Builder of agents, growth systems, climate campaigns, and small useful tools.
A personal operating system for building with AI.
I work where product, data, and applied AI meet: turning ambiguous systems into workflows, tools, and narratives that compound. This desktop is a map of the current build surface.
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Name: Surendran Balachandran
Current Role: VP AI-Led Growth, Atlan
Previous: Change.org India · IYCN · 350.org
Output: practical AI systems, public writing, agent workflows, and occasional half-marathons.
Command Center: The Smart Office Interface
A React dashboard integrating physical actuators, sensor telemetry, and agentic control via OpenClaw.
The Arid Architect: From 8-Year Legacy to Agentic IoT in a Weekend
How I rebuilt the Garden Bot using Gemini and OpenClaw—moving from the long learning curves of the past to the magic of AI-guided building.
15-Minute Chef: Snap, Cook, Eat
An AI-powered web application that turns a single photo of an open fridge into a healthy, 15-minute dinner plan using Google Gemini Vision.
DataFormatX: A Private, AI-Powered File Converter
An AI-powered file converter that runs entirely in your browser with a local-first philosophy, keeping your data private and secure.
AI Credit Card Spend Analyzer: Your Private Financial Insights Tool
A local-first, AI-powered tool transforming PDF statements into actionable financial insights, ensuring data privacy.
Building My Own AI-Powered Podcast Recommender
A look into how I built a personal podcast recommender using Flask, Gemini, and LangGraph to create an intelligent listening experience and solve the discovery problem.
Awesome Claude Skills: Supercharging Claude with Composable Capabilities
An open-source collection of Claude skills that extend Claude's capabilities through structured prompts, enabling better problem-solving, reasoning, and specialized task execution.
Most agent tools are hardcoded, brittle, and break at scale. Axiom is a production-ready skills registry — 192 expert-authored workflows that AI agents can semantically discover and execute on demand, built on Cloudflare.
Dec 2025 PhenoVault: taking ownership of biological sovereigntyWhy I built a local-first vault for my most sensitive health data using Tauri, Rust, and the PhenoAge2 algorithm.
Dec 2025 Pink elephants and probabilities: the hidden tax of saying 'don't'A look at the hidden cost of negative instructions in LLMs and the evaluation stack we built to measure it.
Oct 2025 System Prompts vs User Prompts: A Comprehensive Guide to AI Instruction ArchitectureUnderstanding the fundamental difference between system prompts and user prompts—the architectural foundation that makes AI applications reliable, safe, and consistent.
Oct 2025 Building Multi-Agent AI Workflows with AgentOS: Research, Writing, and Podcast ProductionA practical guide to building multi-agent systems using AgentOS, demonstrating agents, teams, workflows, memory, and knowledge management through an AI news aggregation and podcast generation system.