Ravi Gupta

AI design leader & three-time founder

10+ years turning AI into products people actually use, 40+ tools at Phot.AI, a portfolio past 350M downloads at AppyHigh, and a design studio that served 14 startups before either. Currently Head of Design at Phot.AI, and an investor and design & growth advisor at Pixro AI.

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10+ years experience 3× founder 2× exit YC final round 350M+ downloads $200K ARR studio $20K MRR SaaS

Shipped, not pitched

Four case studies with the numbers attached. AI platforms, consumer apps at scale, and companies I built myself.

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Hire me for

Eight things teams hire me for, across design, product, and go-to-market. Most engagements are three or four at once, and I can hold the business side of each.

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Ten years, eight companies

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Available for new projects

Let's build the next one

Whether you need an AI design leader who has run the business, or a product partner to take something from idea to shipped, start a conversation.

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8 companies.
350M+ downloads.
2 sold.

AI platforms, consumer apps at portfolio scale, and two bootstrapped companies I founded, ran, and sold. Every project here has a number next to it, because shipped is the only state that counts.

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Brief to shipped asset, without a second shoot day.

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I think in product and growth, not deliverables. The founder who had to make the numbers work, the product leader running a portfolio, and the person who still ships the screens, I have been all three, and every design decision I make answers one question: does this move the metric?

I started a mobile studio at 22 and grew it to $200K ARR without outside money. I built Birtly from zero to $20K MRR, took it to the final round at Y Combinator, and negotiated its acquisition myself. Running P&L changes how you design. You stop treating scope as a creative constraint and start treating it as a business one.

I use AI heavily across everything, research, copy, design, code, which is how I ship products in a week that used to take a quarter. The craft is no longer in drawing the fortieth variation; it is in knowing which one grows the business and shipping it before the market moves.

These days I lead design at Phot.AI: 40+ AI tools, a full creative suite, and a team of ten across UI, visual, graphics, and motion, run on activation, retention, and revenue, not output. I still open Figma every day, because you cannot call product decisions from a distance.

What I love to do daily

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Ravi Gupta

Where I've been

Design, product and P&L · three founded · two exited

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The café is not a metaphor. There will be an actual menu.

Let's meet
for a coffee

AI design leadership, product partnerships, founding-team work, or just a good conversation about products. I'm in Bengaluru, the coffee is on me, and I answer every email.

Email ↗

ravigupta9363@gmail.com

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Call ↗

+91 9873046993

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Coffee

Bengaluru, India

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Elsewhere

Make it work. Make it obvious. Make it fast. Make it ship. Then do it again.
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