i learned to build.
then i learned to sell.

ages 0–22: the engineer era.

studied chemical engineering in india. figured i'd spend my life around plants and pipes.

2015: the toronto era.

landed in toronto as a chemical engineer. became a business analyst in energy, staring at billing data all day. found overlapping electricity plans that were quietly costing $200k a year. fixed it. realized i liked finding problems more than sitting in them.

the "maybe i'm a founder" era.

went back for a master's. started a home tutoring business. then bio routes. then a couple more during university. most of them crashed. i was the non-tech founder, waiting on someone else to build every idea.

so i taught myself to code.

the lysensy + cutq era.

lysensy was my first real saas, software for driving schools. i sat in on 100+ conversations with instructors before writing a line of it.

then came cutq. people kept signing up for the trial and leaving, so we killed the trial and just gave it away for life. they stayed. then someone bought the company.

somewhere in there, a great cto stopped letting me hide in the frontend. by the end i could build the whole thing myself.

and i finally got it. building alone isn't enough, and neither is selling alone. you need both, in the same person.

the partner era.

so i stopped trying to be everything. saptrishi knew books, and i knew how to build. we made bookworm together, and typewriter grew out of it. now 19,000+ authors write there.

barton and prime knew trucks. we built fleetkit, and today 10+ fleets run on it.

now: the cloudcrew era.

then ai showed up and broke the saas playbook. so i took every tool and app i'd built and remade them for small businesses and the ai employees who'll run them. that's cloudcrew.

next era.

we keep building ai employees and making them smarter, so businesses spend less money, less time, and fewer subscriptions. we're also training our own model for punjabi accents.

chemical engineer > fullstack dev > ai enjoyer > hardware tinkerer > hobby photographer.