Building and figuring out things.
Documenting learnings and experiences.
14 years in analytics & AIPreviously AI Strategy Lead & Product Owner at Tenjin (YC S14)
My Writings
My writings across newsletters and topics.
7 min
Fossils in Plain Sight
A floppy disk, an ox, and a Roman myth about testicles. How symbols outlive the things they stand for.
5 min
The Cropped Frame
An AI broke out of a lab 10 weeks ago. The headline you most likely read was true but probably not the whole picture.
7 min
Two Kinds of Knowing
A standing ovation and a bank run work the same way. Nobody wants to be the first one standing.
6 min
The Firefighter Problem
We reward the people who put out fires, not the people whose fires never start. One arson investigator built an entire career on knowing the difference.
About me
I'm Amlan. I've spent 14 years making sense of numbers and data, and of what we could do with them. Apart from my family; books, music and sports are my passions. In that order.
I build things because building is how you actually learn. Scar tissue and muscle memory are lifesavers, but only when you've built and earned them yourself. You can't rent them.
Talking of renting, AI gives us speed. It doesn't give us judgement or taste; those still come from people. So are we moving forward or going back? Who knows. We're all figuring it out as we go along.
Career
Things I've built
A few projects of note.
Multi-Agent Platform
AI that has to work on a Monday, not just in the demo.
Tenjin
Growth Full Stack
Taking one product line from $3K to $10K a month.
Tenjin
NLQ-to-SQL System
Letting people ask a database a question in plain words.
Tenjin
Call-Intent NLP
Working out why people call, in a regulated global operation.
Fidelity Investments
If you've made it this far, we probably have something to talk about.
Based in Germany. Happy to talk about books, AI, products, and data science.
amlanchakravarty.work@gmail.com