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I'll Figure It Out

2024–2026 — Paperflite, Chennai

Walked in for a marketing role, said 'I'll figure it out' — walked out a founding AI engineer.

IDB document chatbot

A trust-first RAG chatbot for the Inter-American Development Bank — live and public.

For the IDB — one of the largest development-financing banks across the US and Latin America — trust was everything, so we had to nail RAG citations. It's fully live and public today. The bank's own researchers emailed to say how much easier it made researching their institution's stance on things.

Agentic analytics over 100M+ rows

Naive RAG wouldn't cut it — so I built an agent that writes and runs its own queries.

From the RFP phase with the IDB: a chatbot over survey datasets in the hundreds of millions of rows. Knowing naive RAG would fail at that scale, I built an agent-orchestration system with a code-execution tool that queries the database and runs Python analysis on demand. Delivered, and praised by the bank's researchers alongside the document chatbot.

Heysales call simulation

An AI that role-plays a prospect so salespeople can rehearse — it seeded a whole product.

Heysales was Paperflite's first LMS. I built the call-simulation feature — an AI prospect salespeople can practice against — shipping fast through the US shift, integrating live demo feedback and redeploying the same day. That initial pace seeded the entire LMS offering, which grew into the whole 'sales' side of Paperflite. It scaled from a pilot to 50–100 concurrent users.

Deal intelligence

Real-time prediction of how likely a rep is to close, from CRM + content signals.

An ongoing platform predicting, in real time, how well a salesperson will close their deals — from CRM metrics and how they share content and collateral. A continuous work-in-progress the whole time; piloted to a few customers rather than fully shipped.

Cleverstory: recommender + web→mobile

A recommendation system, and auto-converting web pages to mobile with stats + heuristics.

Two projects on Cleverstory, Paperflite's interactive content builder: a recommendation system, and a statistics-and-heuristics engine that automatically converts a web page into a mobile layout — solving the 'mobile is an afterthought' problem that plagues web builders.