Patiala, India · open from January 2027

ShauryaVerma

I build AI systems that can't lie —agents, retrieval, evals and guardrails, shipped to real users.

“Everything I do gotta be iconic cause I’m me.”

Built
9
Running right now
7
Free from
Jan 2027
See the work
Shaurya Verma standing in a light blue shirt in front of a wall covered in printed photographs and quote cards, smiling at the camera.
Barney Stinson reclining in a bathtub in a full suit, talking on a phone, captioned: He is my spirit animal.

The anthem

“Shaurya Verma is Awesome”

Barney made a video called I'm Awesome. So did I. It exists because I thought it was funny, and then it kept being funny, and now it is the second thing on my portfolio — which is funnier still.

Press it. The rest of this page is about systems that refuse to overstate themselves, so consider this the one place I am allowed to.

It will not start on its own — the control in the top corner does the same thing, and it stays with you the whole way down.

The short version

Most people building with AI are trying to make it say more.I build systems that can't lie.

It shows up in everything I make, on projects that have nothing to do with each other — a job-hunt tool, a relationship assessment, a braille display for blind students, a screening assistant for rural clinics. Same instinct every time: make the dishonest output structurally impossible, then prove it with a test. Four of them, from four different codebases:

  1. 01
    Sifarish

    A résumé line with no citation throws an exception. Not a warning — a thrown error, at the one gate every line has to pass through.

    1 receipt
    • compiler.ts:284CompileError("I1 violation…") on a bullet with an empty ledgerIds array.
  2. 02
    Aaina

    I refused to output a compatibility score, and wrote a whole chapter explaining why — because the research says that number predicts nothing.

    1 receipt
    • sources.tsJoel, Eastwick & Finkel 2017 — over a hundred measures predicted none of the dyad-specific variance.
  3. 03
    Braillix

    My braille checker has three verdicts, not two. It will say “unchecked — this proves nothing” rather than let a gap in itself read as a pass.

    1 receipt
    • roundtrip.tsagrees | differs | unchecked, with the reasoning kept in the file.
  4. 04
    Sehat Saarthi

    I fed my own live app an MRI of a healthy brain, got back “80% dementia”, and deleted two working models that night — including the one descended from a hackathon I had won.

    1 receipt
    • MODEL_ANALYSIS.mdThe test, the finding, and the decision to remove both modules from the live app.

I care about this because the gap between a demo and a product is entirely made of the things a system refuses to claim. Evals, guardrails, honest uncertainty — that is the work I want to be doing, and it is already how I build when nobody is watching.

The Veil Nebula — the wreck of a star

A star exploded here. This is the shockwave, still travelling, ten thousand years later.

Every filament is gas being lit as the blast slams into it. The star itself is long gone; what you are looking at is entirely evidence of something that already happened — which is, more or less, what the rest of this page is too.

The Veil Nebula · NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) · CC BY 4.0

The work

Nine things nobody asked me to build.

Seven of them are running right now at URLs you can open. Click any project for the whole story.

Whoever you are, one of these is for you

Sifarish and Aaina are the two I would lead with anywhere. The rest exist because the domain kept changing and the method did not.

  1. Sifarish’s reasoning panel, headed “why this page looks like this”, listing eleven facts played and two benched, each with a written reason quoting the job posting.

    01

    Sifarishसिफ़ारिश

    I built a job-hunt assistant that compiles a résumé out of things I can actually prove — and that is physically incapable of applying on my behalf.

    Jul – Sep 2026live

    Read it
  2. An open receipt drawer showing “what this is built on — satisfaction, 30%, from 5 answers”, with the reader’s own words quoted back, beneath a banner explaining reduced mode.

    02

    Aainaआईना

    A relationship and self-assessment I built that refuses to give you a compatibility score — and shows you the receipts for every sentence it writes about you.

    Aug – Sep 2026live

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  3. The J.A.R.V.I.S. wordmark inside a cyan holographic interface ring, set over Iron Man blueprint schematics. Fan art of the fictional assistant, not a screenshot of the software.The fictional one. Mine runs on Windows and has never been public.

    03

    JARVIS

    A desktop assistant that opens apps, plays the exact song I asked for, changes Windows settings and learns new abilities on demand — in English or Hinglish, with no API key, no subscription, and no cloud.

    Sep 2026

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  4. A dark blackboard interface showing five class-eleven and twelve maths lines including the binomial theorem and Bayes’ theorem, with a rendered six-dot braille cell below and a forty-eight key symbol rail.

