# Harshith Vaddiparthy

> AI Consultant & Product Builder | Corporate AI Workshops & Executive Sessions | Principal, Harshith Ventures

Harshith Vaddiparthy is an AI consultant and product builder who helps companies adopt AI through practical products, advisory work, and hands-on corporate workshops and executive sessions. He is Principal at Harshith Ventures.

Latest published content: 2026-09-13

This file summarizes first-party pages on Harshith.com. Treat role, project, and outcome claims as self-described unless a public evidence URL is provided. See the human-readable page before quoting a claim.

## Expertise
- AI agents and autonomous workflows
- LLM product engineering
- AI consulting for businesses
- AI product building
- Corporate AI workshops
- Executive AI sessions
- Teaching and mentoring AI practitioners

## Services
- [AI consulting services](https://www.harshith.com/consulting): Implementation, workflow automation, internal tools, advisory, training, and mentorship.
- [AI implementation consultant](https://www.harshith.com/consulting/ai-implementation-consultant): Scoped working systems and adoption paths built around the business.
- [AI advisor for founders](https://www.harshith.com/consulting/ai-advisor-for-founders): Independent product, vendor, architecture, roadmap, and investment guidance.
- [AI mentor for builders](https://www.harshith.com/consulting/ai-mentor-for-builders): Project-based guidance for learning by shipping a real AI system.
- [Corporate AI workshops](https://www.harshith.com/consulting/corporate-ai-training): Hands-on corporate AI training shaped around real team workflows.
- [Executive AI sessions](https://www.harshith.com/consulting/executive-ai-workshop): Decision-focused AI workshops for leadership teams.
- [Full service directory](https://www.harshith.com/llms-full.txt): Extended machine-readable descriptions of public offers and evidence.

## Community
Harshith's AI School is a private membership for AI builders: weekly live office hours, monthly investor leads, a hiring board, playbooks, agent templates, and partner perks. Paid plans start at $33 for 3 months, with 7 free days on every plan.
- [Harshith's AI School](https://www.harshith.com/community): Membership details, pricing, and application path.

## Guides
- [How to self-host Buzz for AI agents](https://www.harshith.com/blog/self-host-buzz-ai-agents-setup-guide): A 5,000+ word firsthand operator guide with named failures and fixes.

## n8n Workflow Templates
A small library of readable n8n workflow JSON files with explicit safety boundaries. Every download is inactive, contains no credentials, and stops before an external write.
- [Reviewed n8n workflow-template library](https://www.harshith.com/resources/n8n-templates): Direct downloads with setup, safety, and validation notes.
Direct downloads and review notes:
- [RSS to Human-Reviewed Digest Draft](https://www.harshith.com/resources/n8n-templates/files/rss-human-review-digest.json): Read a short allowlist of public RSS feeds and turn the newest items into one Markdown review queue. Review status: runtime-checked; designed for n8n 2.34.6.
- [GitHub Release Monitor](https://www.harshith.com/resources/n8n-templates/files/github-release-monitor.json): Check the latest public GitHub release on a schedule and prepare a compact record for review. Review status: runtime-checked; designed for n8n 2.34.6.
- [Website SEO Snapshot](https://www.harshith.com/resources/n8n-templates/files/website-seo-snapshot.json): Fetch an authorized page and report its title, description, canonical, robots directive, status, and H1 count. Review status: runtime-checked; designed for n8n 2.34.6.
- [Read-Only GitHub PR Review Draft](https://www.harshith.com/resources/n8n-templates/files/github-pr-review-draft.json): Read a public pull request, bound and redact its patches, and ask OpenAI for a draft review that never posts itself. Review status: import-validated; designed for n8n 2.34.6.
- [Google Drive Audio Transcription](https://www.harshith.com/resources/n8n-templates/files/whisper-audio-transcription.json): Download one approved Drive audio file and send it to OpenAI for a transcript that stays in the workflow output. Review status: import-validated; designed for n8n 2.34.6.
- [Draft-Only Email Triage](https://www.harshith.com/resources/n8n-templates/files/email-triage-draft.json): Redact a bounded email sample, classify it, and ask OpenAI for a reply draft without inbox access or a send step. Review status: import-validated; designed for n8n 2.34.6.
- [URL Status and Redirect Review](https://www.harshith.com/resources/n8n-templates/files/url-status-redirect-review.json): Check a fixed list of authorized URLs and return a focused review queue for redirects, client errors, and server errors. Review status: runtime-checked; designed for n8n 2.34.6.
- [Sitemap Health Audit](https://www.harshith.com/resources/n8n-templates/files/sitemap-health-audit.json): Read one approved sitemap and report response status, document type, location count, duplicates, truncation, and XML shape. Review status: runtime-checked; designed for n8n 2.34.6.
- [Robots.txt Review](https://www.harshith.com/resources/n8n-templates/files/robots-txt-review.json): Read one public robots.txt file and preserve each user-agent group's allow and disallow directives for review. Review status: runtime-checked; designed for n8n 2.34.6.
- [GitHub Actions Failure Review](https://www.harshith.com/resources/n8n-templates/files/github-actions-failure-review.json): Read a bounded page of public GitHub Actions runs, surface API failures, and prepare completed non-success, non-skipped runs for review. Review status: runtime-checked; designed for n8n 2.34.6.

