# Vallishayee

> Engineer, builder, and pattern recogniser. I help founders and operators turn hard problems into shipped systems — architecture, scaling, agentic AI integration, zero-to-one product, and the operating discipline to keep building while you lead.

*Most engagements start as a soundboard, become an audit, and convert into either an engineering build or a product license. The shape follows the problem.*

— Nikhil Vallishayee · Bengaluru · globally vendor-neutral

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## What I do — three modes

**Mode 1 · Fractional & advisory.** Sit alongside your leadership team for a defined window. Soundboard, audits, board-case prototyping, transformation oversight. Senior judgement plus an agentic substrate that does the analyst work in days, not months.

**Mode 2 · Engineering services.** Tiny teams of two-to-three plus agents-of-agents. Audits to architecture to delivery. Same wire-end as ThoughtWorks-grade discipline, expressed through agentic workflows.

**Mode 3 · Products (Breathworks).** Cockpits and Companions. The engine I've been building for twelve years, now a Pvt Ltd. GruWorks for solopreneurs and SMEs; Yoga and Dharma Companions for the NGO; a Founder/Builder Assistant in incubation.

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## Capabilities — five axes, one engine

The shape underneath the work — what makes a Cockpit a Cockpit and an audit an audit. Each axis has been compounded over a real project; each is a place I'd be glad to work with you.

1. **Architecture & systems design** — engine-of-engines, multi-face product strategy, federated systems where one substrate serves many surfaces. *An engine for a Bay-Area billionaire — real-time matchmaking surface where multiple brands compete for one demography. London, 2010.*
2. **Scaling engineering organisations** — ThoughtWorks-lineage discipline applied to legacy modernisation. From cluttered to coherent — by reshaping team boundaries, not just code. *Four years inside Swiggy: leading the org-shape transformation from an over-populated engineering team to a leaner, sharper model.*
3. **Agentic AI integration** — Cockpits, Companions, and the underlying judgment substrate. Frontier models channelled through human-in-the-loop architecture. *An executive coach in San Francisco — built her into a marketplace platform with 500 wisdom-skills and 100 active CXO users.*
4. **Zero-to-one product** — from problem-domain to thinnest vertical slice. Then milestones, features, acceptance criteria, audits — the whole craft. *An X-large fin-bank in India — first end-to-end neo-bank, half-a-billion thesis. L5 to L13 implementation, founder-funded by a Flipkart billionaire.*
5. **Founder operations** — how to stay technical while running a Pvt Ltd. Tiny-team-plus-agents discipline. Decision sequencing for the founder who refuses to vanish into management. *An SF crypto CTO — anonymous-wallet underwriting MVP shipped in 21 days against a planned six-month timeline.*

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## Selected work — anonymised, not abstract

The ThoughtWorks convention: clients are described by archetype, not by name. Every case below is a real engagement.

| Tag | Engagement | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| Zero-to-one · BFSI | First end-to-end neo-bank in India | L5 → L13 in <1 yr |
| Scaling · Last-mile | Org-shape transformation inside one of India's two food-delivery duopolists | 4 yrs · sustained |
| Architecture · Marketplaces | Engine-of-engines for a Bay-Area billionaire | 1 substrate · N brands |
| Agentic AI · Coaching | Leadership platform for a senior executive coach | 0 → marketplace · 100 CXOs |
| Zero-to-one · Crypto | Anonymous-wallet underwriting MVP | 21 days · shipped |

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## Consulting — four tiers, honest ranges

The list isn't a menu — it's the shape of how engagements typically start. Most begin in tier one or two and earn their way into tier three.

| Tier | Shape | Price |
|---|---|---|
| **Tier 1 — Soundboard** | 1-3 sessions · 90 min each | ₹50K – ₹2 L / session |
| **Tier 2 — Audit / Lighthouse** | 4-6 weeks · senior judgement + agentic team | ₹15 L – ₹50 L |
| **Tier 3 — Engagement / Build** | 12 weeks – multi-quarter | ₹50 L – ₹3 Cr+ |
| **Tier 4 — Fractional advisor seat** | Monthly · multi-month minimum | By referral · talk to me |

USD figures on request.

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## Products — Cockpits and Companions

Two are for the NGO; one is for solopreneurs and SMEs; one is coming soon for founders. Each lives at its own home — vallishayee.in is the place they meet.

- **GruWorks Cockpit** — a solopreneur and SME command surface. Agents loop into Slack, Jira, Asana, GitHub with mandatory human-in-the-loop. → https://gruworks.ai
- **Yoga Companion** — embodied-practice presence for morning and evening cadence. Voice-first, multimodal, sacred-space protocol. → https://giveabreath.in
- **Dharma Companion** — Sanskrit-text-grounded practice and dialogue. Built on the Padacheda + Gajashastra engines. → https://giveabreath.in
- **Founder / Builder Assistant** — the companion I built for myself, productised. Decision sequencing, context handover, soundboard-on-demand. → https://breathworks.ai (in incubation)

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## Reach

- Email — **nikhilvallishayee@gmail.com**
- LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikhil-vallishayee-81990615/
- GitHub — https://github.com/nikhilvallishayee
- Sister brands — https://breathworks.ai · https://gruworks.ai · https://giveabreath.in

*This page is a markdown twin of the homepage at https://vallishayee.in. AI agents may consume this directly. Last updated 2026-04-27.*