Interview with Stan Suchkov, CEO and Co-Founder of Evolve

I’ve had several pivots in my life. I’ve started as sales manager at IT services company, moved towards construction and development field, running my own business for more than 5 years. Finally, I’ve understood that I can’t live without IT niche and decided to start my startup. That’s how Evolve started, and we needed 2 more years to understand how make our product useful and desirable in B2B sector.

Evolve is a unique Learning Management System that converts any uploaded materials into courses and trainings within 24 hours, saving up to 90% of time. Our system evaluates all the training results by itself, providing massive amount of data and analytics for the management. And last, but not least, almost all of our features can be acquired by API integrated in other LMSs.

It will definitely surprise us. In early 2000s I thought that we have everything we need to live, same was in the 2010s and even now I understand that we have everything we dreamed of. So I can’t state the things AI will improve in our lives, but with no doubts we will absorb the best opportunities new technologies will provide, and these values will be integrated in our daily routine smoothly. So, let’s see what the future and AI can give us.

The HR sector often faces significant challenges — from limited budgets and a lack of resources to manual workloads and the undervaluation of its importance by many chief officers. HR professionals frequently juggle responsibilities with insufficient staff, making it difficult to perform at their best.

AI has transformed this sphere with improving processes like onboarding, training, hiring, and other critical functions. AI tools have strengthened the HR teams. Basic hiring, payroll, and learning systems increased the effectiveness years ago, but all these platforms evolve right now to provide more and more AI features.

Evolve uses AI to automate courses & trainings creation, cutting off 90% of time L&D and HR experts spend to build education programs. But that’s not only the case we help with. There is a huge paint with assessing the knowledge an employee has. Evolve evaluates all the training results including open-ended questions and provides feedback about each learner with strong and weak sides.

AI impacts businesses the same way as it impacts our daily life. We in AICU tend to help companies to find the best opportunities to implement AI capacities within daily work. We not only make several days workshops for managers within corporations, but we also consult teams on how to implement the AI features inside the company and get fast results

Yes, of course. We often involve outbound experts inside our programs. It helps to provide an extended scope of services for our clients. For instance, we have a client in oil & gas industry in MENA, and they ordered a 3 days workshop on how to adopt AI in their processes. We’ve offered them 2 experts who already consulted huge oil & gas companies and implemented some values in order to optimize processes.

The important thing is that when you know something and another person knows something and if you share the knowledge between each other you know 2 times more. Founders of AICU do not have expertise in every business field, and we can’t grow and provide first class services without colleagues.

Actually, when I pivoted my professional life switching my career from construction development to IT I finally understood that I can work remotely, and I do not need to stick to one place. I travelled a lot in recent years, but couldn’t stay out of the office for more than 10 days. Everything changed after I started to run my own startup. I tested the living in Thailand, tried several countries for the long stay, and definitely I have several countries I love most: Thailand, Italy, Portugal, and US. So only Latin America left, and I’m looking forward to visiting several countries in this region this year.

I don’t think I can give valuable advices to HR professionals in their field. On other hand I would like to point that I do see people in charge who finally understand importance of HR, the impact it can give to the company growth. And do not underestimate the impact AI can bring into your work;