CTO & Co-Founder

CTO & Cofounder Elevation — PingAura.ai

Location : Mumbai / Hybrid

Stage : Early (Pre-seed, Enterprise Paying Customer-Validated), VC Interest

Compensation : Equity + Deferred Pay (Founder Role)

Domain : Generative AI, Enterprise SaaS, Agentic Commerce, Marketing Tech

Experience - 6-8years Minimum with experience in building & scaling succesful products

About PingAura.ai

PingAura.ai is building Marketing & Sales funnels inside LLM's with AEO+ACP for Brands!

We help enterprises with AI Visibility, Optimise & Sell inside Large Language Models (LLMs) — across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude.

Our first product — AI Visibility Score & Optimisation Engine — measures a brand’s presence, share of voice, and influence inside LLMs. We have already cracked 15 Banks, Insurance, Soonicorns & Agencies.

The next frontier : Agentic Commerce Protocols that enable zero-click sales directly inside LLMs — so customers can discover, decide, and transact without ever leaving a chat.

We have :

Enterprise GTM ready ( Going live BFSI & auto majors in Nov25)

Inbound validation from CMOs, brand heads & agencies paying customers.

A sharp product roadmap covering :

Generative Engine Optimization (GEO / AEO)

AI Visibility Dashboards

Brand & Prompt Guard layers

Conversational Sales Agents & LLM Plugins

Agentic Commerce SDK

We’re now looking for a CTO to build and scale this vision, who would elevated to Co-Founder role with experience & full-time dedication.

⚙️ Your Mission

Lead the entire technical architecture, product roadmap, and engineering culture of PingAura.ai.

From building the first LLM pipelines for AI Visibility Scoring → to deploying agentic protocols that enable commerce inside ChatGPT-like environments.

Key Responsibilities

Scale Core Engine

Architect and develop PingAura’s AEO / GEO engine

Design pipelines for multi-engine visibility scoring across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude .

AI Agent & Plugin Development

Build agentic protocols and APIs / SDKs enabling brands to transact inside LLMs.

Experiment with OpenAI GPT Actions, Anthropic Workflows, Gemini extensions, etc.

Data & Infrastructure

Manage LLM API integrations, token cost optimization, caching, and data retrieval layers.

Design internal dashboards for AI visibility, insights & optimizations.

Technical Leadership

Build & mentor the first 3-5 member dev team (full stack, data, AI ops).

Set engineering culture for velocity, experimentation, and reliability.

Product Collaboration

Work closely with CEO & enterprise customers to prioritize the roadmap.

Translate market feedback → rapid product iteration cycles.

Fundraising & Vision

Represent the tech vision in investor conversations, pitch decks, and product demos.

You Might Be a Fit If You :

Are a builder-founder who thrives in 0→1 environments.

Have deep experience in one or more :

LLM applications, RAG, embeddings, agents

Full stack product development (Next.js, Node.js, Python)

Cloud infrastructure (AWS / GCP / Vercel)

Integrations with OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, or Perplexity APIs

Understand search, ranking, and retrieval systems — or SEO / AEO dynamics.

Have shipped early-stage AI products or led ML engineering teams.

Believe the future of discovery, marketing, and commerce is zero-click and LLM-native.

What You’ll Get

Cofounder-level equity

Freedom to architect the future of AI marketing tech from India.

Work with a founder with 15years of deep GTM, Sales & Product experience (3 x Times founder, x- HDFC Life, ex-YONO SBI, Ironman, creator with 150M+ views).

A validated business model, enterprise leads, and early revenue traction.

Chance to build a category-defining AI company from the ground up.

PingAura.ai Vision

In 2005, brands optimized for Google. In 2026, brands will optimize for AI Engines.

PingAura.ai is the bridge between brand visibility and LLM discovery & creating a new distribution Sales Channel. If this vision excites you, we’d love to build this together.

How to Apply / Connect

Email :

LinkedIn : @NishantBhardwaj11

Subject : CTO & Cofounder – PingAura.ai

Include : brief note, portfolio / GitHub, and what excites you about AEO / GEO.