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Mandar Shinde

I have spent the last 10 years writing documentation for other people's products...
cognocient.com Joined September 2026
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I have spent the last 10 years writing documentation for other people's products. These days I'm also building one of my own.

Currently: building Cognocient — cost tracking and bu... Show more

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Full Name: Mandar Shinde
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About: I have spent the last 10 years writing documentation for other people's products. These days I'm also building one of my own.

Currently: building Cognocient — cost tracking and budget enforcement for teams calling OpenAI, Anthropic, and Gemini. Started as a proxy, now also ships as an async wrapper for teams who don't want a proxy in their request path.

Background: technical writer, mostly API docs and developer-facing content. That's the lens I bring to building a product too — if the docs don't tell the truth about what a tool does and doesn't do, the docs are the bug.

Right now I'm figuring out: how much of building a company is actually building the product versus everything else. Currently spending more time than I expected on outreach, community writing, and learning what "sounds like a person, not a pitch" actually takes.
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