01 · Vlad Derkach

AI Product Leader

12 years · 4 industries

Currently building RedTrack's AI product organization — 25+ agents in production, an MCP-based B2A strategy, and a Discovery function that turns C-level risk into decisions.

See how I work
Vlad Derkach
25+
agents in production
$2.3M
smart-contract volume · Roketo
33 → 75%
onboarding completion · FemFast
16
cross-functional team · Crypto NeoBank

02 · Now

Product Discovery Lead and AI Champion at RedTrack.io — a MarTech attribution and analytics platform.

I built Discovery from a phase into a company function: a Discovery Request standard adopted across teams without edits, a live hypothesis backlog, and a Discovery → decision → delivery flow that produces C-level risk memos before big bets.

Around that function I run RedTrack's AI product organization — 25+ Claude agents in production. A weekly Competitor Scout monitoring 17 platforms. A Support AI Assistant that reads each customer's live account settings, not just the knowledge base, behind two PII layers — built with my first direct report. An MCP Skills Pack that delivers value to users through their own AI agents before they pay us, turning B2A infrastructure into an acquisition channel.

Also on my plate: the mobile app roadmap (iOS + Android now live), the e-com/DTC pivot, and a seat in the Leadership Hub.

03 · About

Vlad Derkach

Twelve years in product across MarTech, Web3, FinTech, HealthTech, and hardware.

I've been Chief Product Officer once — at Roketo, where I took over as CPO during the 2022 Web3 downturn and led the pivot to QUV.io on $70K in grants after half of the parent holding shut down. Before and after that, Product Manager and Product Lead at Zorka.Agency (FemFast), ERA Wallet, a crypto neobank across LATAM and EU, NOWPayments, ChangeNOW, Belkasoft, and others. Currently Product Discovery Lead and AI Champion at RedTrack.io.

My operating principle is simple: adoption follows evidence. I run product on Advanced Jobs-to-be-Done and Next Move Theory — the Zamesin canon, not the generic Christensen version. 300+ customer interviews so far. Before I trained as a product manager I trained as a lawyer (Master of Law, Belarusian State University) — a useful foundation for precision and evidence discipline.

I sail. Not as a hobby garnish — sailing teaches the same things a product organization needs at scale: teamwork, resilience, focus, and calm under pressure.

Based in Europe, remote-first. Currently at RedTrack; open to AI CPO and Head of AI Product roles, and to advising one or two AI-native product teams on the side.

04 · Selected case studies

04a

Building AI-Native Product Operations at RedTrack.io

Product Discovery Lead & AI Champion · November 2025 – present

RedTrack is a MarTech attribution and analytics platform. When I joined, Discovery was ad-hoc, no AI ran in operations, and the e-com/DTC pivot from an affiliate-heavy customer base was underway with a closing Voluum-migration window on top.

What I built. I turned Discovery from a phase into a company function. A Discovery Request standard now sits at the front of every hypothesis, backed by a Notion-native backlog and a Discovery → decision → delivery flow that produces C-level risk memos before big bets. Around it I run 25+ Claude agents in production: a weekly Competitor Scout tracking 17 platforms, a Discovery agent network doing Job-Graph segmentation and market-map ROI, a Mobile App Reviews digest, an Onboarding Copilot, and — with my first direct report — a Support AI Assistant that reads each customer's live account settings behind two PII layers, not just the knowledge base. On top of the RT MCP server, an MCP Skills Pack delivers value to users through their own AI agents before they pay us — B2A infrastructure acting as an acquisition channel.

What changed. Four months in, I entered the Leadership Hub — the C-level strategy body. The mobile app shipped on iOS and Android. E-com and affiliate dashboards were defined, built, and released. MCP has been live in production since June 2026. Twelve strategic outputs were personally green-lit by the CEO over the first seven months.

Numbers

25+ agents live · 17 competitors monitored weekly · mobile iOS + Android launched · MCP in production · 1 direct report · Leadership Hub seat

04b

CPO Through the 2022 Web3 Downturn

Product Manager → Chief Product Officer · Roketo · May 2022 – August 2023

Roketo streamed tokens as smart contracts on NEAR — a Web3 primitive with product-market fit signals, then a downturn. Between Q3 2022 and Q1 2023, half of Kikimora Labs — the parent holding — shut down. External funding wasn't available, and the runway on token-streaming as a category narrowed to a wallet + payment use case.

