Most product problems are behavioural before they're technical.
My psych degree helps me understand people. AI is part of how I research, make decisions, test ideas, and ship faster.
“The person I would trust to red team my thoughts and give really good insights on spot.”— Aryan Agarwal, Founder, Gravity AI
Some high impact work.
My research surfaced it, and it defined a major pivot for the product.
Then every team got their own metric feeding into it — and I built the acquisition plan around it.
No cadence existed, so I built one — based on agile methodologies. It stuck
I replaced manual SMTP campaigns with triggers that fire off what people actually do.
From messy problems to testable systems.
Two AI startups. At both, I set up a function that didn't exist yet.
Gravity AI
AI agent marketplace
Promoted from Founder's Associate
I joined with no growth function in place, so I set one up — along with the research function. I defined what activation meant, then built the systems that moved it.
- Ran churn research across 17 journey touchpoints with lapsed builders, found the primary drop-off, and drove the fix into the UI roadmap.
- Replaced manual SMTP campaigns with a behavioural lifecycle system in Customer.io, triggered from Supabase — including re-engagement for builders who claimed a task and went quiet.
- Defined the north star metric, gave every team a metric that laddered into it, and ran the acquisition strategy it shaped with marketing.
- Shipped a reusable competitor-research agent with a validation and dedup layer, which removed the manual review step entirely.
Vibe AI
Consumer AI companion
Promoted from Research Intern
I owned the loop between what users felt and what the model did — evaluation, experiments, and the community that fed both.
- Designed the model evaluation: benchmarked candidates against a fixed prompt, A/B tested 100+ variants, and turned "the conversation feels off" into specific fixes that shipped.
- Recruited and ran a 200-person beta. Findings shipped into onboarding, conversational realism and engagement.
- Read up on anthropomorphism and turned it into a position the team could argue with. It changed the companion's conversational direction.
- Taught myself context engineering from zero to do the eval work properly, rather than handing it to an engineer.
DeepThought EduTech
Promoted from Org Development Intern
- Led a five-person team running training and performance workflows. I was 20.
- Owned stakeholder outreach — built the email campaign and cold-called 40 prospects myself.
- Coached a colleague on communication. A client hired him after the training.
When I feel stuck at work, I build.
It answers the question I can’t answer from inside one company: what would I do here if this were a different product?
An early-stage mental wellness content venture I founded solo, 2024–2025. 3K+ views in the first week — my first go at building an audience from nothing, and where I learned how much a voice matters before a product does.
Read the article ↗An AI bot that lived in my Slack and helped me sharpen my product sense. It taught me to scope an MVP properly instead of building every request at once.
Read the post ↗I keep finding myself in unknown places. Caught a few on cam.
I’m a Bangalorean who was born in Delhi and ran to Kolkata for college. I know. Absurd.
But so has been my work life — tutoring since I was 17, trying to build a startup, leading a team at 20, abandoning my plans for a master’s in psychology, and teaching myself how to ship products with AI.
Phew. It’s been one ambiguous ride.
But that ambiguity has also led me to some of the most interesting work I’ve done — across product and growth, only with the slightly weird lens of someone who studied psychology first and figured out the rest along the way.
Anyway, two truths and a lie: I speak Japanese, I love coffee, and I’m a Plat in Valorant. I’ll tell you the answer when we connect.
