Ayush Upneja
AI product engineer at Google. Nights and weekends I build AI that brings people together in person.
I work on a small generative-AI team at Google in New York. Before product I was a software engineer on YouTube, mostly ML. I build a lot on the side, and most of it points the same way: AI that gets people into the same room. A matchmaking club for my friend network. Party games for a room. A yearly retreat. I usually ship the first version in a night and write about what I learn.
Selected work
RANKEDLLMA competitive ranking instrument for the human skill of directing AI coding agents.Pull UpNYC live-music discovery for pulling up with friends.Red Knot ClubPersonal matchmaking club for friends-of-friends, run by a human with an AI engine assisting.PregameRealtime party games for rooms full of people — scan a QR, play on your phone.data.upneja.aiAn interactive data studio about the things people actually argue about.CFIAn LLM evaluation pipeline for constitutional analysis of executive orders.GRIPAI-powered hotel review management SaaS.Deep ResearchAdversarial multi-agent analysis engine./reskinCreative reskin workflow that generates 10 anti-slop visual directions per project.The AI PrimerA field guide to AI agents for the people who run the business, not the model.Camp Neja / House of AyushA design language and live landing page for an annual friend-group gathering.
Plus a long tail of smaller builds. See everything →
Writing
- AI Needs Ranked Mode — The first ladder for AI operators starts by measuring skill, not spend.
Now
Building RANKEDLLM and the measurement behind it, running Pregame playtests at real gatherings, and keeping a yearly retreat alive. /now →