Founder
CEO of Cognio Labs: AI agents and agent-native consulting. Alongside it, DruidX puts marketing and sales agents to work, and GroupthinQ simulates whole societies.
Founder · Writer · Musician · Teacher
Ashutosh
Founder of Cognio Labs. Building a world-class AI company out of India, with music, fiction, and a classroom along the way.
SpiritualityTechnologyArtDharmaMachinesMusic
Three currents, one river
Everything on this site flows from the same three springs.
Spirituality
The Gita sits on the same shelf as the ML papers. That is not a contradiction; it is the method.
Technology
Agents, systems, and the unreasonable joy of teaching sand to think.
Art
Strings, verses, and stages. Performance is the oldest interface I know.
One life, several instruments
I am a self-taught AI engineer. After the first ChatGPT release I built more than twenty SaaS products on my own, became a top-rated freelancer, and eventually founded Cognio Labs, where I build AI agents and advise founders on becoming agent-native.
Underneath the technical work sits the thing I actually care about: explaining hard ideas so anyone can use them. Across industries, across disciplines, across languages. The same instinct shows up whether the medium is an AI agent, an essay, a raga, or a classroom.
Outside of work I write fiction, play more instruments than I can responsibly maintain, live with eight dogs, and teach children computers, the internet, and AI for free.
Four practices, one throughline
Making difficult things legible: for organisations, for audiences, for children meeting a computer for the first time.
Consultant & Teacher
I help founders turn their companies agent-native, and teach the ideas in public. Plainly, without the jargon.
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Creator
Host of Designing Tomorrow with Ashutosh: long conversations on AI, founders, and what we are actually building toward.
The podcast
Writer & Musician
Two anthologies in progress and a lifetime of stages. Performing since the age of five years and four days.
The writingSaraswati, rendered in dots
The goddess of knowledge, music, and speech, playing the veena. She is the patron of every discipline this site holds, which is why she gets the largest plate in the book.
Art, like the rest of the site, is a collaboration between old ink and new machines.
A cabinet of curiosities
The facts that never fit on a resume.
5 years, 4 days
My age the first time I stepped on a stage. I never really stepped off.
8 dogs
A full supervisory board. They review everything I build and approve nothing.
Extremely spicy
The only correct amount of chili. If the food is polite, send it back.
Many instruments
More than I can responsibly maintain. The guitar forgives me; the rest are patient.
2 anthologies
One fiction, one science fiction, both in progress and both fighting back.
The shelf that built me
Books, papers, records, and a wall of mentors from four different centuries, each with an honest line on why they are here.
Book
Gödel, Escher, Bach · Douglas Hofstadter
The book that first showed me mathematics, art, and music are one subject wearing three masks. I re-read a chapter whenever I forget that a strange loop can be beautiful.
Paper
Attention Is All You Need · Vaswani et al., 2017
Eight pages that quietly rewrote what a machine could do with language, and with us. I have read it more times than any novel.
Scripture
The Bhagavad Gita · Vyasa
The oldest answer I know to the newest question a founder faces: how to act wholeheartedly when the outcome was never yours to hold.
Twice a week, the door is open
Through Science Divine Vidya Peet I teach children the internet, computers, and AI, free, twice every week. The kids least likely to be handed these tools are the ones who need them most.
About the social workWork with me
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