I build AI products that actually ship.
I'm Rakesh — founder of Akoota Labs and CiteAgent. I help founders design, architect, and ship production-grade AI features without the agency tax.
25+
projects shipped
2
live products
6+
years building
India
based
Stacks I ship on
Selected work
Things I've built.
CiteAgent
A live AEO (AI Engine Optimization) and SEO platform that monitors how ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI cite your business — and ships fixes automatically.
Akoota
A studio for small AI utilities — humanizers, prompt optimizers, email writers — that work instantly with no signup. Acts as the parent brand for the studio's products.
AI Tutor
A 5-service Python system that ingests books and the open web, stores them in a vector index, and adapts to a learner — built on hexagonal architecture, event-driven communication, and CQRS where it earns its keep.
Pentagon
A standalone Go-To-Market platform that scrapes leads, scores them with an LLM, generates personalised cold emails, and runs the whole pipeline on a daily Inngest cron — for a sister product, Echo.
SocialAI
A pipeline that fingerprints a creator's face and style, then generates images and short videos that stay visually on-brand across thousands of outputs — a vector-first system on FastAPI, pgvector, and Inngest.
Services
Three ways to work with me.
Pick what fits. Each engagement is fixed scope, fixed price, and ends with something you can ship.
Strategy call
For founders deciding what to build, what stack to bet on, and which AI bets are real. You leave with a one-page plan and a clear next move.
Book a call →AI architecture audit
Deep review of your AI surface — model choices, retrieval, infra, cost, failure modes. You get an architecture diagram, a prioritised gap list, and a 90-day roadmap.
Request audit →Pilot build
End-to-end build of one production-grade AI feature inside your product — agents, RAG, generative UI, scoring, automation. Fixed scope, fixed price, real shipping.
Discuss a pilot →About
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Founder. Engineer. Shipper.
I'm an AI engineer who built two AI products before deciding to help others do the same. CiteAgent helps brands win citations on ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity. Akoota ships small AI utilities that just work.
Before that, I built a 7-service Python tutor system, a GTM automation engine, identity-consistent media generation, and ~20 other products you'll find in the work section.
I work with founders who want to ship real AI features — not "ChatGPT wrapper" demos. If your team needs an architecture, a pilot, or someone to actually build it, that's me.
Working together
You have an AI feature in mind.
I have shipped a few.
Whether you need a one-hour gut-check, an architecture audit, or a real pilot — we'll figure it out on a 15-minute intro call. No deck, no pitch.