    04

    Braillix

    A maths teacher writes by hand, by typing, or by photographing a textbook — and every line lands as verified mathematical braille on a blind student’s refreshable cells. No account, no server, no internet.

    Aug 2026live

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  5. Three analysis panels on a dark background showing a dispersion-measure residual plot, a class-separation histogram, and a sky map.

    05Analytics

    Data & Signal

    Label-efficient transfer learning on 17,736 real survey images, and three detection pipelines validated by planting a signal and measuring how much came back.

    Apr – May 2026

    Read it
  6. A panel headed "Act One — what every other tool reports", showing revenue fell 57.6% in December 2011, with a bar chart where the final bar is highlighted in red.

    06

    Reckoner

    Give it a million rows of transactions and ask why a number moved. It shows the arithmetic, names what actually caused the change — and when the comparison is rubbish, it refuses to publish a finding at all.

    Sep 2026live

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  7. A printed-letterhead lineup page addressed to a hiring manager, showing a candidate profile table, trust lines, a rotated vermillion SEAL stamp with a hash, and evidence rows quoting the résumé line behind each requirement.

    07

    Uruthiஉறுதி

    The working desk of an Indian IT staffing agency. Paste a job requirement, see who in your own pool fits and why in plain words, then send the hiring manager one phone link where every requirement is marked Met, Partial or Not met — with the exact résumé line that proves it.

    Sep 2026live

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  8. The Sehat Saarthi screening menu, headed in Gurmukhi with English beneath, a phulkari diamond border, a banner reading "Proof-of-concept — pending clinical validation", and a note saying voice is not available on this phone.

    08

    Sehat Saarthiਸਿਹਤ ਸਾਰਥੀ

    A Punjabi-first screening assistant I built for rural government clinics — and the project where I deleted two working models of my own because they lied convincingly.

    Jun 2026live

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  9. The Gloaming title card: the word GLOAMING in gold serif capitals, glowing faintly out of near-total darkness, with the words TAP TO SKIP in small type at the bottom.

    09

    Gloaming

    A co-operative horror board game I built for the browser, where the board itself is the opponent — the dark eats it from the edges inward while you try to get everyone out.

    Jun – Jul 2026live

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Robert Downey Jr. sitting on a film set holding a phone, overlaid with the words: I'm just like him, I create my own villains (problems) then kill (solve) them.
An uncomfortably accurate description of how I pick what to work on.

Before you go further

The speed isn't mine. The judgement is.

I build with Claude Code and I am not going to be coy about it — everyone reading this has the same model. What separates the results is everything around it: a constitution written before the first file, an append-only log of every decision and why, and agents I point at my own work specifically to break it. That is a chapter of its own, and it comes with the files, so you can check rather than believe me.

Read how I actually work

The Sombrero Galaxy, seen almost edge-on

Eight hundred billion suns, and the first thing you notice is the dark.

That black band is not empty. It is a ring of dust dense enough to block the light of the galaxy behind it, and it is where the new stars are being made. The obstruction is the productive part.

The Sombrero Galaxy, M104 · NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) · CC BY 4.0

Me in sunglasses on a riverside walkway, one hand pushed back through my hair, photographed in high-contrast black and white against a blown-out sky.
Patiala, somewhere near the water.

I am not asking you to take my word for a single thing on this page.

Anyone can write a portfolio. Very few will hand you the source and invite you to go looking for the hole in it — which is the actual flex, and the reason this site is built the way it is.

Enough about the code

Who's actually building this

Me in a hotel lobby in a light grey blazer and glasses, hands in my pockets, smiling.
The one my mother would pick.

Final year, Computer Science, Thapar Institute in Patiala — currently a 7.62 CGPA. Before that: 90% in Class XII and 98.6% in Class X, and an NTSE scholarship from the Government of India, the aptitude exam that takes roughly the top 0.1% nationally.

I lead with the NTSE rather than the CGPA, because one of those measures how fast I pick up something I have never seen before and the other measures how well I sat through semesters.

Two first places at IIT Ropar — the Gen AI Hackathon in November 2025 with a multimodal Alzheimer's detection system, which became Sehat Saarthi, and the Agentic & GenAI Showcase in July 2026 with Sifarish — plus the AI Mentorship Programme with LaunchED Global, run out of IIT Kharagpur.

