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title: "Ankit Kokkeri - Co-Founder & CTO in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Ankit Kokkeri, The future of search is agentic. based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes aistudio, anthropic apis, and antigravity."
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# Ankit Kokkeri on Tal

## Headline

The future of search is agentic\.

## About

Think\. Solve\. Evaluate\. Think again\. Solve again\. Product nerd with a quirk for design and analytics\. Perpetual Tinkerer on a mission to build something cool\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

aistudio

anthropic apis

antigravity

codex

cursor

gemini

langchain

langgraph

opencode

claudecode

ChatGPT

OpenAI Playground

OpenRouter

PydanticAI

Supabase

## Work experience

Co\-Founder & CTO at Neusearch AI, Feb 2025 \- May 2026 · 1 y 3 mo, Bengaluru, Founded an AI SaaS product lab that researches and develops AI\-native products for agentic commerce • Led an engineering team into design and development of one of India’s first Generative Engine Optimization \(GEO\) platforms fine\-tuned for Indian E\-commerce brands\. • Planned Product roadmaps, developed and deployed a microservices architecture on Azure, with containerized FastAPI backend, message queues, serverless functions and 3rd party LLM API integrations • Designed and developed a multi\-agent cross\-sell optimisation engine for e\-commerce that reasons over customer history, and executes personalised outreach; Developed an Agentic RAG\-based shopping assistant for e\-commerce brands hosted on Shopify • Raised an angel round from a founding member of Jupiter\.money within 2 months of building • Launched marketing campaigns, conducted demos for prospective clients; Turned revenue positive within 3 months of incorporation •Pitched the product and vision to interested investors and closed an acquisition deal within 10 months of incorporation

Consultant at Family Business, Mar 2024 \- Jul 2024 · 5 mos, Short 4\-month project

Associate Product Manager at Crio\.Do, Dec 2022 \- Mar 2024 · 1 yr 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Led high\-impact Product initiatives across onboarding experience, user journey and branding\. • Achieved 40% increase in NPS within 2 months by redesigning the onboarding process; Developed a robust user segmentation criterion that determines customized journeys tailored to individual needs • Created PRDs after conducting an in\-depth analysis of user onboarding journeys by carrying out 50\+ user interviews, shadowing users and their interaction with POCs and mapping pain\-points • Launched a Brand campaign as a part of GTM for Crio’s newest product offering that garnered 1,30,000\+ impressions on LinkedIn; Worked closely with Crio’s founder, marketing and design team to plan and co\-ordinate the launch • Carried out extensive competitor research and planned a new product offering, eventually leading to a successful product launch • Shadowed users, created and tested new variations and redesigned Crio’s top\-performing product to improve NPS and user retention

Web Developer at Self\-Employed, Aug 2021 \- Apr 2022 · 9 mos, • Acquired and engaged with 2 clients, redesigned and migrated their websites to standalone\-hosting for increased customizability, thereby decreasing dependence on no\-code tools • Self\-taught web development tech\-stack, JavaScript, CSS, HTML and core Blockchain Technology though online courses, with over 200\+ hours of learning and experience • Built a Facebook scraping tool that gathers and processes group posts for marketing and lead generation; Increased data gathering efficiency by 99\.6%

Data Analyst at MathCo, Jan 2020 \- Jun 2021 · 1 y 5 mo, Bengaluru, Designed simple, human\-centric and scalable solutions for businesses using Math, Engineering and Design \- Achieved $95,000 annual costs savings by spearheading the re\-development of legacy SAS analytical processes into a modern and scalable solution, for a US\-based luxury fashion retailer \- Streamlined data processing operations for a Fortune 50 Retail Corporation resulting in 7% increased packing efficiency during transportation of retail products \- Designed a Pricing Simulator for a leading beverage company, and recommended pricing strategies that resulted in a 16\.7% increase in revenue \- Trained a 20\-member analytics team of a US\-based fashion retailer on Python, SQL and Snowflake, by conducting 15\+ webinars

## Education

Executive MBA, Business Administration and Management, General, Stoa

BTech \- Bachelor of Technology, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Manipal Academy of Higher Education

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