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
Live · on the record
Live · on the record
I know how Cristian thinks about growth, marketing and AI, from Mondly to Cratox. Ask what you'd ask him over coffee.
AI may improvise. For anything that matters, reach the real Cristian on LinkedIn.
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.