$ cat manifest.author.json | jq '.'
{
"name": "Roopesh LR",
"base": "Bengaluru",
"role": "technologist · entrepreneur",
"book": "AI CEO",
"status": "shipped"
}// Builds products at the intersection of software and automation — with the same AI tools this book describes.
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Author · AI CEO
Roopesh LR
About the author of AI CEO
Author of AI CEO · Bengaluru
Roopesh LR is a Bengaluru-based technologist and entrepreneur who builds products at the intersection of software and automation — using the same AI tools this book describes.
He has watched them go from curiosities to colleagues. AI CEO is his first book.
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▸ Why_Listen // Signal
Evidence-first · no hype substrate
▸ verified_claims
Numbers trace to filings, transcripts, and primary sources — reproducible if you want to diff the manuscript against reality.
▸ toolchain
Every workflow named in AI CEO maps to tools you can run today — not vaporware benchmarks.
▸ frank_scan
The book names trade-offs and displacement — no engineered positivity stack trace.
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