anushk mittal

i'm obsessed with culture and ai 😊

i'm the co-founder and ceo of Circle Labs (behind shapes.inc), a place to collaborate with ai agents and people. we're backed by Lightspeed, Alpha Intelligence Capital and AI Grant, and we're hiring.

i deeply care about building trust in our interactions with ai and i think the answer is bringing humans and ais on the same social footing. i'll die on that hill.

i started coding when i was ten. in high school i made a sleep tracker for Apple Watch and it won me a WWDC scholarship. at Georgia Tech i made toys and called them startups, wrote a whole frickin thesis on testing iOS apps, and tried to understand how we trust ai.

i now live in San Francisco.

writing and research

• 2026 Stop hiring for the résumé. Start hiring for obsession · Fast Company
• 2026 I've never had a real job. Here's how I'm running a company anyway · Fast Company
• 2022 Will AI Console Me when I Lose my Pet? Understanding Perceptions of AI-Mediated Email Writing · CHI 2022, with Yihe Liu, Diyi Yang and Amy Bruckman

more: all writing, things i've made and around the internet.

say hi

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i try to reply ASAP, just drop me more than a hi. otherwise, it can take 3-5 business days but i try my best.

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