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Nikhil Tharwal
Idesign&buildproductsthatactuallyship.
AI, Web3, and real-world chaos — from Delhi NCR, shipping globally.
Selected work
Projects
01
DRAEV STUDIOS
2025
A design studio brand built from philosophy first — dark-first prismatic chrome identity that doesn't look like every other agency site.
02
Clanflare
2025
A white-label community platform designed for creators who outgrew Discord and Skool but couldn't afford to build their own.
03
AI Crypto Newsroom
2024
A multilingual, AI-generated news platform serving crypto coverage in 4 languages with deep SEO architecture that actually ranks.
04
TimerOP
2025
Eliminating the 2-hour wait at government offices in Northern India with a dead-simple queue management app built for low-literacy users.
05
The AI Academy
2025
An enterprise AI training platform for the UAE/GCC market — 120+ requirements, Arabic RTL, and a proprietary 5A Transformation Engine.
About
I'm Nikhil Tharwal — a product designer and entrepreneur building out of Delhi NCR with work reaching Dubai and beyond. I run DRAEV STUDIOS.
I don't separate design from engineering — they're the same discipline done by the same brain. Every product starts with a ruthless PRD, moves through high-fidelity design, and ships as production code.
My work spans AI-powered platforms, Web3 media infrastructure, brand identity systems, and SaaS products — sometimes all in the same week. Real problems, real users, no fluff.
15+
Products shipped
4
Languages served
120+
PRD requirements
3+
Years building
“I don't design screens. I design systems that ship as code. The PRD is the product — everything after it is execution.”
What I do
Services
01
Product Design & Engineering
I take ideas from napkin sketch to deployed product. Not wireframes-and-handoff design — I design, prototype, and build the actual thing in React/Next.js so what ships is what was designed.
- Full product PRD with MoSCoW priorities
- High-fidelity Figma prototypes (mobile + desktop)
- Production-ready frontend in React / Next.js
- Deployment-ready codebase with Supabase backend
02
Brand Identity & Visual Systems
I build brands that start with philosophy and end with systems. Not just a logo and color palette — a complete visual language with emotion mapping, competitive positioning, and guidelines that scale.
- Brand strategy (positioning, voice, personality)
- Visual identity system (logo, palette, typography, motion)
- Brand guidelines document
- AI image prompts tuned to the brand language
03
AI Automation & Workflow Design
I design and build autonomous workflows that replace repetitive human labor with AI agents. From self-hosted n8n pipelines to custom Python automations — systems that run without you babysitting them.
- Workflow architecture and automation map
- Self-hosted n8n pipelines or custom Python scripts
- AI agent integration (content, data, scheduling)
- Documentation + handoff for your team
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