Pranav Mishra
I like putting software where software has never worked.
I'm one of Harper's first forward-deployed engineers, working on the systems behind an AI-native commercial insurance brokerage. Insurance has always run on agents. I build the new kind.
Before that I built software for defense manufacturers at SalesPatriot and was the first engineer at Sail.
Off the clock I windsurf, rock climb, play pickup basketball, and DJ the occasional set.
What I learn the hard way ends up in my writing.
Selected work
Writing
- Chasing frontier-level coding on one laptopKRYN is a local coding workspace for Apple Silicon aiming at frontier-adjacent quality on a 9B model. How it's built, how v1 shipped, and the benchmark rig that will say when it's there.
- A voice agent that takes the call aloneInside a production insurance intake agent: a realtime speech model, a Deepgram transcript beside it, the code that owns every consequential moment, and the caller as last check.