# Nikhil Jathar

> Nikhil Jathar: serial entrepreneur, co-founder and CTO of AvanSaber. Acquired ventures, patent holder, Forbes Technology Council, building AI-native software.

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## Articles (39)
- [About · Nikhil Jathar](https://www.nikhilj.com/about/): Nikhil Jathar: serial entrepreneur, co-founder and CTO of AvanSaber. Founder of acquired ventures, patent holder, Forbes Technology Council member, building AI-native software.
- [Accenture is becoming IBM, and so is consulting · Nikhil Jathar](https://www.nikhilj.com/accenture-is-becoming-ibm/): Accenture beat earnings and hit a nine-year low the same day. I read it as the market re-rating the bodies-on-seats consulting model, not one quarter.
- [AI on top of fifty-year-old systems: what utilities taught me · Nikhil Jathar](https://www.nikhilj.com/ai-on-top-of-fifty-year-old-systems/): The real frontier of enterprise AI is layering assistants onto legacy utility systems without ripping them out. Why that unglamorous work matters most.
- [Beyond the hype: three technologies I am excited about · Nikhil Jathar](https://www.nikhilj.com/beyond-the-hype-the-3-emerging-technologies-im-genuinely-excited-about/): The louder a technology is hyped, the more wrong I tend to be about it. Three emerging technologies that survived my own skepticism, and why they last.
- [ChatGPT plugins: AI steps out of the chat window · Nikhil Jathar](https://www.nikhilj.com/discover-the-power-of-chatgpt-plugins/): ChatGPT plugins look like a small feature. They are a glimpse of where AI is heading: out of the chat window, into the world, doing rather than knowing.
- [Contact · Nikhil Jathar](https://www.nikhilj.com/contact/): Get in touch with Nikhil Jathar, co-founder and CTO of AvanSaber.
- [DeepSeek R1: the underdog that shook up the AI world · Nikhil Jathar](https://www.nikhilj.com/deepseek-r1-the-underdog-thats-shaking-up-the-ai-world/): A model from a team nobody was watching broke the comfortable story that the AI race was already decided. Why the underdog mattered more than its scores.
- [Eighteen years, then two in a row: RCB and the IPL · Nikhil Jathar](https://www.nikhilj.com/rcb-back-to-back-ipl-2026/): RCB won the IPL again on May 31, back-to-back after eighteen years of winning nothing. On the encore, Kohli loyalty, and what the IPL became.
- [Essays · Nikhil Jathar](https://www.nikhilj.com/essays/): Essays by Nikhil Jathar on building, focus, leadership, and AI, written in the first person.
- [Fable and the Grid: On Talking About AI, and Quietly Building With It · Nikhil Jathar](https://www.nikhilj.com/fable-and-the-grid/): Notes from a June where I spent 25 minutes telling US utilities how applied AI gets from pilot to production, then went home and built the next thing with it.
- [Five fun movies for your next movie night · Nikhil Jathar](https://www.nikhilj.com/my-top-5-fun-movies-to-watch-on-your-next-movie-night/): Some nights you do not want a film that changes you, you want one that is reliably fun. A small defense of rewatchable, low-stakes movie nights.
- [Five reasons the 70s might be humanitys best decade · Nikhil Jathar](https://www.nikhilj.com/5-reasons-why-70s-was-the-best-period-for-humanity/): A slightly ridiculous argument, made sincerely: the 1970s sat at a rare balance of modern tools and unclaimed attention that we have since optimized away.
- [Five rules for juggling multiple SaaS products · Nikhil Jathar](https://www.nikhilj.com/5-non-negotiable-productivity-rules-for-juggling-multiple-saas-platforms/): I run eight products with a team of fifteen. Not with dashboards, with five simple rules that survive contact with a real, overloaded week.
- [Five underrated comedy TV shows worth finding · Nikhil Jathar](https://www.nikhilj.com/top-5-underrated-comedy-tv-shows/): The comedies that were brilliant and never got their due. Why great shows get overlooked, and the quiet joy of rescuing one for a friend.
- [How I use productive downtime to prevent burnout · Nikhil Jathar](https://www.nikhilj.com/how-i-use-productive-downtime-to-prevent-burnout/): The most productive thing I did last year was a week of near-nothing. Why rest is an input to the work, not a reward for it, and how I structure it.
- [How my co-founder and I actually split a company · Nikhil Jathar](https://www.nikhilj.com/how-my-co-founder-and-i-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.
- [I built a Laravel Forge alternative in 7 days with AI · Nikhil Jathar](https://www.nikhilj.com/i-built-a-laravel-forge-alternative-in-7-days-using-ai-assisted-coding/): 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.
- [In defense of Sachin Tendulkar · Nikhil Jathar](https://www.nikhilj.com/in-defense-of-sachin-tendulkar/): The oldest thing I ever published online, from 2007: a young man defending Sachin Tendulkar against his critics, grammar fixed and argument intact.
- [Inbox zero is a myth. Inbox intentional is my reality. · Nikhil Jathar](https://www.nikhilj.com/inbox-zero-is-a-myth-inbox-intentional-is-my-reality/): I chased inbox zero like it was a moral state, and produced almost nothing. Here is the messier, more useful habit I replaced it with.
