About
Different pursuits. One mind. A constant curiosity.
I'm Boris Gramond.
I've spent much of my life trying to understand how things work, why they fail, and what could be done differently.
That curiosity has led me through payment systems, music, writing, and independent digital projects. They may seem unrelated, but they follow the same instinct: observe, question, understand, and create.
What I do
Since 1997, I've worked in digital commerce and payment systems, building and operating businesses and working directly with banks, acquirers, payment providers, and financial institutions.
In live environments, infrastructure, risk, regulation, and commercial pressures interact. Experience has taught me that the visible problem is rarely the whole problem; lasting improvements begin with understanding the system beneath it.
But my work is not limited to finance.
As DJ gMan, I bring '80s and '90s sounds, groove, and electronic music into live performance. AI and audio processing expand the creative possibilities, while selection, timing, and artistic decisions remain human.
As BIXMOND, I create melodic electronic emo, combining atmospheric, techno-futuristic production with emotionally direct lyrics, tension, and restraint.
Through writing, I explore power, technology, money, and social contradictions in dystopian fiction, essays, and satire. Alongside my books, I publish a free monthly MANIFESTO.
Through Gramond's Lab, I turn ideas into working digital projects. Its free tools and simulations explore data, probability, finance, and decision-making.
Each form of work begins with curiosity and becomes a way to test what is possible.
How I think
I tend to notice patterns, contradictions, missing information, and consequences that are easy to overlook.
When a problem appears, I am often less interested in a quick explanation than in the system that produced it. Which assumptions are wrong? What changes next? What are the consequences of those changes?
Yet not everything can be reduced to logic. Experience, intuition, emotion, and desire help shape our judgments—and can distort them.
Thinking further is not always thinking better. Analysis becomes valuable when it leads to action, observation, and learning.
In payments, I work on systems that must perform. In music, I explore what makes people feel. In writing, I challenge what people accept. In the Lab, I experiment with what could exist.
Different disciplines. One curiosity.
Beyond the labels
I am not exclusively a payment specialist, entrepreneur, musician, writer, or technology enthusiast. Each label describes something I do, but none defines the whole.
I'm drawn to the space between disciplines: where technical precision meets creativity, and rational thought meets human emotion.
I don't claim to have all the answers. I'm more interested in asking questions worth pursuing.
Political Thought & Convictions
Beyond my professional and creative work, I also examine how public authority, individual liberty and personal responsibility should coexist. My political convictions place merit, private property and limits on state power at the centre of that reflection.
I support a limited but effective state, responsible for protecting rights, justice and security. Any intervention should be judged by its necessity, proportionality, effectiveness, full cost and consequences for individual freedoms. These convictions reflect my belief that individual freedom and responsibility must remain central to the relationship between citizens and public institutions.
Understand deeply. Question assumptions. Create independently. Stay curious enough to change your mind.