About Amit Patnaik

AI fluency from inside India's decision architecture.

I work at the intersection of Indian government, energy, executive writing, and AI-native systems. The site exists to make that combination visible.

What I do

I build public intelligence systems for complex Indian domains.

My core work is to turn difficult systems into surfaces that serious people can use: energy pricing, crude markets, infrastructure, cyber risk, AI compute, policy questions, and institutional workflows.

The public proof is visible in Sanjaya, Sanket, the AI explainers, and the essays on configuration and public decision intelligence.

Why it is different

The work starts from rooms where decisions are actually made.

I have worked around senior ministerial, PSU, and institutional communication environments where the problem is not "generate text". The problem is evidence, hierarchy, voice, timing, risk, and the consequences of getting the decision frame wrong.

That is why the AI work here is not positioned as generic productivity. It is decision intelligence for India-scale institutions.

Education Physics + TISS

A technical first degree followed by social-science training at Tata Institute of Social Sciences.

Early signal Google, 2010

Selected into Google at a time when that meant peak technology-company signal and intense competition.

Institutional range HR, communications, policy

Experience across people systems, corporate communication, energy, education, diplomacy, development, and technology writing.

AI systems Built solo, shipped public

Self-taught coding with AI agents, then shipped public systems in weeks rather than years.

The angle

This is not another general-purpose AI newsletter. The market is saturated with those. The useful angle is the intersection: someone who understands government files, ministerial voice, PSU communication, energy-security decision environments, and the AI tooling now powerful enough to turn that understanding into public systems.

The working hypothesis: India's valuable AI work will not only come from building a frontier model. It will come from wrapping models with voice, memory, rules, evidence, domain data, and institutional context for the principals and organisations that cannot build that wrapper themselves.

Products

See the systems

Sanjaya, Sanket, and the public product layer around energy, cyber risk, finance, and AI explainers.

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Writing

Read the thesis

Essays and explainers on India AI, decision intelligence, energy, configuration, AI compute, and public systems.

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Inspect the work

The public code trail for the tooling and product surfaces behind this site.

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