Prague based · ready to relocate

Milan. Value. Proof. Bonus.

I do four things well, and I brought twelve witnesses to prove it.

Scroll down: every claim comes with the role, the numbers, and the people who saw it happen.

One minute of reading. Every claim has a name behind it.

Milan Polak

Milan Polak

Milan with his team

Scroll and check: every number has a company, a role and a witness.

01 / HOW I CREATE VALUE

One career.
Four repeatable moves.

Not a list of strengths. Four patterns repeated across products, market launches, customer operations, international programs and partnerships.

THE REPEATING MOVE

Create the system where none exists.

I take the blank page: market entry, product, team, operations and commercial model. Then I make it work.

HOW I DO IT

  1. 01Start with the full journey, not an isolated function, from acquisition and onboarding through delivery, payment and recovery.
  2. 02Build the operating system around it: product, supply, growth, sales, customer care, budgets and ownership.
  3. 03Use real customer feedback and unit economics to improve the offer until the model produces both value and margin.
0 to positive marginAcademy of Digital Industries, Czech launch built from zero
46 customersDecodeMerit, pay only if satisfied model
93% satisfactionDecodeMerit customers, as Founder
100+ learnersApplied AI courses at ADI, 80 to 90% completion

WHERE THIS SHOWED UP

The move, applied in the real world.

Select any role for the full evidence trail
DecodeMeritFounder · Oct 2025 to now

Built the product, journey and commercial engine, solo.

Product, marketing, sales, training, social and technology, built to learn the education business end to end.

  • 46 customers helped through an AI-driven product
  • 93% satisfaction under a pay-only-if-satisfied model
Academy of Digital IndustriesExpansion Manager · Sep 2024 to Apr 2026

Launched a Czech applied-AI education operation from zero.

Owned legal setup, funding, product, lecturer supply, growth, sales, customer care, operations and budgets.

  • 100+ learners trained in applied AI
  • 80-90% course completion

02 / OUTCOME EVIDENCE

Eight roles, in order.
Twelve real witnesses.

Pick a role. See the mandate, measurable outcomes and people prepared to stand behind the work.

DecodeMerit logo

DecodeMerit / Oct 2025 to now

Czech Republic

Founder

Built the product, journey and commercial engine, solo.

  1. 0146 customers helped through an AI-driven product
  2. 0293% satisfaction under a pay-only-if-satisfied model
  3. 03Three profitable monthly campaigns
  4. 04Full technology stack built solo

Product, marketing, sales, training, social and technology, built to learn the education business end to end.

03 / BEYOND THE WORK

Kilometres. A camera.
Teams with stories.

Three things I bring into every team: consistency, an eye for people, and team buildings people talk about for years.

I run

Consistency, long horizons and a stubborn habit of finishing what I start.

I photograph people

Portraits are how I learned to make people comfortable enough to be themselves.

I organise team buildings

Four teams, four stories, and one still unwritten. Explore the field notes below.

CEMS Club: international weekend01 / 05

TEAM FIELD NOTE

CEMS Club: international weekend

Organized an international visit of students from partnering schools to spend 2 days in Prague, with socializing events and educational workshops with our corporate partners.

04 / NEXT MISSION

Ready to move
for the right work.