Ravi Patel

@ravirdp

Founder, Ssimplifi → Prism (AI API gateway) + Citare (AI search intelligence for Indian SMBs). prism.ssimplifi.com citare.ai

Bengaluru

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Ravi Patel
@ravirdp
May 25
I thought my AI SaaS would ship in a weekend. I built it. Looked at the result. Threw it all away. V2 took 12 days, 76,000 lines of TypeScript, and is still iterating 2 months in. Here's what shipping a real product solo actually looks like 👇
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Ravi Patel
@ravirdp
Jun 3
Yesterday Claude, ChatGPT, and Grok all had outages in the same window. If your app calls one provider's API directly, your app had an outage too. The uncomfortable fix: there is no "more reliable provider" to switch to. 🧵
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Ravi Patel
@ravirdp
Jun 2
we scored 46 public companies on how well they actually DISCLOSE their AI economics in SEC filings. not how much they talk about AI. how much they show. only 2 of 46 cleared a "solid" bar. zero were "exemplar." apple: 0. amazon: 0. 🧵
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Ravi Patel
@ravirdp
May 29
nobody warns you about llm cost attribution: cloud finops had ~5 stable units (instance, tenant, region). llm spend has N dimensions: feature, team, user, conversation, prompt version. most gateways pick one and break the moment you need another.
Ravi Patel
@ravirdp
May 29
1/ saturday: dropping a research piece i've been working on for 6 weeks. 25 indian brands. 500 ai search query cells. 777 citations parsed. what i found broke a lot of my assumptions about how indian brands are getting discovered in 2026. short thread on the headline findings 👇
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