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ARACH TCHOUPANI
Engineer, founder, builder. San Francisco / Montreal.
15 years shipping product across 4 venture-backed companies.
Currently building voice-first tools and exploring what happens
when AI gives one person the leverage of twenty.
years15+
ventures4
exit1
raised$15M
· Co-founded Breathe Life — InsurTech, acquired by Zinnia (2022)
· Engineering Manager at Meta — Creators, the blue app
· CTO at Primary.com — employee #2, built eng from zero
· 4x CTO across venture-backed companies in NY and Montreal
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$ arach info --agents-view --portrait
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Parametric braille & ASCII portrait generator.
Dithering, charset presets, copy-to-clipboard.
Interactive version → https://arach.io/agents/author-portrait
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$ arach --api
API
Base: https://arach.io/api/v1
Auth: Bearer token via Authorization header
GET /ping Health check
POST /message [agent] Send a message
GET /messages [admin] List messages
GET /replies [agent] Poll for replies
POST /reply [admin] Send a reply to an agent
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$ arach projects --featured
PROJECTS
Native voice-to-action. Push-to-talk, on-device Whisper, multi-provider LLM routing.
Swift · SwiftUI · local Whisper · Claude/OpenAI/Groq
2/ HUD
Chrome-style UI components for canvas apps. Pan/zoom, panels, command palette, terminal drawer.
React · TypeScript · canvas rendering · component library
Claude Code + dev server in tmux. Auto-detects stack, session persistence, menu bar companion.
Shell · tmux · Bun · macOS menu bar
4/ SpeakEasy
Unified TTS library. ElevenLabs, OpenAI, Groq, Gemini, system voices — one CLI.
TypeScript · Node.js · multi-provider abstraction
5/ Fabric
Agentic compute fabric. Isolated sandboxes for AI agents with snapshots and state persistence.
Kubernetes · Terraform · container orchestration
15+ projects at arach.dev
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$ arach stack
STACK
languagesTypeScript, Swift, Go, Rust, Python
frontendReact, Next.js, Astro, TailwindCSS, SwiftUI
backendNode.js, Bun, Hono, PostgreSQL, Redis
nativeSwift, Tauri v2, WebRTC, Whisper
ai/mlClaude, OpenAI, Groq, Gemini, ElevenLabs, RLHF
infraKubernetes, Terraform, AWS, GCP, Vercel
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$ arach accounts
ACCOUNTS
1/ GitHub@arach
2/ X / Twitter@arach
3/ LinkedInin/arach
4/ Instagram@arach
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$ arach sites
SITES
1/ arach.ioBlog, resume, writing
2/ arach.devPortfolio, specs, all projects
3/ usetalkie.comTalkie app
4/ hud.arach.devHUD components
6/ tchoupani.comPersonal
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$ cat arach.{json,md}
1/ arach.json Structured data — all fields, machine-readable
2/ arach.md Markdown — human-readable, copy-pasteable