CEO, Tallyfy
Amit Kothari
Amit is the CEO of Tallyfy. He has 25+ years of practical experience in technology, entrepreneurship, and operational efficiency. He's been hands-on with AI-first engineering and changing Tallyfy to AI-native workflow automation since Claude Code was first released. Before Tallyfy he spent years helping companies write down and improve how they work, and kept seeing the same problems: nobody read the documents, and nobody could see where any piece of work stood.
He's also an Entrepreneur in Residence at WashU's Skandalaris Center, created the OneDay (Woolf) AI curriculum for their accredited MBA and consults with clients who need help with AI via Blue Sheen. He graduated with a Computer Science degree from the University of Bath. He's originally British and lives in St. Louis, MO.
Tallyfy moved from London to St. Louis after winning an Arch Grant in 2015. Outside Tallyfy, Amit has deep intuition for UI/UX, wrote a book of poetry, and watches American robins.
Education
- BSc Computer Science , University of Bath (2004)
Affiliations and roles
Featured in
- UMSL Daily - AI in business: Tallyfy CEO Amit Kothari leads vibe coding lunch and learn at UMSL Innovation Center
- Entrepreneur Quarterly - The Bourbon Friday Show with Amit Kothari from Tallyfy
- TechSTL - Get to Know Amit Kothari, CEO of Tallyfy
- Patch (St. Louis) - Five Questions with a Startup CEO: Amit Kothari of Tallyfy
- Entrepreneur Quarterly - Voices: Amit Kothari on corporate-startup collaboration
- Silicon Prairie News - Tallyfy standardizes workflows and helps businesses scale their operations
- St. Louis Public Radio - Shark Tank-type competition is watershed moment for St. Louis startups
- Steve Preda Podcast (SummitOS) - Episode 95: Define Workflow Your Grandma Can Use with Amit Kothari
Topics
Recent posts by Amit
- Why Stockton University's science program moved purchase approvals out of a generic email system
- We went looking for decisions a model should make. Mostly we found rules.
- When two people do the same task, nobody was careless
- API vs MCP vs CLI: pick the right automation surface
- How the Claude Code configuration architecture shaped the Tallyfy CLI
- Workflows as code with the new Tallyfy CLI
Find Amit elsewhere
- https://amitkoth.com/about/
- https://bluesheen.com/authors/amit-kothari/
- https://sternstella.com/authors/amit-kothari/
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/amitkoth
- https://www.crunchbase.com/person/amit-kothari
- https://github.com/amitkoth
- https://skandalaris.wustl.edu/resource/in-residence-program/
- https://woolf.university/colleges/oneday
- https://blogs.umsl.edu/news/2026/03/02/vibe-coding-workshop/
- https://archgrants.org/company/tallyfy/
- https://blogs.bath.ac.uk/on-parade/2017/06/21/from-claverton-down-to-silicon-valley/
- https://summitos.co/podcast/95-define-workflow-your-grandma-can-use-with-amit-kothari/
- https://entrepreneurquarterly.com/the-bourbon-friday-show-with-amit-kothari-from-tallyfy/
- https://techstl.com/amit-kothari-ceo-of-tallyfy/
- https://patch.com/missouri/stlouis/five-questions-startup-ceo-amit-kothari-tallyfy
- https://entrepreneurquarterly.com/voices-amit-kothari-tallyfy-corporate-startup-collaboration/
- https://siliconprairienews.com/2019/01/tallyfy-standardizes-workflows-and-helps-businesses-scale-their-operations/
- https://www.stlpr.org/economy-business/2018-10-30/shark-tank-type-competition-is-watershed-moment-for-st-louis-startups