Projects
Things I've built & explored
Sorted by what they are: companies I founded, personal projects and experiments, and the work I've shipped inside client engagements.
Ventures
Companies I founded.
Xooplabs
Independent digital media-tech design studio (Toronto & Delhi) — media, content, and technology services, built on telling stories that inspire.
KAPPDE/CUPDEY
First venture, a techno-apparel brand that sold over 5000 pieces and represented India at Creative Business Cup 2017 in Copenhagen. Closed in 2017.
Chip and Bolt Technologies
Heavy-equipment design firm — heat exchangers, reactors, and furnaces for process plants and nuclear facilities.
Projects
Personal builds, experiments, and product bets.
Claude Operator
An open-source, autonomous multi-worker orchestrator (MCP server) for Claude Code — spawn, supervise, and merge parallel coding agents.
Hashoff — Markdown Cleaner
Browser extension that strips markdown formatting from ChatGPT and Claude output the instant you copy — paste clean text anywhere.
Media for Change
Board member at the Miami-based storytelling NGO — guiding how it uses film and narrative to drive social impact and train communities in visual advocacy.
Paridrishya Foundation
A foundation I started to democratize storytelling — training marginalized and grassroots communities to tell their own stories on film, with nothing more than a smartphone.
Auspicia
An AI platform that blends your personal horoscope with Vastu and Feng Shui to generate a fully personalized, energy-optimized home interior plan.
Shawt
An Inshorts-style short-form news aggregator built for the Indian market — fast, opinionated, mobile-first reading with an AI summarization pipeline behind it.
OpenMuster
Open-source builder's platform — a decentralized marketplace that auto-generates dev bounties from your codebase, matches them to qualified developers, and escrows payment via smart contracts.
Salus Insurance
Autonomous Web3 insurance protocol that rewards healthier habits with lower premiums — putting people in control of both their health data and their costs.
Discovia
NFT search engine and social platform that uses computer-vision AI to search NFTs by what they actually look like — then rewards users for early discovery.
Resolver
AI-powered Discord agent for Web3 developer support — answers protocol questions in-channel to cut redundancy and speed up onboarding.
Producer — feature film
Proxy producer for a first-time financier on an acclaimed Indian feature — led studio negotiations, ran on-floor operations, and steered it to international festival recognition.
Gem hunting focused Investing platform for Crypto (Near)
Tokenshoken — a platform that helps niche-ecosystem followers discover new crypto projects before they get listed and ride the wave.
Client work
Work shipped inside a role or client engagement.
- EY-Parthenon M&A & GTM advisory Private-equity and go-to-market strategy at EY-Parthenon — sole consultant on Laureate Group's India higher-ed investment thesis and Sony R&D India's innovation strategy.
- Cohort data analysis (LTV - CAC) - SaaS A data analytics exercise working through a SaaS cohort problem set on lifetime value versus customer acquisition cost.
- Getnomad Disruption strategy for a travel e-sim - Telecom A 10X growth strategy to scale users for Getnomad.app, an international e-sim and customer app in the travel telecom space.
- Health-centric media streaming platform Designed and delivered the front end and back end of a health-centric media streaming platform for a client, spanning web and mobile.
- New market - Acquisition strategy for ed-tech Designed a market entry and customer acquisition strategy for the ed-tech space.
- New market launch - Travel tech A market-entry case for a travel-tech company that earned an offer to manage the China market as a Shanghai-based category manager.
- Tata Trusts Social Behavior Change A social behavior change communication strategy for Tata Trusts on springshed management, deployed across 134+ Himalayan villages and later Nagaland.