Founding PM - Generalist entrepreneurial execution-led ai-native operator

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• Building Ek-ai as a side venture - a proactive agent that tells WhatsApp-heavy business operators the top-3 revenue-related things that matter today like an EA.
• A weekly AI coach that diagnoses why I get stuck, not just that I do. Open-source skill.
• sid's pod craft - Mar 2023 AI episode when LLMs were just starting to have a moment
• Spent 5 transformative years in Auroville after BITS.
  Auroville wants to be a universal town where men and women of all countries are able to live in peace and progressive harmony

  Auroville will be the place of an unending education, of constant progress, and a youth that never ages

  Auroville wants to be the bridge between the past and the future

  Auroville will be a site of material and spiritual researches for a living embodiment of an actual Human Unity

Selected impact from last role

• Scaled from 2M to 30M candidates in ~2 years at Expertia.
• Led enterprise implementation for 500+ recruiters at Reliance with a successful renewal. Also, highly sticky. Jul 2025: avg WAUs 86.2, MAUs 142. View zoomed-in visual
• Shipped AI features across voice calling, resume screening, agentic chat with candidate profile, and interview assistance.
• Built growth and GTM systems from scratch: analytics, activation, CRM, and ads (100K+ USD topline contribution).

How I AI

• Building Ek-ai - a proactive agent that triages revenue-related items for Whatsapp-heavy business operators. Proactive with on-device long-term memory management. Things fall through the cracks while operating a business via Whatsapp: inquiries, pending payments, follow-ups, etc. Data stays private. Currently piloting with friends and family.
• Built a weekly AI coach that diagnoses why I get stuck, not just that I do. 12+ weeks in Goal - help operate at a near-sustainable load towards identified goals. Started off as an accountability partner of sorts, but now it proposes why I am stuck on some things as a hypothesis, designs small experiments against the blocker, tracks which nudges actually got me to act, and reads my energy before setting next week's load. 3 inputs - annual charter, daily journal, weekly plan. Open-source skill. Video walk-through
• A running coach on my Garmin data - we synthesise high-resolution training data every month into heuristics I can incorporate in training. I think heuristics are what actually help - VO2 max, lactate threshold, HR drift, training load, Z1 Z2 training are interesting for analysis, but a problem I had was connecting all of these dots together into something actionable. So every scheduled monthly check-in pulls new runs, laps and heart-rate data, compares them against a rolling baseline of the last 4 months, and checks whether I followed the last advice. Then it simplifies all of it into a couple of shifts. Example - only 15% of my running time was easy, so: keep the long run at 145-155 bpm even when it feels too slow. Coaching seems to be the thread across a lot of what I build.
• An AI-assisted system of insights from my daily journaling. 180+ days streak Value prop - indexation of daily journaling makes possible to review trends, revisit moments, track who energises, drains energy. Implementation backs up Google Docs entries to GitHub, LLM extracts - metadata for mood/ emotions/ people/ activites, emails them back as echoes from 1/ 3/ 6/ 12 months ago, and streams journaling events to PostHog for pattern-spotting. Runs free of cost. Video walk-through. Write-up on mapping 600+ person-interactions as emotional scores: Data-driven reflections on the shape of life.
• A job researcher for opportunities I choose to pursue Agents research into the company, role, comp, and interviewers, contrast the opportunity against my interests and background. Everything lands in one composite doc per opportunity: each new conversation, call, or Granola note keeps appending, so the doc holds the whole arc via job update agent. Complimented by a job-apply agent.
• Inbox-0, a Claude-native inbox-assistant app - triages, drafts, supports workflows for follow-ups. Particularly interesting part is workflows - auto-nudges where a reply is owed, cold outreach sequencing, unanswered invite. Inspired from Every's Dan Shippr's inbox-0.

Current favourite tools

Codex Claude Code PostHog Cursor Granola Linear Wispr Flow Mermaid NotebookLM

The shape of work I am built for

• Environments: Broad mandates, low-bureaucracy, high-autonomy environments, intellectual honesty, high-ownership of the outcome, small teams taking initiative.
• My working style: Time alone to think and build, paired with regular exposure to customers, operators, experts, and live constraints.
• Enjoy: I am an ai-native deep generalist. Building AI-enabled products for businesses: work that sits at the intersection of customer understanding, product judgment (taste), systems design, and execution.
• Nots: Not a production grade software dev. Directionally not keen on regular eastern time extending into the AM hours.
• Some leanings: Proactive agents as reliable employees / task-doers. Physical health, mental health, ai-hardware, performance improvement. Empowerment of india-3. Wealth management and advisory.

Earlier creative + builder work

• d3-based visualisation of the population diversity growth of Auroville inspired from the popular Hans Rosling's health and wealth of nations infographic
• Data art: d3 based meditative visuals
• Lip-synced video transalation PoC for learning programs
• Part of Swadharma team: a self-discovery program for young adults in Auroville
• sid's pod craft: long-form conversations with people from diverse crafts

Beyond work

Endurance athlete. Learning Hindustani vocals.