Saidev Dhal

I founded OpenHorizon Labs. It's a robotics research company.

We study how robots learn from people, remember their mistakes and act safely in the real world.

Then we turn that work into software that runs on your own hardware.

BotCortex lets you teach a robot by typing.

The skill runs on the robot at 20 Hz. Zero model calls. Inside bounds the model can't loosen.

Sapient started as a side project. I wanted a robot that could hear me, think and talk back, with no uplink.

So I wrote my own inference engine. In Rust.

Now it's one 8 MB download. 27.7 tokens a second on a Jetson AGX Thor, and it still runs on a Raspberry Pi 5.

Our latest paper found that on a Raspberry Pi 5, fewer stalls didn't mean more completed tasks.

I ship open source as SkidGod. The biggest project, x0-GPT, has 40 stars on GitHub.

I also freelance, and I'm taking on new work.

Need a full-stack SaaS? Web, app, AI, or all three. I can build the whole thing. Let's talk.

I go by SkidGod because I was one.

A skid is someone who runs on other people's code. At fourteen, that was me. Lifting Discord bots and shipping them as my own.

It started as an insult. I kept it.

What I wanted was the founder tag in those servers.

So I learned discord.py and built my own bot instead.

That's where my tech career started. I stayed because it turned out I found it genuinely interesting.

In 2024 I was at Ellenox, running hackathons and tech support and managing a Discord community of 2,000+ members.

Same year, I spent my nights and weekends in buildspace's S5 cohort.

In January 2025 I joined IIT Madras as technical lead. Nine months of product and strategy, building the MVP with the engineering team and a professor.

After that, two months at Bharat Space Education Research Centre as a def-space tech intern. Aircraft design and robotics.

Then I started my own thing.