IT support from idea to outcome

Your ally in IT projects —
working entirely in your interest.

Decisions made blind: unclear timelines, mixed signals from teams and vendors, no data to compare. I take the buyer side — translate the complexity into business decisions, surface the risks you don't yet see.

Taras Smaliukh
Taras Smaliukh Independent Advisor

Why you can trust me

Acting CEO of TreximAI · 8 years BA across AI products, logistics, fintech, B2B SaaS

23+
IT projects shipped
Engagement formats
Audit · Discovery · Project Support
Based in
Lviv, Ukraine · fully remote · travel when it helps

Cases on this site are illustrative patterns drawn from 8 years inside IT — not invented for the page. No published clients yet.

Who I am

I see the hidden risks before they bite.

I'm Taras Smaliukh — CEO and CPO of TreximAI (a B2B AI logistics platform) and founder of Ascend Griffin. 8 years of business analysis and product ownership across AI products, logistics, fintech, and B2B SaaS.

My strength is reading an IT project as a whole system and spotting the risks others miss. Scope, estimates, product decisions, technical assumptions that sound convincing but don't hold under pressure.

I'm not the developer on your project — but I understand architecture well and work fluently with modern AI tools. I can assemble a quick prototype or cover a small piece of functionality myself to test a hypothesis. When it needs to scale, we bring in a tech team — yours, if you already have one; or vetted specialists I've worked with before. That's the normal way I work today.

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How I work

Five principles, no surprises.

The contract before the contract. Every engagement — Audit, Discovery, Project Support — runs on these five rules. If any of them is a dealbreaker, better we both know now.

  • 01Always on your side — my recommendations serve your interest.
  • 02Price fixed before work starts. No quiet "oh, this will be a bit more."
  • 03Discovery first, always. If I'm not the right read — I'll say so.
  • 04I leave a documented trail — every decision in writing.
  • 05I work to the plan, not to the clock. No work-for-the-sake-of-work.
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Next step

Discovery Call — 30 minutes.

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Let's talk

I'll get back to you within 24 hours — to schedule a discovery call or discuss your inquiry.

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Or email directly: taras@ascendgriffin.org

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