About us
History of Neelix
“Neelix” is an innovative platform for developing culture and optimizing processes within an organization. Together with us, you go further than rules and rituals. Our mission is to increase the long-term intelligence and initiative of any organization with less effort.
We rely on a systems approach—this is what enables achieving leadership positions in today’s technological and competitive world. At the same time, we don’t offer universal “magic pills” or the only “right” solutions. Instead, we provide discipline and tools for developing critical thinking.
As a product, “Neelix” offers a new class of tools—it is a platform for collective critical thinking that helps organizations become more resilient, transparent, and effective.
Unique approaches are based on leading trends. Our care is your advantage. “Neelix” is a fully localized solution tailored to the requirements of the Russian Federation.
10 years and 3 cycles
of developing a method to engage employees in improving effectiveness without using traditional surveys.
6 years
of large-scale application of a method for preventing risks, improving Agile effectiveness, and driving active continuous improvement—without surveys and rituals.
3 years
of practical experience implementing a people-oriented operating model, in which employees and AI agents jointly increase the company’s collective intelligence.
From 1 to 3 months
to form a scalable and sustainable ability to prevent “problems from being swept under the rug” in conditions of psychological safety.
Neelix development history (timeline)
2016
An alternative to surveys
- Launch of the “Team Journal” in the context of global organizations (beginning work at Credit Suisse).
- Proven results in improving cohesion and the team’s critical thinking.
2018
Increasing measurability
- Tracking cause-and-effect relationships.
- Gamification techniques to increase cohesion within individual teams and enable easier measurement of implicit cultural rules that are difficult to identify through traditional methods.
- First integration with key operating systems (Jira and Slack).
- Implementation of a solution for scaling the methodology in organizations of any size, number of teams, and external partners, including the ability to integrate clients into feedback.
- Introduction of a flexible system for triangulation and transparency of any information—portfolio project management, OKRs, shared goal education, risks in accordance with ISO31000, team discipline, and corporate culture.
2023
Increasing value for senior leadership and HR
- AI analyzes a dynamic cloud of data within the operating process and helps employees capture observations and conclusions.
- Automatic retrospective boards as a way to reduce Agile ritualization.
- Expanded integration capabilities—Microsoft Teams, GitHub.
- Integrations with Microsoft Teams and GitHub.
- A secure API—an approach that supports platform openness and integration into any processes and dashboards that are already operating in organizations.
- The platform has evolved into a universal space for making fast and highly mindful decisions: now not only people are involved, but also AI agents, algorithms, and other automated processes.
2024
Expanded application
- Measuring psychological safety in organizations comparable to principles studied by Amy Edmondson and Brené Brown.
- Expansion of gamification techniques.
- Implementing the ability to run surveys to add flexibility in those rare cases when a traditional tool is more effective—for example, voting on decisions, testing hypotheses, psychometric testing.
- Validation of platform capabilities for managing the educational process—application throughout a full module for master’s students in project management.
2025
New AI assistant features and integrations
- The ability to assess the level of critical thinking in each piece of feedback.
- Introduction of AI coaches.
- Integration with Telegram and Zoho CRM.
2026
Continuous development
- Improving goal, project, and OKR management.
- Expanded capabilities to combine experience from people-employee and AI-agent into a comprehensive “data lake” of collective intelligence.
Inventor
Ivan Golenkov is the creator of a way to develop high-performing teams. He is a leader with more than 25 years of international experience and a committed advocate of management in which ambitious results are achieved by unlocking the potential of teams through discipline in critical thinking and an adult culture.
His professional journey combines work in the international financial environment, managing complex technology projects, and seeking an answer to one of the key questions in today’s business: how to turn the knowledge, experience, and abilities of individual people into collective power?
After receiving education in banking and international finance in London, and later earning an Executive MBA degree, Ivan built his career at the intersection of finance, technology, and organizational development. His experience includes Credit Suisse, regional banks in Australia and New Zealand, and international technology companies, including Digital Asset. He worked with teams in Europe, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and the USA—learning in practice what enables people to collaborate effectively regardless of geography, cultural differences, and the complexity of the tasks at hand.
From international experience to his own methodology.