Ray Svitla

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I work where the thing is hard to explain, hard to trust or still too messy to run.

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My work has moved through research teams, creator products, learning communities, service businesses and public R&D. The settings change; the move repeats: make an emerging idea legible, build the system around it, and give people a reason to enter.

I started in strategy and creative direction at bdc.consulting, where research became a practical route from insight to commercial trust. In Kyiv I co-built WAKA, a creator-led dating product. After moving to Lisbon, I worked on public programmes and future-community formats through FutureState and 404 Embassy.

More recently, that practice has become more operational and AI-native: community and lifecycle systems at AI Mindset; decision-grade marketing operations at Stay; and self.md, a live public R&D and publishing system for personal AI OS.

I am based in Lisbon and work across Europe. I care about ideas that can survive contact with an actual workflow.

  • Lisbon, Portugal
  • Strategy / creative direction → research & growth → community / operating systems
  • Executive MBA, Kozminski University
  • IKRA; John Smith Trust
  • Belarusian by origin; Kyiv and Lisbon are part of the professional context.