# Vasudev Menon

> Design engineer and product designer building AI-native products at early-stage startups. Based in New York.

Vasudev Menon is a design engineer and product designer who works with early-stage startups. He ships end to end, from product design and frontend to the AI systems underneath: agents, MCP, model routing, and evals. Currently building agents at Highlight AI. He cares about products that feel calm, exact, and considered: fewer things, better choices.

## Writing
- [dumbing it down for the human](https://www.vasudevmenon.com/writing/dumbing-it-down): the best agentic interfaces will understand how much i actually need to see.
- [perfecting the wait](https://www.vasudevmenon.com/writing/perfecting-the-wait): agents are getting better, but also taking longer. here's what to do about it.

## Projects
- [llm multi-agent marketing system](https://www.vasudevmenon.com/projects/llm-mas): an autonomous, self-improving team of llm agents that runs linkedin marketing.
- [marco predatoro](https://www.vasudevmenon.com/projects/marcopredatoro): a room-scale mixed-reality alien-vs-spaceman game.
- [caldo](https://www.vasudevmenon.com/projects/caldo): an ai calendar assistant that takes action, not just talks.

## Links
- Website: https://www.vasudevmenon.com/
- GitHub: https://github.com/vasudev-io
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vasumenon/
- X: https://x.com/notvasubtw