.

before

  • overtime was checked by hand
  • mistakes surfaced after payroll was done
  • shifts lived in people's memory

after

  • it counts itself
  • a discrepancy shows up before payday
  • every shift has a record

Employees get transparency, the manager gets control without constant back-and-forth.

Result: payroll for 10 employees takes at most 10 minutes instead of several hours a month.

Shifts are logged only through the system — the paper logbooks are gone.

Open the time-tracking system→

05 · live demosVladimir Gorlanov

Systems you can touch

Every card opens a live demo — the interface of a real system with sample data.

deposits under control

Client money never passes through employees' personal cards; every operation leaves a trail.

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crm for a cleaning company

Projects, crews and staff of a Dubai company — with role-based access and documents that fill themselves in.

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invoices and receipts in PDF

One click turns an order into a finished document: company details, VAT, stamp and signature already in place.

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owner's dashboard

Revenue, orders and at-risk clients in one picture: data collects itself, AI points where to look.

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face recognition on photos

Hundreds of uploaded photos sort themselves: the system finds every person, groups “everyone together” and shows each client only their own shots.

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field work reports

Employees can’t close a job without before/after photos and video — the manager gets a report with server time.

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order assembly

Items are checked off one by one, photos go from “unpacked” to “packed” — the order can’t ship incomplete.

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milestone promo codes

A year since sign-up, a birthday, a quiet client — the system spots the occasion, generates a code and sends the greeting itself.

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familyhealth

A family's medical library: lab results from different countries, screenings and a chat over your data — all stored locally.

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And all of this works as one whole: in Go Rent the website, the app, payments and inventory live on the same data — no manual copying between services.

There is also a home-built video-call engine and an AI text editor — those open too.

06 · risk reductionVladimir Gorlanov

You've tried before — and got burned

That's why the work is structured so you risk little:

A hand stops a falling chain of dominoes
a chain of failures can be stopped
“we rolled it out — nobody uses it”

I watch how people use the system: if it's inconvenient, the system needs fixing — and I fix it

“the contractor delivered and vanished”

I stay inside: I maintain and evolve what I built

“it only looked good in the presentation”

the working version appears inside your actual process — you can touch it

“I'm afraid to waste money again”

we start with one task that pays for itself — the risk is capped by the size of the first step

“One engineer — what if something happens to you?”

the system lives on your servers from day one, you hold the documentation and the access. Any developer can take over: you don't depend on my personal involvement

I work until the result.I don't sell hours and I don't bill for every new idea inside the agreed task: until your people use the system the way it was meant, the job is not done.

principle #1
07 · the processVladimir Gorlanov

How the work is structured

No months-long specifications, no analyst department, no tender. Six steps — through the owner's eyes.

01I learn the processday 1together with the people who do this work every day
02I find the biggest leakwhere most of the time or money escapes
03we start with the most valuable taskwe don't try to change everything at once
04first working version~1 weekusually within a week — and you can already use it
05I watch how it's usedin real work, live: who uses it and who has quietly gone back to Excel
06I take it to adoptionthen — refining into habituntil people stop thinking about the system and simply use it

Why so fast

Usually there is a chain of people between an idea and a working system: a business consultant studies the process, an analyst writes requirements, a developer writes code. Every handover costs time, approvals and meaning lost along the way.

In my work these roles are not split: I study the process myself, design the solution myself and bring it to a working system myself. That is why the first working version appears in days, not months.

Days instead of months — because nothing is handed over between roles
days instead of months — because nothing is handed over between roles

You pay neither for code nor for advice — you pay for a system your people are using within a week.

08 · after the rolloutVladimir Gorlanov

What changes after the rollout

The result is a business that needs less manual work. I won't promise percentage savings; here is what actually happens:

growth without proportional hiringthe same team often handles a bigger workload
people work on what mattersinstead of copying data and checking spreadsheets
you make decisions fasterthe information you need is already there
A person with arms spread and a shadow shaped like a bird
time comes back to you

Everyone spends the freed-up time differently. Some launch new projects. Some stop hiring for every growth spurt. Some simply start going home earlier.

09 · formats and pricingVladimir Gorlanov

There is a task. Do you know what it is?

One person hands an orange ball to another

yes, I know → one-off project

You hand the task over — I carry it to the result.

from AED 7,000

price and timeline are locked before we start

Payroll: 10 minutes instead of several hours — open the demo →

not yet → ongoing partnership

We start by choosing the tasks and build from the foundation up: in the right order every next block lands faster.

from AED 20,000 /mo

improvements included — no separate bills

This is how I have run my own business for ten years, system after system — open the demo →

One-off — when you already know what needs to be done. Ongoing — when you want to improve the business systematically without hunting for what to change first.

Why the price comes after we meet

I don't take on dozens of projects at once: it matters to me to understand your process personally and answer for the result. Two businesses with the same headcount can differ in complexity several times over. So first I look at how your processes work and size the job — only then do I fix the price. After the start it doesn't change: I answer for the result, and inside the agreed task every new idea doesn't turn into another invoice.

Six months in, the company works differently: every change closes another bottleneck — and the effect compounds.

10 · who I amVladimir Gorlanov

I was the owner who needed these systems

For ten years that owner ran Go Rent: event rentals, a warehouse, staff, payroll, four locations. I built every system for myself because I was drowning without it — and I know what happens to a system after launch.

Vladimir Gorlanov — black and white portrait in a dark shirt, calm gaze
Vladimir Gorlanov
educationpetroleum engineer, Gubkin University, honours degree · PhD in engineering
engineering schoolSchlumberger — oil reservoir modelling
since 2015systems inside other companies and my own products
businessGo Rent, co-founder — Dubai and three cities in Russia, ten years now: website, app, payments, analytics
geographyUAE · Russia · remote

I built every Go Rent system myself: shift tracking and payroll, deposits that never touch personal cards, analytics, the client platform, the mobile app. Technology is the arsenal: code, integrations, payment mechanics, AI. First I look at how the process works and where it breaks — only then do I build. I have no ready-made methodology: the tool appears once it's clear what exactly keeps the business from working simpler.

My dissertation was about multi-million decisions based on data that could be off by as much as twenty percent. The real question was: which decision holds up even when the input data is wrong? I use the same discipline to decide what to change first in your business — and what not to touch at all.

11 · contactVladimir Gorlanov

Let's look at your business

No need to prepare a specification or know in advance what to change. Just show me how things work today. We can sign an NDA before the meeting if needed. The more honestly we see the problem, the faster we find the solution.

after the first meeting you will know

  • where the business loses the most time
  • which changes will pay off fastest
  • what is truly worth doing — and what is better left as is
A ray of light in a dark room
start with one process

Just write me what annoys you most in your daily work — that's where we'll start.

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Or by email: [email protected] · I reply personally — usually within a day.