Aryamaan Lakhotia

At Basic Capital, I work on the platforms engineering and capital markets side of the business. I build AI agents to make our work easier. The biggest one so far is Alex, our inbound voice AI for customer support. I also make sure trades execute efficiently and money flows smoothly from paycheck deductions to investments.

Before that, I traded Latin American sovereign credit at Bank of America, where my daily newsletter on bond markets was read by 8,500 subscribers. I sat on the AI council and led a project to centralize credit trading databases and document workflows so internal LLMs could use them as context.

Most of my side projects come from problems I have experienced firsthand. The biggest one right now is VoxBharat, where I am building voice AI for the 900 million Indians who prefer speaking over typing. AI-powered phone calls replace traditional surveys in 10+ vernacular languages, at a fraction of the cost.

Before finance, I worked on product and growth at Seed Labs, was Chief of Staff at Merry as a Priscilla Chan Fellow through Harvard, interned in economic research at the Central Bank of Armenia, and was Community Lead at Openhouse. During Covid, I left it all to farm cotton in rural Maharashtra.