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Anastasia Kuskova

Anastasia Kuskova

CEO and co-founder of beSirius, an AI sustainability intelligence platform for mining and metals.

Jun 24, 2026

6:25
What is it exactly that you spotted and thought, you know what, I have a really great idea for how we can make this better and simpler and cheaper?
6:32
Yeah.
6:33
It always sounds very logical when you've done several years of that and the product actually has some normal shape or whatever.
6:41
For us, we started more from not from realizing the gap, but more from realizing the pain.
6:47
For me, it was very clear that the way things worked, it's just not the way they should work.
6:54
We as a producer would receive a bunch of questionnaires, requests for data, requirements for passing certain certifications and standards from all over the place, meaning customers of our customers of our customers.
7:09
And it was very hard to see the big picture in a sense of what is it exactly I need to do? Am I just answering questionnaires or is there a bigger picture in the sense of What is it my customers actually want from me? Are there geographical requirements? Are there certain patterns that I can track to sell better? If I ask for additional budget, how do I justify the investment in a certain topic on sustainability or responsible sourcing? How can I justify that to see for what customers are actually asking about? how to map it all together and understand the equivalency of different standards and see exactly what five actions I need to do that would be the most valuable for my company where I spend my limited dollars in the budget.

5 MINS LATER

13:22
Is that the idea? Exactly.

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