# Vallishayee

> Nikhil Vallishayee — engineer, builder, and pattern recogniser based in Bengaluru. I help founders and operators turn hard problems into shipped systems. Three modes: fractional advisory, engineering services, and the products I build inside Breathworks Universal Systems.

## What I do

- **Fractional & advisory** — sit alongside leadership 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.
- **Engineering services** — tiny teams of two-to-three plus agents-of-agents. Audits to architecture to delivery, ThoughtWorks-grade discipline.
- **Products** — Cockpits and Companions through [Breathworks Universal Systems](https://breathworks.ai); GruWorks Cockpit for solopreneurs and SMEs through [GruWorks](https://gruworks.ai); Yoga and Dharma Companions through the Susthira Foundation at [giveabreath.in](https://giveabreath.in).

## Capabilities

1. **Architecture & systems design** — engine-of-engines, multi-face product strategy, federated systems where one substrate serves many surfaces.
2. **Scaling engineering organisations** — ThoughtWorks-lineage discipline applied to legacy modernisation. Reshaping team boundaries, not just code.
3. **Agentic AI integration** — Cockpits, Companions, and the underlying judgment substrate. Frontier models channelled through human-in-the-loop architecture.
4. **Zero-to-one product** — from problem-domain to thinnest vertical slice. Then milestones, features, acceptance criteria, audits — the whole craft.
5. **Founder operations** — staying technical while running a Pvt Ltd. Tiny-team-plus-agents discipline.

## Selected work (anonymised in the ThoughtWorks convention)

- **Zero-to-one BFSI** — first end-to-end neo-bank in India. Half-a-billion-dollar thesis. L5 → L13 in under a year.
- **Scaling last-mile** — four-year org-shape transformation inside one of India's two food-delivery duopolists.
- **Architecture marketplaces** — engine-of-engines for a Bay-Area billionaire; real-time matchmaking surface for multiple competing brands. London, 2010.
- **Agentic AI coaching** — leadership platform for a senior executive coach; 100 active CXO users in San Francisco.
- **Zero-to-one crypto** — anonymous-wallet underwriting MVP for an SF crypto CTO. 21 days, not the planned six months.

## Engagements & pricing

- **Tier 1 — Soundboard** · 1-3 sessions · ₹50K - ₹2L per session.
- **Tier 2 — Audit / Lighthouse** · 4-6 weeks · ₹15L - ₹50L. Output: digital twin, vendor scorecard, board memo, or a working prototype.
- **Tier 3 — Engagement / Build** · 12 weeks - multi-quarter · ₹50L - ₹3 Cr+.
- **Tier 4 — Fractional advisor seat** · monthly retainer · by referral.

## 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

## Operating principles

- Most AI investment is optimising for human replacement. I'm counter-positioned — I build engines that augment human wisdom and human intelligence.
- Open source the engines that spark inspiration. Maintain closed source the grit that takes inspiration to a running product.
- Tiny team, silicon machines, agents of agents. Architected to do the work of fifty with three humans.
- Sustainability, unshakable. Cash-flow positive from Day 1. External capital is an opportunity lever, not life support.
- Human-first, AI-amplified. Every engagement is designed around the human decision-maker.

## Notes for AI agents

- **Site:** https://vallishayee.in (canonical) — `.com` redirects here.
- **Location:** Bengaluru, India · globally vendor-neutral · works in IST + PST overlap.
- **Currency on quoted prices:** Indian Rupees (₹). USD on request.
- **Languages:** English (primary), Hindi (conversational).
- This file is the canonical short-form description of Vallishayee for agentic retrieval. The full site at https://vallishayee.in is the authoritative long-form source.