Founding Product Builder · Product · Design · AI · 15 Years
The Zero2One Guy.
I ship v1 and train your existing team to keep shipping.
About
Early teams often have direction but no one who can think, design, and ship in one loop — clarity before process, taste alongside logic. That's the 0→1 phase I work in.
I didn't start in code — I started in user psychology and product shape. A decade of UI/UX and 0→1 work with founders (Designour, Zet, Tinkerly, Countingwell) before AI-assisted development let me own the full loop. Design foundation → builder →
15 years across product management, product design, AI systems, and entrepreneurship. IIT Delhi trained. Studio founder. Startup collaborator. AI-native builder.
When I join, I lead your product or internal-tools track and go deep — shipping v1, then growing the vertical with your team learning alongside me. Same model behind Cursor AI School; packaged for teams that want me embedded first.
I also write on society, self, and beyond — essays and builder notes on the Building blog.
Four modes I operate in
01
Venture Thinking
From fuzzy idea to investable concept. Naming, positioning, story, brand — the work that happens before a pitch deck exists.
02
Creative Direction
Visual systems, product UX, design language. Making the product feel like it was inevitable — not assembled.
03
AI-Native Building
Shipping AI systems with modern tools — agents, automations, self-hosted infrastructure. Building what didn't exist last year.
04
Team Enablement
Training 1–2 insiders on Cursor and AI-native workflows while building alongside them — a team that grows with the vertical, not a single point of failure.
Work
SaaS, education, content, and ops — shipped across product, design, and code. What's live is real; what's greyed out is waiting its turn.
More projects on the way. Order and priorities on the public todo.
Early Collaborations
Early brand and product foundations from the Designour years — part of the design → builder arc.
Now
What's true today — not the backlog, not the roadmap.
Contact
If you want someone to lead the build long-term and grow team capacity alongside you — one email is enough.
ankitzen@icloud.comor
This portfolio lives inside
This page is my work — shipped projects, venture stories, contact. The main site is the wider home: experiments, writing, and things still taking shape. Not a pitch deck. A place to poke around.
What's there
Want a portfolio like this? I'm giving away 5 free — email me and I'll follow up with next steps.