Muffik was not a little import experiment. My working recollection is that Igor and I shared the plant operation, I held the U.S. market, and Igor and Rustam handled the rest of the world. I wanted America because I had a very specific destination for the product here.
I did not want to win by being another seller with a colorful sensory mat. I wanted the product tested, documented, medically useful, and capable of living inside occupational-therapy and developmental-disability systems. That is why the testing dragged across years and why I kept spending money on things most marketplace sellers never touch.
The geopolitical part came later. The factory and ownership story became tangled in Russia, the invasion of Ukraine, the loss of access to the plant, and the later re-emergence of the company in Europe. I learned after the fact that Muffik was still operating. That discovery carried its own anger because I had believed people and relationships were gone when they were not.
What survives cleanly in the archive is the operational evidence: invoices, freight records, trademark correspondence, Czech supply documents, arrival notices, sales channels, product photos, testing trips, and the sheer amount of physical inventory that passed through my hands.
_source_private/. They are intentionally not rendered by the public page. Ownership percentages, dollar totals, medical reimbursement pathways, and war-era chronology remain working recollection until matched to the underlying legal and financial documents.