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Pratyush Jain

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Too curious to ignore it. Too stubborn to leave it broken.

02 — About

Questioning is just how I operate.

I ask why about everything. Always have. Why is it done this way? Why does this system work? Why is it built like that? Questioning is just how I operate. It is the one thing about me that has never changed. What has changed is what I can now do with it.

I started at EY at 18. My early career was in restructuring, which really just means being in the room when things go wrong. That is where you learn how systems actually work.

The boundaries between those things were always made up.

At some point the walls between disciplines stopped making sense. Business incorporates everything. Strategy, finance, operations, creativity, execution. It is the closest thing to a real-world test of how you think. The boundaries between those things were always made up.

I am an accidental philosopher.

I am impatient and stubborn and obsessive. After enough thinking and talking, you have got to do. Just do it. I can not just live in the thinking world, so I can not just be a philosopher or a saint. I am an accidental philosopher. A practical one. The material world still matters to me.

I sit there and think about things a lot; sometimes I can not switch off.

But I am also building. AI products, hardware, websites, apps. I am looking for a problem that is really worth solving. Something difficult, something I believe in. I have not found it yet, but that is what the experimenting is for.

Think in decades, act in days.

I am always 0 or 100. All or nothing. Maybe this is good. Maybe bad. Maybe it is just the Scorpio in me. I want to think in decades, act in days; satisfy my curiosity but also my impatience. I am trying to make a ten year plan happen in 1. We accept failures in the gym because that is how you grow. So, why do we treat failure differently everywhere else.

If you are not a little delusional, you are not thinking big enough.

I have always been a bit different. Contrarian by nature, not by choice. Everyone around me is settling into the expected path and I am still chasing something most people would call unreasonable. I genuinely believe I am meant for something extraordinary. Maybe that sounds arrogant. Maybe delusional. But if you are not a little delusional, you are not thinking big enough.

It is going to be messy. And that is fine. I am still optimistic.

“Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it.”

Steve Jobs

03 — Work

What I'm building

01/04BUILDING

AI Revision Platform

An AI-powered revision tool for the ACA accounting exams, built on RAG.

I lived through these exams. The study experience is broken. So I'm building something that actually works. The platform ingests official study materials and lets students query, test, and revise through conversation. Not flashcards. If it works for ACA, it works for every professional qualification.

02/04LIVE

PYJ Advisory

My own accounting practice. But the plan is bigger than accounting.

Right now it's a handful of clients and solid bread-and-butter work. But honestly, finance without operations is just boring. The real play is pivoting into AI consultancy. Helping companies integrate AI into their workflows securely, using their own data. That's where this is heading.

03/04LIVE

Client Builds

Websites and mobile apps for clients, across a range of tech stacks.

This is how I learned to ship. Every build is different. Different problem, different stack, different constraints. I never did this before AI made it possible for someone like me to actually build and design at speed. It's the applied version of the curiosity.

04/04ARCHIVED

Pixelpoint

Video production house I ran during school. Ads and campaigns for startups.

Professional camera, drone, the works. We made marketing campaigns for small startups. Scrappy and entrepreneurial and probably the first real proof that I wasn't going to end up in a normal job. Done now, but the instinct it built is still running.

“The only true test of intelligence is if you get what you want out of life.”

Naval Ravikant

04 — Currently

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Last watched

Project Hail Mary

If you haven't seen it, fix that.

BuildingAn AI revision platform for ACA exams
ReadingCan't Hurt Me by David Goggins
PlayingPadel. It's an obsession. I play it loads.

Last updated March 2026

“A fit body, a calm mind, a house full of love. These things cannot be bought. They must be earned.”

Naval Ravikant

05 — Connect

I'm always up for a conversation.