Mitya Smusin is the CEO and a co-founder of Yellow Systems, the San Francisco boutique AI transformation firm he started in 2015, and he still writes regularly about practical AI product work for startups and mid-sized companies (Yellow; Yellow).
Founding Yellow in San Francisco
Smusin founded Yellow on December 1, 2015, and built it from a small product engineering shop into an AI-focused agency based at 44 Tehama Street in San Francisco (company page; Yellow). He describes himself as one of the founding fathers of the firm and says his favorite thing in the world is working, a line he puts at the top of his Yellow profile (Yellow).
Steering the firm into Claude-certified AI work
Under his leadership Yellow joined Anthropic’s Claude Partner Network, with 13 Claude-certified engineers and a wider team of more than 70 AI-equipped engineers building RAG systems, copilots, and agents (company page; EIN Presswire). He publishes guides on AI MVP development, low-code plus LLMs, and practical AI integration, aiming to turn technical topics into steps a product team can follow (Yellow).