Builder, systems thinker, occasional essayist
Soumyo Dey
A decade of building systems that have to work outside the demo: connected platforms for 600,000 electric scooters, voice AI in clinics, data platforms for retail. I write about what held up, and what broke at 3am.
Latest essay ·
Making Hawkeye Claude-Ready
What it took to run our Slack agent on Claude, and why Hawkeye still runs on Luna
Claude Haiku 5.5 couldn't run our Slack agent until we fixed one tool schema, and cost 4× until we turned on caching. Fixed, it still lost the classifier eval, and on a billed rerun it claimed work it never did.
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Where the work has been
Startups and scaled platforms, mostly in places where software meets hardware, clinics, or warehouses, and has to behave.
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Now
Oogway Labs Founder
An AI consulting and engineering firm. We build the systems, not the slide deck, including voice-first AI for clinicians, where 95% transcription accuracy turned out to be the easy part.
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Before
Ather Energy Connected Vehicle Platform, Data & AI
Ran the platform through the fastest growth phase, from 25,000 to 600,000+ scooters on Indian roads.
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Before that
Krayen Co-founder & CPO
A data-driven CRM, taken from zero to market and then to an exit.
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Earlier
Convergytics & Blik.ai Data science & product
Data platforms that made operational decisions faster and a little less argumentative.
Writing
More writing
On AI systems, product judgment, and the distance between the benchmark and the real thing.
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ai, llm, evaluation
18 min
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ai, healthcare, speech-recognition
4 min
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product-management, writing, mentorship
3 min