Product leader · Commerce platforms · Marketplaces

I build the platforms commerce runs on.

I turn messy commerce problems into platforms — as a founder and inside enterprises. I built Vendaxo and sold it to Moglix, then carried that playbook into enterprise commerce; today I lead lululemon's wholesale platform business, a $180M+ partner portfolio across North America now scaling globally.

Across 13+ years the approach hasn't changed: get close to the real problem, ship the system that solves it, and keep a commercial lens on every call. The products below are that same instinct — hands on the tools, from zero to shipped.

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partner portfolio I own at lululemon
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company founded & sold to Moglix
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commerce GMV across platforms I've run
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years in product
Nirat — portrait
Recognition

I co-founded Vendaxo, a marketplace for used industrial machinery — acquired by Moglix, the B2B commerce unicorn, in 2021.

Independent work

Products I've shipped on my own

Alongside the platform work, I build and ship end to end — AI search, speech practice, real-time collaboration, browser tooling, a systems sim. It's where I stay close to the craft. One examined in depth below; one more still in the shop.

AI · B2B marketplace Flagship

DTH / Mola

A production AI assistant that helps dental practices find and evaluate technology vendors — LLM orchestration, hybrid retrieval, an editorial data moat, evals and safeguards, deployed on AWS. The reframe: vendor selection is a trust problem, not a search problem.

500+ vendor moat · 2–3s response · a founder raised capital on it
AI · Agentic commerce

Agent Readiness Index

An AI shopping agent attempts real purchase journeys — stopping before payment — across 50 Indian D2C storefronts, and scores each store's agent-readiness. Public leaderboard, per-store scorecards, and a failure-mode report, timed for the 2026 agentic-commerce wave.

43 stores ranked · 88% block an agent before payment · 1,025 tests green
AI · Consumer PWA

Sayless

A live PWA of AI-scored speaking-practice drills. The meta-story: a PM who spotted his own weak spot — spontaneous communication — and shipped an app to train it.

11 milestones · 208 practice tiles · 70+ tests
Collaboration tooling

Viscollab

A real-time collaborative document workspace with AI-assisted editing and review.

Real-time · AI-assisted
Developer utility

MarkDownCopy

A Chromium browser extension that copies any web page's content as clean Markdown.

Browser extension · shipped
Simulation · Systems

InventorySim

An interactive simulation of a B2B wholesale inventory control plane — a shared pool of supply arriving in waves, segmented between committed pre-buy and reactive at-once demand, then allocated by share. Press play and watch the decisions happen tick by tick.

Tick-by-tick engine · 3-stage flow · runs entirely in the browser
AI · Career tooling In progress

CareerAssistant

An AI-assisted system for running a focused job search — targeting the right roles and landing the next one.

In development

Viscollab, MarkDownCopy, and InventorySim are the smaller builds, here for completeness — every shipped product gets a card, whatever its size.

A closer look · flagship

DTH / Mola

A production AI assistant for dental practices choosing technology vendors — live at search.dentaltechhub.com.

The reframe everything turned on

Vendor selection isn't a search problem. It's a trust problem. That single reframe set the product, the data strategy, and the safeguards.

Latency journey — time-to-first-content
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v1 baseline
38s · v1 baseline 15s · after streaming 2–3s · production now
Held to $0.03–0.05 per turn — a real unit-economics budget, not a demo
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vendor editorial data moat — curated, not scraped
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tests behind a 7-module safeguards pipeline
Raised
the founder raised capital on the platform
Writing

Essays and build notes

Essays here and on my Substack, Pages to Practice. Each build gets a journey page — the decisions and the trade-offs.

Simulation · Systems InventorySim project
To reason about inventory allocation, I made it a simulation you can run
Committed demand, reactive demand, one pool of supply arriving in waves — a spreadsheet flattens the dynamics that actually drive the decision. So I built a tick-by-tick model instead, and put the controls in your hands.
Essay · project notes · 6 min read
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Agentic commerce Agent Readiness Index project
I sent an AI agent shopping at 50 Indian D2C stores. 88% wouldn't let it buy.
The rails for agent payments are nearly ready — the storefronts aren't. One agent, 50 stores, six checkpoints, and a 0–100 score for each: the Agent Readiness Index.
Essay · ARI launch report · 7 min read
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Tooling MarkDownCopy project
From web page to LLM in 2 keystrokes: open-sourcing my private Markdown extension
LLMs eat Markdown for breakfast — but every clipper extension wants access to all your data on all websites. So I built one that runs 100% locally, and open-sourced it.
Essay · project notes · 4 min read
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Leadership
Seniority is not a headcount
The 'people management experience' checkbox filters out your highest-leverage talent in favor of administrative history. Hire for agency instead.
Essay · 4 min read
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Communication Sayless project
Manual for the Silent Genius: a translation layer for the high-powered brain
A translation layer for the high-powered brain — how structural thinkers turn 3D thoughts into clear, spontaneous speech. The thinking behind Sayless.
Essay · companion to Sayless · 7 min read
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Communication
Effective communication in the age of AI
How to communicate clearly and stand out when AI is in the loop.
Essay · Pages to Practice
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Money & life
Thumb rules for money and life — Part 2
More heuristics for money and decisions — the second set.
Essay · Pages to Practice
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Money & life
Thumb rules for money and life — Part 1
Practical heuristics for handling money and everyday decisions.
Essay · Pages to Practice
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Ideas
Origin of good ideas
Where good ideas actually come from — and how to put yourself in their path.
Essay · Pages to Practice
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Contact

Get in touch

Happy to talk product, AI, or whatever you're building. Email is fastest.