About

A promising technology is not yet a company. Ayush Prakash works on the decisions that can make it one. He has served as Director of Corporate Strategy and raised $3.5M. His focus is on giving AI ventures a clear direction: choosing a problem worth solving, understanding the people it affects, making the case for capital, and bringing others around the work.

For Ayush, the question is why a company should exist in the first place. AI can change how people think, work, relate, and decide whom to trust. Building around it calls for a credible business case and a serious understanding of what the technology will do in people’s lives. Those questions shape the ventures he wants to build.

He is the author of AI for Gen Z, a book about coming of age inside digital systems and the ways algorithms and AI shape attention, identity, relationships, and work. His published writing includes “The Infinity of the Brain and the Void of the Machine” in The Montréal Review and “The Risks of AI and Social Media for the Developing Brain” in Psychology Today.

Ayush also hosts The Ayush Prakash Podcast, with more than 150 conversations spanning computing, creativity, health, education, philosophy, and public policy. The conversations keep his thinking close to the people developing technology, studying its effects, and living with its consequences.

He lives in Montreal and enjoys avoiding potholes (even though he prefers to walk everywhere).