Aashish Pahwa

/01

Koso

A custom AI development agency for companies that want to own their AI rather than rent it. The core offer is an AI OS: one connected layer above the tools a team already uses, made of workflows, agents, pipelines, a shared knowledge base and reporting. First production release in 4 to 6 weeks. Senior engineers only, and everything ships to the client's repo and cloud. Koso also trains teams, from a three-hour foundation for people who don't code to multi-day tracks for engineers and boards.

• 120 plus AI products shipped
• Nine free public agents on koso.ai, from domain appraisal to prospect research
• 50,000 plus students trained across 20 plus institutions, including IIT Madras and IIM Indore
• 100 plus workshops delivered

/02

Okom

Outreach that builds itself. You write one sentence about who to reach and what you want. An architect agent turns it into a campaign drawn as an editable flowchart: discovery, research, contact finding, a human review stop, then the email sequence. Seven agents share the work and a negotiator handles the replies. Every decision is logged with its reason and its cost. Built by Koso, in closed beta.

• Sends from your own mailbox and writes each email at send time from that lead's research
• Runs as an MCP server, so Claude and Codex can drive it
• Billed per delivered contact, not per model call

/03

Feedough

Started in 2016 as a guide for first-time founders, written from a desk in Delhi. By 2019 it ranked on the first page of Google for words like advertising, marketing and business model, and millions of people read it every month. Today it is best known for its AI Prompt Generator, part of a library of 200 plus free AI tools, alongside brand studies on how companies make money and a weekly newsletter that 24,000 people read. Everything is free and needs no login.

• Millions of monthly readers at its 2019 peak, almost all from search
• Ranked for advertising, marketing and business model
• The AI Prompt Generator, plus a Chrome extension that brings it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek and Kimi
• 600,000 to 800,000 page views a month today, 99 percent organic
• Cited by Harvard Business School, the University of Washington and Al Jazeera

/04

Indian AI Community

India's largest AI community, with more than 10,000 members and meetups in Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and Pune. The site is a working directory: a tracker of Indian AI startups with sector, stage and funding, a list of Indian models, weekly news, upcoming events, and open hackathons, grants and fellowships. Members submit entries, founders claim their company page, and an editor checks everything before it goes live.

• 10,000 plus members across seven cities
• Startup, model, event and opportunity trackers, updated weekly
• Meetup RSVPs, speaker and sponsor applications handled on the site

/05

Before all this

School was two of them. Holy Angels', Sahibabad up to class 10, mostly spent in the computer lab making my first animations. Then Bal Bharati, Brij Vihar for 11 and 12: two years that did more to me than the previous ten, and the first time I tested myself against people outside my class. At PGDAV College I studied commerce and spent three years with Rudra, the street play society, as its vice-president, performing across Delhi and in Mumbai, Kanpur and Goa. Then a year and a half at Ogilvy as a client executive, picking up copywriting and design along the way, before I left in 2016 to build Feedough. When I'm not building, I'm hiking.

/06

Talks

• 2026Offline Club, BengaluruHow to prepare for agentic swarms in human departments
• 2026SaaS SEO AllianceAI citation, search, and what a SaaS team does about it on Monday
• 2026SEO Mastery SaigonAI and search, for a room that lives on rankings
• 2025WordCamp AhmedabadWordPress and AI: Evolving Business Models
• 2025AISOC Symposium, KIIT BhubaneswarAgentic AI and Intelligent Automation
• 2025DevFest NoidaAI swarms outperforming traditional departments
• 2024WordCamp DelhiOrganizer
• 2023WordCamp MumbaiThe Possibilities of AI in WordPress
• 2023WordCamp UdaipurWordPress and AI: Present, Future and Possibilities
• 2022WordPress Delhi NCR meetupHow I am using AI in my WordPress work

/07

Numbers

• MillionsMonthly readers at the 2019 peak, Feedough
• 600K to 800KMonthly page views today, Feedough
• 24KNewsletter readers, Feedough
• 200+Free AI tools, Feedough
• 120+AI products shipped, Koso
• 50,000+Students trained in a year, Koso
• 4 to 6 weeksFirst release, Koso
• 10,000+Members, Indian AI Community
• 4Cities with meetups, Indian AI Community