Rishi Papani | Projects

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Noocentric - Palantir for the Poor

Palantir's Foundry but Agentic, Non-Technical, and Instant to Deploy - built, deployed, and grown to 20K ARR.

At Senseonics I built an in house Supply Chain Management tool - every existing solution either costed too much (e.g. Foundry) or just didn't cover all our needs - there's nothing great for the little guy.

But at this scale Agents could automate the part that makes great solutions so expensive, deployment engineers. So Arjun and I built Noocentric. Unfortunately, it turned out FDEs are needed for a lot more than technical work.

Just through natural language, our Agent creates visualizations using ReCharts, creates complex models + recurring analysis pipelines with DBT, and uses MCP tools to maintain an ontology of your entire supply chain. See our Launch Video and our Demo Video.

Heather AI

The best part about being a CEO are the secretaries, we built a CoT Voice Agent so you can have one too. Just tell Heather what you want, she'll sync with your Google Calendar and use ILP heuristics to make everything fit into your 24 hours.

The coolest part about Heather is rescheduling - she'll proactively manage goals like hitting the gym around new commitments. Had a blast building this with Anirudh and Alex at TreeHacks '24 - we even got 200 sign ups.

College Park Curry

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.

My favorite thing I did during college, we built a community of 40 volunteers and served 1000s of customers. They're still active, serving entire meals for $5.

RetroSpectively

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 that pulls you aside to say "hey, read the room". Hacked on this with Varun, Tarun, and Jacob.

RecruiterRank

Recruiting is hard, good recruiters make it easy. So we built a public database for the best recruiters - like RateMyProfessor but for recruiting. Fleshed it out with Aditya.

Optifocal - 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.

MILL - MIPS Intermediary Logic Language, a functional programming language that compiles to MIPS, got me out of writing Assembly for my systems programming classes.