Nikhil Deshpande

Experiments

Small things. One problem each. Most of these are not products yet. Each page says what it is, what state it is in, and what it does not claim.

A hand holds up a printed page with several lines blacked out, beside an unredacted copy, in front of a laptop on a wooden desk.
Product · Mac app in progress

Stripii

Your data never leaves your computer.

People upload medical records and bank statements to an LLM to get help reading them. Everything else in the document goes along with it. Stripii removes that first, on your own machine. Two modes. It gives you a clean markdown file you can paste in, or it blacks out the personal parts and flattens the page to an image so nothing underneath can be copied out.

CLI ready · Mac app in progress · desktop app paid, CLI open
A child points at a blank word card on a table while a small camera board on a wooden stand, wired to a laptop, looks on.
Experiment · Claude Dev Day

AI Reading Pen

A child still learning to read needs it in their own language more than anybody.

An ESP32 camera pointed at a Marathi or Hindi word teaches a child to say it, syllable by syllable. Built for Claude Dev Day, and public under MIT so anyone can build one for their own language.

Public repo · built for Claude Dev Day
A phone camera framing a row of moulded plastic parts on a workbench; the part in the viewfinder has a chipped edge.
Industrial vision · prototype

Visual QA

It has never run on a shop floor, and until it does I am not claiming it works.

A friend asked me what could remove the human from quality checking in a plastic moulding plant. Then the same problem came from a textile factory. Then a garment factory. You give it eight to sixteen photos of a good part and it flags the ones which do not match. Right now it is a local prototype.

Not claiming: Factory accuracy is not established. Three conversations are not three deployments.

Local prototype · adapters parked until a factory pilot
A hand picks a navy tile from six shapes on the left, while on the right a path of tiles steps up to a small orange flag.
Evaluation · 2026

Jev AI 101

Judgment is cheap now. Planning still is not.

Seven problems from the standard AI syllabus. A 270M decision model against the textbook algorithm on each, with 95% intervals and every call’s cost recorded. Playable, with the full method and every number online.

Not claiming: Seven toy domains, one model version, one week.

Playable · full benchmark and method online · repo going public