You build or serve AI systems and want to pressure-test a paper's ideas with peers.

You read papers regularly but rarely get 10 people at a table to debate them.

You work on model serving, distributed training or inference and want applied angles.

Manthan is an AI Research Engineer at Zyphra, focused on inference engineering, GPU kernels and distributed training.

He previously contributed to an open-source agent orchestration project with ~20k stars at Agno and built data infrastructure at Merkle Science handling 50 million daily requests.

His day-to-day work on GPU kernels, model serving and AI systems is exactly the territory these research papers cover.

Udayan is Co-founder and CEO of GrowthX, the community behind this event series.

He was the first growth hire and later Product Lead at Razorpay, building the central growth team across payments, capital and banking.

He designs the small-table, debate-driven formats that GrowthX events run on, including the reviewed-seat and drinks-included structure of Research on Tap.

First, solutions & approaches described in a research paper can often be applied to general ai & engineering problems.

Second, the format is designed to put you with 10 smart peers who are debating and challenging you.

Third, you will do moonshot experiments. Members often tell us that ideas shared here inspired experiments in their companies that they would never have thought of.

The final paper is shared once the session is confirmed. Come with a point of view.

Read the paper before arriving

Skip this event if you don’t drink either of a Beer, Hard Seltzer, Cold Brew coffee or an Energy Drink. Having a drink during the discussion is why it’s called "on tap".

Drinks are part of the format

The event price covers one drink of choice. GrowthX does not make any money out of this.

What the price covers

Every request is reviewed because the table is small. Refunded in full if not approved.

10 seats, requests are reviewed

Everyone at the table, drinks in hand, paper read.

Arrive and settle in

Start with the problem the paper addresses and the choices shaping its solution.

Problem and design choices

Work through the method and question the assumptions.

Method and assumptions

Examine what the results actually establish. Open challenge from the table.

Results and debate

GrowthX

Building the best membership club for professionals. GrowthX exists to give people who take their craft seriously the ecosystem they deserve.

But GrowthX isn’t for everyone. It’s not a course. Not a Slack group. And definitely not another “networking” platform. It’s a private club of 5,500+ operators who lead product, marketing, and growth at companies like Razorpay, Jio, Swiggy, Zerodha, and Freshworks. Founders, VPs, ICs—all united by one obsession: compounding their career and company’s growth.

What they get is an unfair edge. Live learning programs taught by people who’ve actually scaled. Access to a private community that doesn’t tolerate fluff—just sharp questions and sharper answers. Tools to grow into leadership roles, break into new ones, or scale from $0 to $10M if you’re a founder. And yes, they meet offline too. Every month. Roundtables, mixers, deep-dive sessions—held across 7 major Indian cities.

Building the best membership club for professionals. GrowthX exists to give people who take their craft seriously the ecosystem they deserve.

But GrowthX isn’t for everyone. It’s not a course. Not a Slack group. And definitely not another “networking” platform. It’s a private club of 4,000+ operators who lead product, marketing, and growth at companies like Razorpay, Jio, Swiggy, Zerodha, and Freshworks. Founders, VPs, ICs—all united by one obsession: compounding their career and company’s growth.

What they get is an unfair edge. Live learning programs taught by people who’ve actually scaled. Access to a private community that doesn’t tolerate fluff—just sharp questions and sharper answers. Tools to grow into leadership roles, break into new ones, or scale from $0 to $10M if you’re a founder. And yes, they meet offline too. Every month. Roundtables, mixers, deep-dive sessions—held across 7 major Indian cities.

Razorpay

Central growth team working across all business lines of Razorpay. (Payments, Capital & Banking)

I transitioned to the Product function to setup the first product growth team at Razorpay. The team built product capabilities that drove growth. from segmentation services, campaign api, to product led sales.

We started GrowthX community as a side hustle to solve our own paint point.

More contexy 👇

All communities that existed were primarily made for folks to help them crack their first job. However, being in mid-senior roles, Udayan at Razorpay and Abhishek at CRED, they wanted a close nit community of operators & founders who they can learn from. They wanted to soundboard, brainstorm & ideate on growth problems. 

