# 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, event pipeline systems, and zero-to-one product work.

## Site Structure

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

## 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 Structure Recurring Work as a Solo Founder](https://prasad.tech/blog/alfred-solo-founder-operating-system.html) - The role contracts, review gates, approved context, and source-linked outputs behind the agent layer I use while building Luminik.
- [Separating Agent Work from Founder Work](https://prasad.tech/blog/dedicated-mac-mini-solo-startup.html) - Why I moved Luminik's recurring agent work off my development machine, the operating shape of the boundary, 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 a workflow similar to gstack since mid-2025. Role-based agents, instruction files, a specs repo. 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 sold Luminik manually before there was any product. 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 survives every handoff.
- [SnowOptix: The Side Project That Led to Luminik](https://prasad.tech/blog/snowflake-cost-optimization.html) - SnowOptix started as a side project for a Snowflake cost problem. The conversations it created surfaced a much bigger pattern in B2B GTM. That pattern became 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.
- [Fundraising as Narrative Clarity](https://prasad.tech/blog/raising-seed-round.html) - What raising Mainteny's $2.7M seed round taught me about narrative, investor fit, diligence readiness, the CTO's role, and protecting product attention while a round is in motion.
- [Building Mainteny's MVP Solo in 3 Months](https://prasad.tech/blog/mvp-three-months.html) - How I built Mainteny's MVP solo in 3 months before raising a $2.7M seed round. The scoping rule, the weekly schedule, the boring tech stack, and the things I would change.

## 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 MVP building
- Venture building, fundraising, and zero-to-one execution

## Contact

- Email: prasadus92@gmail.com
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/prasadus
- GitHub: https://github.com/prasadus92