Mikhail started developing his project Shperling.ai a year ago in collaboration with Vladimir Gorov, an ex-head of AI at Yandex Verticals, and Andrey Taburinsky, an ex-vice president of Mail.ru. The team’s solution is a secure platform equipped with LLMs and AI assistants that can be used to automate business tasks. According to the developers, the platform will be especially beneficial for small and medium businesses specializing in retail, delivery, IT, telecommunications, or financial technologies.
Currently, users can access four templates of pretrained open source models: a personal assistant for executive staff, a support bot, a sales bot, and an operational manager bot. All models can be trained on data sourced from Miro, Notion, email, messaging apps, or other sources, as well as analyze and organize information before implementing it in user scenarios: answering employees’ questions, assisting company heads in decision-making, compiling reports after online meetings, or making sure employees understand their tasks.
With the built-in editor tool, users can assemble AI solutions for other tasks, as well. According to Mikhail Shperling, this is faster, easier, and cheaper compared to creating a model from scratch and hiring an ML expert. He also notes that unlike with similar projects, Shperling.ai’s models are as good as real staff at answering questions – their accuracy is 90%. Another benefit of the platform is that its models are hosted not in the cloud, but on corporate PCs, which guarantees safety of data. At the moment, the platform’s user count is 150,000.
“Thanks to this win, I can now develop my startup under the guidance of the top entrepreneurs in Russia and the world, as well as present it at the international level. ITMO is helping me grow as a professional; for instance, one of my lecturers, Roman Popkov, taught me to explain complex concepts in simple terms – and I used this knowledge to present my project to the public. Our current goal is to become a billion-ruble startup in three years and for that we need to be working with 1,000 clients,” shares Mikhail Shperling.
This victory isn’t Mikhail’s only achievement: earlier, he took first place at various national and international AI competitions, such as World AI Summit, AI Junior Challenge, and National Technological Competition.
GSEA Russia 2025. Photo courtesy of the event's organizers
Global Student Entrepreneur Awards is an international competition of young entrepreneurs growing their own businesses. Through the competition, participants can expand their ventures to the national or even international scale, as well as receive support from mentors and build their networks. In the 2024-2025 season, startup founders from 60 countries competed in 12 categories. Winners in the category Future Unicorn will present their projects at the Berlin grand finals, competing for the $100,000 prize fund.
