MaksymStepanenko

14 years in business consulting, law, digital marketing and finance. I help small and medium businesses enter new markets, close legal and tax risks, and put sales, accounting and management in order. Owner and director of Marketing MIX LLC (the MMIX agency) since 2013, director of INNOVA CONSULT in Ottawa since 2023. Ran a law firm in Kyiv for nine years and worked as a court-appointed insolvency practitioner. Master of economic theory with honours, Kharkiv National Pedagogical University, 2006. Living in Ottawa since May 2023. Work that used to take a team now partly runs on AI agents, which makes it faster and cheaper for clients.

First I find where a business loses money and time: legal and tax risks, sales, accounting, management. Then I build the system: company structure, contracts, reporting, lead handling, regular numbers for the owner. After that it runs without daily hands-on control, and the owner works on decisions.

INNOVA CONSULT LTD.

Federal Canadian corporation (CBCA 1522612-1), registered 25.07.2023 in Ottawa. Status Active. The FastCoffee brand lives under it.

Annual returns 2024-2026 filed, T2 for 2023-2025 closed, GST/HST for 2025 filed — all done in house as the first live case of AccountingOS.

Marketing MIX LLC

Ukrainian agency, owner and director since 2013. The MMIX brand, sites mmix.ua and mmix.biz.

A legal matter in Ukraine

The Legal Solutions law firm handles matters for businesses and individuals in Kyiv and across Ukraine. Requests sent through the site go to the firm's lawyers.

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A company abroad, taxes, bookkeeping

Crystal Tax helps choose a jurisdiction, register a company and keep its bookkeeping and taxes in order after registration.

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Websites, promotion, visibility in AI search

The Marketing MIX studio builds websites, runs promotion and tracks visibility in AI search. On its contact page you can discuss a project or request an audit, a strategy session or a free AI visibility snapshot.

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Partnerships, projects and grants: message me on LinkedIn. Journalists and event organisers have their own page with talk topics, bios, photo and a media kit. Investors and funds have a page with a request form.

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A festival in Carleton Place and its whole digital contour: a trilingual site, a CRM, an archive, a platform for other towns

A Ukrainian festival in Carleton Place, Ontario. It started with a garage sale in the spring of 2023 — 2900 CAD collected, and that money grew into the first festival on 5 November 2023 in the town arena.

live · Invents, builds and keeps the entire digital side: site, CRM, mailings, archive, grants, press

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An orchestrator for a company of AI agents: a task comes in, agents work, and the acceptance stamp cannot be faked

A general engine for a "company made of AI agents".

growing · Author of the idea and the architecture, client and main user

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An agency older than ten years, moved onto a new site with an honest portfolio

Maksym's marketing agency. The new mmix.biz is built as static pages on Cloudflare Pages, with the design locked by a separate document: white paper, heavy Helvetica in caps and nine shades of elephant.

live · Agency owner, author of the positioning and the publishing rules

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A law firm's site whose clients disappeared; the teardown showed exactly where the enquiries were leaking

A law firm site on MODX, one of the cluster of Ukrainian projects in the group. In August 2026 it got a full forensic teardown around the owner's question: where did the clients go after 5 August.

live · Audit, lead-generation diagnosis, fixes in production

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A tax and corporate site where 45% of all requests went into an endless redirect

A site about taxes, jurisdictions and international structures. The audit of 31 August 2026 found five root causes for the vanished enquiries, and the first one is beautiful: a snippet on the 404 page appended .

live · Audit and shipping the fixes to production

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His daughter's catering business in Ottawa — a site in five languages where no number is printed without confirmation

A project of Maksym's daughter Anastasiia; the logo is her own drawing, and it is deliberately left unimproved.

live · Builds and runs the site, owns the honesty rules for the content

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About the shared and the separate past of Ukrainian settlers and the Indigenous peoples of Canada

Two products under one name. The 50-page megasite babakokum.com is about how the stories of Ukrainian settlers and Indigenous peoples of Canada are woven together.

live · Came up with it, built it, runs the correspondence with partners

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A photo of a business card, then a dossier on the person, then a personal message written in their language

You shoot a business card with your phone — the service reads it, looks the person up online, assembles a dossier with links and mentions, and offers a draft of a first message.

in testing · Product author, architect, user number one

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A site for an Ottawa construction company, assembled in a day from the owner's handoff

A platform for free-estimate requests for a company doing exterior construction in Ottawa. The design direction is "Grade line": chalk, graphite and lawn green, a logo of layers on a green line.

waiting for the client · Built the site, the brand and the request form

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A multi-tenant autonomous SEO platform running entirely on free engines

A platform that runs SEO for several projects by itself: around twenty-four permanent worker cycles, its own search results through SearXNG, instant submission of pages for indexing, its own connectors.

