I make maps of
complicated things.
Founder of Layerpath. Backed by a16z Speedrun.
Based in San Francisco, originally from Chennai.
Writing
All notes →- Essay · Feb 2026
Human as Middleware
A FedEx door tag, 90 minutes hunting a truck in the Mission District, and the structural permission problem that neither better helpdesks nor smarter agents have touched.
- Essay · Feb 2026
The Second Interface
The web is quietly growing a layer it never had. WebMCP, Cloudflare, Parallel. Three architectures shipped in one week, pointing at the same thesis.
- Notes · Sep 2026
Madras before Chennai: ten things the sources say
Ten sourced claims about Madras before it was Chennai, each one cited.
- Newsletter · Feb 2026
The Translation Tax
Being “non-technical” meant renting the truth from intermediaries. AI tools closed that loop.
- Newsletter · Oct 2025
Forward-Deployed: The Rise of the Embedded Founder
In SaaS, implementation was configuration. In AI, implementation is discovery.
Notes
- Feb 20, 2026Put things where people look
- Feb 19, 2026Comments as distribution
- Feb 18, 2026Taste is the bottleneck
- Feb 17, 2026Per-seat pricing breaks when AI does the work
- Feb 16, 2025The moat is the mental model
- Feb 15, 2025Anthropic Just Sherlocked Its Own Power Users
- Feb 14, 2025The Audio Gap Nobody Solved
Works
Founder of Layerpath. Backed by a16z Speedrun.
Based in San Francisco, originally from Chennai சென்னை. Writing about systems, taste, and how AI lands inside large institutions and government.