akaash

founding engineer at Kearney's AI Center of Excellence

product × engineering × ai

I build the AI platforms Fortune 500 procurement teams run on, and playful corners of the web that chase your cursor.

Agentic AI SystemsSpend & Market IntelligenceAI-Enabled Data RefinementEntity Resolution at ScaleShould-Cost ModelingSupplier Intelligence & BenchmarkingSelf-Serve ML PlatformsRetrieval-First Agents0→1 Product OwnershipSolution ArchitectureProperty & Investment IntelligenceFortune 500 Procurement & OpsAgentic AI SystemsSpend & Market IntelligenceAI-Enabled Data RefinementEntity Resolution at ScaleShould-Cost ModelingSupplier Intelligence & BenchmarkingSelf-Serve ML PlatformsRetrieval-First Agents0→1 Product OwnershipSolution ArchitectureProperty & Investment IntelligenceFortune 500 Procurement & Ops

selected work

Some of these I built on my own; the rest are the AI tools I built at Kearney, the firm Fortune 500 companies pay to spend their billions more wisely. Same job either way: take a messy, expensive problem and ship the system that solves it.

Case study 01 · TN property intelligence

01 / 10

Every registrationleaves a trail.

When you buy property in India, you trust brokers and listing sites that get paid to sell you something. This turns scattered government records into one honest picture, so a buyer, lender, or investor can decide on facts instead of a sales pitch. Built solo, end to end: the data pipeline, the maps, the logins, and six tailored views.

tn-property · live terminallive

rising districts

Coimbatore▲ +12%
Chennai S▲ +9%
Madurai▲ +6%
operational building planned6 workviews
110+ infra projects tracked6 tailored viewsbuilt solo, end to end
Built independently, live and growing everyday

Case study 02 · live discovery engine

02 / 10

Don't interview six.Interview the whole org.

Understanding how a big company's buying function really works used to take two or three weeks: a team running structured interviews, typing the answers into spreadsheet after spreadsheet, then analysts turning all of it into a diagnostic deck, and it only ever reached five or six people. This is a mobile-friendly web app you talk to out loud, so the same diagnosis scales across an entire procurement organization. It reasons alongside you as you speak, drawing on a built-in knowledge base to ask sharper follow-ups, working out how capable your team is and how it actually does things, mapping every answer to the specific hypotheses and factors it is testing, then pulling all of its interviews into one complete, org-level picture. Built solo, end to end: the realtime voice loop, the analyst brain underneath it, and the intake that routes every person to their own interview.

live discovery · how the org workslive
you · speaking

factors scored

13 / 20

probing next: how do approvals actually run?
ops leadintake works fine
the buyerit's broken daily

240 voices → one diagnosis, attributed

interview hundreds, not sixone grounded diagnosis, with attributionlive, built solo end to end
Built independently · live and in active development

Case study 03 · builder marketing platform

03 / 10

One engine.Every builder getsa premium site.

A property developer's only options for a website are a generic listings page that looks like everyone else's, or a pricey agency build that's stale the day flats start selling. This is an engine that spins up a premium, phone-first site for any builder in minutes, plus a dashboard to run their leads and live inventory. Built solo, on the same property-data brain as TN Property.

the collection · editorial luxury

SR Heights

Hosur · premium apartments

2 · 3 BHKRERA
fromEMI ₹38k/mo
Book a site visit
S.R & Co · CRM

24

leads

1.2k

views

template · skin · modules → one engine

6 styles × 4 layouts, one enginesite + sales dashboard, livebuilt solo
Built independently · homes.akaashnidhiss.com

Case study 04 · AEO intelligence engine

04 / 10

Buyers ask the AI.Are you inthe answer?

More and more buyers don't open Google anymore. They ask ChatGPT or Gemini 'what's the best X for me?' and trust the answer. Most brands have no idea whether the AI even mentions them, what it says, or where it got that from. This measures exactly that across five AI assistants, finds where you're invisible and why, and turns it into a clear plan to fix it. Built solo, end to end: the data capture, the scoring, and the app.

perplexitychatgptgeminiai overviewsclaude
live
ask · best wireless earbuds under ₹5k?

the AI names

01NorthPeak
cited · 2
02Vantage
cited · 1
03Olympia
mentioned
your brandnot named ✗
lever · third-party validation+ template ready
5 AI assistants measured11 ready-to-run fixesbuilt solo, end to end
Built independently · in active development

Case study 05 · supplier & material harmonization

05 / 10

Forty spellings.One supplier.

