About Us

The people and the story.

Our story

Plamen and Elena Petrov started OpenKBS in July 2025 to build AI agent software for enterprise. The company has taken no outside investment; everything on the platform has been funded by customers.

Jul 2025

FoundedPlamen and Elena Petrov launch OpenKBS, an AI agent platform for enterprise clients, without outside investment.

Mar 2026

Vibe codingThe platform adds support for building websites and apps with AI.

Mid 2026

Tasks, email & routinesTask management, email, and scheduled routines ship, rounding out the platform's core feature set.

Aug 2026

Kiril and Ivo joinKiril Hristov and Ivo Stoynovski join as co-founders, bringing product, GTM, and cloud architecture experience to the team.

Plamen Petrov

Co-Founder · CEO

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Started building with GPT in 2022, before most enterprise teams were paying attention. Spent the next three years running experiments with LLMs and working out what the underlying infrastructure needed to look like, then started OpenKBS.

Elena Petrova

Co-Founder · Operations Lead

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Runs the business side: accounting, contracts, legal compliance, and day-to-day operations. Co-founded OpenKBS alongside Plamen and has kept everything running cleanly since day one.

Kiril Hristov

Co-Founder · Product & GTM

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Spent eight years at Codeable, a marketplace for expert web developers, running product. Before that, worked with Plamen at SiteGround. At OpenKBS, he leads product strategy and go-to-market.

Ivo Stoynovski

Co-Founder · AI & Cloud Solutions Architect

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Cloud and AI systems architect. At OpenKBS, he designs the infrastructure and client-facing solutions that turn the platform into working deployments for enterprise customers.