Agents with a job to do.
Research, reasoning, tools and hand-offs—designed around clear goals and human oversight.
EXPERIMENTS IN PROGRESS
WELCOME TO MY HOUSE OF IDEAS
I’m
Shivansh
Nayak.
AI specialist. Builder of agents, automations and software. Writer, reader, painter, and a student of how the world works.
SHIVANSH NAYAKPERSONAL PORTFOLIO / 2026
ROOM 01 / THE ENGINE ROOM01 — 06
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE / UNDER ACTIVE CONSTRUCTION
Make intelligence
useful.
I’m interested in the moment software begins to act: an agent that understands its task, a workflow that gives time back, a product that keeps a person in control.
ON THE DESK NOW / 001A personal assistant.
A personal assistant.
A public front door.
I’m building my personal AI assistant with Hermes. Ezra will be the concierge on this site: a familiar, helpful way to find a project, ask about my work, or move through the house.
FRONT END READY / HERMES CONNECTION TO FOLLOW
Work that moves by itself.
Carefully scoped automations that remove repetition and make each step understandable.
WORKFLOWS IN DEVELOPMENTSaaS, from first principle.
Useful products need more than a clever demo: a coherent interface, reliable state and a reason to return.
PRODUCT IDEAS / BUILDINGAI / AGENTS / AUTOMATION / PRODUCT ENGINEERINGNEXT ROOM / WEB ATELIER ↓
A NOTE ON MAKING
Thought is a beginning.
Making gives it a place to live.
ROOM 02 / THE WEB ATELIER02 — 06
FRONT END / FULL STACK / COMMERCE
Things made
for the screen.
A website can be a storefront, a tool, a story or a small world. These projects explore different ways an interface can invite someone in.
NAYAK / AI SYSTEMS01 — 07
N.
Intelligence,
with a human direction.
01 / BRAND WEBSITE
↗Nayak
A considered introduction to the Nayak brand and its AI work. This is the marketing website—separate from the Scout application.
02 / CREATOR PRODUCT
↗Virality OS
A creator workspace with a redesigned front end and interactive idea studio. Generation is a local demo.
F!ZZIBLACK CHERRYOPEN WEBSITE ↗
03 / E-COMMERCE CONCEPT
↗Fizzi Soda
A bright 3D beverage storefront, flavour selector and demo shopping bag. No real checkout.
THESUBSTANCEOPEN WEBSITE ↗
04 / CREATIVE STUDIO
↗The Substance
A material study in glass, light and image, with interactive 3D treatments.
sleepbetter.OPEN WEBSITE ↗
05 / CINEMATIC COMMERCE
↗Sleepy
A product story paced by scroll, with a 360° product sequence and demo commerce flow.
OPEN WEBSITE ↗
06 / SCENT & STORY
↗Nocturne
A dark fragrance house imagined through glass, ingredients and a slow reveal.
OPEN WEBSITE ↗
07 / PRODUCT ENGINEERING
↗Velocity Lab
An interactive footwear launch with X-ray, thermal and CAD inspection modes.
Some experiences adapt open-source foundations. Their original authors, code licenses and asset credits are listed in the project credits ↗.
ROOM 03 / THE LIBRARY & LIFE03 — 06
THE WORK OUTSIDE THE WORK
A mind needs
other rooms.
Code is one way I make sense of things. Reading, writing, painting and history keep the questions wider.
SHIVANSH NAYAK / NOTESIdeas are
better when
they travel.
better when
they travel.
Writing
Essays, observations and work in progress on technology, history and being human.
HISTORY / SCIENCE / FICTION / PHILOSOPHYRead widely.
READING NOTES / BEING ASSEMBLEDRead widely.
Keep the margins.
Books are a way of borrowing other lives and extending your own. A considered reading shelf will live here.
STUDIO ARCHIVESELECTED PAINTINGS / COMING IN FROM THE STUDIO
Painting
Work made slowly, by hand. The collection belongs here once the images are gathered.
ROOM 04 / THE OBSERVATORY04 — 06
QUESTIONS I KEEP OPEN
What might we
make possible?
How do we make AI agents capable—and still legible, corrigible and worth trusting?
Can automation return attention to people instead of simply asking them to do more?
What unsolved questions in mathematics or science could change how we understand the world?
What helps a civilization preserve knowledge, cooperation and possibility through difficult centuries?
These are questions I’m learning my way into, not claims of answers.
ROOM 05 / THE CURRENT DESK05 — 06
WHAT I’M BUILDING TOWARD
The next rooms
are taking shape.
Personal assistant
Building with Hermes. The next step is connecting Ezra’s portfolio concierge to the assistant.
IN PROGRESSUseful, bounded agents
Exploring agents and automations that act with clear scope and human oversight.
EXPLORINGTools people return to
Shaping product ideas into SaaS interfaces, workflows and useful e-commerce experiences.
IN DEVELOPMENTROOM 06 / THE SALONTHE CONVERSATION CONTINUES
YOU’VE SEEN A FEW ROOMS
Leave a door
open.
For a thoughtful problem, a useful collaboration, or a question that wants company.
[email protected] ↗