Cranium to Chops

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Hand-drawn portrait of Ravi Baskaran

Cranium to Chops is Ravi Baskaran’s blog for notes, essays, and experiments.

I have spent over two decades architecting B2B platforms, securing 14 patents in core infrastructure and driving major commercial outcomes like $40M+ in incremental revenue and a 2M+ user cloud ecosystem. Most recently, I anchored an IPO by transforming manual enterprise operations into measurable, AI-driven agentic workflows.

I write here to capture what I am learning while building product, platform, and AI systems across startups and scale-ups. The focus is practical: systems that ship, survive contact with real users, and create measurable business impact.

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