Building the AI travel agent at Kitt
An AI agent that booked flights, hotels and cars on production infrastructure, shipped in beta by a four-person team.
Adarsh Panikkar, Product designer who builds for fun
Hello! I'm Adarsh, a product designer born in India and now living in Dubai. I like building the things I design.
I spent three years at Juno, going from designer to leading the design team, then co-founded Kitt and spent two years as CPO, taking it from zero to AED 1.5M in bookings.
I'm now looking for my next role, so if you think we'd be a match, here's what I'm looking for.
Kitt
Co-Founder & CPO · 2024–2026
Kitt is a corporate travel platform for companies in the GCC. I co-founded it and led product, design and engineering with a team of four.
We built booking for flights, hotels and cars from scratch in about nine months, raised a SAFE round, and grew to five corporate clients and AED 1.5M in bookings.
Transactions and insights at Kitt
One booking ledger for accounting, spend and compliance.
Building blocks
A collection of brand identities and logos designed over the years, across startups and side projects.
Juno
Lead Product Designer · 2021–2024
Juno was a US neobank: an FDIC-insured USD account with a crypto wallet on top. I joined as a product designer and was promoted twice, to leading the design team.
I designed the Juno Store, which gave three years of unspent JCOIN somewhere to go, and led design on the B2B expansion into Transak, coin swaps and bill pay.
Building the Juno Store
JCOIN went tradeable with three years of it sitting unspent. The Juno Store turned the burn into cashback boosts, gift cards and hardware wallets.
Side projects
Design and build · Ongoing
Small products I make on my own, start to finish, from the first sketch to the App Store.
Hush is live on the App Store. Trace is in closed beta.
Hush
A focus app that hides distracting apps rather than blocking them, and starts a session when you tap your phone to a physical NFC tag.
Trace
Currently buildingA budgeting app for the UAE that logs your spending from bank SMS, decides what is actually a transaction, and remembers every correction you make so you only make it once.
Building blocks
A collection of brand identities and logos designed over the years, across startups and side projects.