Perceptis was founded by Alibek (Al) Dostiyarov and Yersultan (Yers) Sapar in 2024. Former roommates at UC Berkeley, they bonded over shared appreciation of beautiful technology, and paying rent.
Alibek witnessed firsthand the rapid transformation of McKinsey & Company from a traditional management consulting firm into a Digital and AI powerhouse. Having supported numerous Fortune 500 companies and several governments on topics from data strategy to custom AI model building, he moved on to his vision of bringing the power of bleeding-edge AI to white-collar workers. His goal is to obliterate the old ways of working, with long hours of soul-crushing mind-numbing work.
Yersultan, during his time at Apple’s AI&ML Special Projects Group, launched products that are now being used by hundreds of millions of iPhone and Apple Watch users. Most importantly, as part of Apple’s moonshot lab, he pushed the frontier of AI applications in everyday tasks.
Together, this team reimagines AI-first tooling, specifically designed for Professional Services firms that lead the wave of AI adoption.
The Perceptis Manifesto:
The Science and The Art of Executive Presentation
In 2026, McKinsey turns one hundred and Apple turns fifty. Coincidence? Perhaps. Providence? Maybe. A fascinating fun-fact? Without a doubt. These are the two institutions that shaped our founding team. Each of these spent its lifetime perfecting an important component of what became our craft.
The world's biggest decisions are still made by people who receive their Board pre-reads as PDF attachments in Outlook.
In 2026, McKinsey turns one hundred and Apple turns fifty. Coincidence? Perhaps. Providence? Maybe. A fascinating fun-fact? Without a doubt. These are the two institutions that shaped our founding team. Each of these spent its lifetime perfecting an important component of what became our craft.
The slide is still the lingua-franca medium that facilitates those decisions.
A slide – a calibrated combination of text, charts, tables, and imagery –remains one of the most effective and ubiquitous tools to aid executive decision-making. Some may choose to fight it. We are here to make it great.
McKinsey spent a century perfecting the Science.
For a hundred years, the quiet force guiding the world’s most formidable organizations through their most critical strategic moments, has refined the science of the executive presentation: the storyline, the Pyramid Principle, the discipline of one slide carrying one idea... Perceptis codifies that century of best practices and turns it into an artificial brain.
Apple spent fifty years perfecting the Art.
For half a century, Apple has refined the art of design built around the human on the receiving end: the taste, the intuitiveness, the restraint, and the near-maniacal attention to detail that make complex things feel clear and effortless instead of heavy and cluttered. Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. It is the standard Jobs set and Ive carried forward, and we lean into that part of our DNA too.
The Art and the Science may look like enemies – but only on the surface.
On the surface these two sides of our DNA (McKinsey & Apple) pull in opposite directions: comprehensive against minimal, the detailed analysis against the authoritative point of view. But where others see a wall, we build a powerful bridge. An Executive Presentation has one job: to be a powerful, pragmatic tool that helps an executive decide. Serving the job and pleasing the eye were never truly at odds. Business decks do not have to hurt your eyes. Harmony in storytelling and visual form is the ultimate catalyst for clarity of thought.
The team at Perceptis is the powerful blend of high-output engineering (FAANG, high-growth startups) and ex-consultants (MBB, Big 4).
Our engineering team designs the zero-trust architecture, produces thoughtful interfaces, and efficient data processing pipelines - to break down the complex workflows into controllable bits of work for AI.
The ex-consultants work tirelessly to convey their patterns of critical thinking, ways of working, quality control mechanisms, and industry’s best practices to the Perceptis AI agents.
