Danny
A chief-of-staff brain layered onto a personal AI agent. Text it an app idea, get back a live URL. Danny writes none of the code; it orchestrates the agents that do.
Nikhil Sharma
Design Engineer and AI-native builder, working through DRAEV STUDIOS. Recently shipped Danny, Memwork, and ClanflareUI.
Six projects that define the practice.
Picked from 34 shipped this quarter. Each one designed and engineered by me alone, with the research discipline tracked in master.skill.
ClanflareUI
White-label community platform built on the Clanflare design system. OLED dark-first with teal accent, responsive down to the smallest viewports.
Memwork
A personal memory layer that follows you across every AI tool. 279 tests, 88% line coverage, 92% mutation score.
DRAEV STUDIOS
Studio brand and marketing site with a physics-accurate 3D brilliant-cut diamond hero.
FileMyBooks
Compliance and tax storefront for Indian founders. Five productized services, Razorpay running the billing, humans doing the delivery.
Money-verse
Open-source pixel-art finance RPG. Train your money like a ninja trains the body.
More from the workbench.
Smaller surfaces, side projects, and brand work. The rest of the inventory lives on GitHub.
a16z-lens
A Claude Code workspace that thinks like an a16z partner with cited theses. MIT.
METIS
AI co-founder platform for small teams. Spec-driven. PRD ships before code.
BDM-Desk · SchoolDesk
Student fee + WhatsApp guardian notifications for Indian schools. 108-student seed deployment. $0 stack cost.
BBT · Black Box Tableau
Fully offline AES-256 encrypted Android ledger. No network permissions. Sideloaded APK.
CoinTelecast · Media-AI
AI-powered crypto news pipeline. Claude for articles, Gemini for images. 4 languages with RTL.
Memwork landing
Scroll choreography over a hero triptych. Lighthouse mobile ≥95, LCP ≤1.2s, INP ≤80ms, CLS ≤0.02.
Claude Skills · 13 + 1 sub-agent
A library of research-first Claude skills: master, content-engineer, brand-builder, knuth-coder, and others.
"I think about how things get made, why some products feel like someone cared, and most feel like nobody did."
"Great things come from small groups of people with unreasonable standards. The best technology is the kind you don't notice. And there's more craft in knowing what to leave out than in knowing what to put in."
"Currently fascinated by what one person with AI can actually build, the solo-founder movement, and why the simplest version of anything is always the hardest to make."
May 2026
A live cross-section, updated quietly when it changes.
at KEY Difference. Scope under NDA.
DRAEV STUDIOS. Studio engagements for founders building AI-native products.
Money-verse, a16z-lens, and a library of 13 Claude skills.
Rubin's The Creative Act. Collins' BE 2.0. Marcus Aurelius' Meditations. Neumeier's ZAG. Welsh on solo founders. Knuth on Literate Programming.
Full shelves on Goodreads ↗why the simplest version of anything is the hardest to make.
Hiring a Design Engineer, or building a product through DRAEV STUDIOS?
Either way, the call is the same. Half an hour, no slides, no follow-up CRM ping if it isn't a fit. For roles we cover scope, comp, timeline. For studio briefs we cover the product, the honest deadline, and whether DRAEV is the right fit. You walk away with specific next steps either way.