About us
Hello!
We are Futurist – your partner for AI implementation, training, and strategic design and innovation. We use design thinking and guided processes to help you move from ideas to clear decisions and solutions faster.
Our story began in 2018 with the development of user experience (UX design) for digital services. We soon saw that traditional processes were too slow and scattered for months of bouncing the ball between teams. The solution was a design sprint 🚀 , an innovation accelerator that does months of work in just four days.
That's where we also discovered the power of facilitation, meaning that if you bring the right people into the room and the process is guided, solutions are created much faster.
Over the years, various workshops have been added - strategy days, innovation, marketing, customer and employee experience workshops. We also provide various trainings so that teams can develop their own design thinking and facilitation skills.
Today we are combining three areas into one:
Implementing AI for businesses
creating digital services with design sprint and UX design
Developing skills so that teams can lead innovation themselves.
We help you launch the process and move ideas to decisions and solutions faster. You and your team lead the implementation yourself, equipped with the tools and confidence that it will succeed.
Our team
Andres Kostiv
Futurist founder, AI leader and educator
Andres Kostiv is the founder of Futurist. He is a Certified AI Manager (CAIM), Äripäev Trainer of the Year 2020, and AI and UI/UX trainer at Äripäev Academy and IT Training.
Andres has conducted 150+ workshops, design sprints and trainings. Before founding Futurist in 2018, he worked as a UX designer at Tieto and as a Baltic Product and Sales Manager at Toyota and Lexus. This combination helps him keep the user, business and customer perspectives on the table at the same time.
Tiina Hiller
Workshop facilitator and trainer and partner
Tiina is a certified workshop facilitator and trainer with extensive experience as a marketing and HR manager in financial and technology companies. Today, Tiina helps organizations and teams achieve strategic clarity and reach important decisions through guided co-creation and workshops at Futurist. Tiina is also passionate about spreading facilitation skills and conducts various trainings on co-creation, discussion management, and improving meeting culture.
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If you have an important topic on the table, but it's not yet clear whether to start with a design sprint, service design, UX audit, or AI implementation, then this is a legitimate question. Let's see together which next step would help create clarity the fastest.