We realised that as we grew in our careers, the journey became more and more lonely. To solve this, we started our own community called GrowthX. But we didn’t like the way current communities were setup. We felt they were too superficial. We did not want to connect with 100s of folks and talk about random things.

So we created a different kind of a community– a learning community. The insight was that we truly bond with people who we problem solve with. So, every week we selected 6-8 people, these folks would look at their own company's problem statement and solve it using a Harvard case study format.

Over the 2 years, we built a super strong community of 300 folks. We never wanted to become a large community just for the sake of a vanity number. Our community is characterized by people who keep in touch, who solve problems together, and who form lasting connections.

Over those 2 years, our community asked for longer, more structured version of our meetups- so we launched a 5 week program that teaches folks everything from acquisition, onboarding, engagement, retention & monetization.

We got sold out in 23 hours. And the rest is history.

First product marketing manager for platform product.

OnlineSales

As a Product Marketing Manager at OnlineSales.ai (Formerly Sokrati), I'm responsible for creating successful GTM kits, product launch strategies, accelerating user growth, increasing daily active users, driving product engagement and feature adoption.

Key Highlights:

- Launched over 100 lifecycle communication milestones in our first ever multi-channel communication framework which increased our daily active users by 30%. The various channels were dashboard comms, in-app messages, emails, in-app banners/pop-ups, etc. This was all built-inhouse.

- Ideated and led successful Go-To-Marketing strategies for all our core products right from
acquisition, retention, price positioning, up-sell, and more.

- Defined and streamlined communication triggers through the all stages of the user journey from Onboarding – Activation– Adoption–Engagement–Celebratory-Upsell–Retention etc.

- Ideated and executed a 5 step unsubscribe flow which reduced our unsubscribe rate by 12% in just 45 days. This also generated valuable feedback which helped us improve our current UX.

- Automated up-sells on OnlineSales.ai through smart communication frameworks and behavioral data targeting.

During my time as a Growth Marketing Lead, I drove growth in 5 key areas i.e. SEO/ASO, Inbound Leads, Website CRO & Email Automation.
   
• In 9 months I delivered 7X growth in organic traffic which completely restructured our acquisition source from outbound to inbound.
• Pioneered and a Led a new website that boosted our conversion rate from 0.8% to 4.3%
• Ideated and executed various optimization tactics to reduce our bounce rate from 65% to 15%
• Led triple digit growth in blog subscribers from 82 to 10,000+
• Drove 5.8X increase in total monthly users on the website.
• Boosted time on website 1:54 seconds to 5:25 seconds.
• ASO on Shopify and BigCommerce app stores directly resulting in a 6X growth in installs. 
• Ideated, developed & executed email marketing automations for all stages of the sales funnel resulting in 40% open rates & 12% CTR.

Merkle Sokrati

Josephine

● Created an End-to-end referral program.
 ● Drove new user growth through local events from
 ● Help reduce friction & increase trust for the end users of Josephine

YouCaring

Praiseworthy

Designed and Mapped the entire content marketing strategy across the funnel.

The strategy covered the following:

 ● Audience personas
 ● Audience needs
 ● Competitive research
 ● Content generation
 ● Distribution process
 ● Publication tracking process

Multple Early Stage Companies

Consulting companies on various aspects of digital marketing like SEO, web developement, Paid marketing, Social media marketing, Email marketing

Ocean Lifecare Pvt. Ltd

Key highlights of my job profile: 

● My Job was to create and manage marketing strategies. Pharma market in India is highly competitive and consists a lot of indirect marketing techniques 
 
●  Creating unique openings to consultants using unconventional marketing techniques. For example for children's day, kids coming to the doctor would be engaged in fun group activities which would help improve their mood and in turn helping the doctor create a happy environment.

●  Help sales team achieve their targets by coordinating and communicating on field problems into marketing solutions

This is the summary of my job profile:

● Execute 10 calls per day to the top consultants in my given area

● Check product demand and current stock with pharmaceutical shops 

●  Market research about competitors products with pharmaceutical shops

●  Keep track of key events about consultants such as their birthdays, anniversary's, first day at work etc and communicate to my marketing team to help make it special for them

●  Take new orders from pharmaceutical shops and inform to my production team on a weekly basis

Ocean Lifecare is engaged in the manufacture and marketing of herbal medicines across different states of India; very recently it has also diversified into manufacture of allopathic medicines. It has a strength of about 100 employees. Ocean was awarded the, "Worldstar 2013 Awards for Packaging Excellence".

