SpeShu.AI launches AI-Profi, a service that matches businesses with AI specialists for specific tasks

Demand in Russia is growing fast for people who can embed artificial intelligence in everyday workflows. Against that backdrop, the SpeShu.AI platform has launched AI-Profi, so that companies can look for suitable AI specialists through a quick request tied to a specific task rather than through a lengthy hiring process.

Why demand is growing

According to data cited in the publication, Russian employers posted more than 16.5 thousand job openings in the first quarter of 2026 that required AI skills or at least a willingness to learn neural networks. That is 2.7 times more than a year earlier.

Such a jump points to a shift in focus: businesses are no longer satisfied with discussing AI at the strategy level. They need people who can put tools to work in sales, support, analytics, document management and internal services. Demand is moving from abstract interest to applied tasks with a clear outcome.

How the service works

AI-Profi is positioned as a tool for quickly finding specialists for a specific business request. The logic is simple: a company submits a request in a few clicks, describes the task and receives responses from relevant experts in the service's database.

This differs markedly from a classic job posting, where you have to spend a long time building a funnel, filtering résumés and separately checking whether a candidate understands how to apply AI in a real process, rather than just knowing a set of fashionable terms.

It also matters to companies because the need for AI skills often arises not as a planned HR task but as an urgent business request. For example, a team may need to automate part of its support quickly, test a hypothesis with an AI assistant for the sales department, or assess whether manual document work can be cut. In that situation, a task-based service looks more practical than a long search for an "ideal" full-time employee without a clear idea of which profile is actually needed.

• A request tied to a specific business task
• Fast responses from relevant experts
• Search by real need, not by formal job title
• Less time between an idea and the first contact with a specialist

Where it is useful

This format may work especially well for companies that already understand they need AI but do not yet want to build a large in-house team. For mid-sized businesses this is a typical situation: they have a task and a pilot budget, but lack the in-house expertise to define the specialist profile precisely. As a result, hiring drags on, contractors are compared blindly, and pilots start too late. A service like AI-Profi tries to remove precisely this first barrier and give businesses a shorter path to a contractor.

By its description, the tool's value lies not only in speed but also in how it packages demand. It is easier for an employer to formulate not a vacancy for "an AI specialist" but an applied request: deploy a bot, automate a process, find a solution for a particular department, or test a hypothesis before scaling. This is a more mature approach to the market, because it ties AI not to fashion but to tasks, deadlines and expected impact. Experts benefit too: they receive leads in which the problem is already described in business language.

What this means

The launch of AI-Profi shows that the Russian AI market is maturing: the shortage of specialists is now so visible that dedicated matching services are appearing around it. If the trend of growing vacancies continues, businesses will increasingly look not simply for people "with AI experience" but for contractors for short, measurable projects. For the market, this is a signal that AI is finally moving from the category of experiments into the category of operational necessity.