Adil Chohan — Founder of Techriv | AI SaaS Engineer

portfolio · notebook no. 4/12 · 2026

Adil Chohan.

Founder & CEO of Techriv. Seven years shipping production software, now building AI-native products end to end — LLM pipelines, retrieval-augmented generation, vector search, and the systems that hold them together.

Adil Chohan, founder and CEO of Techriv
photo taken between two deploys
01 about

Engineering AI that survives the real world.

I'm Adil — an engineer who started a company because I wanted to own the whole outcome, not just my slice of it. Techriv is my AI SaaS studio, where a senior team takes products from rough idea to something people pay for and rely on.

My own work is AI-first. I build the intelligence layer of products — retrieval-augmented generation that stays accurate as data grows, agentic flows with sensible guardrails, vector search that's fast at scale, and multi-step reasoning that holds up on real inputs, not just curated demos. Around that intelligence I build the actual product, engineered in Java and Next.js. It's the difference between using AI and engineering it — most people wrap an API and call it a product; I build the system that makes it reliable.

That instinct comes from years before Techriv. I re-architected the full stack behind YouExec, a platform with over a million users, designing the backend single-handedly and shipping AI features that moved real revenue. Working at that scale teaches you the gap between code that runs in a demo and code that survives a million people using it — and everything I build now lives on the right side of that gap.

02 what I do

AI Engineering

RAG, agentic systems, vector search and eval loops — built to hold up in production, not just in the demo.

Full-Stack Build

Full-stack JavaScript: Next.js, React and Node, database to interface. SaaS apps shipped, monitored, and maintained after launch day.

Company Building

Idea to shipped SaaS: scoping, architecture, team, launch — and the hundred iterations after it.

03 ventures & featured work
venture

Techriv ↗

My AI SaaS studio. A senior team building AI-native products for founders and teams across the US, UK and UAE.

techriv.com

product

Wonit.ai ↗

An AI-powered sales acceleration platform I designed and built — pipeline intelligence and outreach that compounds.

wonit.ai

saas

Chronook ↗

A modern scheduling platform and Calendly alternative: AI smart-suggest, group polls, payments and round-robin team scheduling.

chronook.com

platform

YouExec ↗

A business template library — presentations, spreadsheet models and book summaries used by over a million professionals worldwide.

youexec.com

archive

Nobelizers ↗

A hand-researched archive of consequential lives: writers, scientists and Nobel laureates from the 1st century to today.

nobelizers.com

ai product

Purmelon AI ↗

An AI headshot generator. Upload a few selfies and get studio-quality corporate portraits in minutes.

purmelonai.com

7+

years shipping production software

Top Rated

on Upwork

5.0

rating on Clutch

Global

remote-first, any timezone

05 connect

Have something worth building? Let's talk.

I read every message. Whether it's a product you want built properly or just a conversation about where AI is actually useful, I'd like to hear it.

hey@adilchohan.com →
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