Hi, I am Kumar.

I think in systems. I build for people.

Founder-minded designer and builder focused on AI-native products – and how to make them feel trustworthy, legible, and human.

I started by designing buildings and townships shaped by movement, context, and real-world constraints. I entered tech as a founder, and over the past decade carried that thinking into product, design, strategy, and execution – always focused on making things more useful for people

Know more about me →

Featured Case Studies

Making AI agents easy to build, for anyone

A no-code canvas where non-technical users build, configure, and deploy AI agents.

AI Agents · No-Code

Nagent AI

When more data slows decisions

AI-powered distress detection for school counselors – cutting case review time by 60%.

AI · Edtech · Counselor Dashboard

Palo AI

Designing for real emotions

A student app for Gen Alpha – where every design decision negotiated engagement against learning.

Consumer App · Edtech · SEL

Palo Student App

Rethinking books for the phone

A vernacular-first reading product built around engagement, habit, and mobile behavior.

Consumer App · Content · Edtech

TaccoMacco

A decade in tech – building my own startup and helping founders go from idea to market across entertainment, edtech, AI interfaces, and agent tools –focused on enabling users from small towns to SMEs.

Featured Experiment

Seeing the shape of a conversation

An experimental interface that turns AI chats into evolving mindmaps.

Human-AI Interface · Claude Code

Experiment

I constantly experiment with products and ideas – currently exploring AI-native interfaces, free from legacy software assumptions.

Featured Perspectives

The First Rule of Safe AI: It Must Die

Why lifecycle constraints may be a missing primitive in AI safety

Article

AI Didn’t Collapse Design and Development. It Exposed Their Real Roles.

AI removes friction. What does that reveal about design and development?

Article

A time when i designed a dashboard, no body returned to.

In AI era we need reimagine interfaces. But where to start?

Article

My experiences, wins, mistakes, and perspectives on where things are headed – I document them so both humans and AI can understand how I think.

A Founder's Memoir

Creating a "Netflix of Reading" for ‘Bharat’. And why it failed.

A founder's memoir and a case study on the journey and mistakes.

Entrepreneurship | Ownership

I care less about tools as identity and more about the principles underneath them. What drives me is simple: make things easier to use, more valuable in practice, and closer to truth than noise.