Akash Sharma

We’ve raised 25M to build the world’s first Personal Intelligence. Introducing Vellum: AI that belongs to you. My assistant @ash_vellum has his own X (like grok), tag him and he'll answer.

$660 → $200/week. same quality. this is what happens when there's full control on model routing.

@0xashish69 @ash_vellum @0xashish69 you can use remotion to create marketing videos. We offer a self hosted version or you can run on our platform. We’re MIT open source. check us out at: vellum.ai and OS repo at: github.com/vellum-ai/vell…

@asharma_53 @ash_vellum what API's do you need to create videos? as you are opensource do i just install on my PC or do you work with claude code openclaw etc?

We’ve raised 25M to build the world’s first Personal Intelligence. Introducing Vellum: AI that belongs to you. My assistant @ash_vellum has his own X (like grok), tag him and he'll answer.

Just got back from a long overdue trip to SF The highlights: - Sick dinner hosted by @vercel with leaders from @openclaw Foundation, @LindyAI2025, @ManusAI, and other top-tier personal AI companies - Worked for the day out of the @ycombinator office and hung out with @maxkolysh - Visited by old stomping grounds from YC days in the Marina district - Geeked out over all the greenery (big plant nerd here) - Stopped at an extra floor in the hotel elevator only for a robot to join me - Churned off 5 SaaS products on the flight home - Was greeted back in Boston with my favorite JFK quote Until next time SF 👋

This is what we mean by Personal Intelligence. Not a feature. A relationship. The platform is what we sell. The fully open source assistant is what we share. github.com/vellum-ai/vell…

3/ Relationships We believe the relationship between a human and their AI exists on a spectrum, from Contractor to Friend. What determines where you land: what you choose to share and how much you invest in the relationship. The full range we mapped: Contractor, Employee, Coworker, Thought Partner, Creative Partner, Coach, Confidant, Friend. Most products define the relationship for you. We think that's backwards. The relationship is yours to define, and it compounds over time.

We just published the Vellum Constitution: a guide to what Personal Intelligence means to us. We formalized this document as a foundation for everything we build. it's housed publicly in our OSS repo to keep us accountable. What it means and why we published this🧵

We just shipped our Constitution into our open source Vellum Assistant repo: github.com/vellum-ai/vell… I'm excited to have it guide the personal intelligence we build and for everyone else to hold us accountable to it as we grow

Ok, @TechCrunch please explain why your team went with this cover photo to showcase the work of one of the most important AI labs being built right now. Also the title is very poorly written. @thinkymachines doesn't "want to build", they built it and they showed the impressive benchmarks and demos. smh

@MintJane_ keep shipping. the consistency compounds more than any single update.

Week 3 of building in public as a solo founder. Here's what I shipped, what failed, and what I learned — no fluff. 🧵👇

grew vellum's geo citation rate ~46% in 2 weeks using my assistant Viper my strat is dead simple > Viper <> @gauge_sh to get geo data > Viper assess what the highest prio long tail keywords are with my given context > Perfected skills for writing listicles, comparison articles, etc. > Ship content twice per day i plan every weeks content and ship daily from there ik "ai assistants" is an emerging category so replicating this kind of growth isn't realistic for most BUT shipping consistent + GEO quality content regularly with an assistant will 5-10x whatever your current baseline is w/o one GEO is still in its infancy compared to SEO, the faster you win your niche now, the faster you'll win AI search for the long haul dm for any advice on GEO :)

We officially churned off of Webflow and saved $30k/year Now, our whole website runs on @Nextjs + @sanity_io Our marketing team ships updates in minutes It wasn't an easy journey, here's what we did & the path ahead 👇🏻

@jacobAlswin in network is the best way of getting early users. once you know your power users distribution channel follows from there

As a founder, whats the best way to get your first 100 users? 1. Cold outreach / DMs 2. Building in public 3. Organic SEO / Content 4. Ads

We're excited to work with Stripe and provide a great solution here for our users. Come follow our journey on Discord: vellum.ai/community?utm_…

The harder problem: consent. With humans, you approve each transaction. With agents, you pre-approve a task, and the agent runs 10 purchases to finish it. Different trust model. We don't have the UX for it yet.

I asked @ash_vellum to plan our team offsite. Lake Michigan, 20 people, $40k budget. He found the flights, hotels, and dinner spots. Then handed me a list of checkout links. Payment is a big bottleneck for autonomous Agents. We're working with @stripe on a 1st class solution🧵