Rishi Venkat
AI-Native Product Builder
Shipped payments infrastructure and retail POS features for millions of merchants: a new payment processor in France, an $18M/yr payment recovery system, and a payments API migration.
Built a context-aware internal GenAI tool and drove AI strategy for a large utilities company. Integrated ML-based demand forecasting for a major pharma retailer, improving accuracy and driving profitability.
Built a patient portal syncing healthcare data across EHR systems for a large hospital system. Advised leadership on product commercialization and critical architectural decisions.
Defined a gamification and personalization roadmap for a luxury car marketplace. Secured additional funding by proving product success through competitor analysis and user research.
Led a 7-person team to ship a B2B medical translation MVP from zero. Determined pricing and go-to-market strategy by running a full business case to evaluate product impact.
Built financial models powering $50M+ in venture fundraising and key business decisions for global clients. Identified and corrected critical modeling errors, restoring stakeholder confidence.
Founded and scaled an affordable tutoring business, earning $10k+ in profit in the first 18 months. Grew customer acquisition by boosting Facebook ad click-through rate through A/B testing.
CheckChop is the effortless way to split any bill — just snap a photo of your receipt and let AI parse it instantly, or enter items manually if you prefer. Once your receipt is loaded, you generate a shareable link that your friends can open on their own phones to claim exactly what they ordered, with live updates so everyone sees the bill fill in real time. No more awkward math at the table.
Built as a full-stack web app using Next.js and TypeScript, featuring OCR-powered receipt parsing, user auth, and real-time data sync via Firebase Auth and Firestore.
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Jev Thread Search finds a past Codex conversation from a description of what you remember, like "the project where I added export support." It scans local Codex thread metadata plus each thread's first and last exchanges, ranks the likely matches, and hands back the command to resume them, so you never have to scroll through weeks of history again.
Built as a Codex plugin and skill in dependency-free Python, using TypeSafe's Jev model for relevance ranking, with local caching of excerpts and results and API keys kept outside the project.
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Content Blocker is a Chrome extension that filters the web using one personal instruction, like "No travel-related content, but allow local news." A local agent turns your preference into a classification rule, Jev scores each passage against it, and matching content gets a white cover you can click to reveal. A flagged tweet is covered as a whole, images included.
Built as a Manifest V3 extension in plain JavaScript with no build step, using a TrueForge agent to compile rules and Jev for classification, plus a persistent fingerprint-keyed score cache, per-page evaluation budgets, and a request log for inspecting every call.
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Relay is the fastest way to draft writing with AI on your phone. Today, getting AI help with a reply or message means switching apps, copy-pasting context into ChatGPT or Claude, prompting for a draft, then pasting it back. Relay collapses all of that into one button press — it screenshots your current screen, captures a voice instruction (or stays silent for an auto-draft), sends both to Claude, and drops a ready-to-paste reply into your clipboard.
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Done is a prototype gamified habit-tracking iOS app that pairs clean UI with lightweight gamification to help users stay consistent. Create custom habits with daily or weekly frequencies, tap once to mark them complete, and watch your current and longest streaks climb. Every consistent day earns Growth Points (GP), turning the slog of habit-building into something more rewarding to come back to.
Built as a working prototype natively for iOS in SwiftUI, with Core Data for local persistent storage of habits, streaks, and completion history, and Firebase Authentication for account-scoped data.
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TrueFoundry Agent Harness Hackathon (out of 50+ teams)
Built a Jev-powered semantic content filter.
Sept 2026
VeChain x BCG x EasyA AI+Blockchain Hackathon (out of 40+ teams)
Developed an innovative AI and blockchain solution to incentivize people to engage with sustainability-focused content, competing against top teams from around the world. Our project stood out for its practical and sustainable business model.
Summer 2024
MIS 333k Systems Design Competition (out of 20+ teams)
Created a comprehensive system architecture and fully functioning site for a bookstore. Our solution combined inventory management, customer login, orders, and other complex business logic. It was recognized for its usability, functionality, and performance.
Spring 2022
Texas Convergent Demo Day
Recognized for the technical implementation of Bounce, an app allowing students on campus to find and play pickup sports.
Fall 2021
Texas Undergraduate Business Council Fall Case Competition
Advanced to the finals by developing a strategic business solution that addressed market challenges and growth opportunities for a large sports retailer.
Fall 2020
McCombs School of Business
Consistently achieved academic excellence across multiple semesters.
Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2023, Spring 2024
Bachelor of Business Administration, Business Honors & MIS
Academic Certificate in Computer Science
Graduation: May 2024
Relevant Coursework: Data Structures & Algorithms, Software Engineering, Web Programming, Mobile Computing, Enterprise Computing, Database Management, Business System Development, Data Science for Business Applications, Intro to Data Science, Predictive Analytics, Statistics