AI workflows • Construction finance • 0 to 1
Driving Beam's growth with AI estimating
Own design and partner on strategy for the AI-native estimating product, Beam's primary growth driver.
- ARR
- $0 to $1M+
- AI ESTIMATE VOLUME
- $2.6B+
Ashutosh Agrawal • san francisco
Founding product designer at Beam,
an AI financial platform, from seed through acquisition.
Before that, trading and developer platforms at D.E. Shaw.
work
Design strategy • Fintech • System design
Building a cohesive financial platform at speed
Lead a systems-driven approach to scale financial products without fragmenting the platform.
- PAYMENT VOLUME
- $300M+
- FINANCIAL PRODUCTS
- 8+
Enterprise • Trading • Data visualization
Scaling insights through modular analytics
Led design of a modular analytics platform for traders at D.E. Shaw.
- EFFICIENCY GAIN
- 60%
- HEDGE FUND AUM
- $65B+
Developer tool • Fintech • Onboarding
Faster activation with simpler onboarding
Led the redesign of Very Good Security's onboarding for its payment API.
- COMPLETION RATE
- +95%
- ACTIVATION TIME
- +50%
AI Experiments
How I work with AI
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.
Things I've built
My clone. A chat trained on me
claude • agarashu.com/chat
Inflo Mac. Menubar writing assistant
cursor • react • github
Inflo iOS. Same idea, on iPhone
cursor • swift • github
Slackbot. Messy feedback to insights
cursor • node js
AI Agent. Queries our database
Retool
Prompt playground
Cursor • React
Smart Input. Autocomplete prototype
Cursor • React
About
Experience
3 yrs (present)
Beam | Series A, Accel
AI financial platform for CONSTRUCTION
Founding designer. Own end-to-end design for a suite of 8+ financial products, including AI-native workflows and the design system. Scaled Beam from 0 → $1M+ ARR and $300M+ in payment volume.
2 yrs
D.E. Shaw & Co
$60B INVESTMENT & TECHNOLOGY FIRM
Senior UX Designer. 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
University of Michigan
2023
M.S. in Human-Computer Interaction. Full scholarship. TA for IxDesign and UXR.
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
2019
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.
