Ayush Agarwal

About Ayush Agarwal

I’m building Pencil Spaces and Spacebar.ai.Pencil Spaces focuses on education and tutoring, while Spacebar is infrastructure for intelligent interactions, enabling people and AI to work together effectively in live, high-context environments.My background includes product leadership roles at Google and Facebook, along with experience working closely with organizations that operate at enterprise scale. That experience has shaped a practical, platform-first approach to building: attention to fundamentals, respect for users’ time, and a bias toward solutions that perform reliably under real constraints.At Pencil Spaces, we partner with education and training organizations that require high standards around security, reliability, and operational clarity. We spend significant time understanding how instructors, tutors, and experts actually work, and then designing tools that reduce complexity rather than add to it.I’m always open to thoughtful conversations with people building serious products in AI, collaboration, productivity, education, and other expert-driven platforms.

Experience

1. Co-founder & CEO

   Pencil Spaces

   Mar 2020 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US

   Pencil Spaces is the intelligent virtual classroom for Learning. And Development.We are the AI-native workspace built for the business of education—from national school systems and tutoring providers to corporate L&D academies operating at scale.Move beyond the wrapper. The era of patching classroom tools on top of corporate meeting apps is over. Unlike \"overlays\" or basic whiteboard plugins, Pencil Spaces is a fully native learning operating system. We don’t just host the call; we power the entire learning lifecycle.Why modern organizations choose Pencil Spaces: We replace fragmented toolstacks by combining three critical systems into one:Instruction: A pedagogical environment that goes far beyond simple whiteboarding.Management: A built-in management system to schedule, track, and manage thousands of learners.Intelligence: AI-native instructional intelligence that provides real-time insights for L&D leaders and educators.Trusted by innovators like Teach For America Ignite and global education providers, we are the platform for those who refuse to compromise between scale and pedagogical depth.Pencil Spaces: Where instruction is intelligent, and development is data-driven.

Education

• University of Michigan

  Bachelor's degree, Computer Science Engineering

• Stanford University Graduate School of Business

  Institute for General Management

• Raffles Institution

  GCE A-levels, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Economics

• Anglo-Chinese School (Independent)

  O-Levels