Rishi Papani | Projects
Let's see Paul Allen's portfolio
Palantir but Agentic, Non-Technical, and Instant to Deploy - built, deployed, and grown to 20K ARR before realizing small scale Supply Chain Management wasn't the problem we wanted to go to war for.
At Senseonics I built a custom in house Supply Chain Management tool. We couldn't use something off the shelf because every great solution targets the big guys and costs too much (e.g. Palantir's Foundry) and every small scale tool is rudimentary.
But what I saw afterwards, was that at this scale Agents could handle the complexity that makes great solutions so expensive - Forward Deployed Engineers can be automated at this level. So Arjun and I built Noocentric.
Our Agent creates beautiful visualizations using ReCharts, creates complex models with DBT, uses MCP based tools to configure recurring analysis pipelines, and maintains an ontology of your entire supply chain (something we had to build from scratch). All configurable with natural language. See our Launch Video and our Demo Video.
The best part about being a CEO are the secretaries, we built a CoT Voice Agent so you can have one too. You just tell Heather what you want to do, and she'll sync with your Google Calendar and use ILP heuristics to make everything fit into your 24 hours (scheduling is NP-hard 😭).
The coolest part about Heather isn't scheduling, it's rescheduling she'll dynamically manage goals like hitting the gym or laundry around your commitments. Was super fun building this with Anirudh and Alex at TreeHacks '24 - we even got 200 sign ups!
A non-profit pop-up restaurant that I started with Tarun - we took the idea of Indian street food stalls and brought it to UMD. Turns out, live dosa was popular enough to block traffic even!
My favorite thing I did during college, we built a community of 40 volunteers, served over 1000 customers, and made XXK revenue. They're still active, serving whole meals for $5 and spreading culture on campus.
Recruiting is hard, good recruiters make it easy. So we built a public database for the best recruiters - like RateMyProfessor but for recruiting - we point you to the right person to get you into the role for you. Pushed it out with Aditya.
A real time Conversation Coach that lives in an AirPod. Uses tonal analysis + content-based LLM routing to give you minimally intrusive feedback with a 15 second latency. Also gives extended analysis for afterwards.
Basically, a friend who's always there to pull you aside and say "hey, read the room" before you say an off-color joke. Hacked on this with Varun, Tarun, and Jacob.
Some other fun stuff I worked onOptifocal - A CV app, you can stick your phone on your dashboard while driving and it tracks how you're paying attention on the road.
PedaGuide - LLMs are bad at math, but they're good at writing code to do math, so what about an agentic personal tutor who outsources arithmetic to Python? OpenAI beat us to the punch on this lmao.
Terrapins Only - A dating app exclusively for UMD students, we got 400+ sign-ups before we decided not to continue due to ethical concerns about dating apps.
MILL - MIPS Intermediary Logic Language, a functional programming language that compiles to MIPS, got me out of writing Assembly for my systems programming classes.