AN OPEN STUDIO / SHIVANSH NAYAKINDIA · 2026

AI ENGINEER · BUILDER · WRITER · ARTIST

A life in
systems &
stories.

I build useful things, follow difficult questions
and look for the human story inside both.

Onyx, the midnight pantherA sculptural black panther, alert and ready to guide visitors through the portfolio.
ONYXYOUR GUIDE
A PERSONAL
STUDIO TOUR
01 — 08
CODE / CONSIDEREDIDEAS / IN MOTIONSCROLL TO BEGIN ↓

CHAPTER 01 / THE WORKSHOP

01 — 08

First, the
things I build.

Websites with a point of view.
Each one opens into its own world.

Open each project to explore the experience. Adapted foundations and asset credits are documented inside the relevant project.

CHAPTER 02 / THE INTELLIGENCE ROOM

02 — 08

The next tool
should feel human.

AI work is most interesting to me
when it gives people more agency.

AI PRODUCT / CASE STUDY
✳

Intelligence
with intention.

From thoughtful interfaces to agentic systems, I’m interested in making powerful tools understandable, steerable and genuinely useful.

THE AI STUDIO / IN DEVELOPMENT
01 / ASSISTANTS
◌

Bots with
good manners.

Focused assistants that explain what they can do, keep a person in control and know when to hand back.

EXPERIMENTS / IN PROGRESS
02 / AUTOMATIONS
→

Quietly useful
automations.

Small systems that remove repetitive work and make the important steps visible.

WORKFLOWS / IN PROGRESS
03 / SAAS

Products with
a clear purpose.

SaaS ideas, interface prototypes and the decisions behind turning a useful idea into a product.

PRODUCT LAB / IN PROGRESS
NOTES FROM THE BENCH

Onyx is a guided portfolio tour, not a connected AI agent. New tools and builds will appear here as they become real.

A SMALL PAUSE

“The map is not the territory.
The map is an invitation to look again.”

S.N. / FIELD NOTE 001

CHAPTER 03 / THE OTHER ROOMS

03 — 08

One life.
Several lenses.

Code is one way of making sense.
It is not the only one.

ROOM 01 / THE ATELIER

Art & image

Paintings, visual experiments and the pleasure of making without a brief.

THE GALLERY IS TAKING SHAPE
ROOM 02 / THE WRITING DESK

Writing in public

Essays and notes on technology, culture, history and the questions between them.

Read my Substack ↗
ROOM 03 / THE LIBRARY

Reading & history

Books, biographies and civilizational patterns that keep changing how I see the present.

READING NOTES / COMING TOGETHER
ROOM 04 / THE LONG QUESTIONS
?

Problems worth staying with.

Can clean energy become abundant? How do societies preserve knowledge through shocks? Which open questions in mathematics or science could change what we can build?

Bring me a question ↗

OCCASIONAL LETTERS / VIA SUBSTACK

A note when
there’s something to say.

Writing, reading notes and work in progress.
No noise for the sake of noise.

Read & follow on Substack ↗

THE TOUR ENDS HERE

Good to have
you through.

If something here made you curious, let’s continue the conversation.

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