Bio
Arav Madan is a Europe-based builder focused on AI-first products and fast experimentation. His main project, Pitchr, started as a hackathon submission at HackEurope 2026 — Europe's largest student hackathon, 1,000 participants across Dublin, Paris, and Stockholm — and turned into a live SaaS product within weeks, driven by organic demand from 50+ users across Europe.
Pitchr is an AI pitch coaching platform that gives founders and startup builders investor-grade feedback in under 30 seconds: a score across five VC-relevant dimensions, ranked fixes, AI-rewritten scripts, and real-time delivery metrics like WPM, filler words, and pauses. It launched to early access in March 2026 with freemium and pay-as-you-go pricing — a full product, not a prototype.
Beyond Pitchr, Arav keeps a deliberate practice of shipping smaller experiments across web, AI, and collaboration tooling. His approach is straightforward: identify a real user problem, build fast, and learn from people actually using the thing. The Pitchr journal doubles as a content and SEO layer — he's thinking about distribution, not just product.
What I'm building
I’m building AI-first products, side projects, and fast experiments around real user problems. Right now my main focus is Pitchr, an AI pitch coaching platform that helps people practice pitches, get actionable feedback, and improve through repeatable feedback loops. This was a hackathon project (in Europe's largest hackathon) turned into a real business due to increasing interest from over 50 users from around Europe. Alongside that, I keep building smaller experiments in web, AI, and collaboration tooling because I genuinely enjoy shipping fast, learning from users, and turning ideas into real products.
Why TAG
TAG feels like exactly the kind of environment I want to be in. I’m not looking for passive networking, I want to be around people who are obsessed with building, shipping, and getting better. What drew me in is that TAG seems built for people who actually make things, show their work, and keep iterating. I’d love to be part of that culture, learn from stronger builders, contribute my own energy, and grow alongside people who take side projects and startups seriously.