Driving Beam's growth with AI estimating
Owned design and shaped direction for a human-in-the-loop AI product that helped contractors create and win estimates faster — becoming Beam's primary growth driver.
- ARR
- $0 to $2M+
- AI ESTIMATE VOLUME
- $2.6B+
Hello, I'm Ashutosh Agrawal,
a Product Designer
based in SF
Founding designer at Beam, from seed through acquisition. Previously at D.E. Shaw.
I turn ambiguous problems into shipped products, shaping strategy and designing end-to-end,
across AI-native products and complex enterprise workflows.
Building a unified financial platform at speed
Led a systems-driven approach to scale Beam's suite of financial products — letting the team ship faster without fragmenting the platform.
- PAYMENT VOLUME
- $500M+
- FINANCIAL PRODUCTS
- 8+
Speeding up traders with a BI tool
Led end-to-end design of a business intelligence (BI) tool that enabled traders at D.E. Shaw to build interactive charts and surface insights from massive datasets quickly.
- EFFICIENCY GAIN
- 60%
- HEDGE FUND AUM
- $65B+
Faster activation with simpler onboarding
Led the redesign of Very Good Security's onboarding for its payment API — simplifying a complex developer setup into a clear, guided flow.
- COMPLETION RATE
- +95%
- ACTIVATION TIME
- +50%
AI Experiments
I build in code to validate ideas and bridge design and engineering. I use AI to pull signal from wherever it lives, Slack, databases, support tickets, interviews, so my team can decide faster. And when something slows me down, I build a tool to fix it.
About
Experience
2023 - present
Beam / Founding Designer
Series A · AI financial platform for CONSTRUCTION
Own end-to-end design for a suite of 8+ financial products, including AI-native workflows and the design system. Scaled Beam from 0 → $2M+ ARR and $500M+ in payment volume before getting acquired by CompanyCam.
2019 - 2021
D.E. Shaw & Co / Senior UX Designer
$60B INVESTMENT & TECHNOLOGY FIRM
Own end-to-end design for 10+ enterprise products across trading, developer, and financial workflows, contributing to the design system and driving measurable efficiency gains.
Education
2023
University of Michigan
M.S. in Human-Computer Interaction. Full scholarship. TA for IxDesign and UXR.
2019
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
B.Des in Design. Minor in Computer Science.
Why me?
Built for ambiguity
I create clarity by turning undefined problems into shipped products through rapid exploration and close collaboration.
Shipped AI in complex workflows
At Beam, I designed AI estimating software from scratch, rethinking a workflow that hadn't changed in decades.
Contribute code, not just specs
I prototype and ship in React, working closely with engineers to keep design quality high end-to-end.
Build systems, not just screens
I bias towards building reusable patterns and a shared design language that scale across a suite of products.
