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Helping Startups with AI | Jindal Global Law School

About

I build things using AI. That's the short version. I trained as a lawyer first, BBA + LLB (Hons.) from Jindal, and I was good at it: I placed 9th best speaker at the world rounds of the Monroe E. Price Media Law Moot at Oxford, and my team won Best Written Submission there. But the whole time, I cared more about the things I was building on the side than about case law. Eventually I stopped fighting it and went all in. That path led to StartupBase, an AI-native platform for Indian founders that I've bootstrapped to 1,500+ customers on my own, with almost no paid marketing. I own all of it: product, growth, content, and operations, shipped end to end with AI-native tooling (Claude Code, Cursor, Lovable, n8n, Supabase, Vercel). Along the way I started making content about building with AI (@ahuja.builds), now 11.5k followers and 1M+ views a month. And I won 1st place at OpenAI's Codex Community Hackathon in Mumbai, building and shipping a working product inside the event window. Before StartupBase I ran an AI creative studio and, earlier, an influencer-marketing agency with clients like CoinDCX and Upstox. Right now I'm looking for my next thing: an early-stage team where I can own growth, product, or a founder's-office role from day one. I'm at my best handed an ambiguous problem with no playbook and told to make it real. If that sounds like your team, let's talk.

Location

India

AI stack

aistudio

claude code

claude

codex

metaai

notebooklm

Work experience

Founder at Startup Basee, Sep 2025 - Present · 1 yr 1 mo, On-site, Built and launched StartupBase from the ground up. The platform delivers one researched startup idea daily with full reports covering market size, revenue potential, trends, and execution plans, along with preconfigured AI tools and prompts to actually build them. I handle everything end to end, from product development and automation to content, ads, and growth. 500+ active users and growing.

Founder at Autozen AI, Jun 2025 - May 2026 · 1 yr, Founded and run Autozen AI, an agency that creates AI generated video creatives and marketing content for businesses. We also build workflow automations, outreach systems, and lead handling solutions. I work directly with clients on strategy, scoping, and delivery. Currently focused on serving US and European clients. Multiple clients across industries since June 2025.

Inducted Member at Moot Court Society, JGLS, Aug 2023 - May 2025 · 1 yr 10 mos, 1. Best Memorial Award: Monroe E. Price Media Law Moot Court Competition, International Rounds, 2025 2. 9th Best Oralist: Monroe E. Price Media Law Moot Court Competition, International Rounds, 2025 3. Quarter-Finalist: Monroe E. Price Media Law Moot Court Competition, International Rounds, 2025 4. Runners-Up Best Memorial: Monroe E. Price Media Law Moot Court Competition, South Asia Regional Rounds, 2025 5. Semi-Finalist: Monroe E. Price Media Law Moot Court Competition, South Asia Regional Rounds, 2025 6. Top 38 out of 93 teams in the 11th IBA ICC Moot Court Competition, 2024 at The Hague, Netherlands 7. Runners-up at the 9th IBA ICC Moot India National Rounds at NLU Delhi

Member at Legal Entrepreneurship Cell, Jindal Global Law School, Aug 2021 - Sep 2023 · 2 yrs 2 mos, Facilitated the establishment of numerous startups by assisting in company formation and filing the requisite documentation to initiate their operations.

Research Intern at Jindal Global Law School (JGLS), Jul 2021 - Aug 2021 · 2 mos, Research Intern under Professor Pratibha Tandon. Deeply Researched on International Investment Law, including Topics such as the Asian Approach to International Investment Arbitration and cases involving Investment State Dispute Settlements.

Education

B.B.A., LL.B (Hons.), Law, Jindal Global Law School (JGLS)

12th Standard, Law, Narsee Monjee college of Commerce and Economics

Public links

manav-ahuja-portfolio-2026.netlify.app: https://manav-ahuja-portfolio-2026.netlify.app/