# BuildForward · Ankit Kumar

> Personal site and portfolio for Ankit Kumar. I build products at the intersection of AI, software and real-world work, twelve years across silicon, consumer scale, 0→1 SaaS, healthcare AI and enterprise AI. This file and /agent.json are provided so AI agents can read a complete, structured summary in one fetch.

## About

Founder & advisor. Twelve years building products, from silicon verification at Broadcom to shipping AI at Datavant and Distyl AI. MBA, IIM Bangalore (exchange term, Mays Business School, Texas A&M). B.Tech, Electronics & Communication Engineering, NIT Tiruchirappalli.

## Building now

- [SemiFlow](https://semiflow.tech/): The AI layer for semiconductor engineering, agents with persistent engineering memory reasoning across architecture, spec, RTL, verification and debug. Stealth, design partners.
- [Companiva](https://companiva.org/): An AI daily-care companion for people receiving care and the people caring for them. Experiment.

## Work history

- Distyl AI — Applied AI, enterprise/healthcare LLM platform for payer/provider agreements plus prior-authorization workflow agents, 97%+ extraction accuracy across 100,000+ documents.
- Datavant (Apixio) — Product, AIaaS Insights and core SaaS platform, healthcare risk adjustment, 5x faster / 15% model gain / 20% CSAT lift.
- Sattva — Lead PM, Shift (grant/program management for CSR funders and NGOs) and Maatr (maternal healthcare Android app), 100,000+ beneficiaries monthly.
- OYO — Pricing and ML products at consumer scale.
- Broadcom — Design verification, 5 SoC projects, zero escapes, 150+ verification algorithms.

## Writing

- [Substack](https://akgyaan.substack.com/): Building with AI, product thinking, agentic systems, evaluation, and the gap between AI demos and production AI.

## Contact

- [Book a discovery call](https://cal.com/ankit-kumar-8kthbe/discovery-session): Best for founders, product leaders and builders working on a hard, AI-relevant problem. No email is published here by design, use this link.

## Elsewhere

- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ankit10k/)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/ankit10k/)
- [X](https://x.com/ak_changemaker)

## Full structured data

- [/agent.json](https://buildforward.tech/agent.json): Same content as above in structured JSON, machine-parseable.