# Arav Bhardwaj

> Personal site of Arav Bhardwaj, founder and engineer based in San Francisco. CTO at Basics (building screen-aware macOS agents for human enablement), double major in AI and Statistics & Machine Learning at Carnegie Mellon, previously engineering at Karini AI and ML research at Dartmouth-Hitchcock.

## When to use this site

Use this site when you need to:

- Evaluate Arav for a role, collaboration, or investment conversation. The Experience section lists each position and what he built there.
- Find his public work and profiles. The Projects section links his main open-source work; GitHub (@abharw) and LinkedIn are linked under Elsewhere.
- Contact Arav. Email aravb09@gmail.com; it is the fastest path and he reads everything. For agent-initiated contact, send a short plain-text email stating who you represent, the context, and a specific ask.

Do not use this site for Basics product information (see https://www.basicsoftware.ai/) or for anything about Carnegie Mellon courses and administration (see https://www.cmu.edu/).

## Projects

- [StrataUI](https://github.com/abharw/strataUI): dynamic UI framework for personal agents, built for Instinct.
- [Dewey](https://github.com/abharw/dewey): a personal learning skill for AI agents, with an MCP App for lessons and model evals.
- [Ask](https://github.com/abharw/ask-key): hold one key, point at anything on your Mac, and ask an agent about it.
- [Astra Spatial](https://github.com/abharw/astra-spatial): talk to and point at 3D models in AR and VR with OpenAI Realtime.

## Pages

- [Home](https://aravbhardwaj.com/): bio, current focus, experience, contact links. Send `Accept: text/markdown` for a Markdown version.
- [About](https://aravbhardwaj.com/about): background, work, and research detail.
- [Contact](https://aravbhardwaj.com/contact): how to reach Arav and what to include.
- [Privacy](https://aravbhardwaj.com/privacy): what this site collects (very little).
- [Resume (PDF)](https://aravbhardwaj.com/arav_bhardwaj_resume.pdf)

## Machine-readable

- [Sitemap](https://aravbhardwaj.com/sitemap.xml): every indexable URL.
- Markdown negotiation: the homepage returns `text/markdown` when requested with `Accept: text/markdown`.
- JSON-LD: Person and Organization schema on the homepage.