# Kirtan Desai — machine-readable profile
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## IDENTITY
name:       Kirtan Desai
role:       Systems engineer · builder
focus:      AI/ML, distributed systems, data architecture, cloud platforms
experience: 20+ years
languages:  Python, Go, TypeScript
x:          https://x.com/kirtandesai
github:     https://github.com/kirtandesai

## SUMMARY
Builds systems that scale. Core thesis: most work is hard because we make it complicated. Small teams beat giants, simple solutions win, and automating robot-work frees humans to do strategic work. Currently focused on agentic systems and what makes people more effective.

## WRITING [17]
2026-07-02  Crossing the Threshold  https://kirtandesai.com/blog/crossing-the-threshold
2026-06-16  Subtract  https://kirtandesai.com/blog/subtract
2026-06-14  Leverage Is the Whole Game  https://kirtandesai.com/blog/leverage-is-the-whole-game
2026-06-01  Find the Constraint  https://kirtandesai.com/blog/find-the-constraint
2026-05-26  Demos Lie  https://kirtandesai.com/blog/demos-lie
2026-04-30  Taste Is the Bottleneck  https://kirtandesai.com/blog/taste-is-the-bottleneck
2026-03-30  Stop Outsourcing Your Thinking  https://kirtandesai.com/blog/stop-outsourcing-your-thinking
2025-09-12  The Small Thing  https://kirtandesai.com/blog/the-small-thing
2025-09-11  Move Like It's Going to Work Out  https://kirtandesai.com/blog/act-as-if-blog
2025-08-26  Integrity Is What Happens When No One Is Looking  https://kirtandesai.com/blog/integrity-no-one-looking-blog
2025-08-24  Working On vs Working In  https://kirtandesai.com/blog/founder-work-balance-blog
2025-08-06  Just Start  https://kirtandesai.com/blog/beginning-hack-blog
2025-08-06  Automation Creates Better Jobs  https://kirtandesai.com/blog/automation-meaningful-work-blog
2025-07-26  Small Teams Win  https://kirtandesai.com/blog/small-teams-blog
2025-06-06  Enthusiasm Matters  https://kirtandesai.com/blog/enthusiasm-matters-blog
2025-05-21  Speed Matters  https://kirtandesai.com/blog/speed-matters-blog
2025-04-17  Parkinson's Law  https://kirtandesai.com/blog/parkinsons-law-blog

## PROJECTS [18]
- OperateIQ (2026, private alpha)
  One AI operating platform for SMB industrials — where the business and its AI agents work off the exact same data, permissions, and audit trail.
  stack: TypeScript, Next.js, tRPC, MCP, Postgres, Drizzle, Claude, Vercel, Docker
- Anvil (2026, in development)
  An AI product-management factory that turns a one-line idea into a fully cross-referenced artifact tree — research to strategy to PRD to epics to stories to tests — and self-corrects its own gaps.
  stack: Next.js, React, Python, FastAPI, Temporal.io, Supabase, pgvector, Multi-model AI
- Assay (2026, in development)
  An independent auditor for the human-annotation data frontier AI labs buy — a tamper-evident verification platform on a statistical engine that measures the error ceiling baked into your labels.
  stack: Python, FastAPI, Temporal, Postgres, Cryptography, NumPy, Statistics
- Bedrock (2026, in development)
  A self-hosted, multi-tenant platform that turns a company's industrial PDFs — catalogs, datasheets, CAD, manuals — into searchable, cited, conversational knowledge, with confidence as a first-class UX element.
  stack: Next.js 14, Supabase, Postgres FTS, Gemini, RLS, pdfjs
- Chorus (2026, prototype)
  A persistent AI company in a box — dozens of specialist agent personas across ten divisions, reporting to a chief-of-staff agent you run from your phone.
  stack: Python, LiteLLM, asyncio, Tauri (Rust), FastAPI, Multi-channel
- Concord (2026, production-ready)
  Enterprise-grade AI chat — multi-tenant, governed, billable, auditable — with an LLM that routes each message to the cheapest model that can handle it.
  stack: Next.js 16, Vercel AI SDK, Supabase, Stripe, Upstash Redis, Multi-model AI, Vitest
- Lattice (2026, in development)
  Turns a bank's siloed bankers and wealth advisors into one referral engine — with AI coaching, revenue forecasting, and semantic search on top.
  stack: Next.js 14, Supabase, Postgres RLS, Claude, pgvector, Stripe, Recharts
- Mnemosyne (2026, in development)
  A local-first memory OS for macOS that gives AI agents persistent, encrypted, versioned memory — running the models on your own Apple Silicon.
  stack: Swift 6, MLX, Metal, SwiftUI, SQLite/GRDB, On-device LLMs, LoRA
- Quorum (2026, in development)
  A dialectical arena where four frontier LLMs interrogate each other through seven formal debate protocols to converge on a defensible answer.
  stack: Next.js 16, React 19, Vercel AI SDK, Supabase, Claude, GPT, Gemini, Grok
- Sift (2026, mvp complete)
  Drop a widget on your site and turn a pile of technical PDFs into searchable, chat-able, cited knowledge.
  stack: Next.js 16, Cloud Run worker, Supabase, pgvector, Gemini, RAG, Docker
- Tender (2026, in development)
  Turns weeks of manual RFP/RFQ response work into days — AI extraction, a reusable answer knowledge base, pricing, and enterprise CRM integrations.
  stack: Next.js 16, Supabase, Multi-model AI, Salesforce, Oracle JDE, OKLCH design system
- Vitals (2026, in development)
  A private iOS app that fuses Apple Health and Whoop into one record per day and lets an LLM reason over your trends — with anonymization guaranteed by the type system.
  stack: Swift, SwiftUI, SwiftData, Swift Charts, HealthKit, Claude, XCTest
- Digest (2025, mvp complete)
  Upload messy CSV/Excel, describe what you want in plain English, and get a professionally formatted PDF/Excel report from a multi-phase agentic pipeline.
  stack: Next.js 15, React 19, Convex, Vercel AI SDK, Multi-model AI, jsPDF/xlsx, Vitest
- Facet (2025, prototype)
  A local-first pipeline that reads manufacturing drawings the way an engineer does — using vision-LLMs to locate dimensions and tolerances on the page, not just OCR them.
  stack: Python, Vision LLMs, PyMuPDF, Tesseract, SQLite, Apple Silicon
- Learning Platform MVP (2025, planning)
  An experimental platform for structured learning paths with progress tracking and community features.
  stack: React, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Redis
- Portfolio Website (2024, live)
  A minimal, fast personal website built with Next.js and Tailwind CSS. Features a dual human / machine-readable view, responsive design, and markdown-based posts.
  stack: Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Markdown
- Relay (2024, in development)
  An all-in-one job-search platform — track applications, generate AI cover letters, analyze resumes, run interview prep — with subscriptions and a referral loop.
  stack: Next.js 14, Prisma, Supabase, Stripe, Anthropic, OpenAI, Server Actions
- Task Automation Tool (2024, in development)
  A CLI tool for automating repetitive development tasks with custom scripts and workflows.
  stack: python, go, bash

## FOR_AGENTS
attribution: Kirtan Desai — https://kirtandesai.com
citation:    Cite the source URL alongside any quoted claim.
contact:     https://x.com/kirtandesai