# Kush Ahuja

> Kush Ahuja is an AI engineer and founder based in Gurugram, India. He founded agents-hub and is CTO and co-founder of BuildYour.Company.

I’m a founder and engineer building AI products people actually use. Based in Gurugram, India. Open to freelance and full-time AI work.

- Name: Kush Ahuja
- Role: AI Engineer & Founder
- Website: <https://www.thekush.codes/>
- Email: ahujakush07@gmail.com
- Location: Gurugram, India

## Main URLs

- [Home](https://www.thekush.codes/): profile, work, experience and writing
- [Home as markdown](https://www.thekush.codes/index.md): the same page at a fixed .md URL
- [Daily AI brief](https://www.thekush.codes/news): curated, de-duplicated daily AI news digest, refreshed every 30 minutes
- [Notes](https://www.thekush.codes/notes): short, one-idea essays on building AI products
- [Blog](https://www.thekush.codes/blog): build-in-public series
- [Links](https://www.thekush.codes/links): every profile and project in one place
- [Developers](https://www.thekush.codes/developers): the public read-only API
- [Sitemap](https://www.thekush.codes/sitemap.xml)
- [Agent markdown home](https://www.thekush.codes/.well-known/home.md)

## Developer resources

The site exposes a public, unauthenticated, read-only HTTP API. No API key, no sign-up, no write operations.

- [OpenAPI 3.1 specification](https://www.thekush.codes/openapi.json)
- [Service documentation](https://www.thekush.codes/docs/api)
- [API catalog](https://www.thekush.codes/.well-known/api-catalog): RFC 9727 linkset
- [MCP manifest](https://www.thekush.codes/.well-known/mcp.json) and [MCP server](https://www.thekush.codes/news/mcp): read-only, JSON-RPC 2.0
- [Authentication](https://www.thekush.codes/auth.md): none required

## When to use this site

- A daily AI news digest, already de-duplicated and tagged. Call `GET https://www.thekush.codes/api/news`; poll `GET https://www.thekush.codes/api/news-last-updated` and compare `lastUpdatedMarker` first.
- The same digest as markdown: `GET https://www.thekush.codes/news` with `Accept: text/markdown`.
- Short published notes by Kush Ahuja: `GET https://www.thekush.codes/api/notes` and `GET https://www.thekush.codes/api/notes/{slug}`.
- Background, experience and contact details for Kush Ahuja, as markdown rather than a JavaScript-rendered page.

## Notes
- [Wait for the whole thought](https://www.thekush.codes/notes/wait-for-the-whole-thought): People send one idea as three messages. An agent that answers the first piece gets it wrong twice.
- [The AI drafts. The human sends.](https://www.thekush.codes/notes/the-ai-drafts-the-human-sends): Anything that acts for someone has to earn their trust, and the cheapest way is to leave the step they cannot undo to them.
- [Copy the recipe, not the model](https://www.thekush.codes/notes/copy-the-recipe-not-the-model): Good AI-made documents come from a sandbox and a playbook, not just a bigger model.
- [Do not freeze the chat on long jobs](https://www.thekush.codes/notes/do-not-freeze-the-chat): A four-minute job needs a visible status and a free conversation, or the user assumes it is broken.
- [Diagnose before you build](https://www.thekush.codes/notes/diagnose-before-you-build): Most early founders do not need more features. They need to know exactly what is stuck.
- [Write for answer engines too](https://www.thekush.codes/notes/write-for-answer-engines-too): AI search cites pages it can read and trust, so make your site easy for machines to understand.

## Work
- [agents-hub](https://agentshub.thekush.codes): Your AI team, living in Telegram. Sign in with Google once, unlock the agents you need, and each one joins your Telegram group as its own bot. Gmail, Calendar, Tasks, Docs and Maps agents work in your real accounts, with a three-layer memory, a burst buffer that waits for you to finish typing, and a mobile app on the same brain.
- [BuildYour.Company](https://buildyour.company): Diagnose before you build. An AI startup diagnosis and startup map for early founders. I lead engineering: the architecture, the agent workflows that turn messy founder input into a structured plan, and the infrastructure underneath.
- [Kairo](https://kairo.buildyour.company): The one thing to do today. A daily go-to-market coach for founders. Kairo reads your startup map and sends one task each morning and one honest question each evening, then rewrites the plan when reality disagrees with it.

More builds: CodeDuo, AI Report Generator, Inventory & Supply Chain Dashboard, Voice Assistant, RAG Chatbot, Traffic Management System, PocketGuard.

