About
I’m Akhil Puri — a writer, builder, and seeker living in Toronto, originally from Bangalore. I work full-time on the metacrisis: the interconnected web of crises threatening the systems we depend on. The longer version of what I believe and why is on the homepage.
The short version: I find that a useful lens for understanding and solving our civilizational crises is to see them as breakdowns in our ability to self-correct — at every level, from the individual nervous system to planetary governance. My work is about restoring those feedback loops. I think in systems, value curiosity over ideology, and believe the inner work and the outer work are the same work seen from different angles.
Experience
July 2024 · Present
Writer, Builder, Speaker
Full-time on the Metacrisis
Writing on Substack, building digital wellbeing tools, speaking on coordination failures and systems change. Asking: how shall we live?
2022 · 2024
Product Manager — Climate SaaS
SINAI Technologies
Led product for enterprise decarbonization tools. Carbon accounting and emissions management at scale.
2019 · 2022
Founder
Earth 47
Built a solar marketplace and carbon offset platform. Climate tech from the inside — supply chains, policy, and the gap between intention and infrastructure.
2018 · 2019
Product Leader
WhiteHat Jr
EdTech product at hypergrowth. Learned the tensions of scaling fast and the compromises that come with it.
2015 · 2018
Product Leader
Practo
Health tech at scale in India. Building products that connect patients to healthcare.
2011 · 2013
Sales Leader
Hindustan Unilever
Learned how large systems actually move. Distribution, incentives, and the machinery of consumer markets.
2009 · 2011
PGDM
IIM Bangalore
Management, strategy, and where the hard questions started.
Education
- IIM Bangalore — PGDM (MBA)
- BITS Pilani — B.E. Computer Science
Positive Deviants Fellow, 2025
Let’s Connect
I’m open to consulting, collaboration, coaching, and speaking. If you’re working on coordination problems, climate, governance, digital wellbeing, or community — I’d like to hear about it.