proof of work

lumenridge.studio

designing things across products, brands, visuals, motion & video while parallelly shipping code with claude.

using my design studio experience -

• supported founder with business development, proposals, sales & hiring
• success partner to startups
• streamlined studio ops and project workflows
• enabled scalable systems to support creative and business goals

this was a pilot. during my time, i was largely embedded w/ anannas ai (multi-model aggregator like openrouter) built by the bhindiai team.

• product & ux: anannas + bhindiai's ui/ux feedback, landing page, creatives, copy edits, interface improvements
• research: popular agentic use cases for users to get started
• tinkered with "backrooms" wireframes - a new chat app experience

the spacekayak worka note from paul

• operated as the founder's right hand
• end-to-end studio management. 15 member team
• decision maker across team, biz & ops
• accounts spoc. building and maintaining them
• pitched, negotiated, and closed new client deals
• cumulatively made 100+ proposals and pitches
• generated $150k+ in revenue
• co-created contracts w/ the legal team, reducing turnaround by 50%
• hiring talent, and their studio onboarding
• led resource allocation & office administration
• established and maintained studio os & documentation
• drove project de-briefs & process improvements
• managed escalation & conflict resolution
• key role in fostering the studio culture
• key studio rep. at industry events
• executed polygon's aggsummit'24 in bangkok & studio rep.

• liaison b/w 30+ startup clients and creatives
• 50+ end-to-end project delivery
• wrote briefs, project documentation & made sprint plans
• ensured adherence to timelines (win rate: 90%)
• project kickoff, project comms & project handover
• design QA & feedback implementation
• poc in stakeholder meetings
• assisted w/ business development. 20% increase in acq.
• key in shipping designs for ethindia'22
• designed m.f. husain's pixel NFT

i used to create pixel portraits and sell them as nfts through opensea.

• w/ juno as a freelancer for 3 months
• guest artist @ techHR'22 organised by people matters'
• custom designed 200+ pixel portraits for their team and the event delegates
• cumulatively generated over $3k through nfts

• grew their youtube from 70 to 220+ subscribers
• briefly looked after community engagement on x & discord
• crafted marketing creatives and designed NFTs
• developed a strong communication and a fundamental understanding of the industry while interacting with new founders & projects
• briefly involved in scouting, vetting and speaking to new startups and founders

• defined the product north star (no. of users paying the last instalment) and product strategy framework
• involved in prioritization of upcoming product features
• conducted offline user research on 70 SMEs
• designed the first ver. of the MVP of a new product offering
• redesigned and simplified the key flow from the app
• strategized and designed marketing creatives

• identified appropriate marketing channels and target customers for running campaigns
• developed strong communication and interpersonal skills while interacting with new team members
• brought 15+ leads by executing promotion of unschool services
• guided and cleared queries of leads and potential leads respectively

grow together was a non-profit self-help community.

• lead and co-managed everything around the community
• enabled conversations around personal growth w/ 30+ members
• conducted 10 sessions & several weekly activities
• designed creatives