Nikhil Jathar · Co-Founder & CTO, AvanSaber
Notes from building, and the thinking underneath.
I co-founded AvanSaber, where I lead engineering and we build and run the AI products 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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01 What we chose to patent, and why: inside ERPClaw and TailTest We 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. 02 AI on top of fifty-year-old systems: what utilities taught me The real frontier of enterprise AI is layering assistants onto legacy utility systems without ripping them out. Why that unglamorous work matters most. 03 How my co-founder and I actually split a company Ten 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. 04 What seven days of AI-assisted coding changed about how I build I 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. 05 Why we build and run the AI we recommend I am a founder who ships, not an advisor with slides. Why AvanSaber runs the AI it sells, and what operating our own software actually teaches us. 06 I built a Laravel Forge alternative in 7 days with AI I paid rent for two years on a tool I could build. So one December I gave myself seven days and an AI pair to make my own. Here is the honest version.
What I'm Building AvanSaber 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.