Neil Gaikwad

neilg8229@gmail.com · linkedin.com/in/swap-g

Summary

I work at the start of things. I find the problem with customers, build the AI product, ship it, and set up how it sells: on my own products, inside a venture studio, and embedded with client teams. I also mentor small business owners through SCORE, Founder Institute and EforAll.

Experience

Aug 2026 to now

Tangle Ventures

Founding Engineer, Product and AI Ops

Built a firm-wide AI knowledge system: a graph linking people, client projects, initiatives and source records, with search and recommendations that cite their source across five functions.
Built human-in-the-loop dashboards that test competing venture models against 1,000 predefined success markers and show the evidence behind each recommendation.
Compressed an investment platform client's strategy phase to four days by turning the first session into a decision meeting.
Gave a venture build client live visibility across a 12-week build and five phase gates, from approved internal reviews only.
Put founders, client engineering and partners on one decision log across seven project boards at $0 added tooling spend.
Turned SOPs and SLAs into reusable delivery templates, with cycle time, first-pass acceptance and automation ROI deciding what to systematize next.

Apr 2026 to Jul 2026

Anthony Venture Labs × Soulcraft Enterprises

AI Product Engineer and GTM Systems Builder

Built and shipped AI products for client companies from discovery to production, including Searchalong.
Designed intent systems that read buying signals from public data, score accounts against an ICP and hand sales a ranked list.
Stood up demand-generation engines on Clay, Apollo and Smartlead with enrichment, deliverability and reply routing wired together.
Shipped on Next.js, Vercel and Supabase with Stripe billing, hard rules and human approval gates so automation fails safely.

Jun 2026 to Jul 2026

Commit Fellowship (MLH × Transcend)

Founder and Builder, Cohort 1

Selected for the first cohort of a venture-building fellowship; picked the wedge with a partner and shipped a working product in three weeks.
Built Currently: verified profiles with a commit-citing drafter, a 55-case eval gate and a one-tap approval queue.
Ran customer discovery with job seekers and recruiters and cut scope to the smallest version people would use and share.

Feb 2026 to Apr 2026

Tenpoint Labs

Chief of Staff, GTM and Product Operations

Built the company's AI GTM operating system, treating the operating model as a product with inputs, outputs and weekly releases.
Shipped agentic workflows for ICP definition, signal scoring and outbound that cut manual sales-ops time by 50%.
Became the in-house Claude expert and built the Claude-first playbook leadership worked from.
Designed the revenue-operations layer: CRM hygiene, lead source capture and follow-through standards.

Jun 2025 to Feb 2026

RISE Consulting (Riseapp.ai)

AI Solutions Engineer

Helped stand up the consulting arm from zero: website, customer acquisition engine and first vendor relationships.
Closed partnerships with three overseas cloud and solutions firms, adding delivery capacity and a referral channel.
Owned the post-merger integration after the Tuvoc Technologies acquisition, then managed a multi-country AI, software and cloud portfolio.
Helped build and bench-test the Resolve AI agent with enterprise call centers and BPOs, turning pilot feedback into fixes.
Built the operating system the founders ran the company on, and automated any task that recurred three times with Claude, Zapier, n8n and Text Blaze.

Aug 2023 to Jun 2025

Riseapp.ai

Founder's Associate and Product Manager, AI Health

Led discovery and the pivot from an AI assistant to a proactive AI health agent after 30+ interviews with corporate health leaders.
Designed the first agent combining EMR and wearable data, including the trust and safety layer.
Shipped GTM changes that lifted qualified leads by 40% and tripled VC engagement.
Cut project delays by 25% through clearer ownership and a steady operating rhythm.

Nov 2023 to Apr 2024

Online Metals (thyssenkrupp Materials NA)

Product Manager, UX, Operations and Growth

Opened a new B2B sales channel from Power BI analysis of high-value buying trends.
Merged three checkout screens into one, a 66% cut in steps that raised completion.
Designed the first mobile app UI end to end.

Oct 2023 to Jan 2024

Beyond The Box Studio

Product Consultant

Set pricing and GTM for a SaaS product: 30% user growth and a 120% lift in awareness.
Built referral loops and partnerships that grew revenue by 35%.

Jul 2022 to Apr 2024

BullMont Capital · Ground Up Ventures · LvlUp Ventures

Venture Operations Analyst

Sourced and evaluated 150+ early-stage startups with memos across product, market and technical diligence.
Wrote a recurring agentic AI market brief the partners used, and supported GP and LP reporting.

Selected builds

Keystone AITells a contractor whether they can make payroll, in about five minutes a week, on top of the QuickBooks they already use.trykeystone.xyz Malan AIBuilt to answer the phone in English or Spanish on the first ring and turn each call into a complete, review-ready intake.malanai.xyz SearchalongShows a brand, question by question, where ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews name it, and where a competitor gets named instead.searchalong.xyz CurrentlyA professional profile that updates itself from your real work, where every line links back to the commit, release or deploy behind it.currentlybuild.ing SoleneA private introduction house for South Asian diaspora families, run through the family and by application only.solene.love De-AI investment platformA platform where members pool capital into their own investment clubs, govern them together, and share diligence through a layer of AI agents.Confidential Fintech productA fintech venture for a retired CFO turned founder. I ran three sprints that took it from blueprint to a client demo, ready for early users.Confidential Knowledge graph and decision systemsA firm-wide knowledge graph, decision science dashboards, and client delivery views for a venture studio.Internal GTM operating systemAgentic workflows for ICP definition, signal scoring and outbound that cut manual sales-ops time in half.Internal Anthony Venture LabsThe studio behind Keystone, Malan, Searchalong and Currently. It co-builds with founders for equity, from first working build to company.anthonyventurelabs.com

Mentoring

Mentor at SCORE, Founder Institute and EforAll. Topic specialist for Building 0 to 1 GTM strategies and Customer acquisition through a multi-channel approach.

Writing and research

The Chokepoint Decade, Forecasting the collision of AI and modern mercantilism, 2026 to 2036. Bridgewater Associates × Global Citizen, Forecasting the Future Challenge, Jun 2026.
Measuring Buyer Intent from Costly Public Signals, Working paper. Working paper, 2026.
Predicting Fan Engagement Under Sparse Signals, A pre-registered cold-start design for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Working paper and reproducible pipeline, Jul 2026.
Forecasting the AI HealthTech Decade, Power, policy and wellbeing, 2025 to 2035. Independent research paper, Jul 2025.
The ROI of Superfans, Lifetime fan value from social graphs and engagement heatmaps. MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, past first-round review, Abstract.

Skills

AI and agents: Claude, Claude Code, OpenAI API, realtime voice, Twilio Media Streams, LangChain, RAG, multi-model evaluation, prompt design, agent workflows
Engineering: TypeScript, Python, SQL, Next.js, Supabase, Postgres, Stripe, Vercel, REST APIs, Three.js
Product: Discovery interviews, PRDs and specs, roadmaps, metric design, activation and retention, lightweight experiments
GTM: ICP definition, signal scoring, intent data, Clay, Apollo, Smartlead, deliverability, AI search visibility
Operations: SOPs and SLAs, KPI design, decision frameworks, post-merger integration, n8n, Zapier, investor pipelines

Education

Bowling Green State UniversityBA/S + MS in Computer Software Engineering with minor in Data ScienceBG Success Scholar Award · Product Management Fellowship, The Product Folks