mehek mandalbuilding products.

The receipts

Every node above, with the proof.

Live2026-07

Rufescent film site

A scroll-driven cinematic site for a Dubai members club.

A scroll-driven cinematic website for a Dubai members club, where the scroll is the camera. Built on an in-house GSAP scrub engine with motion anchored on real location frames.

How it was built

  • GSAP ScrollTrigger scrub engine: the scroll is the camera.
  • Motion anchored on real location frames, not invented scenery.
  • Per-segment lazy loading under a strict media budget.
  • The same craft this founder site is built on.
Live2026-07

RoleQuick

RoleQuick, a Chrome extension that autofills job applications.

A job-application copilot: open a posting and it tailors the resume, fills the form, and drafts the outreach.

Chrome Web StoreDistribution

How it was built

  • Published on the Chrome Web Store; answers every application question.
  • Generates tailored resumes on the fly.
  • A full 5-view product dashboard on a live backend.
  • A cinematic marketing site with a baked scroll film.
Live2026-06

Earnings-drift trading system

A system that trades the drift after earnings announcements.

Systems engineering applied to markets: an automated system for the post-earnings drift (PEAD).

How it was built

  • Event-driven signals off post-earnings drift.
  • An 8-view operator dashboard with live updates.
  • Research, backtest, and execution in one system.
Client engagement2026-06

LetterStory engagement

An outreach system for LetterStory, a NYC dev-tools startup.

A paid engagement for LetterStory, a NYC dev-tools startup: the full outreach system, from sourcing to a branded send console.

651Leads sourced370Passed the quality gate

How it was built

  • Sourced 651 Series A-C leads.
  • Two-sided quality gate: rejects low-quality AND already-perfect.
  • Double email verification (Hunter + Reoon).
  • Shipped a branded outreach console for review and bulk send.
Under NDA, available upon request
Live2026-05

BuildSmart

BuildSmart, an AI agency with live clients.

Founded an AI agency on the cash track, with live client engagements.

How it was built

  • Built a verified-contact outreach pipeline (Hunter + Reoon + Apollo).
  • Engineered deliverability: DMARC, domain warmup, bounce control.
  • A daily automation advances 10 net-new companies to send-ready.
  • Live client engagements sold and delivered end to end.
Wound down2025-03

Traeco

Traeco, an AI cost-visibility startup. Wound down.

First startup: AI cost visibility for engineering teams. Ran the full founder loop of user research, positioning, and product. Wound down deliberately; the research corpus and instincts carry into every venture since.

Wound down 2026. First startup; the lessons fund everything since.

The rest of the record

2026-07KodeCrafts engagement An Upwork qualification and application system for a dev agency.3h scan cadence
2026-07Goal Journal A bullet-journal habit tracker for long-horizon goals.Live
2026-06Upwork Sniper A dashboard that scores freelance jobs and drafts proposals.Live
2026-06ICRA rationale validator A rating-document validator for ICRA, an Indian credit rating agency.Live
2026-06Build-in-public engine @mehek.builds: one product a week, documented.X
2026-06Dubai internship tracker A live tracker of 61 verified Dubai roles.Live
2026-06graphify a tool that turns any input into a knowledge graph.
2026-02HiveMind a codebase knowledge-graph tool.Code
2025-12Fitness tracker A health app with food-photo calorie scanning.Code
2025-09Tonee an AI texting tone detector.100+ in 8 weeks users
2025-06Cinematica Labs a founder mentorship program.24 pods
2025-05Spark SC USC's student entrepreneurship org: ran the money.$14K sponsorships
2025-02SoFi a consumer fintech: onboarding funnel work.+15% retention
2025-01Venture Capital Academy USC's first student VC program.120 students
2024-08USC AIM product lead Product lead for a campus mobile-ordering redesign.+9.6% completion lift

Leading

Built Venture Capital Academy, USC's first student VC program. 120 students, an 8-week curriculum, investors from Lightspeed, NEA, and Altos in the room.

Ran the money at Spark SC, USC's student entrepreneurship org. $14K raised, a $27K budget, sponsor renewal 40% → 71%.

Runs BuildSmart, an AI agency. 4 client systems shipped.

The route

01 · DEL

New Delhi

28.61° N · 77.21° E · India

Born here.

Mehek Mandal

The person

I turned down the safe, prestigious version of my twenties to build things nobody asked me to build.

Some weeks that looks like traction. Some weeks it looks like a wound-down startup and a lot of unanswered email. I am optimizing for the shortest loop between an idea and a real user, and betting that compounding that loop beats any title.

What I do not know yet is which of these becomes the company. I am okay not knowing, as long as I keep shipping.

57 countries. 22 SoCal trails. Training for 6 marathons; Dubai debut Jan 2027.

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