We will tell you about your competitors’ best practices, and give you recommendations
Work on a Development Strategy
Broad or highly-specialized research based on your unique request
Get on New Markets
We will choose the most promising countries and niches, study the market, and form a GTM strategy
Attract Investments
We will help you collect all the data that your future investors want to see, and we will support you through the investment rounds
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Mikhail Kozyulin
founder & CEO Hints ex-head of research and strategy, Skyeng
My experience at Skyeng
Product manager in international launches
Developing a growth strategy
Scoring new business units
Attracting investments from Winter Capital
Helping with new launches and looking for a PMF, including:
— Edu Skysmart — launching up to 2 million MAU in a month — Skypro — choosing a niche and a model
Due diligence of 20 companies for investments and merging
Preparing and leading board meetings
I’ve assembled a team that uses all the best practices of Skyeng and analyzes markets, competitors and clients, makes investment presentations, and deals with other tasks
How We Work
We work in sprints, we show results every week
Excel tables, insights, real-life help instead of a 200-page presentation in 2 months
We speak the same language as you
We skip the and unnecessary formalities and bureaucracy. We have been on the IT market for a long time, we know the people, the processes, and the terminology
We understand your needs
The result comes to you in an appropriate format, our scope is flexible, we are ready to change priorities as we go
We give sound recommendations
We help you make decisions and we provide you with recommendations not stopping on raw data
Our Cases
Yandex.Practicum
We evaluated the IT market of further professional education in Russia by certain professions and skills in order to prioritize launching new products, and researched the skills needed for certain professions.
We helped get onto new markets: we collected analytics about the current state of the market and its segments, did a detailed analysis of the competitors' strategies of attracting customers, and formed a knowledge base for a quick launch.
Legionfarm
We evaluated the job market for gamers according to the type of employment and different levels of income dynamically, in order to use the data in marketing and positioning.
Rush Agency
We found areas for growth, prepared a knowledge base for entering the US market as well as an investment deck.
Hily
We helped find unique positioning of the product on the market: researched users, competitors, did the primary confirmation of the hypotheses, formed the concept of the new product in order to increase the product's metrics and to decrease expenditures on attracting customers.
MEL Science
We conducted a detailed analysis of the competitors on the current US market in order to boost growth. We conducted a detailed analysis and re-engineered marketing expenses based on the channels of the biggest competitor. We tactically supported the marketing division: collected data on potential partners and the competitors’ bases of activities.
Best Doctor
We found areas for growth over the one-year horizon. The research was conducted through interviewing employees and users, analyzing the market and consulting with experts from businesses with similar business models.
Skyeng
We researched the salaries of teachers and tutors in every segment in Russia and the CIS including part-time jobs.
Reviews:
The Hints team did a salary research for us in various segments. We will use the results for further development. Everything was systematic and fast, | recommend them.
Maxim Titov
Head of teachers at Skyeng
Mikhail’s team helped us estimate the volume of traffic, our distribution channels, the size of user base of similar companies on the US market.
Sergey Safonov
co-founder & COO MEL Science
The Hints team did a salary research for us in various segments. We use the results for further development. Everything was systematic and fast, | recommend them.
Maxim Titov
Head of teachers at Skyeng
The team helped us analyze the job market in the gaming industry. It was crucial for us to understand what our share of the job market in the gaming industry was, because our mission is to create 1 million jobs. The results were interesting and eye-opening in many ways. Thanks a lot!
Alexey Belyankin
founder & СЕО Legionfarm, Forbes 30 under 30
Did you help us evaluate the market of further professional education, in order for us to choose the professions that will teach at Practicum. It's an enormous task and the whole team was brilliant at it.
Evgeny Lebedev
СЕО at Yandex.Practicum in Russia
Thanks to Hints our team saw key areas for growth and realized where to focus. Despite tight deadlines and a big workload, the Hints team achieved the goals set.