# Tanishk Sharma

> AI-native product leader — 10 years of startup experience, shipped to 35M users across social media, e-commerce, and SaaS.

Tanishk Sharma is a product builder based in Bengaluru, India. He specialises in agentic AI systems, LLM architecture and evaluation, and 0→1 product development. He is currently Head of Product at fluffbotics, a conversational robotics and AI startup. This file summarises the site at https://tanishksharma.com for language models; the homepage carries the full content in English, Japanese, and German.

## Writing

Articles (long-form, English):

- [The Rules That Don't Exist](https://tanishksharma.com/article/the-rules-that-dont-exist) (Jun 2026): How unwritten "rules" spread through hobbies and turn something simple into something needlessly hard — and what to do about it.
- [Stop Building Solutions, Start Solving Problems](https://tanishksharma.com/article/stop-building-solutions-start-solving-problems) (Jun 2026): A three-step process — define the problem, find the context, clarify the outcome — for getting a product right before writing any code.

Posts (short notes, English):

- [Domain Expansion: Unlimited Runway](https://tanishksharma.com/post/domain-expansion-unlimited-runway) (Jul 2026): A satirical "domain expansion" for founders — the technique that traps you in a Koramangala hacker house shipping a sovereign-LLM-that's-really-a-ChatGPT-wrapper until you exit.
- [The Real AI Revolution](https://tanishksharma.com/post/the-real-ai-revolution) (Jun 2026): The real AI revolution hasn't happened yet — it arrives when AI reaches the other 80%.
- [The Form of an Answer](https://tanishksharma.com/post/form-of-an-answer) (Jun 2026): AI gives you the form of an answer without the content of one.
- [The Most Common Bad Advice](https://tanishksharma.com/post/the-most-common-bad-advice) (Jun 2026): "Do what worked for me" is the most common form of bad advice.

## Apps

Mini web-apps (utility and fun), all offline-capable single-file apps: [Apps index](https://tanishksharma.com/apps)

- Finance calculators: [Inflation calculator](https://tanishksharma.com/apps/inflation) · [SIP calculator](https://tanishksharma.com/apps/sip) · [True cost of a loan](https://tanishksharma.com/apps/loan) · [Retirement number](https://tanishksharma.com/apps/retirement)
- World comparisons: [GDP comparison](https://tanishksharma.com/apps/gdp) · [Government budget breakdown](https://tanishksharma.com/apps/budget) · [Money-scale comparison](https://tanishksharma.com/apps/money-scale) · [Passport strength](https://tanishksharma.com/apps/passport) · [Cost of living comparison](https://tanishksharma.com/apps/cost-of-living) · [Global wealth percentile](https://tanishksharma.com/apps/wealth) · [National debt comparison](https://tanishksharma.com/apps/debt) · [Tax burden comparison](https://tanishksharma.com/apps/tax)
- Utility & explore: [Real-time explorer](https://tanishksharma.com/apps/explorer)

## Key Pages

- [Homepage](https://tanishksharma.com): The hub — who Tanishk is, latest writing, career stats, apps, ongoing projects (Facet, Gems, Japan Habba, Minna Shuugou), and contact.
- [Feed](https://tanishksharma.com/feed): Every article, post, and share in one stream — the only list page.
- [Work](https://tanishksharma.com/work): Career stats, profile links, current engagements, and the full résumé sheet on the page.
- [Contact](https://tanishksharma.com/contact) · [Privacy policy](https://tanishksharma.com/privacy) · [Gems](https://tanishksharma.com/gems)
- [Résumé (PDF)](https://tanishksharma.com/assets/tanishkAI.pdf): One-page CV.
- Mailing list: every page's footer has a subscribe box — leave an email to get occasional updates when something new ships.

## Current Role

Head of Product at fluffbotics (Jun 2023 – Present). Leading AI product strategy and engineering across conversational AI, robotics, and autonomous systems. Scaled chatbots to 25M users with 45% D30 retention. Patent-pending technique reduced AI inference cost 9× ($45 → $5/user/month). Secured $3M from a Google-backed fund; reached $1M ARR in 2 months.

## Experience

- Head of Product — fluffbotics (Jun 2023 – Present)
- Staff Product Manager — CareStack (Nov 2022 – Jun 2023): Dental practice management SaaS; grew POS 400% to $5M/month; expanded to AUS, NZ, UK
- Senior Product Manager — Revenoid/Evabot (Aug 2021 – Oct 2022): Built the world's first GPT-3-powered sales intelligence tool
- Founding Product Manager — Koo (Jan – Aug 2021): Sole product contributor during 0→10M user growth in 6 months
- Founder — Openly (Jul 2018 – Dec 2020): Hyperlocal marketplace; 10K users, 200+ stores; ELEVATE Grant winner
- Co-Founder — Urban X (May 2017 – Jun 2018): India's first commercial helicopter taxi; $8M valuation; IIM-A competition winner
- Technology & Strategy Consultant — Freelance (2016–2018)
- Founder — Twine, AR Platform (2015–2016): Thiel Fellowship Finalist, top 8 internationally

## Skills

Agentic Orchestration, LLM Fine-tuning, LLM Evaluation, RAG, Prompt Engineering, AI Cost Optimisation, 0→1 Products, Product Strategy, Product Design, Growth & PLG, Full-stack Engineering, Mobile (iOS/Android), System Design, Fundraising, Team Building

## Recognitions

- Startup Karnataka: ELEVATE Grant Winner (2019)
- IIM-A Masterplan Startup Competition Winner (2018)
- IIT-M Elevate-X Startup Competition Winner (2016)
- Thiel Fellowship Finalist (2015) — Top 8 internationally

## Open To

AI-focused companies building hard things. Advisory, full-time leadership, or co-founder conversations.

## Contact

- Website: https://tanishksharma.com
- Email: tanishk.sharma@live.com
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/tanishksharma
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/tanishkjsh
- GitHub: https://github.com/tanishksharma