Nayan Kanaparthi

Building at the intersection of Technology and Business Strategy

Strategist and AI builder applying quantitative thinking to business, management, and innovation.

Available for consulting & collaborations

Featured Blogs

Thoughts on strategy, AI, and quantitative thinking

Featured Ventures

Projects and initiatives I'm building

Featured Projects

Selected projects and research

Project, Fintech, Risk

Quantitative-Risk-Simulator-using-Correlated-GBM-Monte-Carlo

Interactive portfolio risk simulator using correlated Geometric Brownian Motion (GBM) and Monte Carlo simulation. Estimates Value at Risk (VaR), Conditional VaR (CVaR), and probability of loss across multi-asset portfolios. Built with Python and Streamlit.

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Research

Reflexive Demand in the AI Infrastructure Boom

“Reflexive Demand in the AI Infrastructure Boom” analyzes the financial mechanics behind the rapid AI buildout from 2022 to 2025. The paper studies how vendor financing, long-dated backlogs, capital intensity, and credit conditions are shaping the current AI cycle across companies like Nvidia, Oracle, Microsoft, Amazon, and Google. It examines whether today’s surge in AI infrastructure reflects real user demand or a reflexive loop driven by financing structures, incentives, and expectations. The research connects this cycle to past investment booms while highlighting what makes the AI wave structurally different.

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Entrepreneurship

The Entrepreneur's Playbook An Interactive Guide to Building a Business That Matters

The Entrepreneur’s Playbook is an interactive guide I created by synthesizing everything I learned during my MIT Bootcamp. It breaks down the full journey of building a meaningful business, from finding your starting point to defining value, validating the problem, developing a business model, and leading your team. Each section distils lessons from MIT’s innovation frameworks into actionable steps, exercises, and tools that help founders think clearly, test ideas fast, and build products that matter.

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Featured Work

Selected projects and case studies

EdTech, Strategy, Product, Learning Systems

AdVantage Ecosystem: Narrative-Based Learning and Motivation Architecture

Traditional online learning platforms suffer from low engagement, weak motivation loops, and poor real-world outcomes. Students often drop off due to lack of structure, feedback, and peer interaction. I designed AdVantage Ecosystem — with QuestLabs, Collaborative Spaces, and Community Spaces — to re-architect the motivation system of learning using narrative gamification, peer collaboration, and intrinsic motivator design.

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AI Engineering, Agentic Systems, Cost Optimization, LLM Infrastructure

Tokenomics: Building an AI Token Optimization Layer for Efficient LLM Workflows

As LLM adoption grows, teams face rapidly increasing inference costs driven by inefficient prompts, long contexts, and redundant retrieval. Token usage often scales faster than value, creating a hidden cost spiral in AI systems. I built Tokenomics, an AI token optimization layer designed to reduce cost, latency, and context overhead while maintaining output quality.

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Quantitative Finance, Modeling, Simulation, Risk Analytics

Portfolio Risk Simulator: Monte Carlo Modeling for Market Risk

Most personal finance tools show static charts that fail to capture the randomness of markets. Beginners struggle to understand volatility, drawdowns, Value at Risk (VaR), and how uncertainty compounds over time. I built a web-based portfolio simulator that uses Geometric Brownian Motion (GBM), Monte Carlo simulations, and multi-asset correlation modeling to make portfolio risk intuitive and interactive for real users.

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