[ THE STORY ]
Operators who ship, not slideware.
Alex Cinovoj is Founder & CTO of TechTide AI, a Columbus, Ohio AI-automation agency, and co-host of the Automation Vibes podcast. He brings 13 years of mixed IT across support, systems, cloud, architecture, and engineering, with the last 2 years focused on AI implementation. He is a Lovable Champion and community leader and has completed Anthropic Academy courses in Agent Engineering, Claude Code, MCP, and Context Engineering.
TechTide AI is the consulting firm. Three offers: Production Triage ($5K, 7 days), Workflow Rescue ($25, 40K, 21 days), Fractional FDE ($25, 40K/month, 3-month minimum). The Operator Ledger is the proof spine. The Anti-Hype Manifesto is the voice contract.
Credentials: Lovable Champion and community leader (10,183 verified edits across 277 active days). Completed 9 Anthropic Academy courses including Agent Engineering, Claude Code, MCP, and Context Engineering. Per Scholas CompTIA A+/Network+ (2013).
Distribution: 56,424 LinkedIn followers · 8.9M impressions in the last 365 days · 2.47M members reached. Favikon Top 5 AI Education November 2025 (#240 AI Education US).
Build telemetry (last 90 days): 2.27B OpenAI tokens, 559 Codex CLI + IDE threads. 30+ Claude Code skills shipped to production. 2 MCP servers shipped under TechTideOhio and Alexi5000 on GitHub. 6,326 GitHub contributions over the last year across 120+ repos. Multi-provider via 9Router proxy.
Ecosystem: Co-founder of FigGlow.ai with Shane Spencer. Co-host Automation Vibes podcast. Long story at alexcinovoj.com. Open-source detail at alexcinovoj.dev. Research at cipherclaw.com.
Our Values
Ops-First
Built by someone who has lived in the trenches of IT. Not a bootcamp grad.
Full Ownership
You get the source code, the docs, and the deploy. No lock-in, no retainer bleed. Walk away running it yourself anytime.
Security Default
RLS, Zod, JWT, DOMPurify, baked in from day one. Not optional add-ons.