Nikhil Jathar · Co-Founder & CTO, AvanSaber
Notes from building, and the thinking underneath.
I am a serial entrepreneur and the co-founder and CTO of AvanSaber. I have built software ventures that were acquired, hold patents, and now lead engineering across one of the broadest AI-native product portfolios in the market, where we build and run the AI we recommend. This is where I write, in the first person, about leadership, focus, and the unglamorous craft of making things that last.
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01How I decide what an AI agent may do without asking meMy agents can do almost anything I can at a keyboard. Here is the line I draw on what they do alone, what still needs me, and why it moves.02The four questions I got after the IRI talkFour questions came back after my IEEE IRI 2026 talk: why not just use ChatGPT, how invariants differ from unit tests, and whether it is really reuse.03What we chose to patent, and why: inside ERPClaw and TailTestWe filed patents on two products and not the rest. What was novel enough to protect, how a small studio thinks about IP, and what a patent really buys you.04AI on top of fifty-year-old systems: what utilities taught meThe real frontier of enterprise AI is layering assistants onto legacy utility systems without ripping them out. Why that unglamorous work matters most.05How my co-founder and I actually split a companyTen years in, how Varun and I divide a company between a CEO and a CTO, where we overlap, and how we settle the arguments we cannot avoid.06What seven days of AI-assisted coding changed about how I buildI built a server tool in a week with an AI pair. The build was the easy part. What it permanently changed about how I scope, delegate, and review.
What I'm BuildingAvanSaber Inc.
I build the AI we recommend, then run it ourselves.
AvanSaber is an AI-native product studio. We ship our own software, and the discipline of operating it is what I write about here.