Helpinghumans&machinesthinktogether

Bruno

A constrained, semi-autonomous coordination agent for scientific research teams. Accepted at the ICML 2026 AI for Science Workshop.

The Design Index

A searchable database of brand design systems, made machine-readable so AI agents can build products that match a brand's look and feel.

Merton

An AI project manager for scientists, tracking tasks, decisions, blockers, and artifacts across the messy tools where research actually happens.

Spotlight

Giuseppe, the AI Foreman

For Ars Electronica, Andreas Haupt and I ran a three-week experiment in machine-led coordination: Giuseppe Bellini, a Clawdbot foreman, managed a small human team toward a media arts submission. The project asks what happens when an AI is not a tool inside an organization, but part of the organization itself.

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Selected Work

Bruno

A constrained, semi-autonomous coordination agent for scientific research teams. Accepted at the ICML 2026 AI for Science Workshop.

The Design Index

A searchable database of brand design systems, made machine-readable so AI agents can build products that match a brand's look and feel.

Merton

An AI project manager for scientists, tracking tasks, decisions, blockers, and artifacts across the messy tools where research actually happens.

Ars Electronica

A three-week experiment in AI-led organization, where Giuseppe Bellini coordinated a human team toward an Ars Electronica submission.

Lovable for Science

Open-source platform extending research workflows with modular skills for AI agents. Install capabilities as npm packages.

Ada Remediation

Agent-first PDF accessibility remediation system for auditing documents against WCAG and PDF/UA, reviewing fixes, and exporting compliant PDFs.

Octo

AI agent that conducts legal research the way your firm operates. Features customizable research plans and automated compliance tables.

Compute Exchange

An open GPU marketplace connecting AI teams with 75+ verified providers, covered by the WSJ and Network World. The platform reported facilitating $1B+ in compute supply, below hyperscaler pricing.

Teach Claude Something New

Collection of 27+ modular skills that transform Claude into a specialized agent. Covers academic research, document processing, and creative workflows.

Writing

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The State Needs Librarians

Most people meet the state through a form they cannot navigate. The useful role for an AI agent is not to answer for you — it is to be a librarian: find the right rule, give a read, show where it came from, and flag what is missing.

University Labs Need AI PMs

The bottleneck in research is not only ideas or compute. It is the invisible coordination layer between experiments, people, and artifacts.

The Bugs the Benchmarks Never See

Two years of deploying research agents taught me that the failures that matter never show up on a leaderboard.

About

I’m a design engineer obsessed with one question: how do humans evaluate, supervise, and trust AI systems as they get more capable? My favorite problems live in the messy middle of Slack threads, research papers, failed experiments, and the person trying to remember why the run broke three weeks ago.

Right now I’m building Merton, an AI project manager for scientists, and I co-authored Bruno, accepted at the ICML 2026 AI for Science Workshop. Before that I co-founded Sundial Scientific, backed by a16z speedrun. I built research software used by 200+ scientists, shipped trace-review tools for AI Scientist runs, and turned a lot of vague lab pain into real interfaces.

Earlier, I was a design engineer at Compute Exchange, where I helped build the pricing tools and onboarding workflows for a GPU marketplace that handled $1B+ in compute supply. Before that I worked on civic and travel products in Brazil used by millions of people. I studied product design and computer science at Stanford, won Intel ISEF back when science fairs were my whole personality, and MIT named minor planet 32628 Ranganathan after me.

Let's build

Building something where humans and machines have to work together? I'd love to hear about it.

Book a 15-min intro prashran@stanford.edu