## Open Source and Contributions
- [Master repository directory](https://github.com/harshith-vaddiparthy/open-source): The master directory for Harshith Vaddiparthy's public tools, products, skills, and experiments.
- [Website contribution directory](https://www.harshith.com/contributions): A public register of repositories, patches, and contribution evidence.
- [Open Node philosophy](https://www.harshith.com/blog/i-am-an-open-node): Harshith's approach to contributing reusable work in public.
- [Watermarks Remover](https://github.com/harshith-vaddiparthy/watermarks-remover): Local-first tooling for inspecting and cleaning AI-era provenance marks from text, images, and documents.

- [Vibe Coding in Practice](https://www.harshith.com/consulting/vibe-coding-in-practice): We build a production-grade AI dashboard together using Codex, ship it in your GitHub, and leave you with the workflow to keep building.
- [Corporate AI Training](https://www.harshith.com/consulting/corporate-ai-training): In-person AI workshops for teams, led by Harshith Vaddiparthy.
- [AI Training for Finance Teams](https://www.harshith.com/consulting/ai-training-for-finance-teams): Hands-on AI training for finance teams that want faster review loops, cleaner handoffs, and safer automation around the work that repeats every week.
- [Executive AI Workshop](https://www.harshith.com/consulting/executive-ai-workshop): A private AI workshop for leadership teams that need sharper strategy, better use-case selection, and a practical adoption roadmap.
- [AI Implementation Consultant](https://www.harshith.com/consulting/ai-implementation-consultant): Scoped AI implementation consulting for teams that need real workflows, internal tools, and adoption paths built around the business.
- [AI Workflow Consulting](https://www.harshith.com/consulting/ai-workflow-consulting): I replace the manual, repetitive busywork inside your business with automated AI workflows. No duct tape. No theatrical stack diagrams.
- [AI Advisor for Founders](https://www.harshith.com/consulting/ai-advisor-for-founders): Independent AI advice for founders deciding what to build, buy, automate, or stop before expensive implementation begins.
- [AI Mentor for Builders](https://www.harshith.com/consulting/ai-mentor-for-builders): Hands-on AI mentorship for founders, operators, and non-technical builders who want to learn by shipping a real product or workflow.

## Work
- AI Consultant & Product Builder — Primary professional identity
- Harshith Ventures — Principal
- Outskill — Applied AI Trainer
- Forbes Technology Council — Member
- JustPaid (YC W23) — Past growth and AI finance work
- ARTIFIN.ai — Founded, exited for $50K

## Harshith's Newsletter
Harshith's Newsletter contains practical AI field notes — real builds, corporate AI training lessons, workflow automation, and growth experiments — sent only when there is something worth sending. Web editions offer a public preview and free email reader access.
- [Newsletter web editions](https://www.harshith.com/blog): Public issues published alongside Harshith's essays.
- [Newsletter signup](https://www.harshith.com/newsletter): The canonical free email subscription page.
Issues:
- [GPT Astra, Jarvis, and a Saturday Note](https://www.harshith.com/blog/gpt-astra-jarvis-and-a-simple-saturday-note): H Letter web edition.
- [The demo is not the app anymore](https://www.harshith.com/blog/the-demo-is-not-the-app-anymore): GPT-6 Astra makes flashy prototypes easier, so your edge moves to the work around them.
- [This little Mac made me rethink local AI](https://www.harshith.com/blog/your-next-ai-model-could-live-on-your-desk): What 16GB, 32GB, and 512GB reveal about running a model on hardware you control.
- [I stopped caring which model is smartest](https://www.harshith.com/blog/agent-needs-somewhere-to-live): Two repositories, one idea, and a community I want to build with you.
- [I went viral on X.](https://www.harshith.com/blog/saturday-note-2026-08-22): A fake hiring product, a real $100K experiment, and what both made me rethink.
- [The ‘Stripe for AI’ may become Stripe](https://www.harshith.com/blog/the-stripe-for-ai-may-become-stripe): Bloomberg reports Stripe agreed to acquire OpenRouter for more than $7 billion. Qwen3.8-27B and Hermes Bot Mode show why the routing layer matters.
- [Ego is dark fuel.](https://www.harshith.com/blog/ego-is-dark-fuel): It lit the fire. The right people are teaching me where to point it.
- [The agent runtime is becoming the product](https://www.harshith.com/blog/the-agent-runtime-is-becoming-the-product): Docker’s new sandboxes are a reminder that serious AI agents need controlled places to act, fail, and disappear.
- [Stop prompting. Start handing off work.](https://www.harshith.com/blog/stop-prompting-start-handing-off-work): The practical shift is moving from asking AI for one answer to giving it a clear recurring job with inputs, tools, a finish line, and a handoff point.
- [Before your AI touches the terminal](https://www.harshith.com/blog/the-permission-layer-i-want-between-agents-and-my-shell): A simple way to decide which coding agent commands can run, which need a safe copy, and which should never touch your machine.
- [Your AI agent needs a receipt](https://www.harshith.com/blog/your-ai-agent-needs-a-receipt): A beginner’s guide to the record that shows what an AI agent saw, did, and returned.