The price covers one drink. These are the only four options.

What will you drink?

GitHub links, benchmarks, or a technical write-up. If you haven't, mention adjacent/related work.

What work have you done in inference engineering?

Request a seat and pay the token amount. Every request is reviewed because the table is small. If you're not approved, it is refunded automatically.

How do I get a seat?

It covers one drink of your choice. If your request is not approved, the refund comes back to you automatically.

What does the event price cover?

Yes. The final paper will be shared once the session is confirmed. Read it before arriving and come with a point of view.

Do I need to read the paper before coming?

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Reinfelder Villa | Shram HQ

Your bottleneck is getting users, not building the product.

You want repeatable systems, not one-off campaigns.

You're looking to automate parts of your GTM.

You have a product but no reliable distribution system yet.

Hitesh Sharma is a Core Volunteer at TG10X, Telangana's startup ecosystem initiative, where he curates and leads founder meetups and knowledge-sharing sessions.

He spent 14+ years building B2B SaaS products, including a stretch as Engineering Manager at Gainsight (joined as employee 26), and later founded Motor360, where he owned the full product loop and shipped with AI-assisted workflows on a lean team.

His experience founding Motor360 and consulting early-stage teams through POC-to-production gives him direct exposure to the GTM problems this buildathon targets: getting users with limited resources, not just building the product.

One working GTM system built around your actual problem

Real feedback from founders and operators who tested your system

A repeatable approach to building GTM systems faster

You'll build a working GTM system during the session. Laptop required.

Bring your laptop

Pick the specific GTM problem you want to solve before you arrive.

Come with one GTM problem

GrowthX does not profit from this session. The fee covers venue and snacks only.

Ticket covers venue and snacks

Choose one real GTM problem you want to build a system for.

Pick your GTM problem

Build an outbound engine, lead gen workflow, sales copilot, or GTM automation.

Build your system

Put your system in front of real people in the room.

Test on other founders

Improve based on what broke, then test again.

Get feedback, rebuild, retest

One GTM system, tested and iterated, ready to use.

Walk out with a working system

How long is the session?

What should I bring to the event?

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Build Your GTM Engine in 6 Hours

Arenesha WorkSpaces

You're making GTM calls daily with real constraints and no playbook to copy.

You own a number but haven't stress-tested the strategy behind it.

You advise on GTM but want sharper instincts under pressure, not just frameworks.

Syed Hadi leads Product Marketing and Partnerships at AccuKnox, a cloud security company where he drives GTM and growth.

He was the first product marketer at AccuKnox, part of the team that grew the company from $500K to $1M+ ARR, responsible for go-to-market strategy, positioning, buyer personas, and messaging across product, engineering, and sales.

He has built GTM under the exact constraints this session simulates: pricing decisions, competitive positioning in security, retention-first growth, and partner trust, all at an early-stage startup with a $100K marketing budget.

A GTM strategy pressure-tested through four escalating crises

A sharper read on pricing as a signal, not just a number

A retention lens you apply before scaling acquisition

A playbook instinct for responding when a competitor moves on you

You pick a GTM strategy and stress-test it through pricing, trust, retention, and competitive pressure.

Four crises, one strategy

Interactive session. Bring a laptop for hands-on work.

Bring a laptop

Saturday, Sep 19. 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM. No recording available.

3 hours, in-person, Bangalore

Take over an early-stage startup and commit to one GTM approach.

Pick your GTM strategy

Pricing as a signal, not just a number. Decide under real constraints.

Crisis 1: Pricing

Build trust with a skeptical audience before it becomes a full crisis.

Crisis 2: Trust

Retention before you scale acquisition. Stakes keep rising.

Crisis 3: Retention

A competitor moves on you. Respond fast with no clean answer.

Crisis 4: Competitive pressure

The room debates who got it right, who got it wrong, and why.

Debrief and debate

No, this session is designed to be experienced live. Recordings don’t do justice to the quality of interaction and context you’ll gain by being present.

Will there be a recording?

Most sessions run for 60–90 minutes. Exact duration will be mentioned in the event details.

