I am a Venture Builder, a Forward Deployed Engineer, an AI Engineer and a Deployment Strategist.

Neil Gaikwad

I help founders turn an idea into a product people pay for.

I sit in on the customer calls, build the AI product, ship it, and set up the systems it sells and runs on.

Hero stories

One win from every role I have held

Newest first. Every figure comes from the resume, and each story links to the work behind it.

Founding Engineer, Product and AI Ops01 / 09
4 daysto finish a client's full strategy phase

A client's strategy phase closed in four days instead of weeks

What was at stake
An investment platform client needed a strategy phase, and that phase usually runs for weeks before anyone commits to a direction.
What I did
I turned the first session into a decision meeting and brought the evidence to it, using dashboards that test competing venture models against 1,000 predefined success markers.
What changed
The full strategy phase took four days instead of weeks.
The work

Let the work speak.

Taking an idea from the first customer interview to a company with paying users.

Anthony Venture Labs

The studio behind Keystone, Malan, Searchalong and Currently. It co-builds with founders for equity, from first working build to company.

Role
Founder
Type
My venture studio
Status
Live
anthonyventurelabs.com
Anthony Venture Labs screen
Under the hoodFour products spun out of the studio, each live on its own domain.

Keystone AI

Tells a contractor whether they can make payroll, in about five minutes a week, on top of the QuickBooks they already use.

Role
Founder
Type
Fintech for construction
Status
Recruiting design partners
trykeystone.xyz
Keystone AI screen
Under the hoodMoney is stored in integer cents end to end, and payments are recorded idempotently, so a retried webhook can never pay twice.

De-AI Investment Platform for modern VC Investing

A platform where members pool capital into their own investment clubs, govern them together, and share diligence through a layer of AI agents.

Role
Founding engineer
Type
Venture build
Status
Client confidential
private · client confidential
Interface not shown · NDA
Under the hoodEach launch path was modeled end to end, so the client could compare them side by side before committing to one.

Solene

A private introduction house for South Asian diaspora families, run through the family and by application only.

Role
Founder
Type
Consumer, trust first
Status
Beta, by application
solene.love
Solene screen
Under the hoodIt began as an AI matchmaker for individuals and was rebuilt around the family, with a person reading every biodata before any introduction.
Everything I've built

Start with what you came for

Bring the problem, even if it is still fuzzy. I will help you find the version customers pay for, build it with you, and set up the first way it sells. I have done it for my own products and inside client teams at a venture studio.

Tell me what you are building
Mentoring

I mentor small business owners on going from zero to one.

Through SCORE, Founder Institute and EforAll, as a mentor and as a topic specialist for building 0 to 1 GTM strategies and multi-channel customer acquisition. Often that means showing an owner which weekly chores an AI automation can take off their plate.

SCOREFounder InstituteEforAll
How mentoring works

Bring me the problem worth building.

A product idea, a team that needs an extra builder, or a business that wants its busywork automated. Tell me the problem and I will tell you honestly whether I can help.

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