Holding company. Four AI-native business units — apartment locating, landlord representation, renters insurance, financial analysis — built and operated by one person. 30,000 leads a day. Zero engineers. This site is the portfolio: the technology assets, the operational architecture, and the writing about what it takes to run production AI systems alone.
The essays are about what that looks like from the inside. The hooks born from disasters that stop the AI from deleting the database. The $4,000 Mac Studio that replaced the engineering team. The million-message Twilio incident that started it all. The 8-day doom loop that nearly killed the business. How the whole thing gets built in a terminal window with seven governance files and a lot of scar tissue.
Mukund Chopra. Chicago. Formerly Citibank, Groupon (through the IPO), Panache Ventures.