live · Author of the platform and its main tenant

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A hub for grants and hackathons: finds programmes, watches deadlines, assembles packages

An internal engine for grants. A catalogue of programmes, reconnaissance of portals, discovery of submission forms, assembly of document packages, and timers that drive all of it on their own.

live · Author and operator

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Cold outreach that has deliberately sent nothing

An engine for finding and qualifying leads: it finds companies through open maps and search, enriches them, scores them with a model and prepares letter drafts.

safe mode · Author of the engine and the person keeping the switch off

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A shop of Ukrainian goods for Canada with a garage locker instead of a warehouse

A monorepo of two halves: a Next.js storefront and a FastAPI fulfilment core. The "KANVA" design is built on the counted grid of embroidery as a law of layout — motifs are drawn procedurally from a product's address.

growing · Architect and author of the honesty rules

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AI accounting, tried first on his own corporation

The idea is simple: a Canadian accounting firm where agents do the work, with nil returns for dormant corporations as the wedge.

growing · Product author and the first test client

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A catalogue of Telegram channels with its own metrics and a detector for inflated numbers

First a personal tool, then a resource for everyone: a catalogue of channels and chats with its own database, metrics, scoring and signals of inflated audiences.

preview · Author and the only user until it goes public

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A counterparty-checking portal over Canadian and Australian registries

A half-clone of the well-known company-checking services — a light theme, a sidebar of groups, a tabbed dossier, a right-hand panel.

growing · Author

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A Canadian answer to the registry databases: companies, contracts, grants, lobbyists, sanctions

A corporate-transparency platform for Canada, assembled from open data. The database holds 5.9 million entities, 1.

paused · Author

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The platform of an international association of game facilitators, live on its own domain

The site and platform of an association of game facilitators: seven pages, seventeen hub landings, five platform screens and a founding-member certificate.

live · Built it and launched it

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A second festival, this time in Ottawa, built on what UAFest taught

A multicultural festival in Ottawa, conceived on top of everything UAFest taught. The site is in English and French — around 139 pages.

in preparation · Initiator and builder of the digital side

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Four channels for four subjects and one wish: dump everything in a pile

The main channel MAKSYM STEPANENKO has been running since 2023 and holds 176 videos.

growing · Runs the channels, author of all the automation around them

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One hundred and seventy-six videos: law, taxes, immigration, life in Canada and whatever else came along the way.

Corporate law, taxes and immigration — my day job, on camera.

Life: Ottawa, family, the road, the human part next to the work.

AI and automation: how everything listed on this page actually gets built.

• Отчёт о КИК: кто подаёт и какие штрафы за неподачуКомпании за рубежом и налоги · 1:48
• Как открыть счёт иностранной компании: комплаенс банкаКомпании за рубежом и налоги · 1:59
• Гражданство Гренады: цена, что даёт, виза E2 в СШАВторое гражданство и переезд · 1:44
• Регистрация компании в Болгарии: налоги 10% и ВНЖКомпании за рубежом и налоги · 0:56
• Регистрация компании в Панаме: 5 рисков офшораКомпании за рубежом и налоги · 1:50
• Альтернатива ОАЭ по налогам: Грузия 1%, Болгария 10%Компании за рубежом и налоги · 2:50
• Двойное гражданство для украинцев: где получить второй паспортВторое гражданство и переезд · 1:40
• Гражданство Румынии по корням: условия, риски и налогиВторое гражданство и переезд · 1:59
• Пользовательские инструкции ChatGPT: как настроить, чтобы работал лучшеChatGPT и нейросети на практике · 2:40
• Как пользоваться ChatGPT на максимум: 5 функций, о которых мало кто знаетChatGPT и нейросети на практике · 2:39
• SEO с нуля: как собрать семантическое ядро для сайтаПраво, налоги и бизнес · 2:48
• Где хранить деньги после обвала крипты: USDT и выбор биржиПраво, налоги и бизнес · 3:01
• 4 ошибки предпринимателя, которые дорого стоят бизнесуПраво, налоги и бизнес · 1:27
• Мультикультурный фестиваль еды в Оттаве изнутри | UAFestОттава: еда, места, приметы · 0:54
• Ваши переписки с ChatGPT могут использовать в судеChatGPT и нейросети на практике · 1:11
• Начал качать личный бренд: первые шаги в соцсетяхБлог и проекты · 0:29
• Где купить кофе ночью в Канаде? Ночная продажа в Fast CoffeeБлог и проекты · 0:42
• Что такое хороший бизнес: прибыль, которая умножает деньги вокругПраво, налоги и бизнес · 1:09

The videos are broken down by transcript and laid out along time on a separate index: you can see where each topic starts.

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