I’m Arun Thiru.
I help founders and operators use AI to redesign real work inside their companies.
Not AI theatre. Not a strategy deck. Not another chatbot sitting beside the process.
Bottl is my AI advisory service for people who want to rebuild how the company works around AI.
That usually means starting with one messy workflow.
A reporting loop. A research process. A founder’s second brain. A coding-agent setup. A support or email workflow. A team process where too much depends on humans moving information between tools.
The work is simple in principle:
Find where the company is slow. Decide whether AI should be involved. Design the workflow. Build or guide the first version. Add the checks that make it usable. Keep humans close to judgment.
Before Bottl, I was the Staff Data Scientist at Adblock/Eyeo and I’m the founder of Helios, an AI company working at the intersection of traditional data science, horoscope readings, and spirituality.
My background is in time-series forecasting, causal inference, experimentation, and practical data science. The useful kind: separating what looks good in a dashboard from what is actually true.
That matters for agents.
Agents are not magic employees. They are systems. They need context, tools, evals, memory, and clear boundaries.
If you do not design the loop, they create noise.
If you design it well, they can remove entire chunks of slow knowledge work.
Bottl sits between advisory, build partner, and operator coaching.
Sometimes I help a founder create a research agent or second brain.
Sometimes I help a team rethink BI, reporting, or internal workflows.
Sometimes I help technical operators work with coding agents without creating slop.
Sometimes the work is just deciding what not to automate yet.
The common thread is leverage.
Where can AI remove motion so humans spend more time on judgment?
That is the work I care about.
If you want to explore what this could look like in your company, bring one workflow that feels more manual than it should.
Reach out and let’s see if we’re a good fit.