Atélier: an AI notes app for iPad
Search handwritten notes by meaning, summarise them in one tap. Feature-complete and demoed; the search eval is next.
R. Veera Manoharan · MBA candidate, IIM Lucknow
Product manager for consumer AI.
After six years in XR product design and enterprise delivery at HCLTech, I'm moving into product management. I designed and built Atélier, a handwriting-first notes app for iPad, and shipped Alpine Skies, a browser flight sim that is live. Each case shows the bet, the trade-offs, and what has been measured so far.
- Based
- Lucknow, India
- Focus
- Consumer AI products
- Background
- IISc, NID, 6 years at HCLTech
- Open to
- PM roles, India and the Middle East
Selected work
Three cases, each with its statusVoice capture for Hinglish: testing whether to build
Do any engines beat built-in recognition on Hinglish by enough to matter, and would anyone pay? Thresholds set before testing.
Alpine Skies: a browser flight sim, shipped and live
A free flight sim anyone can play in seconds, no sign-up wall. Cold load cut from 8.4 s to about 4.6 s.
About
Where I sit
UserBusinessTechnology
product
Product sits where user, business and technology overlap. I came to it from design: IISc and NID, then six years at HCLTech in XR product design and enterprise delivery for regulated industries. At IIM Lucknow I'm moving into product management.
- Recognition
- Red Dot Design Award · US design patent, granted · Intel × IIM Lucknow, 3rd runner-up
- Building now
- Atélier, a handwriting-first notes app for iPad · Alpine Skies, a browser flight sim
AI Labs
Small things built to learnPapertrailAsk a stack of PDFs a question; every answer cites the file and page. Learned: never mix embeddings from two models in one index.
Multi-agent routerA frontier model plans and reviews; low-cost models do the work. Testing whether it cuts cost per task by 40% for no more than 5 points of quality. Benchmark running.