Mykhaylo Terentyak is the founder and chief executive of Blackthorn Vision, the Lviv-rooted product engineering firm he started in 2009 to help technology companies build and modernize software with strong Microsoft and, later, AI depth (Blackthorn Vision).
Founding Blackthorn Vision
He founded the company in 2009 and still leads it as chief executive, with Yuriy Horak as chief technology officer and Nadiia Gasyuk as chief customer officer (about page). Under him the firm grew into an AI-enabled product engineering partner with offices in Lviv, Warsaw, and Wrocław and a portfolio that includes healthcare, biotech, fintech, and energy clients (about page; AI and ML page).
How he frames AI work
On the firm’s AI page he puts business outcomes ahead of models: “I approach AI projects from a business perspective first. If a solution doesn’t save time, improve the decision accuracy, or help our client scale more effectively, then the technology alone has little value” (AI and ML page). That line matches Blackthorn’s pattern of embedding engineers inside client product teams for multi-year programs instead of selling one-off experiments (about page).