Nirav Sampat
Operations and automation projects — a mix of professional work and things I built on my own time.
- Fleet growth absorbed at flat headcount
- 67%
- Savings from forecasting work
- $3M+
- Annual SaaS spend consolidated
- $100K+
Featured
- Optimization −31% miles driven, while the fleet grew 67% Autonomous technician dispatch Nightly route optimization that grew a vending-robot fleet 67% with no added field headcount and 31% less driving. Crave Robotics Interactive
- Strategy & Operations 70% of planning workflows automated Integrated business planning infrastructure Automated 70% of planning workflows and built a single source of truth across Sales, Finance, Operations, and Supply Chain. Botrista Interactive
- AI / Automation 1.5% true conversation rate, 0 meetings booked What 2,000 emails taught me about data quality Shipped an AI-powered outbound system, instrumented it properly, and found the bottleneck was list quality — not messaging. Crave Robotics Interactive
- Internal Tools $100K+ annual SaaS spend consolidated Operating platform, 0→1 Built the company's operating infrastructure from scratch — a multi-module platform replacing a spreadsheet stack and six figures of annual SaaS spend. Crave Robotics Interactive
More work
- Data / Analytics $3M+ cost savings from forecast accuracy Demand forecasting across 600+ SKUs Botrista Interactive
- Supply Chain / Operations 12 mo rolling forecast horizon Demand planning and reorder logic Crave Robotics Interactive
- Optimization Cold start assortment for machines with no sales history Location-level assortment optimization Crave Robotics Interactive
- Side Projects 3 stores one list, one Sunday trip The Sunday grocery problem Personal Interactive
- Side Projects ~40 exercises tracked with weight, reps, and difficulty per set Progressive overload needs a memory Personal Interactive
- Side Projects Every weekday unattended, since 2025 A daily market brief for my dad Personal Interactive
Nothing in that category yet.