About Alex Vakhitov

I'm Alex Vakhitov, a London-based entrepreneur, software architect and AI expert. I founded Comonad to put AI into production in large, stable systems and keep it accountable once it's there.

Quick facts

• Based in: London, UK
• Now: founder of Comonad Limited (since May 2024); Product Architect at Correla; current work includes a multi-tenant AI knowledge platform I architect and build
• Focus: agent harnesses, AI across the software delivery lifecycle, workflow automation, and governance for AI and AI agents in production
• Before: co-founder of Cloud KB (2015) and its CTO for seven years, until Correla acquired it in 2022
• Side project: Grid, a public dashboard of Great Britain's electricity system
• Contact: me@vahaah.com or LinkedIn

What I work on now

I started Comonad in May 2024. The aim is to get AI working inside large, stable enterprise systems and to keep it accountable after launch. I treat that as one job with two halves: the engineering that puts AI into a system people already rely on, and the governance that says what it may do and shows it stayed within that. Where they apply, I map the governance to the EU AI Act, UK guidance, the NIST AI RMF and ISO/IEC 42001. What Comonad offers is on comonad.co.uk.

AI agents need the most care, because they take actions where a chatbot only gives answers. I've set out how I govern them in a six-layer framework, and written a shorter, more personal take here.

I'm hands-on. Current work includes a multi-tenant AI knowledge platform I architect and build.

When a business asks me about AI, I try to answer four questions plainly. What is useful here? How does it fit into the systems you already run? How do you govern it? And where shouldn't you trust it? I'd rather tell you where AI will let you down than have you find out in production.

Cloud KB and UK energy

In 2015 I co-founded Cloud KB and was its CTO for seven years. We built cloud software for UK energy-market participants, and supported SMETS2 smart meters from the early stages of the national roll-out.

Changing software that other businesses depend on is slow, checked work. You know the boundary, prove the new path and keep a way back. I bring the same habit to AI.

We sold Cloud KB to Correla in 2022, and I stayed on as Product Architect, a role I still hold.

Grid

Grid is a personal side project: a public dashboard of Great Britain's electricity system, at grid.vahaah.com. It isn't a Comonad product. I build it in my own time, for anyone curious about how the system works, and I've written about building it.

What I write about

I write about building software with AI, and the engineering and governance that keep it honest. A few places to start:

• Why I treat AI agents as identities first
• What goes into my AI agent harness (and what I leave out)
• The evals I actually run on LLM features, and how I roll them back
• Quality gates for AI-written code: what I check before anything merges
• Bounded contexts and monadic composition: how I structure code for AI coding agents

There's older writing too, on software architecture and the habits that make hard work doable, and notes on books that shaped how I think.

The best way to reach me is me@vahaah.com. I'm also on LinkedIn.

Last updated 28 September 2026