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Taking on a few AI agent builds · 2026

Sanjay Ahlawat

I build AI agents and automations for the messy work people keep postponing. Most projects start with a spreadsheet, an inbox, or a workflow nobody wants to touch, and end as software the team can actually run.

Sanjay Ahlawat

How I help

Practical AI work, scoped around one real bottleneck.

You do not need a pitch deck. A rough description of the workflow is enough to start.

01 / Audit

Find the workflow

Map the current steps, risks, tools, and handoffs before deciding what should be automated at all.

02 / Build

Ship the agent

Build the first useful version with logs, review points, and a clear path for the edge cases.

03 / Product

Design the interface

Create the screens people need to review, correct, and run the automation day to day.

0 Years coding
0 AI agents shipped
0 Products shipped
Cups of chai

First step

A workflow audit before anyone writes code.

We map the steps, find the automation points, define the human review rules, and decide honestly whether an agent is worth building.

  1. Step 01 Map the flow
  2. Step 02 Find the seams
  3. Step 03 Set guardrails
  4. Step 04 Ship a slice
  5. Step 05 Measure & iterate

You bring

  • One workflow that costs time every single week.
  • The tools involved: inbox, CRM, spreadsheet, docs, helpdesk.
  • What could go wrong if automation makes a bad call.

You get

  • A plain-language map of how the work actually moves.
  • The first useful automation slice, built and running.
  • A guardrail plan for review, logs, permissions, rollout.

Selected work

Workflow demos and build patterns.

Each one shows the workflow, the human review points, the tools involved, and the guardrails worth inspecting before trusting automation.

Expertise

Where I add the most value.

The work usually crosses a few lines: product thinking, backend plumbing, prompts, interfaces, and the unglamorous parts that keep things running.

01

AI Agents

Agents for jobs that already exist: research, support, lead scoring, messy handoffs, and the parts that need judgment before action.

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02

AI Automation

Automations that connect the tools you actually use: CRMs, inboxes, databases, docs, queues, and the occasional stubborn API.

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03

LLM Integration & RAG

OpenAI, Claude, local models, retrieval, vector search, and prompts written around the job itself.

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04

Full-Stack Engineering

Laravel, Node, APIs, queues, databases, auth, billing, dashboards. This is the layer an AI feature usually breaks on first.

05

Product & UI Design

Screens for reviewing, correcting, and approving AI output. Most agent projects need more product design than they need chat.

06

AI Strategy & Consulting

Deciding what is worth automating, what needs a human in the loop, and what should probably just be left alone.

AI & Automation

OpenAI API Claude API LangChain LlamaIndex RAG / Vector DBs Pinecone n8n Make.com Zapier MCP Prompt Engineering Agent Orchestration

Languages & Frameworks

Python Laravel PHP Vue.js Node.js JavaScript TypeScript Tailwind CSS HTML / CSS

Data & Infrastructure

PostgreSQL MySQL Redis REST & Webhooks Git Docker Vercel

Practices

AI Product Design UI / UX Design MVP Strategy Eval & Observability Human-in-the-loop

My story

Thirteen years of shipping, and still learning.

I started building for the web while studying Computer Science at Delhi University. I left the degree, kept the work, and never really stopped learning by shipping. These days it’s mostly AI agents, but the old rules still hold: clear data, sane interfaces, good failure paths, and no magic where a boring check would do.

Clients usually come to me when they need one person who can shape the workflow, build the agent, design the review screen, and wire the whole thing into the tools they already use.

2023 - Present · Current focus

AI Engineer · Independent

AI Agents & Automation · Remote

Building agents and automations for founders and small teams. Usually OpenAI or Claude, often n8n, sometimes LangChain or RAG, almost always tied back to a Laravel or Node product.

Mar 2018 - Present

A2Z Tuition

Full Stack Web Developer · Faridabad, India

Built and maintained the platform while also teaching online. That combination taught me a lot about software that has to work for real people, not just developers.

Dec 2016 - Mar 2018

HelpingTutors

Full Stack Developer & Startup Consultant · Baltimore, MD

Joined as a full-stack developer and grew into a consulting role on a C2C marketplace serving students and tutors across the US.

Jul 2016 - Jan 2017

FunSeasonal Tour & Travels

Head of IT Department · Faridabad, India

Started as a developer and later ran the IT side. Small team, lots of responsibility, and very little room for overengineering.

2013 - Present

Freelance & Self-Taught

Independent client work · Remote

Left Delhi University's CS program in 2013 to learn by shipping. Hundreds of client conversations later, still learning every day.

Education

  • 2013 - Present

    Self-taught

    Web development, design, product thinking, and lately a lot of agent workflows. Mostly learned by building things and fixing what broke.

  • 2011 - 2013

    Delhi University · Dropped out

    Bachelor of Computer Science · Delhi, India.

  • 2000 - 2011

    Kendriya Vidyalaya

    High School · Faridabad, India.

Let’s build with AI

Got a workflow worth automating?

I’m taking on a few AI agent and automation builds for 2026. If there’s a task your team keeps doing by hand, I can help work out whether it should become software or stay with a person.

Location Faridabad, India
Response time Within 24 hours
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