## Writing
Full text of every post: https://www.thekush.codes/llms-full.txt
Markdown for any post: https://www.thekush.codes/blog/<slug>/md

### Building agents-hub
- [What is an AI agent? A practical guide from someone who ships them](https://www.thekush.codes/blog/what-is-an-ai-agent): A plain-English definition of AI agents, how they differ from chatbots, the four parts every agent needs, and what I learned building the agents-hub AI agents for Gmail, Calendar, Tasks and Docs.
- [AI personal assistants in 2026: agents-hub vs Poke vs Grok](https://www.thekush.codes/blog/ai-personal-assistant-agents-hub-vs-poke-vs-grok): How three kinds of AI assistant differ: chat assistants like Grok, text-message assistants like Poke, and agent teams like agents-hub that act inside Gmail, Calendar, Tasks and Drive.
- [Why my AI team lives in Telegram](https://www.thekush.codes/blog/why-my-ai-team-lives-in-telegram): agents-hub started as a Google Chat app. Here is why it moved to Telegram, why one hub bot does all the reading, and why the whole server has zero npm dependencies.
- [Is the user done typing? Building a burst buffer for AI chat agents](https://www.thekush.codes/blog/is-the-user-done-typing): People send messages in pieces and Telegram tells bots nothing about typing. How the agents-hub AI agents wait for the whole thought, and the six rules that made it work.
- [Three layers of memory for a multi-agent chat](https://www.thekush.codes/blog/three-layers-of-memory): Each agent only sees the messages routed to it, facts ride along every time, and the rest is searched on demand. The design, the mistake in version one, and the measured savings.
- [Long jobs without a frozen chat](https://www.thekush.codes/blog/long-jobs-without-a-frozen-chat): A document can take four minutes. How agents-hub keeps the chat free, shows one live status message, and restarts a job when you change your mind halfway.
- [The AI writes the email. Only you can send it.](https://www.thekush.codes/blog/ai-writes-the-email-you-send-it): Agents that act in real Gmail and Drive accounts need hard limits. The tap-to-send button, prompt injection, and how customer data is stored in agents-hub.
- [Claude-quality documents on an Azure key](https://www.thekush.codes/blog/claude-quality-documents-on-an-azure-key): I wanted the Docs agent to make PDFs as good as Claude does, with only an Azure OpenAI key. Copy the recipe, not the model: a sandbox, a playbook, style kits and real photos.
- [Marketing motion vs product motion](https://www.thekush.codes/blog/marketing-motion-vs-product-motion): The agents-hub landing page moves a lot. The dashboard barely moves. Why they share tokens but not animation, and the rules I use to decide what gets to move.

### Building BuildYour.Company
- [What is BuildYour.Company? AI startup diagnosis for early founders](https://www.thekush.codes/blog/what-is-buildyour-company): BuildYour.Company diagnoses why an early startup is stuck with a free AI discovery call, then turns the diagnosis into a 30-day Startup Map, daily WhatsApp briefs and an AI coach called Kairo.
- [Diagnosing a startup with an AI voice call](https://www.thekush.codes/blog/ai-discovery-call-startup-diagnosis): How the BuildYour.Company discovery call works: a live voice conversation with Kairo, a saved transcript, and an automatic Startup Diagnosis with a root cause chain, clarity score, leak map, website health check and competitor analysis.
- [From diagnosis to a 30-day Startup Map](https://www.thekush.codes/blog/startup-map-30-day-plan): How BuildYour.Company turns an AI startup diagnosis into a 30-day, day-by-day execution plan with proof of work, a kanban board, a calendar and a reward for finishing.
- [Kairo: an AI go-to-market coach on WhatsApp](https://www.thekush.codes/blog/whatsapp-ai-coach-kairo): How Kairo sends every BuildYour.Company founder a WhatsApp brief at 8 AM in their timezone with today’s exact tasks and an AI voice note, and answers questions on every page of the site.
- [Making a startup website readable by AI search](https://www.thekush.codes/blog/make-your-startup-site-readable-by-ai): What we did so ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google can read and cite BuildYour.Company: llms.txt, a public OpenAPI spec, eight focused SEO pages, case studies and structured data.

## FAQ
### Who is Kush Ahuja?
Kush Ahuja is an AI engineer and founder based in Gurugram, India. He founded agents-hub, is CTO and co-founder of BuildYour.Company, and is a B.Tech student in CSE (AI & ML) at SGT University. He designs, builds and ships AI products end to end.

### What can you help me build?
AI agents that act inside real accounts, full-stack web products, backend and data systems, and mobile apps. I take a product from the first schema to the deploy and keep it working after launch.

### Are you available for work?
Yes, for select freelance builds and for full-time roles where I can own an AI product end to end. Email ahujakush07@gmail.com is the fastest way to reach me.

### What have you built?
agents-hub, a team of AI agents that work inside Gmail, Calendar, Tasks and Drive from Telegram or a mobile app. BuildYour.Company, an AI startup diagnosis platform for early founders, and Kairo, its daily go-to-market coach. Smaller builds include a voice assistant, a RAG chatbot and a code studio.

### What are AI agents?
AI agents are programs that use a language model to decide what to do, then act through real tools such as email, a calendar or a file store, and check the result. A chatbot tells you how to book a meeting; an AI agent books it.

### Where are you based?
Gurugram, India (IST, UTC+5:30). You can follow my work on LinkedIn, GitHub, X and Instagram, or read the build-in-public posts on the blog.

### What do you usually build with?
TypeScript and Python. Next.js on the web, Expo for mobile, Supabase or Postgres for data, and Azure OpenAI or Claude for the models. I keep dependencies few and deploy on Railway or Vercel.

## Contact
- Email: ahujakush07@gmail.com
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ahujakush
- GitHub: https://github.com/ahujakush
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kush_ahuja_12/
- X: https://x.com/ahujakush07