# Who makes Nexus.

Nexus is built by Kushal SM. Before Nexus, he was an engineer at Emergent during its run from launch to $100M ARR in eight months.

Source: https://nexus.kushalsm.com/about/ · Updated 2026-10-16

## Kushal SM

- **IIT Bombay**, B.Tech in Aerospace Engineering, 2020–2024.
- **Emergent**, engineer, July 2025 to March 2026. Emergent is the AI app builder backed by SoftBank, Khosla Ventures and Y Combinator that reached [$100M in annual run-rate revenue eight months after launch](https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/17/emergent-hits-100m-arr-eight-months-after-launch-rolls-out-mobile-app/). Kushal was on the engineering team through that growth: he built the mobile deployment pipeline, brought Codex onto the platform, and built Emergent's customer-support and analytics agents and its internal MCP servers.
- Before that, applied AI at Elzo.ai and research on graph neural networks.

Now he builds products for the new app platforms inside ChatGPT and Claude. Nexus is the main one.

## Reviewed by Anthropic and OpenAI

Nexus went through both app-store-style reviews:

- **Claude**: approved and listed in the [Claude connectors directory](https://claude.ai/directory/nexus-fitness) since July 2026.
- **ChatGPT**: approved and listed in the [ChatGPT plugin directory](https://chatgpt.com/plugins/plugin_asdk_app_6a493b5778c48191a691705785c6feba) since September 2026.

Both reviews check what the app does with your data, how it signs you in, and how its tools behave, before it's listed.

## Your data

From the [privacy policy](https://nexus.kushalsm.com/privacy-policy/):

- Nexus stores only what it needs: your account, the meals, workouts and weights you log, and friend connections you choose.
- It never sells, rents or trades your data, and never uses your logs for advertising or to train AI models.
- Data is stored on Cloudflare, over HTTPS, with OAuth sign-in.
- Ask for deletion at any time; it's done within 30 days.
- You can read your whole history from any chat, or from the [command-line tool](https://nexus.kushalsm.com/usage-guide/).

## Other things he's built

- **[Coffeetable](https://coffeetable.kushalsm.com)**: a book-reading app inside ChatGPT and Claude, also listed in both directories.
- **Chrome Relay**: a tool that lets coding agents work in your real Chrome browser.

## Contact

[kushalsm.com](https://kushalsm.com) · [X @KushalSM5](https://twitter.com/KushalSM5) · [GitHub](https://github.com/kiluazen) · [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kushal-s-m-300534237/) · [kushalsokke@gmail.com](mailto:kushalsokke@gmail.com)