Building something real

I co-founded a company.

It's called Kaskaraa Instruments, and we're building technology that automates pathology. I'm not going to go deep into what the product does — not yet — but I can talk about everything around it.

The process

Starting a company while being a student is exactly as chaotic as it sounds. There's the legal side — incorporation, shareholder agreements, IP assignments, all the paperwork that makes it real in the eyes of the law. We did it properly. Articles of incorporation filed, operating agreement signed, everything structured so it scales.

Then there's the investor side. We've been having conversations with people who see what we see — that pathology is a field where automation isn't a luxury, it's an inevitability. The conversations have been going well. That's all I'll say about that for now.

My role

I write the software. All of it.

The entire software stack is mine — from the low-level systems that interface with the hardware to the higher-level application layer. It's the kind of work where you can't fake your way through it. Every line has to be deliberate because the stakes are different when you're building something that touches the medical field.

It's also the most technically challenging thing I've ever worked on. The intersection of software and physical systems, where timing matters, where reliability isn't optional, where the code has to work every single time — it sharpens you in ways that pure software projects don't.

What this means

I'm 18 and I have a company. We have investors interested. We have a legal entity. We have a product in development. None of that felt real until I saw our name on official documents.

There's a specific feeling when you go from "we have an idea" to "we have a corporation." It's not excitement exactly — it's more like gravity. The weight of having something that exists outside of your head, that other people are betting on, that has obligations and structure and a future that depends on execution.

I'm not going to pretend I have it all figured out. But the foundation is real, and the work is happening.

More to come.