Behnam Jafari Balalami

@gilebehnam

Founder, Whalya · product-led venture studio

United Kingdom

Founder of Whalya, a product-led venture studio building AI products that do real work for small teams: Whalyom (a marketing department inside Claude Code), Whalory (AI copywriting in English and Persian) and Whalyon (a business health check). 18 years across product, operations and ventures. Based in the UK.

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