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Richard
Helsingius

Business analyst at a Helsinki deeptech startup. Product instincts.

About

Richard is a business analyst at IXI, a Helsinki deeptech startup building autofocus eyeglasses. His background is in finance, but he works across fundraising, go-to-market, and whatever else needs both numbers and judgment. Feel free to reach out.

Now
  • Thinking about what makes products feel right.
  • Running, climbing, moving around.
  • Paying attention.
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Work
012026

Prompt AI+Finance Hackathon

1st place, Aiven challenge. Built an agentic natural-language onboarding that takes anyone from sign-up to an optimal Aiven setup with one click — in under 90 seconds.

022025 ↗

Brand identity and website for Hanken Entrepreneurship Society

Designed the visual system, built and shipped the site. HankenES is a student entrepreneurship society at Hanken School of Economics. I redesigned their brand from the ground up; typographic system, logo, colour palette etc.

Writing
27 Mar 2026↗

Before you can delegate to AI, you have to design for delegation

The bottleneck is not the AI. It is that most finance functions were never designed to be handed off.