A book by Saurav Bhatia

Blueprint for an AI-First Company

A practical guide to building companies where AI is the foundation, not an afterthought. Frameworks, architecture patterns, and hard-won lessons from a founder who built 15 AI tools in three months with two people.

81,000+ Words
775 Citations
12 Chapters
20 Frameworks
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Saurav Bhatia

Founder & CEO, Yirifi.ai

Former founding executive of two digital banks — interim CEO of TRUST Bank Singapore (1M+ clients, ~20% market share) and founding CFO of Mox Bank Hong Kong (750K clients, 12% market share). With 20+ years in banking and fintech, he leads a 20-person team at Yirifi.ai where just 2 people built 15 backoffice microsites in three months.

Most companies bolt AI onto existing workflows and call it transformation. This book argues that the real shift requires rethinking the entire operating model — how you build products, structure teams, manage data, and make decisions.

Across four parts and twelve chapters, Blueprint for an AI-First Company covers the strategic mindset shifts, infrastructure patterns, agent architectures, team structures, data strategies, and governance frameworks that separate companies using AI from companies built on it.

Every framework comes from real experience. At Yirifi.ai, a 20-person AI regulatory intelligence startup, just two people built 15 backoffice microsites in three months — the book documents what worked, what failed, and what the patterns look like when AI is genuinely the foundation.

Book Details

Words 81,000+
Chapters 12
Parts 4
Citations 775
Frameworks 20
Code Examples 14
License CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

The AI Writing Process

This book was itself written AI-first. The entire production system — voice encoding, multi-agent orchestration, research pipelines, editorial review — is documented and open-sourced as a case study in AI-assisted authoring.

Explore the Process
27 Writing Prompts
14 Claude Code Skills
180+ Research Prompts
17 Python Scripts