I build AI agents for a living — and run one for myself, 24/7. CoFounder & Head of AI at Phot.AI. Ex-AppyHigh. Ironman 70.3.

Akshit Raja.

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MS · Northwestern University  ·  BTech · PEC Chandigarh

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Pick a goal. Build the loop.
Iterate.

I'm Akshit. I build things with AI and I build my own body — and I'm increasingly convinced those are the same skill: pick a goal, break it into something measurable, set up feedback loops, and keep iterating.

Today I'm CoFounder & Head of AI at Phot.AI, where we build agentic creative workflows for ecommerce — testing dozens of ad and listing variations in parallel so brands can find what actually sells. Before that I co-built AppyHigh, a mobile app studio that crossed 600M+ downloads and 55M monthly users.

My path wasn't a straight line: derivatives trader, analytics roles at Snapdeal, ixigo, and Adidas, a data-science master's at Northwestern, a mechanical engineering degree from PEC Chandigarh. The throughline is the same — learn fast, build fast, read the signal, double down or kill it.

Outside work I'm an Ironman 70.3 finisher (Tallinn) now training for Hyrox, and I'm a little obsessed with feeding my own training and recovery data into AI agents to coach myself.

Right now I'm building my personal AI agent — one that runs 24/7 on a tiny server, builds its own tools, and does real work before I wake up — and I'm documenting the whole thing in public. If that's your kind of thing, get on the newsletter.

Akshit with a coffee in downtown Seattle
somewhere between meetings
The Phot.AI and AppyHigh team at the office
the team behind 600M downloads

~/now-building

Building my personal AI,
in public.

An agent that runs around the clock on a tiny server, builds its own tools, and does real work before I wake up. Every step documented — nothing polished away.

akshit@agent: ~/overnight

$ agent status

● online — doing real work while I sleep

03:14  analyzed 12 ad variants, killed 9

03:42  rebuilt its own scraper tool — v3

04:05  drafted newsletter issue from notes

05:58  pulled Garmin data, updated training plan

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  • The exact setupthe agents, the server, the tools — nothing hidden behind "it depends"
  • The real costswhat this actually costs per month to run, in rupees and dollars
  • What brokefailed runs, dead ends, and the fixes — the part everyone else edits out
  • What workedworkflows you can copy the same week

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I train like I build —
measure everything, trust the process.

Akshit crossing the Ironman 70.3 Tallinn finish line, arms raised
Ironman 70.3 · Tallinn finish
Akshit riding in aero position through heavy rain at Ironman 70.3
90 km in the rain
Akshit on the rower at Hyrox Bengaluru
Hyrox Bengaluru · the row
Akshit driving low on the sled push at Hyrox Bengaluru
sled push · drive low

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Hyrox.
Measured.
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