Sachin Gautam
AI Product Manager at nSpire AI | Building in public. Learning out loud.
- Role
- Co-founder at Closet Compass
- Location
- Menlo Park, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Sachin Gautam
I build AI products at nSpire AI.Sometimes they work on the first try. Usually they don\'t. I ship them anyway.Right now I\'m the PM behind Theo, an AI career co-pilot that\'s done mock interviews. People come back not because they have to. They come back because it actually makes them better. That\'s the bar.Then we built Vera. An AI recruiting agent that interviews every candidate before your hiring team spends a single minute. Not a video questionnaire. Not an AI score. Actual signal. Transcript-backed. Defensible.Before all this? I built a fashion-tech startup called Closet Compass. It got acqui-hired by nSpire AI. Literally 7 days before my flight back to India.One week I\'m a confused founder. Next week I\'m a PM in Silicon Valley. With a backpack. A hotel room. And zero plan.It worked out. Mostly.Here\'s what I write about: → Building AI products at a startup (the real version, not the LinkedIn version) → Product management for people who learn by doingWhen I\'m not shipping, I\'m watching F1 and overanalyzing tire strategy. Best product decisions and best race strategies have the same DNA: timing, tradeoffs, and trusting your data when your gut is screaming something else.If you build things, break things, or want to start, stick around. I\'ve got receipts. s••••••••@gmail.com
Experience
Co-founder
Dec 2024 — Present · US
Built Closet Compass: an AI-powered personal styling platform that turns your wardrobe into a data-driven system. Think of it as a brain for your closet: outfit recommendations, wardrobe analytics, and styling intelligence that learns how you dress.→ Took the product from napkin sketch to working AI platform in 200 hours — led product vision, UI/UX design, customer discovery, and built the core recommendation engine→ waitlist signups pre-launch. Grew Instagram to 500+ followers in 2 weeks through organic marketing, micro-influencer partnerships, and campus activations→ Selected for the NSF I-Corps program — validated the market through structured customer discovery and lean startup methodology→ Designed a freemium business model with monetization through premium styling insights, personalized features, and affiliate partnerships→ Built a sustainability framework, tracking wardrobe usage patterns to reduce fast fashion reliance and help users buy less, wear more
Education
The Doon School
Middle School Diploma, ICSE
University of California, Davis
Undergraduation, Business/Managerial Economics
University of Oxford
Summer School, Biology/Biological Sciences, General
Pathways World School
High School Diploma, IBDP
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