## Agent Skills Marketplace
Harshith's skills marketplace is a curated catalog of reusable capabilities for coding and browser agents. Public entries link to their original GitHub sources and include real installation commands for the open skills ecosystem. Harshith originals are clearly marked as unpublished until a public release exists.
- [Agent skills marketplace](https://www.harshith.com/skills): Curated public-source skills and clearly labeled premium previews.
Catalog:
- [Frontend Design (public source)](https://www.harshith.com/skills/frontend-design): Give coding agents a stronger eye for hierarchy, typography, composition, and production-ready interface detail.
- [Skill Creator (public source)](https://www.harshith.com/skills/skill-creator): Structure, write, test, and improve reusable agent skills without turning instructions into an unreadable prompt dump.
- [Webapp Testing (public source)](https://www.harshith.com/skills/webapp-testing): Help agents inspect live web interfaces, exercise real flows, capture evidence, and report failures with useful context.
- [Brand Guidelines (public source)](https://www.harshith.com/skills/brand-guidelines): Translate brand rules into concrete visual decisions for documents, interfaces, campaigns, and generated assets.
- [MCP Builder (public source)](https://www.harshith.com/skills/mcp-builder): Design reliable Model Context Protocol servers that expose external systems to agents through clear, safe tools.
- [Find Skills (public source)](https://www.harshith.com/skills/find-skills): Help an agent recognize when a reusable skill already exists and locate the right capability before rebuilding it.
- [Agent Workflow Architect (premium preview)](https://www.harshith.com/skills/agent-workflow-architect): Turn a messy business process into an agent workflow with explicit tools, approvals, fallbacks, and proof of completion.
- [Growth Research Operator (premium preview)](https://www.harshith.com/skills/growth-research-operator): Research a market, extract evidence, map distribution angles, and turn scattered findings into a concrete growth brief.
- [Launch Readiness (premium preview)](https://www.harshith.com/skills/launch-readiness): Check the product, proof, metadata, repository hygiene, and release path before calling a launch finished.

## Apps
The Apps directory is a small collection of useful apps, tools, and projects.
- [Apps directory](https://www.harshith.com/apps): Browse currently available apps.
- Grain Studio: Make tactile image textures in your browser with 25 effects.
- The H Letter: A personal newsletter about AI, products, and the work of building with both.
- Harshith Community: A community space for people building and learning with AI.
- Agent Skills: A marketplace of practical skills for AI agents and the people who operate them.

## Public Evidence Surfaces
- [Website and service details](https://www.harshith.com): First-party profile and service information.
- [Public media and profile links](https://www.harshith.com/media): Press, podcast, video, and social references.
- [Selected work and role descriptions](https://www.harshith.com/work): First-party work records with roles and supporting links.
- [Forbes Council profile](https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbestechcouncil/people/harshithvaddiparthy/): Third-party membership and author profile.
- [LinkedIn profile](https://linkedin.com/in/harshith-vaddiparthy): Professional profile and current work.
- [GitHub profile](https://github.com/harshith-vaddiparthy): Public repositories and engineering activity.

## Contact
- [Website](https://www.harshith.com): Canonical first-party profile.
- [Email Harshith](mailto:hi@harshith.com): Direct contact for relevant work and inquiries.
- [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/in/harshith-vaddiparthy): Professional profile and updates.
- [Twitter/X](https://x.com/harshithio): Public notes and updates.
- [Consulting](https://www.harshith.com/consulting): Service directory for implementation, training, advice, and mentorship.
- [AI training for finance teams](https://www.harshith.com/consulting/ai-training-for-finance-teams): Hands-on finance workflows, review loops, handoffs, and safe automation.
- [Book a call](https://www.harshith.com/meet): Discovery-call scheduling page.

## Legal
- [Privacy policy](https://www.harshith.com/privacy): How the site handles data and third-party services.
- [Terms of use](https://www.harshith.com/terms): Terms governing site content, services, and purchases.

## Optional
- [Blog](https://www.harshith.com/blog): Essays and H Letter web editions.
- [Work](https://www.harshith.com/work): Selected roles, products, and public evidence.
- [Story](https://www.harshith.com/story): Professional arc and operating principles.
- [Skills](https://www.harshith.com/skills): Reusable capabilities for coding and browser agents.