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Alex Vakhitov, founder of Comonad Limited

Alex Vakhitov, founder of Comonad Limited

AI and software architect · London

Alex Vakhitov is a London-based AI and software architect and the founder of Comonad Limited, a London company that develops its own products and does applied R&D on AI in production systems. From August 2015 to March 2022 he was co-founder and CTO of Cloud KB, which built software for UK energy-market participants and supported SMETS2 installations from the early stages of the roll-out. At Comonad he leads the R&D on AI agent harnesses and governance for AI in production, and the company's products.

Career at a glance

  1. August 2015 to March 2022

    Co-founder and CTO, Cloud KB Limited (UK energy-market software)

  2. 2022

    Cloud KB acquired by private equity

  3. May 2024 to present

    Founder, Comonad Limited, London

Cloud KB, 2015 to 2022

Alex co-founded Cloud KB Limited and was its CTO from August 2015 to March 2022, almost seven years. The company built cloud software for energy-market participants and supported SMETS2 smart-meter installations from the early stages of the roll-out. The team worked daily with SMETS2 data flows and industry processes, in a tightly regulated part of UK infrastructure.

In 2022 Cloud KB was acquired by private equity.

Comonad, 2024 to present

Alex founded Comonad Limited in London in May 2024. Comonad develops and operates three products of its own: Proxed.AI, Plop and Notiterms.

He leads Comonad's applied R&D on AI in production systems: agent harnesses, AI across the software development lifecycle, workflow automation, and AI governance mapped to the EU AI Act, UK regulatory guidance, ISO/IEC 42001 and the NIST AI RMF. The R&D is published as guides, including the six-layer framework for governing AI agents.

Comonad also takes on a small number of client engagements, which Alex delivers personally.

How he works

“Bounded contexts and monadic composition. That's all you need to write code with AI.”

The line describes an architectural stance. Bounded contexts set clear limits on what an agent may call. Composition decides how tools, evaluation and guardrails stack on top of each other. That is how he designs agent harnesses.

He applies the same pattern to the software development lifecycle (SDLC): specification, generation, review, testing, CI/CD and release, with a quality gate at each step.

In production, the same boundaries become access control, audit trails and human oversight. Where they apply, those controls are mapped to the EU AI Act, UK regulatory guidance, ISO/IEC 42001 and the NIST AI RMF.

Changing systems that cannot go down is slow, checked work. That is where the habit of safe change comes from: know the boundary, prove the new path, keep a way back.

Credentials and languages

  • Languages: English and Russian
  • Focus areas: architecture of regulated production systems, AI agent harnesses, AI-assisted software development, enterprise AI governance

Questions about Alex Vakhitov

Who is Alex Vakhitov?

Alex Vakhitov is a London-based AI and software architect and the founder of Comonad Limited, a London company that develops its own products and does applied R&D on AI in production systems. From August 2015 to March 2022 he was co-founder and CTO of Cloud KB, which built software for UK energy-market participants and supported SMETS2 installations from the early stages of the roll-out. At Comonad he leads the R&D on AI agent harnesses and governance for AI in production, and the company's products.

What did Alex Vakhitov do at Cloud KB?

He co-founded Cloud KB Limited and was its CTO from August 2015 to March 2022, almost seven years. Cloud KB built cloud software for UK energy-market participants and supported SMETS2 smart-meter installations from the early stages of the roll-out. The team worked daily with SMETS2 data flows and industry processes. Cloud KB was acquired by private equity in 2022.

What does Alex work on at Comonad?

At Comonad Limited, which he founded in May 2024, Alex designs AI agent harnesses, brings AI into the software development lifecycle with quality gates, automates engineering and business workflows, and writes governance for AI in production, mapped to the EU AI Act, UK regulatory guidance, ISO/IEC 42001 and the NIST AI RMF. He also leads the three products Comonad operates: Proxed.AI, Plop and Notiterms.

Where is Alex Vakhitov based?

Alex Vakhitov is based in London, United Kingdom. Comonad Limited, the company he founded in May 2024, is a London company registered with Companies House under company number 15713725, with its registered office in Covent Garden. Client engagements are arranged through Comonad, and Alex delivers them personally.

How do I contact Alex Vakhitov?

Use the contact page on comonad.co.uk, or email alex@comonad.co.uk. A few lines on the system and where AI fits is enough to start. His public profiles are on LinkedIn, X and GitHub under the handle vahaah, and his personal site is vahaah.com.

Contact

Enquiries go to Comonad Limited. Use the contact page or email alex@comonad.co.uk.

Contact

Selective engagements