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
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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
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.