About
Who the voice is, and why the site is pitched the way it is.
Amit Patnaik writes on AI, energy, and institutional communications, from Delhi.
The day job is corporate communications at a state-sector oil refinery. Outside that, over the last several years, the drafting work has been at the senior-ministerial level in the energy and foreign-affairs portfolios. That is the vantage point this site operates from.
What the site is
Essays are long-form analysis. One up so far; more in drafting.
Explainers are tap-to-learn companions for readers who would rather poke than read. A nine-layer drilldown on the AI compute stack, and a searchable glossary of the vocabulary around it.
Briefings are the filter across oil and gas, AI technology, governance, and operating signals. Not what was loudest; what changes the map.
Sanjaya is a separate project — the four-part decomposition of Indian petrol and diesel pump prices against a decade of Brent crude, refreshed daily from official petroleum price publications.
The angle
Not another general-purpose AI newsletter. The market is saturated with those. What this site tries to do is sit at the policy, communications, and energy-infrastructure intersection, and read the AI stack from that seat — the seat of someone who reads government files, writes for ministers, and runs corporate communications for an energy PSU.
The working hypothesis: over the next three years, the valuable Indian AI work will not come from trying to build a better frontier model. It will come from wrapping the models that exist — with voice, rules, memory, and institutional context — for the principals, institutions, and practitioners who will not build that wrapper themselves. The site is the long-form reasoning behind that bet, plus the tooling that proves it works.