Notes on agent infrastructure, compatibility layers, and building as a solo founder.
founder@buildonto.dev
Bengaluru, India
I am Ravi
Founder · Onto · Open Dev Society
Writing
2026
- May 20Why we don't need to rebuild software for AI agentsOn the compatibility layer thesis and the inevitable lag between new users arriving and infrastructure acknowledging them.
- May 18The cost gravity argument: why bigger models don't fix the format problemToken economics will always favor compatibility layers, regardless of how smart models become.
- May 16What Claude actually does when it fetches a URLA breakdown of the differences between Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity when reading the web.
- May 14Lighthouse for AI readability: the case for AIO Score as a standardOn positioning AIO Score as the natural evolution of Web Vitals for the agent era.
- May 10Why I built Onto solo in 10 weeks from a tier-3 college in IndiaThe founder story behind the company. What worked. What didn't. What's next.