👋 Hi, I'm Varun
I spent 15 years building data and fintech products, and now I build AI agents. I run AgentScore with Sean Thorne. Our product, Hivemind, builds and runs AI agents that review contracts, work deals, analyze data and catch errors in it. Before this I was Chief Product Officer at People Data Labs, where we grew from zero to mid-eight figures in revenue, and that data background is built into our Data QA Agent.
AgentScore is backed by Auren Hoffman, founder of LiveRamp and SafeGraph, Jeff Fluhr, co-founder of StubHub, and Michael Cardamone of Forum Ventures.
- years building data, fintech and AI products
- 15years building data, fintech and AI products
- companies I started
- 3companies I started
- in revenue from products I built and led
- $100M+in revenue from products I built and led

- AgentScore
People Data Labs
Deserve
Rebl Cards
Industry
Playboy
Projects
Hivemind
Hivemind by AgentScore builds and runs AI agents for companies. A business expert learns how a company works, then we tailor agents for contracts, sales, data analysis, data QA and marketing and run them in the team's Slack.
Agents · Evals
AgentScore Commerce
Our open-source merchant SDKs and API clients for TypeScript and Python. They let a business accept payments from AI agents, with identity checks built in.
npm · PyPI
People Data Labs
I led the product as People Data Labs grew from a person enrichment API into a full data platform: search, IP and job posting data, a self-serve dashboard, and delivery through AWS, Snowflake and Databricks.
Data APIs · Dashboard · Platform

AgentScore Pay
A command-line tool that lets an AI agent pay a merchant without ever handling a private key.
CLI · MCP
People Data Labs SDKs
I created the People Data Labs JavaScript SDK and shipped over 100 releases of it, and led the official SDKs for Python, Go, Ruby and Rust.
npm · PyPI · Go · Ruby · Rust
Work
AgentScoreCo-founder2026–Now
I co-founded AgentScore with Sean Thorne in 2026. I split my time between running the company and writing a lot of its code, including our open-source payment tools for AI agents.
agentscore.comPeople Data LabsChief Product Officer2020–2026
I joined as Senior Director of Product and became VP and then Chief Product Officer, running product, engineering, product marketing, IT and security while the company grew from zero to mid-eight figures in revenue. We turned a person enrichment API into a full data platform with search, IP and job posting data, a self-serve dashboard, SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001, and delivery through AWS, Snowflake and Databricks.
peopledatalabs.com
DeserveHead of Platform Partnerships2020–2021I was Head of Platform Partnerships at Deserve, where I led partnerships with BlockFi, Sallie Mae, M1 Finance, Visa and Marqeta.
Rebl CardsFounder & CEO2019–2020I founded Rebl Cards and ran it as CEO. We built a credit card for people with limited or poor credit.
IndustryCEO2015–2019I joined Industry, a hiring network for the hospitality business, as founding CTO and CPO in 2015. I became CEO in 2018.
industry.co
PlayboySenior Product Manager2012–2016I rose from sysadmin to director of IT, then moved into engineering and product as a senior software engineer and senior product manager. I built the Playboy apps for Apple TV and mobile and built features for Playboy.com.
playboy.com
B.S. Computer and Electrical Engineering, University of Connecticut
What I build with
AI & agents
- Claude Code
- Anthropic
- OpenAI
- AI SDK
- eve
- MCP
- Braintrust
- PyTorch
- Hugging Face
Payments
- Stripe
- Tempo
- Solana
- Base
- x402
- MPP
- viem
Data
- Spark
- Databricks
- Snowflake
- Delta Lake
- DuckDB
- Polars
- Dagster
- Airflow
- Elasticsearch
Infra
- AWS
- Terraform
- Vercel
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- OpenTelemetry
- Datadog
Languages
- TypeScript
- Python
- Go
- Rust
- React
- Next.js
- FastAPI
- Bun
Writing
Contact
Email is the best way to reach me, and I'm always happy to talk about AI agents, data or payments.