This is me. And I'm here to stay.
By day, I run global partnerships at Kalmantic Labs, a venture-backed agentic AI research lab. By night, I run Artango, a small product that turns photos of your pet into the kind of art you'd actually hang on a wall.
The short version
I'm not going to pretend an "About" page is anyone's favourite kind of writing. So I'll keep this honest.
I went to Babson College, the kind of place where every second student has an up-and-running business making them $10,000 a month. I caught the entrepreneurial bug there and never quite shook it. From there: advertising, investments, the startup world, eventually Upekkha, India's leading vertical AI accelerator.
On the side: Artango. I started it because I had some beautiful shots of Nawab against ugly backgrounds, and I wanted to make those pictures usable. Pets don't live forever. Art does.
The product is simple. You upload a photo. Pick a style. Thirty seconds later, you have something you'd actually hang on the wall. That's it. That's the whole thing.
Where I've been
Head of Partnerships, Global
I run partnerships across the US, Europe, and India. Enterprise customers, ecosystem partners, the practitioner community. Building the network that turns research into things people actually use. On the side, I curate PeakInference Forum, our closed-door roundtable for people building agents in production.
Founder
Built it. Shipped it. Five styles, thirty seconds, no signup. Some customers cry when they see the result. That's how I know it works.
Program and Partnerships
A few years working alongside early-stage founders. I watched dozens of companies go from idea to revenue, and a handful go nowhere. The view from here taught me what's worth betting on and what isn't.
Investor Relations
Worked with angel investors and LPs, evangelising the startup ecosystem and building the rails that let online commits to startups actually happen at scale. Investing got a lot less analog because of work like this.
Things I've made
Each of these started as a problem I had. A booking I kept losing to someone faster. A photo I couldn't throw away. A book I wanted written. An agent in need of a name. A grandparent who wanted scripture without a gatekeeper. I figure if you're going to take up space in a conversation, you should also take up space on the keyboard.
Courtney
She started as the agent that booked my own pickleball slots the second they opened. When the club's booking system shut down, I rebuilt her for everyone. Tell her your sport, your area, and when you want to play. She checks Hudle, KheloMore, and Playo all at once and sends back open courts with prices, distances, and booking links, anywhere in India. Pickleball, padel, badminton. No app, no signup. Find a court. Go play.
Artango
Photos of your pet, turned into art. Five styles, thirty seconds, no signup. Born from one extremely photogenic dog called Nawab, and a hard drive on the brink.
A book-writing agent
An open-source AI agent that researches, writes, and fact-checks an entire book end-to-end. Three specialised agents. One workflow. Ship the first shitty draft, then let it improve itself. The magic is in the iteration.
Agent Coinage
Name your agent like a colleague, not a feature. Describe what it does. Get three human names back, two syllables each, linked to the function by pun, tribute, or just a sound that fits. Distilled from naming Courtney, Reva, Sherlock, and fifteen others at Kalmantic. Built in an afternoon.
No Middleman
A WhatsApp bot. Ask the Bhagavad Gita, the Bible, the Quran, or the Torah anything, in any language, by voice or text. Get the answer from the source, with the verse cited. No priest. No pundit. No app to download. No account to make. Ask all four the same question and watch them converge.
What I'm up to
This season
Heads-down on Kalmantic's partner programme and a visit to China.
Spending part of the summer in China to understand how AI is being used there at scale. Heading to the San Francisco Bay Area in the fall for the next AI Engineering Conference. If our paths cross, find me.
Off the clock
I move a lot. I read a little. I plan meals obsessively. I always have some beats playing and Nawab is usually within arm's reach.
Let's talk
Talk is cheap. A good message isn't.
I respond fastest to people who get to the point. Bonus marks if you've got a question I haven't been asked before, or a problem you're stuck on that you think I might be useful for.
Best places to find me: LinkedIn for anything work-shaped. Artango for pet-portrait enquiries. If you're writing to me about your pet, mention them by name. I'll reply faster.
For pet portraits