- [Mens health in your 30s and 40s: skip the supplement hype · Nikhil Jathar](https://www.nikhilj.com/maximizing-mens-health-in-their-30s-and-40s-with-vitamin-supplements/): Most of what is sold to men my age about health is noise. The three boring things that beat the supplement aisle, and where the pills actually fit.
- [Mentorship is a two-way street: what young founders teach me · Nikhil Jathar](https://www.nikhilj.com/mentorship-is-a-two-way-street-what-i-learn-from-young-founders/): I mentor younger founders and quietly get the better end of the deal. What they teach me that I could not learn any other way, and what I try to give back.
- [My home-office tech stack: the gadgets I actually use · Nikhil Jathar](https://www.nikhilj.com/my-home-office-tech-stack-the-gadgets-i-actually-use/): People want a list of exciting gadgets. The honest one is short and boring: the few tools I use every day, and the expensive lessons left in the drawer.
- [Now · Nikhil Jathar](https://www.nikhilj.com/now/): What Nikhil Jathar is focused on right now: building, reading, and thinking about.
- [Rebellion on Mars: what frontier sci-fi taught me · Nikhil Jathar](https://www.nikhilj.com/rebellion-on-mars-the-fight-for-freedom-and-independence/): The Mars rebellion is one of sci-fis oldest stories. Underneath the spaceships, it is a builders story about earning the right to set your own terms.
- [Software Supply Chain Security in Plain Terms: SLSA, Sigstore, and in-toto · Nikhil Jathar](https://www.nikhilj.com/software-supply-chain-security-slsa-sigstore-in-toto/): SLSA, Sigstore, and in-toto without the jargon: how to prove a deployed artifact is what it claims to be, and was built the way you expect.
- [The best leadership lesson I ever learned · Nikhil Jathar](https://www.nikhilj.com/the-best-leadership-lesson-i-learned/): I learned it by getting it badly wrong during a scary week. Your team does not mirror what you say. It mirrors how you are, and managing that is the job.
- [The deep-work ritual: how I structure my week · Nikhil Jathar](https://www.nikhilj.com/the-deep-work-ritual-how-i-structure-my-week-for-code-strategy-and-leadership/): I run engineering, strategy and leadership across several products. My only sane response is a deep-work ritual I defend with real stubbornness.
- [The four questions I got after the IRI talk · Nikhil Jathar](https://www.nikhilj.com/the-four-questions-i-got-after-the-iri-talk/): I presented at IEEE IRI 2026 on 31 July. Four questions came back: why not just use ChatGPT, how invariants differ from unit tests, how a nondeterministic model can sit near a ledger, and whether any of it is really reuse.
- [The funniest TV comedies since 2000 · Nikhil Jathar](https://www.nikhilj.com/top-funny-tv-shows-post-2000-laugh-out-loud/): I switch off with comedy that is actually funny, not clever or important. My opinionated take on the best TV comedy since 2000, and why funny is so hard.
- [The future of work, part 1: navigating a new reality · Nikhil Jathar](https://www.nikhilj.com/the-future-of-work/): The future of work is not the vendor utopia or the headline apocalypse. It is a new reality to navigate carefully, by the people actually living it.
- [The future of work, part 2: human creativity in an AI world · Nikhil Jathar](https://www.nikhilj.com/the-future-of-work-embracing-human-creativity-in-an-ai-dominated-world-part-2/): As AI gets better at the mechanical parts of work, it does not make human creativity less valuable. It quietly makes it the main thing worth paying for.
- [The read-to-lead habit: five books that made me a better leader · Nikhil Jathar](https://www.nikhilj.com/the-read-to-lead-habit-5-books-that-arent-about-business-but-made-me-a-better-leader/): The worst leadership advice I ever read came from a leadership book. Why the books that actually made me a better leader were never about business at all.
- [The social-media dopamine dilemma · Nikhil Jathar](https://www.nikhilj.com/the-social-media-dopamine-dilemma-how-social-media-affects-our-brain-chemistry/): Social apps are engineered to hijack your attention with the same chemistry as a slot machine. Why willpower is the wrong tool, and what actually helps.
- [What seven days of AI-assisted coding changed about how I build · Nikhil Jathar](https://www.nikhilj.com/what-seven-days-of-ai-assisted-coding-changed/): 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.
- [What we chose to patent, and why: inside ERPClaw and TailTest · Nikhil Jathar](https://www.nikhilj.com/what-we-chose-to-patent-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.
- [Why I ask what is the why before any new project · Nikhil Jathar](https://www.nikhilj.com/why-i-ask-whats-the-why-before-starting-any-new-project/): One question has killed more of my bad ideas than any plan or strategy session. Why I make every new project answer it clearly before we start building.
- [Why Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia is TVs best comedy · Nikhil Jathar](https://www.nikhilj.com/why-its-always-sunny-in-philadelphia-is-tvs-best-comedy/): An extreme position, defended sincerely: Its Always Sunny is the best comedy on television, and the cruelty that puts people off is exactly the point.
- [Why we build and run the AI we recommend · Nikhil Jathar](https://www.nikhilj.com/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.
- [Work-life integration vs. balance: my philosophy · Nikhil Jathar](https://www.nikhilj.com/work-life-integration-vs-balance-a-serial-entrepreneurs-philosophy/): Balance assumes two opposing weights and a virtuous person keeping them level. After a decade of running companies, I stopped believing in the scale.