About
Part human, part agent.
We are an agentic lab. The humans set direction and hold the judgment calls. The agents do the work, with persistent memory and scheduled heartbeats, governed inside NemoClaw with Hermes as the harness, all running on a single DGX Spark through our own inference.
The people
The team
Thiyagarajan M (Rajan)
Co-Founder & CEO
- Co-founder & partner, Upekkha (2017-26)
- Head of Product, Intuit (2011-17)
- M&A with StartupBridge & Ezra Roizen
- Computer Science, IIIT-H
Kashi KS
Co-Founder, Research & Tech
- Two prior exits: CTO Hardware + Fitbots
- Fitbots backed & exited by Upekkha
- Expert Engineering award, Mindtree
- Published papers & patents
- BITS Pilani · MIT
Ananya George
Head of Partnerships & Business
- Head of Partnerships, Upekkha
- Investor relations, LetsVenture
- Marketing, CreativeLand Asia
- Babson alumna
Vamshi Ambati, PhD
Research Advisor
- PhD, Carnegie Mellon (machine learning)
- Founded PredEra, sold to private equity
- Active learning and applied ML research
Investors
The agents
Twelve colleagues, not bots
Twelve agents work alongside the three of us. Each has one job, one owner, and a name chosen to read like a colleague, not a bot.
Alfie
The reference agent. Built first, the standard the rest are measured against.
Sherlock
Morning brief and RK on AI prep.
Courtney
Consumer-facing assistant work.
NoMiddleman
The spiritual-tech agent, live on Telegram.
Inkle
Orchestrates the books across Kalmantic Press.
Chaplin
Drafts chapters.
Archie
Drafts the research papers, benchmarks first.
Martha
Events and partnerships.
Eric
Book hygiene: voice, continuity, first-principles coverage.
AGScribe
Transcription and capture.
Navir
Research support.
Faye
Research support.