Can one person ship like a team?
XapidSquad is a set of AI agents that takes an idea through six gates to launch. It is for engineers going solo, who can write the code but cannot also be the PM who says no, the tester who does not trust it, and the reviewer who checks it is safe to ship.
I’m proving it on my own products first. It opens to other builders once two products reach real users.
XapidSquad runs on 5 products · 1 in beta · none live yet
Built by Atul Jain · ex-Adobe principal architect- 0Demand · Product manager, ResearcherShould this exist at all? ◎ Founder decides
- 1Spec · Product managerWhat exactly are we building?
- 2Design · DesignerWhat will it be like to use?
- 3Build · DeveloperDoes it work?
- 4Test · TesterDoes it do what the spec says?
- 5Pre-launch · Security, LegalIs it safe to launch? ◎ Founder decides
XapidSquad
In development — alphaXapidSquad is how every product here gets built: a set of AI agents with defined roles — product manager, designer, developer, tester, security, legal — working through six gates, from “should this exist at all?” to “is it safe to launch?”
The founder makes the decisions at the gates. The squad does the work between them. Each product that goes through teaches it something, and the lesson goes back into the squad for the next one.
It is not ready for anyone else yet, and I would rather say so than sell it early. When it is, a small group gets it first. Follow the build and you will be in that group.
What you can use today
Two so far. Both started as a problem I had myself.
XapidTripFund
If you're a metro spender in India, your annual vacation is probably already paid for. XapidTripFund recommends exactly which premium card unlocks the most free flights and hotel nights for your vacation. No guesswork, no generic advice — it shows you the maths, not an opinion.
- It never stores what you spend.
- Built before the squad existed; now going through its full set of gates on the way to launch.
XapidPriceFinder
One search instead of six apps. Compares the price of a product across Indian shopping apps, for anyone who knows prices differ wildly between them but will not open each one to check.
- An early prototype: two sources fetch live today — BigBasket and Amazon.in — and the others say so plainly when they cannot be reached.
Built with the squad
Tools I use myself, each taken through the same gates by one person and the squad — including one the gates stopped. None is offered to anyone else.
- XapidWealthPersonal · buildingPulls my own bank, stock and mutual-fund statements into one view.Personal tool — not offered to anyone, not financial advice.
- XapidTradingPersonal · alphaAn experiment: an AI trades a paper account, measured against the S&P 500. No real money.Personal experiment — not offered to anyone.
- XapidSpendReportPersonal · pausedWhat our household actually spent last month, across every account and card.Stopped by its own Gate 0 on day three: an app already on the market looked like it covered the need. Paused until that is re-decided.
Where the method came from
Built before the squad, and the reason it exists.
- XapidBriefPersonal · in daily useA twice-daily digest of the emails that need action, sent to my phone.
- XapidDailyNotebookPersonal · in daily useA ten-minute AI-news podcast, generated every morning at six.
Three rules Xapid AI runs on
Built by the person who needs it
Every product starts as a problem I had myself. If it earns a place in my day, it may earn one in yours.
Gates, not enthusiasm
Every build passes the same gates, and the first one asks whether it should exist at all. XapidSpendReport was stopped there on day three of its build.
In the open
What shipped, what broke, what the gates caught. Follow along.
Follow the build
One email when something real happens: a product ships, a gate stops one, the squad learns a new role. No launch hype, no schedule I cannot keep.
No spam. Unsubscribe any time.
From 300+ engineers to one person and a squad
I spent 17 years at Adobe — the last several as a principal architect on a cloud platform spanning 300+ engineers and three continents. I loved the work, and I learned what it takes to ship software at that scale: the roles, the reviews, the gates.
Then AI got good enough to ask a different question. Not “can it write code?” — it can — but “can it carry the roles?” The product manager who says no. The tester who does not believe the developer. The security review nobody wants to do. In February 2026 I left to find out, and started Xapid AI.
The test has to be real, so the products are. The first was XapidTripFund, born when I realised I had left years of free flights on the table with the wrong credit card. Each one since has been a problem from my own life, and each one has taught the squad something.
That squad is XapidSquad — the thing I am really building. It is early: some of its roles have run on real products, some have not yet. I am doing it in the open so you can check.