Away from a keyboard I volunteer with Bharat Vikas Parishad, and on campus I have been on the core organising committee for Saturnalia, Thapar's techno-cultural festival, and on the committee for Urja, the sports one. Running a college festival is the least glamorous project-management training in existence and comfortably the most useful: no budget, no authority, forty people, one immovable date.

Me on a Himalayan ridge in a white polo shirt and sunglasses, both thumbs up, a forested valley and layered mountain ranges behind me.
Uttarakhand.

I want to do something genuinely big, and I am aware that is what everybody writes. So, concretely: I want to be in the room where an agent is being given real permissions over a real person's money, health or job, and I want to be the one arguing about what it is not allowed to do. That argument is the whole field right now and almost nobody is having it out loud.

Nobody assigned me a single thing on this site. I go looking for problems, which is closer to a compulsion than a work ethic — I see something broken and a part of my brain starts chewing on it and will not stop until the thing that fixes it exists and I can open it in a browser.

Me in front of a wall covered in printed photographs and quote cards, photographed in black and white, laughing.
The wall, again.

That wall is in my room, and it is where every non-screenshot image on this site came from — the Stark frames, the SRK line, Barney, the blackletter one. None of them were picked for a website. They were picked for a wall I have to look at every morning, which is a considerably harder test.

Me mid-jump on my bed with both arms thrown up, laughing, the wall of printed images behind me.
A normal Tuesday.

My friends come to me for exactly two things: motivation, and consolation. Those are opposite jobs — one needs somebody insufferably certain, the other needs somebody who will just sit there — and I am somehow the person for both. I have decided this says something good about me and I am not taking questions.

Me in a bathroom mirror, flexing, my back visible in the reflection.
The other discipline.

I lift. Not as a personality — as the other thing I am strict about. The gym is the only room I know where the feedback loop is completely honest: the weight moves or it does not, your intent is not consulted, and you find out what you actually did rather than what you felt like you did. Every session. No appeals.

A silhouetted figure and an outstretched hand rendered entirely in streaks of starlight, captioned with Exodus 3:14 — I AM WHO I AM.
Exodus 3:14, rendered in starlight.

The short version, since you have come this far: I am loud about the work and quiet about nearly everything else. I would rather be wrong in public than vague in private. And I have never once been the most qualified person in a room and let that settle the matter.

Neil Patrick Harris reclining at a desk in a suit, photographed in black and white, captioned: I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am.

I am aware of how all of this looks. That is rather the point — I would rather be memorable and slightly ridiculous than forgettable and safe.

But every claim on this site has a link under it going to the code that proves it. The swagger is the packaging. The receipts are the product.

Brad Pitt as Billy Beane in Moneyball, sitting in a stadium, captioned: watch me become everything i said i would.
Moneyball — a film about throwing out the scouts' gut feel and measuring instead.

So — that's the work. Nine things I built because I wanted them to exist, and seven of them are sitting at URLs you can open right now, on somebody else's servers, running without me.

I didn't choose that poster for the measurement argument. It turns out to be the entire argument of this page anyway.

Me photographed in a bathroom mirror, back to the glass, shoulders and back visible in the reflection.
Same loop, different gym.

I'm free from January 2027. I'm looking for a team building frontier AI systems where "it works" has to be provable, and where somebody is paid to ask what the model is not allowed to do. India, Europe, the US or remote — I care considerably more about the problem than the postcode.

January is not far away, and I would rather spend the wait building than refreshing an inbox — so whatever is on this page when you find it, assume there is one more thing that is not.

The words 'I am God' set in distressed blackletter type on a black ground.
Also on the wall.

And a request, which I mean sincerely: go look at my GitHub directly rather than trusting this page. Not because the page is wrong — I've been careful — but because I keep building, and by the time you read this there will be something on there that isn't here yet. This portfolio is already slightly behind me. That's the intended state.

That one is at the end rather than the top on purpose. You've now seen the receipts, so you can decide for yourself how seriously to take it.

Me beside a staircase in an all-white outfit, arms folded, photographed in black and white, with birthday balloons softly out of focus behind me.
Thanks for reading this far. Genuinely — most people don't.

Let's talk.

Open for internship from January 2027

A halftone-treated poster of Shah Rukh Khan with his arms outstretched, captioned: If you really want something the whole universe helps you get it. From the film Om Shanti Om, directed by Farah Khan, 2007.
Om Shanti Om, 2007.

If you really want something, the whole universe conspires to help you get it.

I have believed that line for a long time, and the evidence so far is reasonably encouraging. See you in January.