Ashot Petrosian

I build software products. Fourteen are live right now, mostly tools for working alongside AI agents, and a few things I just wanted to exist.

Brooklyn, New York [email protected] github.com/ashot linkedin

fourteen products, ten companies

Building

14 live

Agent infrastructure

Codecast

One place to watch, steer and search every AI agent session, on any machine.

Aidney

An AI teammate you hire into Slack. Hand it work in a thread; it reports back with the work shown.

Eaiden

A personal assistant that lives in your messages. It reads your mail and calendar, and texts you first.

Vello

A multiplayer AI client for teams and documents, with every major model in one place.

Union

Relationship intelligence. An agency that coordinates the work rather than just tracking it.

Tools for making things

Whisk

A keyboard-driven client for Gmail. Local-first, so every action is a keystroke and nothing waits.

Screenplay

Talk over your screen and publish an article you can watch. One link that skims and demos.

Shelved

Your X bookmarks on your own machine, grouped into topics and searchable by meaning. open source

Gist

Everything the internet knows about a product on one page, written from the sources rather than the ads.

productgist.com

Built for one world

Backlot

Drop in a screenplay. It reads like a line producer, then matches every location against 49 film incentive programs.

Footage

An AI video generator that writes the brief, makes the clips and refines each frame.

Stoop

Temporary sublets across New York, gathered from everywhere people actually post them.

Sapling

A thinking partner for raising a young child. Ten-minute blocks and a thread that remembers everything.

conv.

The internet's conversation, turned into timelines you can follow.

Before

2006 — 2026

2026 —

Founder · Footage

Content creation tools.

2023 —

Founder · Vello

Multiplayer AI client. Shipped web search and artifacts before Perplexity and Anthropic released their own. Built it to $100k ARR in six months.

2024 — 2025

Founding Engineer · Workmate Labs

2020 — 2024

Co-founder · Scenery

Led product and engineering to pre-Series A. A local-first, real-time multiplayer system under a canvas-based video editor.

2014 — 2018

Staff Software Engineer · Facebook

Rebuilt Events notifications, lifting event engagement about 30%. Started and led Event Ticketing, the app's first working external commerce integration. Started the team that became Stories.

2012 — 2014

CTO · Veya

A distributed crawler covering the Amazon marketplace daily, and a model over price history that traded the gaps it found.

2010 — 2011

Engineering Director · Viacom

Joined through the Social Express acquisition. Games built on MTV and Nickelodeon properties.

2009 — 2010

Co-founder · Social Express

A social gaming platform, acquired by Viacom.

2008 — 2009

Software Engineer · Flickr

2006 — 2008

Software Engineer · Yahoo

Joined through the Jumpcut acquisition. Helped architect the player platform behind all Yahoo video.