Supercharge Your Digital Products

Build, Transform, and Empower with AI

We help your business spot high-value AI opportunities, refine existing platforms, or build new digital products. Our agile approach rapidly validates ideas, prototypes solutions, and delivers results with your team at the center.

  • Spot high-ROI AI use cases to cut costs, boost revenue, and spark innovation
  • Validate ideas fast with rapid prototypes, minimizing risk and accelerating time-to-market
  • Scale effectively from prototypes to enterprise-ready solutions that serve millions of users with reliability and performance
  • Integrate seamlessly with existing platforms and data for a unified, future-proof system
  • Upgrade existing software for immediate efficiency and better user experiences
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Our Services

AI & Product Strategy

Why It Matters

In a landscape where AI breakthroughs are reshaping entire industries, having an innovative and actionable strategy is crucial — whether you're an established market leader defending your edge or a bold newcomer aiming to disrupt. By aligning AI initiatives with core business goals, you ensure every move delivers real value and positions your organization for success.

Our Approach

You know your business inside out, and we bring the AI and digital product expertise. Together, we spot high-value opportunities that align with your core objectives, tackle pressing challenges, and map out a clear path to success.

We do this by reviewing your unique operational landscape to pinpoint scalable quick wins. With every step validated by real-world feasibility, you gain the clarity and confidence to move forward and realize tangible benefits.

  • We review your current context and talk to key teams to capture critical insights
  • We map out core pain points and match them with AI capabilities that automate processes, reduce costs, drive growth, and spark innovation
  • We align each initiative with your strategic goals, focusing on measurable ROI and tangible outcomes
  • We assess data flows, infrastructure, and team readiness to define realistic timelines
  • We develop a flexible yet clear roadmap with milestones, budgets, and success metrics for confident next steps

Launching New Products

We transform your ideas into market-ready solutions with a focus on agility and rapid validation. Starting with quick prototypes and real-world feedback, we refine each feature so your product resonates with customers and fulfills core business goals. We integrate AI where it has the greatest impact—powering innovation and giving you an edge in a crowded market.

Through short, iterative development cycles, we help you move faster, reduce risk, and see tangible progress early. Our team handles solution architecture, software engineering, AI integration, deployment and support — ensuring your product is both robust and scalable. The result? Intelligent, future-ready products that open new revenue streams and opportunities.

What You Gain

  • Validate ideas early with rapid prototypes that incorporate real user feedback
  • Reach the market faster through agile sprints and continuous delivery
  • Enhance capabilities and user engagement with AI features
  • Build scalable, secure solutions to handle growth without performance trade-offs
  • Stay informed with frequent updates, ensuring full transparency and control
  • Benefit from a deeply engaged team that immerses itself in your business context to craft tailored solutions

Supporting Existing Systems

We are experienced in taking over and modernizing existing applications—often aging or undocumented—so your business keeps running smoothly. Through an incremental approach, we tackle critical upgrades, boost performance, and reduce technical debt without risking downtime.

Once modernized, we stay on board for ongoing stability, support, and new features as your needs evolve. Each improvement aligns with both immediate goals and future innovations like AI and automation.

  • We assume ownership of legacy codebases at any stage and stabilize them for long-term reliability
  • We refactor critical modules for enhanced performance, security, and maintainability
  • We add new features and functionalities over time to keep your systems competitive
  • We integrate AI and automation where they add real value and efficiency
  • We provide ongoing support to ensure your platform remains secure, scalable, and up to date

Integrations

Why It Matters

Many organizations attempt to unify all departments with a single platform, but pushing a one-size-fits-all solution often creates friction. Local teams resist top-down changes, leading to silos, duplicated efforts, and fragmented data.

Our Approach

Rather than prescribing a single tool for everyone, we suggest to focus on integrating existing systems into a cohesive ecosystem. This way, each department can keep what works best for them, while still connecting to a unified data framework that paves the way for advanced analytics and AI.

  • We evaluate data flows and processes to find optimal integration points
  • We build custom connectors for specialized and legacy systems
  • We apply ETL/ELT methods for timely, accurate data ingestion
  • We centralize information in data warehouses for analytics and AI
  • We ensure robust security and compliance at every step
  • We deliver in short sprints, providing tangible progress fast

About Us

Founded in 2011, Teammate.Exec is a nimble consultancy with roots in Pittsburgh, PA, and a European office in Latvia. Our small, agile team works closely with clients across North America and Europe, bringing global insights and hands-on expertise to every project.

Each new engagement begins with our founders—experienced practitioners who set direction and make key decisions early. Once the vision is clear, our broader team takes over, delivering tangible results through short, iterative cycles that keep stakeholders informed and engaged.

We specialize in AI consulting, software engineering, and system integrations, tackling everything from modernizing legacy platforms to launching brand-new digital products. By maintaining open communication and fostering strong partnerships, we help clients stay innovative and adaptable—long after the initial launch.

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More About Us

Our Technology Stack

AI: TensorFlow, PyTorch, LLMs, Voice and Video Interfaces

APIs & Microservices: Node.js, Typescript, .NET

Modern Frontends: React, Next.js, Astro

Cloud & DevOps: AWS, Kubernetes, Docker

Integrations: Salesforce, HubSpot, Custom APIs, Meltano

Privacy & Security: GDPR, TTDSG, CCPA, OAuth

Leadership

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Natalie Lihacova, CEO20+ years of experience in managing people, processes, and projects. 15+ years of experience creating software products. Best known for her excellent organizational skills, and her drive for clarity and results. Passionate about creating delightful user experiences, and about building healthy work culture

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Andrew Grishin, CTO14+ years of experience in infrastructure and software design and development. Key areas of expertise: software architecture and development, on-premise and cloud infrastructure, DevOps/Agile principles and methodologies, technical team leadership.

What Our Clients Say

We were considering a strategic alliance with another organization and needed assistance with the review of a customized web-based application. Natalie and Andrew conducted a high-level but deeply considered evaluation of the platform and demonstrated a high degree of professionalism and impressive IT know-how throughout the process.

We are confident that we will be working with Natalie and Andrew again in the future.

Robert Kingsbury
Director of New Program Development,
Academy of Learning

We worked with Natalie for a number of years, she helped our company integrate our CRM system into our business processes.

We all appreciated her ability to listen, to understand our needs and respond in a timely manner with the best solution. She and her team were always supportive and willing to go the extra mile for our business so that we could obtain the full benefits of our CRM platform.

Helene Lloyd
Founder and Director of TMI consultancy,
Tourism Marketing services

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