We help people build self-evolving businesses.
Join 4,000+ business owners, executives, and builders learning to build businesses and teams that get better on their own, the way the best companies in the world already do.
Manas Takalpati
Founder of Blue Orchid. UNC alum. Based in NYC.
The thesis
One person can do a lot more now.
The tools changed. What a small team can build, run, and improve changed with them.
Free guides
Start with these.
Start here
Who this is for.
Business owners
Less manual reporting, faster decisions, and fewer things falling through. We make the business easier to run.
Builders & ambitious people
Learn to build with AI, get real problems to work on, and make things people actually use.
Experts
Turn a workflow you know deeply into an agent. One example is a CBRE lead-finding agent that filters companies and finds expansion signals.
Build together
We pair builders with the people who have the problems.
Two kinds of people find us. Builders who can build and want a real problem instead of another side project, and experts and owners who know exactly what should exist but cannot build it themselves. When the fit is right, we introduce them and help scope the first version.
If you build
Get a real problem worth your time, with an expert who knows the domain and an owner who wants it built.
If you have the problem
Get matched with a builder who can turn your expertise, or your idea, into something real.
Work with us
What we build.
We start with a working session and go as far as a full company brain. Our team of builders and the Company Brain product are behind every build.
1:1 advising
A working session on what is changing, what is usable now, and where you should focus first.
Custom AI agents
SEO, lead generation, reporting, research, and follow-up agents built around the way your team already works.
A company brain
One place your whole business runs on, with agents on top, so the work keeps moving without living in one person's head.
Turn your expertise into an agent
You know a domain cold. Our team turns that into software and agents we deploy for you and for others.
Speaking and workshops
Keynotes and hands-on sessions for teams, events, and offsites.
Builder and expert pairing
We introduce builders who can build to experts and owners who know exactly what should exist.
Book a call
For owners planning a build, and for advisory sessions.
A 1:1 session for business owners and executives who want a specific build, custom agents or a company brain, or a clear read on what is changing and where to focus first. If you are earlier than that, join the newsletter and office hours instead.
What the call is for
- See which capabilities are ready now, and which are noise
- Understand what your team should prepare for next
- Leave with a practical plan for where to focus first
The work
How a business starts evolving itself.
- Everything the business knows lives in one place, not in one person's head.
- Agents take on the operating work: intake, reporting, research, follow-up.
- Every week the system learns from what happened and gets better.
We build these at Blue Orchid.
Private beta
The company brain is in private beta.
One place your business runs on, with agents on top, so it keeps improving without depending on one person. We are onboarding a small group of teams now. Blue Orchid builds it, and real estate developers and investors get a dedicated version.
- Company brains that make scattered context usable
- Workflow systems for intake, reporting, and follow-up
- Agents built around the way your team already works
Outside work
A bit about me
When I'm not working, I'm probably playing volleyball, golf, or pickleball somewhere in NYC, or getting drinks with friends. I watch too many sci-fi shows, have seen all of Monk twice, and go down long rabbit holes of YC videos and Prof G podcasts.
I think a lot about sustainability, not just clean energy, but sustainable people and communities. How do we build a world where people actually take care of each other?
