01 / Ask me
My answers, without the meeting.
Fifteen years in marketing and growth. Now I build products with frontier AI as the workforce. The degree says maritime navigation and shipbuilding engineering. These days I just build and ship.
Cristian Balau · COO, Cratox AI · ex-Marketing Director, Mondly
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02 / The numbers
Users, helped scale Mondly
Clients & brands served, freelance & agency
Organic traffic at Mondly.com, 10K → 1M
Apps worked on & managed
Years in marketing, product & ops
Find the channel. Measure the funnel. Scale what works.
03 / Selected work
Full dossier →- 2025 - now
Cratox AI
COO
AI nutrition tracker: photo in, health insights out. Built with the ex-Mondly team.
In production - 2024 - 2025
Vestinda
Head of Marketing
Positioning, acquisition and lifecycle for a fintech / automated-trading platform.
Fintech - 2020 - now
SEO Signal
Founder
My digital marketing agency: growth and user acquisition for apps and SaaS, paid and organic, and the marketing systems behind them, now built with AI agents.
My agency - 2018 - 2024
Mondly by Pearson
Growth → Marketing Director
From a Brașov startup to global scale, straight through the Pearson acquisition.
150M+ users · Acquired
04 / From the notebook
Notes on marketing, AI, and what actually moves the number.
Read the pieces →
05 / Contact
Anything it can't answer, I can.
Proposals, collaborations, advisory work, speaking: email is the fastest way to reach me. I read everything myself.