AI Agent That Runs Your Phone — Inspiring Founders Interview with ConscioussAI

In mid-2024, Shiven Dave was an aerospace engineering student drowning in wind tunnel test data. So he built a pipeline that let an AI watch his screen and answer his questions. He called it Jarvis — he's a lifelong Iron Man fan — and he had no intention of sharing it. His cousin talked him out of that. Two years later, that bedroom project is ConscioussAI, a twelve-person startup that just launched what Shiven calls the first mobile agent that runs your entire phone. In this episode he demos it live, booking an Uber to the Golden Gate Bridge from his Apple Watch without touching the phone at all. We get into the parts most founder interviews skip: how a team of community college friends charges money from day one, why they pitch at campus tables instead of buying ads, how an agent gets around iOS restrictions on third-party apps, and why every chat stays on your device instead of on their servers. Shiven also shares the harder lessons — the tunnel vision that nearly cost them the mobile pivot, and what it actually takes to not quit. ConscioussAI: https://www.conscioussai.com Inspiring Founders: https://www.inspiringfounders.com #InspiringFounders #AIAgents #StartupInterview #SiliconValley #StudentFounder