kamila portfolio
FOUNDER · PHD RESEARCHER

Hi, I am
Kamila

I study how people think, decide and behave, then build things that put that understanding to work.

Half academic, half founder: I care about turning honest research into impact (and money).

Gen ZCZAI
Portrait of Kamila Zahradníčková
BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCE·INNOVATION MANAGEMENT·Entrepreneurship
/ 01 ABOUT

I enjoy the gap between two worlds that rarely speak the same language: rigorous behavioural science and the messy pressure of building.

Too commercial for the lab, too rigorous for the startup room. That in-between is exactly where the interesting problems live.

/ 02 The journey
Early on
A researcher before it was a job title

Won a first national research award in high school, and was publishing as first author while still an undergraduate. The habit of asking a sharp question and testing it properly started early.

Foundations
Degrees in psychology, anthropology & design

Three lenses on the same question (why people do what they do) that still shape how I frame every problem: human first, then method, then product. Started publishing my research as an undergrad. First author.

In practice
Consulting for Nestlé, Ogilvy & The Nature Conservancy

Applied behavioural science for global brands and NGOs, where I saw first hand how slow and expensive good insight had become, and started imagining a better way. Dived into HCD and design thinking, and facilitated co-creation workshops.

Now / academia
PhD researcher in innovation management

An external doctoral researcher at the Prague University of Economics and Business, studying how AI is reshaping the way organisations innovate. 

Now / building
Founder & CEO of Lakmoos AI

Co-founded and lead an AI company turning years of research conviction into a product used by enterprise teams across Europe.

/ 03 What I'm building
Lakmoos AI Founder & CEO · lakmoos.com ↗
The Lakmoos team

Neuro-symbolic AI that clones real audiences, so any team can test an idea on the people who matter and get validated answers in hours, not weeks. I took it from a student project to a venture-backed company: raising a pre-seed round, driving Lakmoos to cash flow positive, and building and leading a team of 30ish people.

1B
Questions / year
20+
Enterprise teams
35
Team led
+
Cash flow positive
Trusted by teams at
E.ONVolkswagenRaiffeisenbankO2
As seen in · CzechCrunch Wired HROT
Innovation Sprintsinovacnisprinty.cz ↗

My doctoral research project supported by internal grants. It turns structured innovation sprints and behavioural science into something teams can actually run in a single day. Founders validate real business hypotheses against AI respondents instead of guessing.