About

A small team.
One long bet.

Awre is being built by a small focused team that arrived at the same belief independently. The gap between thinking and doing should not exist, and the next decade belongs to whoever builds the specialized intelligence layer for one specific person at a time.

Founders

Vishal & Deepak.

We arrived at the same belief independently. That alignment is what makes this work.

Vishal Kumawat

Founder & CEO

BITS Pilani. Five years at Google, where he trained and shipped large scale language models in production at 2M QPS, built ML and AI across Google's workplace suite, and led the core AI team. Then late stage Cofounder and CTO at Humantic AI, where he built the original personality algorithms and took the product through enterprise procurement with global customers.

Google taught him how to build at scale. Humantic taught him everything else: finance, legal, fundraising, people, compliance. Building Awre because the gap between thinking and doing should not exist. PM led, not engineer led. The brain of the product is his lane. Building is the team's lane.

Deepak Gupta

Cofounder & CTO

Started at Google, then Cambridge, where he joined Evi Technologies, acquired by Amazon to power Alexa. Built embeddings and semantic search at Alexa scale. At Rubrik, went deep on distributed systems. At DevRev, built a product line from zero to over $10M in revenue, rare for a technical cofounder.

In 2025 he ran a deliberate experiment: two people, less than two months, full production voice AI system. That validated the thesis Awre is built on. Small teams plus the right intelligence layer outproduce large teams. Owns engineering, AI infrastructure, security, and technical hiring.

How we work

Eight rules,
written from scratch.

Iteration is the engine

We ship daily. The number of iterations per week is the most important metric we have, and the one we protect. Anthropic style velocity, applied to a smaller surface, with more taste per shipped unit.

Work less, work smart

We do not glorify hours. AI carries volume. Humans carry direction and judgment. If you find yourself grinding, the system is broken. Fix the system.

Taste is the moat

Visual, interaction, copy, timing, restraint. Many companies will build the bits and pieces of what we build. Taste compounds and cannot be copied.

Signal over output volume

One sharp piece of work beats ten unfocused ones.

Small teams, deep ownership

Everyone is a builder, not a ticket taker. You own outcomes end to end. What, why, and how.

AI first by example

We use AI to build AI. We use our own product daily. If we cannot dogfood it, we cannot ship it.

Async first, deep work blocks

Long uninterrupted thinking time beats meeting density.

First principles, every time

“This is how it is done” is not a reason. We design hiring, compensation, product, distribution, and tooling from scratch.

What we value

Six values, non negotiable.

Taste

A high felt quality bar across product, writing, design, and decisions. We hire for this and we will not compromise on it.

Specialization

Going deep beats going wide.

Sovereignty

Users own their data, their decisions, and their tools. The product is built on this principle and it shapes every architectural choice.

Long horizon

We are building a thing that should still matter in twenty years. Short term decisions are evaluated against a very long arc.

Kind, not nice

Direct, honest, growth oriented feedback. No sugarcoating. We tell each other when we are wrong.

Best idea wins

Regardless of seniority or origin. If you cannot let go of your idea when a better one shows up, this is not the right place.

Where we are

Preseed closed. Seed in motion.

Seed round actively in motion, targeted to close in Q2 2026. We are operating with intent, not urgency. The product is shipping on its own timeline. The round is the fuel, not the gate.

We are deliberate about how money gets used. AI native means more output per person, which means a smaller, sharper team than a typical seed stage company. Spend goes to compute, the product surface, and a few exceptional builders. Not to filling an org chart.

Team

Two founders. One intern. Three open roles.

We are deliberate about who joins. The first hires shape what the next twenty look like.

Frontend Engineer

Build the surface our users live in. Taste in interaction, restraint in motion, care in every pixel.

AI Engineer

Push the intelligence layer. Specialization per person, evaluation harnesses, the loop between correction and behavior.

Product Manager

PM led product brain. Hold the bar on what ships and what doesn't. The connective layer between thesis and craft.

How to apply

Send a short note. What you have built. What you want to build with us. How you would describe great taste in three sentences. Include links to anything you are proud of. It does not have to be in the same domain. Taste is taste.

We read every note within 48 hours. If you do not hear back in 7 days, ping us. It means we missed it.

careers@awre.ai → Apply

A small team. One long bet.