No experience is required. This event is designed to provide insights for both beginners and professionals interested in AI.

Do I need prior experience with AI to attend?

Just bring yourself and your curiosity. If attending an interactive session, bring a laptop to explore hands-on demos.

Most GTM strategies sound logical until you're forced to decide with real constraints—and everything's on the line.

I'm hosting a hands-on deep dive where you'll tackle four GTM crises that trip up even experienced founders. This is not a lecture. It's a session where you make tough calls under pressure and see if your thinking stands up.

You'll walk away able to spot the cracks in pricing, trust, retention, and competitive defense, before they take you by surprise.

Sunday, 13 Sep 2026 · 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM. Price: ₹299.

details here: [rsvp_url]

GTM Deep Dive

Seats still open for GTM Deep Dive this Sunday.

This isn't a strategy lecture. You'll make make-or-break calls as a founder would, in the middle of pricing, retention, trust, and competitive storms.

If you want to stress-test how you think about GTM, this is it.

Sunday, 13 Sep 2026 · 4:00 PM

Paid event. details here: [rsvp_url]

AccuKnox

Atharva Shah

Bangalore

You've already made Astra do real work and want to show the room.

Blender, Unreal, Premiere, the browser. You have a working project, not an idea.

You want to see 10 setups, steal what works, and skip the failures.

Anupam is co-founder of Digia, building the in-app experience layer for mobile apps.

He spent 7 years at Urban Company leading Android, iOS, growth engineering, and platform initiatives before starting Digia.

His background running product experimentation and growth engineering at scale means he knows how to curate and run a tight builder showcase like this one.

10 real Astra demos with prompts, failures, and setup breakdowns

Workflows you can plug into your own Astra projects immediately

A room of 10 vetted builders you can reach after the event

Your project is reviewed before approval. If not selected, you get a full refund.

Approval-only registration

No slides, no pitches. Bring a working version of what you built with Astra.

Bring your laptop and project

Meet the 10 selected builders before demos start.

Room opens, builders settle in

Each builder shows what they made Astra finish. 90 seconds each.

90-second Astra demos begin

Prompts, failures, human intervention. The how behind each demo.

Breakdowns and questions

Swap workflows, compare setups, close out by 1 PM.

Open discussion and wrap

Tell us what it does, what Astra controlled, and why it’s interesting.

What have you built with GPT-6 Astra?

You can share a Loom video, GitHub repo, website, X post, or any other relevant link.

Share a link to your project or demo.

Selected builders will showcase what they built. Each person gets 90 seconds to demo, followed by questions and a discussion about their setup.

What will happen at the event?

This event is for people actively building with GPT-6 Astra. Beginners should not apply. This is not an introduction or workshop.

Who is this event for?

Your registration will be approved only after we review and select your project.

How will my registration be approved?

If your project is not approved, your registration fee will be fully refunded.

What happens if my project is not selected?

Bring your laptop and a working version of your project. No pitches or slide decks.

What should I bring?

The First week of AGI hang I Gurugram

Gurgaon

You already have something working in GPT-6 Astra and want to show it.

You're using Astra with Blender, Unreal, Premiere, or the browser daily.

You want to steal setups, prompts, and failure patterns from 10 real demos.

Surbhi is the founder of Focus First Club and a former Director of Engineering at Glance.

She spent 14 years building products at Oracle, Visa, Shop101, and Glance, leading teams that scaled e-commerce platforms to multi-million dollar ARR.

Her experience shipping complex engineering products and curating small, application-based groups is what shapes the selection process and tight demo format of this hang.

Shubham is an IIT Bombay grad, founder of GuitarBro, and an angel investor across multiple startups.

He has built and invested in startups across e-commerce, health tech, and consumer products, with a background in entrepreneurial building and coaching.

His experience running a small angel fund and evaluating early-stage builders helps vet the 10 Astra projects selected for this session.

10 real Astra workflows: prompts, setups, and failure points included

A vetted group of Astra builders you've met in person

Ideas you can apply to your own Astra projects the same week

No slide decks or pitches. You need a working version of your Astra project.

Your project is reviewed first. If not selected, you get a full refund.

Registration is approval-based

GrowthX does not profit from this session. Fee covers venue and snacks only.

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