Vikas Goel

Now

What I'm doing now

A snapshot of where my attention is. Following the /now page convention started by Derek Sivers — updated every few weeks, not constantly.

Last updated: · Gurgaon, India

Building

Thinkerwave AITech Private Limited  — Founder, 2026–

In 2026 I left my CTO roles at blackNgreen and Nexiva to build my own AI company. Three things in motion: ThinkerWave (self-evolving AI agent research, below), Torbi (AI-powered B2B prospecting — reads buying signals across the web and matches them to a seller's whole catalog), and a creator-intelligence platform (pricing, fit, and audience intelligence for the creator economy).

Researching

ThinkerWave

Patent application 202611044024 was filed at the Indian Patent Office in April 2026, covering the self-evolving evaluation criteria mechanism behind the research.

Currently working on extending the framework — taking dual-space evolution (where both the agent's identity and its objective mutate generationally) out of the research-toy phase and into something a real voice agent can be measured against in production. The honest version of this work is still 12–18 months out, but the framing is settling. Detailed research outputs available to qualifying parties on request, following patent grant.

Writing

  • Just published a long-form retrospective on the MagicCall viral moment — Sixteen million users in five days — the actual story on LinkedIn. The honest version of what happened in 2017 when the product hit 16M users in 5 days on Google Play.
  • Restarting weekly posts on the blog after a several-week gap.
  • Longer essays slowly accumulating on Medium.
  • Quietly drafting a longer piece on why the next interesting move in AI isn't smarter agents — it's agents that can revise what they're for.

Speaking

No public talks scheduled. Last public appearance was MWC Barcelona 2025 (Nexiva launch). For 2026, leaning toward smaller invited talks at AI and voice-AI events rather than keynotes. Speaking page.

Outside the work

I publish a YouTube channel called I AM THAT on philosophy and self-inquiry — quietly the place where I do my best thinking about what intelligence actually is.

This page is re-dated whenever any of the above changes meaningfully. /now pages are honest snapshots, not aspirational PR. If something here looks stale, it probably is — say hi and I'll fix it.