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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.
Chatfuel

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.
Karen Khachatryan
head of strategy at BestDoctor
Contact Us
kozyulin.mikhail@gmail.com
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