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About mkdir

mkdir is two founders who do the building themselves.

Varun Bagrodia runs outbound. Dheer Gupta builds the AI. Together we run two products and build for clients.

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The founders

The two people you will work with.

Portrait of Varun Bagrodia

Co-founder, outbound

Varun Bagrodia

Varun helps companies find their next customers, and builds the systems that make revenue growth predictable.

At mkdir
Runs our outbound engagements. Clients work with him from start to finish.
Before
Financial risk management at Credit Suisse.
Education
MEM in Finance, Duke University. BE, BITS Pilani.
Varun on LinkedIn (opens in a new tab)[email protected]
Portrait of Dheer Gupta

Co-founder, AI engineering

Dheer Gupta

Dheer builds the AI. He founded Home Relay, our voice agent for property maintenance, in December 2024 and is its AI engineer.

Research
Data Science Researcher, Knox College (2025). Built a cyber threat intelligence platform.
Data engineering
Data Engineer, MACRO Consortium (2025). An astronomy image system used by five institutions.
Education
Computer Science and Data Science, Knox College.
Dheer on LinkedIn (opens in a new tab)Portfolio (opens in a new tab)[email protected]
From clients

What clients said

I genuinely thought this was a problem that would require PDE to solve, but Varun proved me wrong. EXCEPTIONAL.
Director, Revenue Strategy & OperationsClient under NDA
“this is the most beautiful thing”
Principal, Tax Investor CoverageClient under NDA
“This is one of those things that seems like it's small but it's huuuuuge”
Head of OperationsClient under NDA
Our story

We run our own products.We build yours.

Dheer started Home Relay in December 2024. Then we built the Outbound Engine, and Varun runs our clients' outbound on it. Both are in production. The same two people build everything below.

What we run

For clients

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How we work

How every project runs.

  • You work with the founders.

    Varun and Dheer run every project from the first call to the hand-over. No account manager sits in between.

  • The AI drafts. A person approves.

    Where a mistake would cost you, nothing goes out until someone signs off. Every outbound reply waits for a person.

  • Your data stays separate.

    In the Outbound Engine, every client gets its own database. Nothing of yours sits next to anyone else's.

  • Built inside what you already pay for.

    Where you already pay for a tool, we connect to it and build inside it.

Next step

Tell Varun and Dheer what you need built.

A free 30 minute call with both founders.

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