Applied AI Engineer · Forward-Deployed Builder

I ship AI products
End to end.

I am Kostandin Gjini. For five years I have built apps, SaaS, AI tools, and the businesses around them, mostly from zero. This is the work, live and clickable.

Tirana, Albania. Open to work across Europe and fully remote.

1,000+
meetings booked
2
paying AI SaaS
5 yrs
Founder & operator
1,000+
Meetings booked for clients
2
Paying AI SaaS shipped
~70
Paid community members
Kostandin Gjini
Who I am

A builder who ships.

I ship working AI products end to end, fast, without waiting for a team. I take a real business problem, wire up the LLM, the data, the automations, and the interface, and put something usable in front of users.

I have done this for nearly five years as a founder under real revenue pressure, not as a side project. I build retrieval-augmented systems, agents, and automation pipelines that run in production, and I sit next to the customer while I do it.

AI / LLM engineering (RAG, agents, evals)90%
Workflow automation (Make, n8n, APIs)95%
Product ownership (idea to live launch)90%
Python / full-stack delivery80%
Outbound / GTM systems95%
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Experience

Five years of building

Hover any role to dig in. Real ventures, real revenue, real users.

2021 — 2026

Co-founder & Operator

Pristine — B2B podcast & lead-gen agency

Built and scaled a B2B agency from zero over nearly five years, owning the tech, the product, and end-to-end client delivery.

  • Cold-email infrastructure that booked 1,000+ qualified meetings.
  • Automation at scale with Make.com, n8n, GoHighLevel, and Python.
  • Shipped an AI CRM agent for triage, qualification, and follow-up.
  • Ran the full client lifecycle, forward-deployed by default.
2025 — now

Founder

Outbound Syndicate — paid B2B community

A paid community for B2B agency owners around cold email and outbound.

  • ~70 members on a free + founding-member ($49/mo) model.
  • Frameworks, templates, and automation tooling members use.
  • Self-serve growth: content in, free-to-paid funnel, no sales calls.
2025 — now

Independent AI Product Builder

Solo

Design, build, and operate AI and automation products solo, from blank repo to live, paying product.

  • campanalyzer.co and PrepCast.site, two paying AI SaaS.
  • Guy Guru, a RAG platform over 6,479 transcripts.
  • Xpulse, a B2C iOS app built end to end.
2025 — now

Content Creator

Self-directed

Daily long-form and short-form video on AI, building, and the future of work.

  • Explaining technical AI work in plain language.
  • Building an audience from zero, consistency over hype.
How I work

From a real problem to a shipped system

Forward-deployed by default. I sit next to the customer, build it, and iterate live, then make it dependable.

01
Build

Ship the first version

Scope the real problem with your team, wire up the LLM, data, and interface, and deploy a working AI feature or automation in weeks, not quarters.

02
Run

Make it reliable

Add evaluations and monitoring, automate the manual workflows around it, and hand your team dependable tooling they can trust day to day.

03
Scale

Grow the impact

Expand to new use cases and integrations, track measurable results, and document so the system keeps running without me as a bottleneck.

Mobile

Apps you can play with

iOS apps I designed and built. Tap through the live previews right here in the browser.

Xpulse screen
iOS AppIn beta

Xpulse

Level up every part of your life.

A gamified self-development and fitness app. A skill tree of real-world skills, levels and streaks, structured gym programs, AI scanning, and an AI companion, in one place.

Tap through the screens

Work I've shipped

SaaS, agencies & ventures

Real products and businesses I have built and shipped. Click any card for the full story.

Proof

Real campaigns, real numbers

A few documented results from the lead-gen work. No rounding up.

E-commerce
230+
qualified opportunities

190K emails at a 1.9% reply rate turned a cold list into 230+ opportunities and 38 booked meetings for an online merchant.

Home services
46%
positive reply rate

A focused, low-saturation roofing campaign hit a 46% positive reply rate and 110 opportunities. Niche beats broad.

Re-engagement
22%
reply rate

Re-engaged 484 cold leads to a 22% reply rate and a 54% positive rate, roughly 10x a typical cold benchmark.

Industries I have worked with

FinanceE-commerceInvestingRecruitingDeveloper & SaaSHome servicesAgenciesPodcasting
Guy Guru · AI corpus + agent

I built a brain that
writes in any voice.

A retrieval-augmented platform I built from the ground up. It ingests thousands of hours of long-form creators, analyzes how each one actually talks, and lets an AI write, advise, or roleplay in their voice, grounded in real transcripts and cited line by line.

Alex HormoziDaniel PriestleyMel RobbinsEvan CarmichaelSabri SubyThe Futur+ 44 more
See the full breakdown →
50
Creators studied
6,479
Transcripts ingested
16
Parallel scrapers
guy-guru · write

> write a hook like Hormozi

"Most people don't have a money problem. They have a decision problem wearing a money costume."

✓ grounded in 632 source transcripts

Kostandin's Newsletter

Notes from the build.

AI, building, and the future of work. One builder's notes, no fluff.

Contact

Let's build something.

Have a problem worth shipping a product around? I scope it, build it, and iterate live. Open to work across Europe and fully remote.

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