Who are we?

We are two young, extremely energetic builders who avidly believe in the future of humane AI and automated interfaces for human use.

Our Story

Hi, I'm Apoorv (the left one), and Shreyansh is the right one. We were both born and brought up in a small town in northern India. We both absolutely loved to build. Post-COVID, we virtually stopped attending classes and spent our time building stuff and reading stuff. I was more of a builder than Shreyansh. I absolutely loved programming and building. I built compilers and HTTP layers at the age of 14. Shreyansh was given a full ride to our school for his excellence in academics at the same time. We were very different, yet similar, as we both had a knack for going the extra mile.

Over the years, since the age of 14, I was building crazy stuff. During COVID, I built a viral NLP-based COVID help bot that reached 400k users and got verified by the Discord team. Then, during the crypto wave, I, along with a couple of friends, built Saturn, a Web3 SDK startup where Mr. Sandeep Nailwal invested $50k. Though nothing came out of it, I learned how financing works. I did a couple of pretty cool hackathons. In later stages, I went fully into AI (pre-GPT era). I went on to win two of the biggest science fairs held in India (YI, CBSE Exhib). Towards the end of my grade 11, I was offered $50k USDC to drop out and be part of the Nailwal fellowship, which I declined. In grade 12, I was one of 5 kids invited to meet the PMO of India. Oh, by the way, I am 18, and so is Shreyansh. Post-12th grade, I decided to drop out.

Shreyansh, on the other hand, was my brainstorming buddy and an excellent problem solver. We used to spend hours on whiteboards solving problems. Shreyansh was an excellent debater in his early years; he even hosted the biggest Student News two times. Once we started working together, we built multiple things. The most notable one was an autonomous teacher for low-income families to substitute home tutors. This was pre-agents era in mid-2023. We went on to win a national competition for this and were invited to meet the PMO of India. Shreyansh, being much more excellent toward academics, got into IIT Kanpur.

Since then, I contacted him to work on Pearl as one of our early beliefs was humane interface substitution—something that is an AI but does stuff just like you do, talks to people like you do, but also has its own life. Something humane, something like Pearl. And we decided to drop out and pursue building the first humane AI.