2026-09-05
EBO Was Never Supposed to Be a Product
EBO began as a small tool I wanted for myself. This is how a personal attempt to study more consistently slowly became a much larger product question.
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Hi, I'm Mikhil.
I turn ideas into reality.
I’m a 17-year-old student, builder and writer. I use AI to explore ambitious ideas, create real experiments and write about technology, business, philosophy and life as I figure them out.
The person behind the ideas.
I’m fascinated by what happens when technology, human behaviour and ambitious ideas collide. I don’t call myself a programmer—I use AI, prompt engineering, research and relentless iteration to build things I couldn’t build alone.
Right now, I’m building an IPMAT preparation ecosystem from problems I face as a student, experimenting with a personal AI assistant, and writing through the decisions, mistakes and questions behind both. This website is a record of that process.
Product Thinking
Problems, users, systems, experiments
Writing
Philosophy, technology, ambition, life
Curiosity
Business, behaviour, ideas, everything else
AI Collaboration
Prompt engineering, direction, iteration
Things I’m Building
Products and experiments that began as questions I couldn’t stop thinking about.
Flagship ProjectIPMAT PreparationLearning Systems
IPMAT
A growing preparation ecosystem built from the problems I face as an IPMAT aspirant—beginning with Verbal Ability and expanding into Quantitative Aptitude, exam practice, progress analysis and smarter revision.
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AI ExperimentAgent Systems
SYNTHESIS
A personal AI assistant experiment exploring context, memory, tool use, permissions, and safe autonomy through prompt engineering and AI-assisted development.
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Concluded ProjectProduct Case Study
EBO
A student-accountability product I built, researched and eventually ended as a standalone product. Its strongest lessons—and a few useful ideas—now inform the broader IPMAT ecosystem.
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Writing
Build logs, personal essays, unfinished thoughts, and ideas I’m still arguing with.
2026-09-05
I Wanted to Build My Own JARVIS
SYNTHESIS began with an embarrassingly ambitious idea: I wanted a personal AI assistant that could understand my world, use tools, and actually do things—not merely answer questions.
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Why I Built My Own IPMAT Vocab App
I had too much vocabulary to learn for IPMAT, and the tools I was using never quite matched the way I wanted to practise. So I started building my own.
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If you’re building something ambitious, thinking about similar questions, or simply want to exchange ideas, my inbox is open.