I'm Manav, an engineer, creator and founder.
I started as an engineer, then got pulled into building things and telling stories about them online. These days I'm building Cevi (AI agents and systems for healthcare), creating as Tensor Boy, and backing early projects and people I believe in.
Cevi AI →
AI agents and systems for healthcare. Built for clinics, in production.
Tensor Protocol →
Long-form essays on AI, building, and being honest about the process. My Substack.
Instagram →
Short-form on AI, building and creating, as Tensor Boy.
YouTube / Tech →
Videos on AI, building and the tools I actually use.
LinkedIn →
Long-form thoughts on building and the AI space.
X →
Quick takes, threads and what I'm building right now.
Book a 1:1 →
Mentorship, career advice, or help winning your next hackathon.
See all resources →
Guides, playbooks and tools I've put together.
I Built Everything I Was Told Would Save Me. None of It Did. → 275K followers, 5 startups, brand deals with Apple and Notion. And I still couldn't sit alone in a room for ten minutes. Positioning Beats Effort →
Two people make the same move. One gets ten times the reward. The difference isn't skill. It's where they were standing.
Build a Garden, Not a Résumé →
You can fake a résumé. You can ChatGPT an interview. You cannot fake a body of work that makes people come to you.
Be Shameless →
The most underrated superpower nobody talks about. It's not intelligence. It's being willing to look stupid and ask.
Distribution Is the Whole Game →
The best product with no audience loses to a worse product with reach. I paid to learn this.
Why I Chose ML Over DSA →
Second year. The whole batch was grinding LeetCode. I opened Kaggle instead and didn't look up for eight months.
Life Is a Vector, Not a Scalar →
Hard work without direction is a spinning stone. A physics lesson they should've taught in school.
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