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
Pull UpNYC live-music discovery for pulling up with friends.data.upneja.aiAn interactive data studio about the things people actually argue about.CFIAn LLM evaluation pipeline for constitutional analysis of executive orders.The AI PrimerA field guide to AI agents for the people who run the business, not the model.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.GRIPAI-powered hotel review management SaaS.Deep ResearchAdversarial multi-agent analysis engine./reskinCreative reskin workflow that generates 10 anti-slop visual directions per project.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 →