Vladimir Gorlanov · digital systems engineer
by referral · one handshake away

Your business can run without your constant involvement.

I find the processes that run on you personally — and make them run on their own.

the owner steps out of daily operations
How the work is structured
A tiny figure in a field holds the string of a kite high in an empty sky
the system flies on its own — you hold the string
Tell me about your problem
since 2015systems inside real companies
own businessrentals, Dubai
one engineerno subcontractors
01 · why automation sticksVladimir Gorlanov
A man carries an enormous black rectangle on his back
while the business rests on you personally

Most automation fails not because it is badly built. It fails because nobody embedded it 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.

02 · symptomsVladimir Gorlanov

You don't have to know what to automate

You see what causes friction. That is enough — turning observations into a task for the system is my job.

people constantly ask each other for information
everyone sees what they need on their own
the same data is entered several times
data is entered once — then reused automatically
you learn about problems when it's already too late
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.

“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

Don't worry if everything is currently set up “wrong”

Almost no business starts with a perfect system. Most processes grow organically: first a spreadsheet, then a chat, then another spreadsheet, then a person who “just knows how things work around here”. That is normal.

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.

I have never seen a perfectly organized business. And I have never looked for one.

04 · what's already builtVladimir Gorlanov

Transparent time tracking and payroll

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.

Payroll stopped being a source of arguments: employees get transparency, the owner gets control without endless back-and-forth.

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

Open the time-tracking system

05 · what's already builtVladimir 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.

see the example

crm for a cleaning company

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

see the example

invoices and receipts in PDF

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

see the example

owner's dashboard

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

see the example

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.

see the example

familyhealth

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

see the example

And all of this works as one whole: in my Dubai rental business 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 — ask me, I'll show you.

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

“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: 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 your employees' real work, live
06I polish it until it's habitthen — 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.

Blurred motion

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

08 · what changes afterVladimir Gorlanov

What changes after the rollout

The result is not a new program — it's 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 returns to the owner

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 — see the system

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

Here is a system I run in this format — see the system

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 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

Who I am

I'm not a consultant and not a dev studio: I build digital products myself and work every day with systems that live inside a real business. So I know not only the technology, but the problems that start after launch.

Vladimir Gorlanov — frontal portrait behind fluted glass with vertical lines
Vladimir Gorlanov
educationpetroleum engineer, Gubkin University, honours degree · PhD in engineering
engineering schoolSchlumberger — oil reservoir modelling
since 2015turnkey systems and own products
businessa rental business in Dubai: website, app, payments, owner analytics
geographyUAE · Russia · remote

My profession is digital systems where interfaces, data, automation, AI and real human processes meet: from payment services to my own products. 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.

Every solution I offer clients grew out of real practice. I first built them for problems I faced myself as a business owner. Today that experience helps me find working solutions for other companies faster.

11 · contactVladimir Gorlanov

Let's look at your business

No need to prepare a specification or know in advance what to automate. Just show me how things work today. We can sign an NDA before the meeting if needed. And no need to paint a perfect picture — 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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