The move. I was promoted from Product Manager to CPO to lead the response. I redefined the product vision around a wallet + integrated payment solution and repositioned Roketo as QUV.io. I secured $70K in grants to buy runway without dilution. I kept the entire team — while half the holding was closing — through the pivot.

The base that made the pivot survivable. In my first six months as PM I had rebuilt the on-chain flow: conversion 4×, $2.3M moved across 7,600 transactions, partner reach 3× through API integrations. That base is what made the pivot survivable.

Numbers

$2.3M smart-contract volume in 6 months · 7,600 on-chain transactions · ×4 conversion · ×3 partner reach · $70K grants secured · 0 team losses during a period when the parent holding lost half its projects

04c

MVP for an AI Wellness App in 2 Months

Product Lead · Zorka.Agency (FemFast) · March – November 2025

FemFast is a personalized AI-driven wellness app for women that aligns fasting, workouts, and supplements with hormonal cycles. The task was to ship an MVP that would justify further investment in 60 days, without team expansion, in a category Meta restricts for advertising by default.

Discovery-first. I ran 40+ JTBD interviews with the target segment before writing a single requirement. That produced sharp segmentation and let me trim MVP scope to what the smallest coherent audience would actually pay for — instead of shipping the founder's original wish-list at half quality.

Attribution and paywalls. I set up a paywall analytics stack with RevenueCat, Mixpanel, and AppsFlyer, and implemented SKAdNetwork and Meta's AEM so we could measure conversions on iOS 14+ without breaking privacy defaults.

Ads unlocked. After sustained work with Meta, we secured approval to advertise in restricted categories — a category-level access, not a one-off ad. That let paid acquisition compound.

Numbers

MVP shipped in 2 months, on time, no team expansion · onboarding completion 33% → 75% · CAC −16% · organic installs 7.9% → 23.7% · SKAdNetwork + AEM unlocked 78% of previously unavailable events · ×3 UA volume with stable CPI after Meta approval

05 · Experience

Twelve years, eleven companies, four industries. Details on LinkedIn.

06 · Personal builds

I ship products under my own name, not just under a job title. Two live, several in the pipeline.

HandoverBoat

handoverboat.com · charter deposit protection · flagship

A charter deposit protection platform for yacht and boat rentals. Before you sail: photograph the boat's condition with GPS-timestamped, RFC 3161–qualified evidence. When you return: a matching inspection produces a before/after PDF the operator and the charterer both sign against. A public verify endpoint lets anyone independently confirm the record wasn't edited.

Built solo, top to bottom: system architecture, Next.js 15 + Supabase + Stripe stack, UI/UX, illustrations, product design, legal review across HR/EL/IT/PL jurisdictions, copy, SEO, launch. Deployed on Vercel. Eight languages live at launch.

Positioning: an independent evidence record with a reversal of the burden of proof — not a «you-signed-so-you-accepted» acceptance engine.

HandoverBoat — inspection zone view showing anchor & windlass with photo points HandoverBoat — Independent Verification Record PDF with QR code
Mangal Time — timer running in bright outdoor mode Mangal Time — meat selection with illustrated icons and RU/EN/PL language toggle

Mangal Time

mangal-time.shop · consumer app, multilingual, live in production

A shashlyk grilling timer and assistant. The interesting product decision: the UX is designed around the operator's real conditions — dirty hands, bright sun, awkward posture, split attention. Every touch target, every timer trigger, every glanceable state is tuned for that context, not for a comfortable office demo.

The domain runs deeper than a timer. Meat type and cut, coal stage, open-flame behavior, fuel type, height above coals, skewer count — a grillmaster's tacit knowledge translated into structured inputs. Multilingual from launch across RU / EN / PL, illustrated in-house, adapted for the moment of use, not the moment of a design review.

Built for friends; open to the world.

07 · Recognition

Speaking

What people say

«The way he frames problems now — that's strategic-level thinking.»
Vlad Zhovtenko , CEO, RedTrack.io
«He is the kind of person who turns complex and risky startup hypotheses into functioning businesses.»
Dzmitry Khudy , CEO, Zorka.Agency
«When budget cuts hit Roketo, Vlad secured grants, retained the team, and led our pivot as CPO. A highly reliable product leader.»
Taras Dovgal , Co-Founder at NoVPS · previously at Roketo

08 · Contact

Currently: Product Discovery Lead & AI Champion at RedTrack.io.

Open to: AI CPO and Head of AI Product roles at scale-ups and Series A/B startups.

Also: available to advise one or two AI-native product teams on the side.

Based in Europe · remote-first.