A giant company records the same supplier 40 different ways across decades, so it cannot even answer 'how much do we actually spend with them?'. This AI tool reads millions of messy records and collapses 40 versions into one clean truth, so the company can finally negotiate from strength and cut waste. On one client it surfaced around $1.4B in savings.

ACME GMBH & CO. KG

Acme Gmbh

ACME GERMANY LTD.

a c m e gmbh…

ACME GMBH

golden record · 1 of 1.5M

1.5M messy records cleaned up~$1.4B savings surfaced40 spellings → 1 truth
Built in Kearney

Case study 06 · self-serve workflows platform

06 / 10

Weeks of cleanup.One click.

Every consulting project starts with weeks of cleanup before real analysis can begin. I built the AI engines that do that cleanup automatically (sorting billions of rows of spending into categories, untangling messy supplier records) and the self-serve platform that put them in every consultant's hands at one click. Work that used to bottleneck on a few specialists now runs for the whole firm on demand.

PO_dump_final_v7.xlsx

spend_q3 (1).csv

vendors_RAW.xlsx

run
clean spend cube · 2h 14m
billions of rows sorted10+ client teams a week100+ daily users at peak
Built in Kearney

Case study 07 · commodity should-cost platform

07 / 10

Provethe price.

A supplier says 'prices up 8%, blame steel and fuel' and most companies just pay, with no way to check. This breaks a product down into what it's actually made of and tests each piece against real market prices, so you can see exactly how much of a hike is justified and how much is padding. Built and owned end to end.

should-cost · spend → market~$401M
the cost mix sets expected · the market moves itthe gap · ~$19.3M
every price traced to market datamillions in unjustified hikes caughtbuilt and owned end to end
Built in Kearney

Case study 08 · category strategy engine

08 / 10

Read the market.Then the room.

A plan for how a company buys a whole category used to be only as good as whether a 20-year veteran was in the room. This captures how the best strategists think and lets anyone run that expert analysis, turning the market and the client's real strengths into a tailored, evidence-backed game plan. Built and owned end to end.

external category intelligence

Beroe · FRED · market indices

×

client maturity

scored across 29 themes

lever 01ready
lever 02ready
lever 03gated · build first

every call traceable to evidence

veteran-grade analysis, anyone can runnew category in one clickbuilt and owned end to end
Built in Kearney

Case study 09 · supplier intelligence & benchmarking

09 / 10

A day's research.Ten minutes.

Every buying decision starts with three questions: what should this cost, who else could we buy from, and what have similar companies saved? Answering took an analyst a full day of digging, and the first AI attempt just made things up. This answers all three in minutes, backed by real data from hundreds of companies, not guesswork. I led the build, including scrapping a first version that failed.

peer evidence · logisticsxlsx

what peers did about it

proposed
awarded
executed
~$234M realized
1 day → 10 minevery answer cites its evidence
a day → ~10 minutesdata from 200+ companiesevidence, not guesswork
Built in Kearney

Case study 10 · contract intelligence (PoC)

10 / 10

Read your contracts.Redraft them better.

A quick proof of concept for what AI can do with a company's whole pile of contracts, in one tool. It reads and extracts the key terms from every contract, sorts them into archetypes, and suggests a strategy for each. Then it redrafts: it checks your existing terms against a library of best-in-class clauses and proposes stronger, realistic ones to swap in, while a light pipeline tracks the updated contracts you send back to suppliers. Built solo in a couple of days, as a proof of concept, not a production system.

contract intelligenceproof of concept
MSA-2014archetype · framework
cl. 12 · payment termsp.7

net 30, no cap on increases

best-in-class
net 60, cap at CPI + 2%, audit right
extractsegmentstrategyredrafttrack
5 contract jobs, one toolold terms → best-in-class clausessolo proof of concept, built in days
Built independently · proof of concept

off the clock · things built for fun

all live

The web shouldplay back.

I grew up loving sites that answered back. So I build some. These are real, deployed, and waiting for your cursor. Go on, poke them.

The Holmgaard Line ship, hand-drawn in white line artMV ALTAIR · 142,000 DWT

holmgaard line

move your cursor, she rocks

go play

Est. 1887 · static HTML + SVG filters

The 129knots WhatsApp ordering flow on a phone

129knots

the phone leans your way

go play

B2B SaaS landing · React + Framer

an.

an.

yes, it's watching your cursor too

Next.js · you are here