AI engineer · London

Ishaan Chaturvedi

I enjoy building AI products, and I make films. Lately that means organisations of AI agents: the rules that keep them honest, and what they can ship once the rules hold.

Below is what I have built for my company, what I have built on my own time, and the films. Each one is a picture and a few sentences; the full write-up is a click away.

01For my company

Document-intelligence systems inside regulated finance.

Three systems on one pattern: a model reads, code decides, and every conclusion cites its page.

The agent platform Built · in testing

One verification pattern, built once, that two document-intelligence systems run on.

Two products, different teams, different documents, different rules. The same program underneath.

  • 1pattern, built once
  • 2products running on it
  • 4shared steps

Disputes & Complaints Built · in testing

Every letter investigated and evidenced before a colleague opens it.

The colleague's job collapses from investigate to verify.

  • 5parts to every case pack
  • 2lanes, one graph
  • 3engines in parallel

Custodian of Records In progress

Proving an account qualifies before it goes to legal, with evidence rather than sampling.

Every account, not a monthly sample. The reviewer's job becomes confirming exceptions.

  • 5checks per account
  • 3verdicts: pass · fail · review
  • 2review modes, never mixed

02On my own time

A product, the crew of agents that builds it, and a tool for making films.

Evenings and weekends, because I wanted them to exist. One of them is live and paid.

Alter Running daily

Drop a thought. Alter knows what to do with it.

Live, paid, and the thing I open first in the morning. I typed almost none of it.

  • 11services
  • 289Klines of TypeScript
  • 40%of it is tests

The harness Running daily

An org of agents that builds the product, and the rules that stop it becoming a black box.

The hard part wasn't getting agents to write code. It was the rules that stop them colliding, marking their own homework, or talking their way past a limit.

  • 178merged PRs
  • 9months
  • 1human, with a day job

Spiral In progress

An AI filmmaking tool built around revision, not one-shot prompts: seven AI departments that argue their way to a locked film, on the record.

It began as one agent and a dependency graph. It is now seven departments and one rule: a gate cannot close until every department the locks bind has read the latest version.

  • 7departments, one artifact each
  • 4gates, ideation to post
  • 5roles in the one harness

03Films

Two short films, made frame by frame, and the reason Spiral exists.

The tools can render now. What a film is about, and which of ten endings survives, is still a person.

thisness

2025 · 10 min · animated

Two AIs try to solve existence: one by taking the universe apart, one by understanding every memory of it. At the end of every search, they find only more to search.

The pipeline behind both films Spiral, the crew of agents they taught me to want

Tell me what you think

Everyone can build now. What I need is honest feedback.

This page exists to put the work in front of people. Say what you think of any of it, anonymously if you like. Leave a phone number or an email only if you want me to reply.