Building in Public
31 posts
Building in Public: 60 Days from TCS Employee to AI Governance Founder
The personal story behind CrewCheck and why Indian enterprise AI needs infrastructure built from here.
26 Apr 2026 · 5 min read
Building AI Governance From India
Building note 1: a practical note for Indian founders on imported governance tools miss local identifiers and buyer reality.
6 Jan 2026 · 5 min read
The First Rule: Do Not Overclaim
Building note 2: a practical note for early-stage founders on security products lose trust when copy outruns proof.
5 Jan 2026 · 5 min read
What Customer Calls Taught Us About AI Risk
Building note 3: a practical note for founder-operators on buyers ask for evidence more than features.
4 Jan 2026 · 5 min read
Why Demo Reliability Became a Product Feature
Building note 4: a practical note for startup teams on a flaky demo makes serious buyers doubt the whole stack.
3 Jan 2026 · 5 min read
Building Public Compliance Tools Without Signup
Building note 5: a practical note for growth-minded builders on signup walls reduce trust for compliance utilities.
2 Jan 2026 · 5 min read
Founder Notes on Latency and Trust
Building note 6: a practical note for technical founders on users bypass safety if it feels slow.
1 Jan 2026 · 5 min read
How We Decide What Not to Build
Building note 7: a practical note for small teams on adjacent features can dilute a compliance product.
31 Dec 2025 · 5 min read
Shipping With Conservative Security Headers
Building note 8: a practical note for solo founders on strict security changes can break production unexpectedly.
30 Dec 2025 · 5 min read
Why We Built Scanner Evidence Before More Copy
Building note 9: a practical note for marketing founders on more pages do not fix unclear proof.
29 Dec 2025 · 5 min read
The Hard Part of AI Governance Is Operations
Building note 10: a practical note for operators on architecture diagrams do not keep policies fresh.
28 Dec 2025 · 5 min read
Lessons From Fixing Production Deployments
Building note 11: a practical note for builders on local success hides cloud-only failures.
27 Dec 2025 · 5 min read
Why India-First Compliance Is a Product Choice
Building note 12: a practical note for B2B founders on local rules and identifiers are not localization polish.
26 Dec 2025 · 5 min read
Building a Public Benchmark Page Honestly
Building note 13: a practical note for founder-marketers on benchmark pages can become promise pages.
25 Dec 2025 · 5 min read
Turning Buyer Objections Into Features
Building note 14: a practical note for enterprise founders on objections repeat when the product lacks proof.
24 Dec 2025 · 5 min read
Why We Treat Audit Logs as the Product
Building note 15: a practical note for compliance founders on dashboards are useless without source evidence.
23 Dec 2025 · 5 min read
Notes on Narrow Execution
Building note 16: a practical note for solo builders on broad cleanup burns time without changing buyer trust.
22 Dec 2025 · 5 min read
How We Think About Founder-Friendly Compliance
Building note 17: a practical note for SaaS founders on compliance tools often assume large legal teams.
21 Dec 2025 · 5 min read
Why Public Route Checks Matter
Building note 18: a practical note for web product teams on build success can hide broken live pages.
20 Dec 2025 · 5 min read
Building With a Bias Toward Proof
Building note 19: a practical note for product teams on opinions multiply when evidence is missing.
19 Dec 2025 · 5 min read
What We Learned From Aadhaar Edge Cases
Building note 20: a practical note for AI safety builders on canonical examples are easier than real user input.
18 Dec 2025 · 5 min read
Why Founder Copy Should Be Calm
Building note 21: a practical note for B2B marketers on hype makes compliance buyers suspicious.
17 Dec 2025 · 5 min read
Keeping the Product Demo Founder-Ready
Building note 22: a practical note for sales-led founders on demo surfaces collect small inconsistencies.
16 Dec 2025 · 5 min read
Learning From Compliance Scanner Failures
Building note 23: a practical note for builders on scanner misses reveal product assumptions.
15 Dec 2025 · 5 min read
How We Use Public Status Notes
Building note 24: a practical note for distributed teams on context disappears between build sessions.
14 Dec 2025 · 5 min read
The Difference Between Feature Complete and Trustworthy
Building note 25: a practical note for founders on features can exist without being safe to sell.
13 Dec 2025 · 5 min read
Why We Avoid Generic SaaS Pages
Building note 26: a practical note for product designers on generic pages do not answer compliance urgency.
12 Dec 2025 · 5 min read
Building a Compliance Product in Public
Building note 27: a practical note for indie builders on public building can drift into storytelling.
11 Dec 2025 · 5 min read
What Makes a Compliance Demo Believable
Building note 28: a practical note for enterprise sellers on buyers trust demos that expose evidence, not animation.
10 Dec 2025 · 5 min read
Founder Notes on Scope Boundaries
Building note 29: a practical note for builders on a good adjacent idea can still slow the main product.
9 Dec 2025 · 5 min read
The Case for Boring Reliability
Building note 30: a practical note for technical founders on compliance buyers prefer dependable flows over novelty.
8 Dec 2025 · 5 min read