CTO & Co-Founder

Location: Mumbai / Hybrid

Stage: Early (Pre-seed, Paying Customer-Validated) VC interest

Compensation: Equity + Deferred Pay (Founder Role)

Domain: Generative AI, Enterprise SaaS, Agentic Commerce, Marketing Tech

Experience - 6-8years Minimum with experience in building & scaling succesful products

PingAura.ai is building Marketing & Sales funnels inside LLM's with AEO+ACP for Brands!

We help enterprises with AI Visibility, Optimise & Sell inside Large Language Models (LLMs) across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude.

Our first product AI Visibility Score & Optimisation Engine measures a brand's presence, share of voice, and influence inside LLMs. We have already cracked 15 Banks, Insurance, Soonicorns & Agencies.

The next frontier: Agentic Commerce Protocols that enable zero-click sales directly inside LLMs so customers can discover, decide, and transact without ever leaving a chat.

We have:

• Enterprise GTM ready (live interest from BFSI & auto majors)
• Inbound validation from CMOs, brand heads & agencies paying customers.
• A sharp product roadmap covering:
• Generative Engine Optimization (GEO / AEO)
• AI Visibility Dashboards
• Brand & Prompt Guard layers
• Conversational Sales Agents & LLM Plugins
• Agentic Commerce SDK

We're now looking for a Co-founder & CTO to build and scale this vision.

Lead the entire technical architecture, product roadmap, and engineering culture of PingAura.ai.

From building the first LLM pipelines for AI Visibility Scoring to deploying agentic protocols that enable commerce inside ChatGPT-like environments.

Scale Core Engine

• Architect and develop PingAura's AEO/GEO engine
• Design pipelines for multi-engine visibility scoring across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude.

AI Agent & Plugin Development

• Build agentic protocols and APIs/SDKs enabling brands to transact inside LLMs.
• Experiment with OpenAI GPT Actions, Anthropic Workflows, Gemini extensions, etc.

Data & Infrastructure

• Manage LLM API integrations, token cost optimization, caching, and data retrieval layers.
• Design internal dashboards for AI visibility, insights & optimizations.

Technical Leadership

• Build & mentor the first 3-5 member dev team (full stack, data, AI ops).
• Set engineering culture for velocity, experimentation, and reliability.

Product Collaboration

• Work closely with CEO & enterprise customers to prioritize the roadmap.
• Translate market feedback rapid product iteration cycles.

Fundraising & Vision

• Represent the tech vision in investor conversations, pitch decks, and product demos.

• Are a builder-founder who thrives in 01 environments.
• Have deep experience in one or more:
• LLM applications, RAG, embeddings, agents
• Full stack product development (Next.js, Node.js, Python)
• Cloud infrastructure (AWS / GCP / Vercel)
• Integrations with OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, or Perplexity APIs
• Understand search, ranking, and retrieval systems or SEO/AEO dynamics.
• Have shipped early-stage AI products or led ML engineering teams.
• Believe the future of discovery, marketing, and commerce is zero-click and LLM-native.

• Cofounder-level equity
• Freedom to architect the future of AI marketing tech from India.
• Work with a founder with 15years of deep GTM, Sales & Product experience (3 x Times founder, x- HDFC Life, ex-YONO SBI, Ironman, creator with 150M+ views).
• A validated business model, enterprise leads, and early revenue traction.
• Chance to build a category-defining AI company from the ground up.

In 2005, brands optimized for Google. In 2026, brands will optimize for AI Engines.

PingAura.ai is the bridge between brand visibility and LLM discovery & creating a new distribution Sales Channel. If this vision excites you, we'd love to build this together.

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LinkedIn: Nishant Bhardwaj

Subject: Cofounder & CTO PingAura.ai

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