AI Product & Venture Lead · Startup Founder · Sydney, Australia 🇦🇺

I play at the intersection of frontier AI, product strategy, and human-centred design. My background spans HCI and design, two startup exits, and 12 countries — now focused on building AI systems that actually work for people.

• AI Product Strategy — Defining product vision and roadmap for AI-native systems; from concept to deployment
• Human-AI Interaction — Designing experiences where AI augments human decision-making (built on Stanford HCI principles)
• Agentic AI Systems — Exploring multi-agent architectures, LLM orchestration, and AI-driven gameplay
• Data Science & ML — Bridging product thinking with model evaluation, feature engineering, and AI pipeline design
• Startup Building — Two successful exits in video games (Shanghai & Berlin); currently building with AI agents as co-founders

open source · privacy

A local-first tool for removing deterministic provenance markers and common AI-writing tells from documents, images and text. Built for people who use AI as an accessibility or writing aid and want control over the metadata attached to their work.

• Processes files locally and creates a cleaned copy rather than overwriting the original
• Supports Word, PowerPoint, PDF, plain text, Markdown and common image formats
• Checks for Unicode markers, document properties, C2PA data and EXIF/XMP metadata

Bash · Python · local-first · document hygiene

A curated slice of what I'm building. Full case studies and writing at vnsavitri.github.io.

active · research

A framework for provenance-aware multimodal memory and orchestration in high-stakes AI workflows (health, legal, policy, safety).

• Provenance-aware retrieval returns content and chain of custody
• Human-in-the-loop review gates for sensitive decisions
• Treats time and evidence quality as first-class, not metadata

Python · Mermaid · evaluation harness

production · enterprise

GTM teams across APAC, North America, and EMEA needed daily access to 235K+ brand assets in Brandfolder — but retrieving the right file meant knowing the exact folder taxonomy, which most non-technical users didn't. Built Breville's first MCP-based internal tool: a custom GPT connected to the Brandfolder API via an intent parser and clarification loop.

• Natural language query → intent parser → structured Brandfolder API call
• Clarification loop resolves ambiguous inputs before the API fires
• Prototyped Sep 2025; shipped to production, in daily workflows across APAC, North America, and EMEA — demo video

MCP · Brandfolder API · ChatGPT Enterprise · Vercel

active · safety

Paper-first multi-agent AI trading lab built on the AlpacaTradingAgent lineage. Execution-layer guardrails sit between agent recommendations and broker order submission.

• Configurable agent mindsets (capital preservation → paper-aggressive training)
• Goal-aware workflows with target return, time horizon, max drawdown
• Live trading gated behind manual approval, journaling, cooldown, replay

Python · Dash · Alpaca API · multi-agent

shipped · hackathon · ⭐ 3

Local MCP project that turns espresso shot metrics into a personalized cosmic reading via GPT-OSS through LM Studio. Built for the OpenAI Open Model Hackathon (Best Local Agent category).

• 100% offline — no cloud inference
• Structured sensor data → strict tool/prompt boundary → user artifact
• Six-week deadline, 3-min demo video shipped

Python · Next.js 15 · LM Studio · MCP

live · vividcrumb.netlify.app

Started in 2018 — before LLMs. Built a two-stage model to find the sourdough recipe with the highest first-time success rate: multiple linear regression across recipe variables + IBM Watson NLP sentiment analysis on 207 recipes and their YouTube comment threads.

• Top-3 shortlist generated → picked one → worked first try
• Now a live scheduling app: bake-time wizard, baker's percentage formula gen, temperature-aware bulk fermentation, printable plans

R · IBM Watson NLP · regression

shipped · product

Upload a LinkedIn PDF. Almost finds 3–5 real fork points in your career history. You pick one. It renders the alternate you as a LinkedIn Ghost, Wiki Stub, Museum Plaque, or Tarot Card.

• Built on Anthropic Claude API (claude-sonnet-4)
• Claude native document support — no PDF library plumbing
• Four hand-tuned output formats, RevenueCat-gated Pro tier

Next.js 14 · Anthropic API · Fraunces

I use AI where it makes sense, part of the fun is figuring out whether AI would be helpful or slowing me down; especially if it produces slop. Ain't nobody got time to babysit dumb AI agents!

• Open-source and local AI — My preference is to always try to use open and local models, choosing for privacy, cost, capability and the job at hand... if possible. Whereas at work, I kinda stuck with closed models from OpenAI or Anthropic (unfortunately).

• Agent loops and graph engineering - I build the harness around agent workflows, with clear state, scoped delegation, useful hand-offs and memory that does not turn into a junk drawer.

• Human-AI product design — I try to turn messy real-world work into AI products people can understand, trust and use.

• Evaluation, evidence and safety — I test what a system does, keep provenance where it matters, and put review gates around decisions with real consequences.

• Product direction and delivery — Moves from problem framing and prototype to a working product, with enough technical depth to make good calls along the way.

• AI-guided financial literacy app for next-gen Indonesians (early beta)
• AI-native video game development with agentic workflows and multi-agent collaboration
  • Prototyping with Hermes Agent and isolated sub-agents for parallel task execution
  • Running hybrid model workflows across local models and OpenRouter-hosted models, including Qwen 3.x variants
  • Building AI evaluation frameworks for product decision-making
• Learning deeper Python for AI/ML, LLM fine-tuning, and agent orchestration patterns

• 🎓 AI Product Management — Duke University (Pratt School of Engineering)
• 🎓 MBA — Steinbeis Hochschule, Berlin (Thesis: AI-Driven Application for Experience Design)
• 👩🏻‍🎓 B.A. in Science, Technology, and Society, Stanford University, School of Humanities & Sciences (HCI focus)
• 🌐 Lived and worked in 12 countries across 4 continents
• 🗣️ English · French · Mandarin