I run Thothica and Studio Whence. Outside of them I build for translation, philosophical corpora, archives, and print. It's all the same thing: AI for the long tail of human knowledge nobody else is bothering with.

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Thothica. AI translation for long-form content. Built for the work big platforms won't touch.

Studio Whence. Comic and illustrated-book generation studio for creators and publishers. Stories in becoming.

• Falsafa. A premium reading platform for translated philosophical and classical texts, with an open-source MCP engine any LLM can query the corpus through. Karpathy-flavored: tools, not vectors.
• forme. An editorial magazine CMS for print. Single operator, offline. Open source.
• mineru-true-copy. A Tauri desktop app that turns PDFs into editable documents while keeping the page intact. Built on MinerU, with vision-LLM OCR that preserves bold and italics, layout-preserving export to DOCX/PPTX/PDF, and an Indic translation sidecar for Apple Silicon. AGPL-3.0.
• pdf-toolkit. PDF tools for cultural archives.

• "The Prayer the Machine Cannot Pray", Philosophy Now, Issue 173. AI through Al-Ghazali's occasionalism. Techno-optimist, in a register most readers will not expect.

• MSME Idea Hackathon 5.0, Government of India, Mar 2026. 1 of 502 approved ideas nationwide. ₹12.75 lakh non-equity grant.
• Emergent Ventures Grant, Mercatus, Jul 2025. Selected to the 15th cohort. $20,000.
• Cobden-Bright Award, Nov 2024, for the F.A. Hayek AI-Persona.
• Government of Gujarat SSIP Grant, May 2023. ₹2.5 lakh for RAG over the VOC Archives.

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