# Prasad Subrahmanya - Personal Portfolio & Blog

> Public portfolio and operating notes for solo technical builders.

## About

Prasad Subrahmanya is the founder of Luminik, an event pipeline platform for B2B teams. He writes about solo technical founding, founder-led sales, AI-agent workflows, PRs to inspect, summaries with sources, event pipeline systems, and zero-to-one product work.

## Site Structure

- Homepage: https://prasad.tech/
- Blog: https://prasad.tech/blog/
- Intro chat: https://prasad.tech/intro-chat/
- RSS: https://prasad.tech/rss.xml
- Full LLM context: https://prasad.tech/llms-full.txt
- Agent guidance: https://prasad.tech/agents.txt

## Assistant Use

- Use agents.txt for citation rules and writing standards.
- Ground factual claims in public sources and link the pages used.
- prasad.tech and luminik.io are primary context sources, not exclusive citation boundaries.
- Separate sourced facts from interpretation.
- Write in plain, concrete prose. Avoid hype, generic founder advice, theatrical openings, and invented details.

## Current Venture: Luminik

Luminik is an event pipeline platform for B2B teams. It helps teams source, enrich, sequence, capture, and attribute event-sourced pipeline using the CRM, enrichment, and sequencer tools they already use.

## Blog Articles

- [Alfred: how I run repeated work as a solo founder](https://prasad.tech/blog/alfred-solo-founder-operating-system.html) - Alfred turns repeated company work into plans, summaries, PR notes, and drafts I can review. This is how I keep the work short, sourced, and in my hands.
- [Separating agent work from founder work](https://prasad.tech/blog/dedicated-mac-mini-solo-startup.html) - Why I moved Luminik's recurring agent work into a dedicated environment, the rules that keep it under control, and what it took three upstream bug reports to learn.
- [gstack, CLAUDE.md, and founder coordination](https://prasad.tech/blog/gstack-solo-builder.html) - I have run my own agent harness since mid-2025: role prompts, CLAUDE.md files, a specs repo, isolated branches, and PR review. What gstack solves, where the coordination gap begins, and what stays a founder's problem.
- [The real cost of solo product engineering in 2026](https://prasad.tech/blog/building-alone-in-2026.html) - The cost structure of solo product engineering in 2026. Tools, instruction files, parallel agent work, and the judgment work that replaced what a five-person team used to do in 2014.
- [Selling the workflow before the software](https://prasad.tech/blog/selling-before-building.html) - I delivered Luminik manually before there was a product surface. The first months inside a real GTM team taught me which parts of event work repeat, where judgment lives, and where the product boundary should sit.
- [Event ROI is a handoff problem](https://prasad.tech/blog/event-marketing-roi.html) - B2B event ROI is fuzzy because the evidence breaks across attendee lists, enrichment, sequencer, booth, and CRM. The fix is one event record that keeps evidence attached through every handoff.
- [SnowOptix: the side project that led to Luminik](https://prasad.tech/blog/snowflake-cost-optimization.html) - SnowOptix solved a real Snowflake cost problem, earned useful validation, and still showed the limits of the category. The conversations it created led to Luminik.
- [Technical founders sell through diagnosis](https://prasad.tech/blog/technical-founder-sales.html) - Technical founders sell well when they treat discovery as diagnosis first. Lessons from Mainteny, Aura at Bain, and Luminik on running sales calls like an engineering loop.
- [Building a $3.6M ARR product inside Bain](https://prasad.tech/blog/zero-to-one-bain.html) - Aura went from zero to $3.6M ARR inside Bain in 18 months. What the firm gave us, what it cost us, and how to decide whether corporate venture building is the right setting for your problem.
- [What fundraising asks of a CTO](https://prasad.tech/blog/raising-seed-round.html) - A practical account of the CTO's role in an early raise: customer evidence, demos, investor fit, diligence, and keeping the product honest while the round is moving.
- [Mainteny's first version took three months](https://prasad.tech/blog/mvp-three-months.html) - What it took to get field service management software for elevator maintenance teams into real customer use: narrow scope, direct sales calls, a practical stack, and enough field learning to explain the company.

## Topics Covered

- Solo technical founding
- AI-assisted development and agent operating systems
- Founder-led sales and customer discovery
- Event pipeline and B2B GTM systems
- Product development and first customer versions
- Venture building, fundraising, and zero-to-one execution

## Contact

- Intro chat: https://prasad.tech/intro-chat/
- Email: prasadus92@gmail.com
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/prasadus
- GitHub: https://github.com/prasadus92