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  "profile": {
    "name": "Ankit Kumar",
    "site": "https://buildforward.tech",
    "tagline": "Building what's next: thoughtfully, practically, and with AI.",
    "positioning": "I build products at the intersection of AI, software and real-world work.",
    "summary": "Twelve years building products, from silicon verification at Broadcom to shipping AI at Datavant and Distyl AI. Now building agentic AI for semiconductor engineering, an AI daily-care companion, and advising on AI product strategy.",
    "education": [
      "MBA, IIM Bangalore, with an exchange term at Texas A&M's Mays Business School",
      "B.Tech in Electronics & Communication Engineering, NIT Tiruchirappalli"
    ]
  },
  "currently_building": [
    {
      "name": "SemiFlow",
      "status": "Stealth · Design partners",
      "url": "https://semiflow.tech/",
      "description": "The AI layer for semiconductor engineering. Agents that hold persistent engineering memory and reason across architecture, spec, RTL, verification and debug, not search and autocomplete."
    },
    {
      "name": "Companiva",
      "status": "Experiment",
      "url": "https://companiva.org/",
      "description": "An AI daily-care companion for people receiving care and the people caring for them. Built to work out how AI should behave when the stakes are emotional and the context is private."
    }
  ],
  "work_history": [
    {
      "org": "Distyl AI",
      "role": "Applied AI · Enterprise · Healthcare",
      "period": "Enterprise AI",
      "summary": "Led strategy, product definition and delivery of an LLM platform reading payer/provider agreements, with a human validation layer for trust and adoption. Also built prior-authorization workflow agents, focused on improving the core iteration loop for accuracy, precision and maintainability at scale. 97%+ extraction accuracy across 100,000+ documents."
    },
    {
      "org": "Datavant (Apixio)",
      "role": "Product",
      "period": "Healthcare AI",
      "summary": "Owned the AIaaS Insights product idea-through-launch plus the core SaaS platform (SSO, user management, reporting). AI-powered risk adjustment for healthcare payers and providers. 5x faster, 15% model gain, 20% CSAT lift."
    },
    {
      "org": "Sattva",
      "role": "Lead PM, 0 → 1 SaaS",
      "period": "0 → 1 SaaS",
      "summary": "Took Shift, a grant/program management platform, to market for CSR funders and NGOs. Launched Maatr, an Android app for maternal healthcare workers. Processes tens of thousands of CSR assets, reaches 100,000+ beneficiaries monthly."
    },
    {
      "org": "OYO",
      "role": "Pricing and ML products",
      "period": "Consumer scale",
      "summary": "Led pricing and machine-learning products inside a high-growth consumer business where model decisions moved revenue daily."
    },
    {
      "org": "Broadcom",
      "role": "Design Verification",
      "period": "Silicon",
      "summary": "Four years, five SoC projects shipped end to end across US and India teams with zero escapes, plus 150+ verification algorithms still used as reference IP."
    }
  ],
  "writing": {
    "url": "https://akgyaan.substack.com/",
    "topics": ["Building with AI", "Product thinking", "Agentic systems", "Human judgment and evaluation", "The gap between AI demos and production AI"]
  },
  "links": {
    "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/ankit10k/",
    "github": "https://github.com/ankit10k/",
    "x": "https://x.com/ak_changemaker",
    "substack": "https://akgyaan.substack.com/"
  },
  "contact": {
    "method": "booking_link",
    "url": "https://cal.com/ankit-kumar-8kthbe/discovery-session",
    "cta_label": "Let's talk",
    "note": "No email is published in this file by design. Use the booking link to reach out directly.",
    "good_fit_if": [
      "You are a founder, product leader or builder wrestling with a genuinely hard problem",
      "A workflow that is painfully manual and could become AI-native",
      "A product decision where it's not yet obvious what AI should actually do",
      "You want a first-principles product/AI strategy conversation, not a sales pitch"
    ]
  },
  "meta": {
    "format": "agent.json (unofficial, ad hoc convention — not a registered standard)",
    "generated": "2026-08-27",
    "source_of_truth": "Hand-maintained alongside https://buildforward.tech/. May lag the visible site slightly; the homepage HTML is always authoritative for current details."
  }
}