In an industry dominated by PhDs and billion-dollar research labs, Naman Panchal is an anomaly. At just 14 years old, he is the Founder of Curtun Labs, a company with a singular and ambitious mission: to build the cognitive nervous system for the autonomous enterprise.

The Boy from the Village

Naman was born in a small village, far removed from the tech hubs of Bangalore or Silicon Valley. His early life wasn't defined by access to supercomputers, but by a relentless curiosity. "I didn't have the best resources," Naman recalls. "But I had the internet. And on the internet, no one knows you're a kid from a village. They only care about your code."

While other children were playing games, Naman was deconstructing them. By age 12, he was already experimenting with neural networks, frustrated by their limitations. He didn't want a chatbot that could write a poem; he wanted a machine that could understand and act.

Founding Curtun Labs

Naman founded Curtun Labs with a clear vision: First Principles Thinking. He saw that the current wave of AI was becoming derivative—companies were simply wrapping existing models in new UIs.

"We are not here to build a better wrapper," Naman told his early team. "We are here to solve the fundamental problem of agency. How do we make an AI that can plan, reason, and execute tasks over long time horizons without needing constant human hand-holding?"

A Different Kind of CEO

Being a 14-year-old CEO comes with skepticism. Investors and partners are often surprised when they walk into the room. But that surprise quickly turns to respect when Naman starts speaking about architecture.

"Age is just a number," he says. "In code, the only thing that matters is if it compiles and runs. Our agents don't care how old I am. They care about the logic I give them."

Under his leadership, Curtun Labs has moved at breakneck speed, developing proprietary "Long-Horizon Planning" algorithms that allow their agents to maintain context for weeks—something most SOTA models struggle to do.

The Vision Ahead

Naman's vision for the future is optimistic but grounded. He envisions a world where humans are liberated from "robotic" work—the data entry, the scheduling, the repetitive monitoring.

"I want to build a world where every person has a team of 10,000 expert agents working for them," Naman says. "Imagine what a single human could achieve with that kind of leverage. That is the future we are building at Curtun."

From a small village to the forefront of the AGI revolution, Naman Panchal's journey is just beginning. And if Curtun Labs's progress is any indication, he is just getting started.