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Ideas, findings and client-system war stories. The breakdowns behind every site, system and tax bot I ship. Written as I build, mistakes included.
The System That Files GST Returns for a CA Firm — And Why I'm Open-Sourcing It
I've spent four months building a system that runs a CA firm's entire monthly GST cycle on the live portal — GSTR-1, IMS, 2B, 3B, challan, filing — and pauses only twice, for a human. It works. So ...
Two Hundred Logins Nobody Should Be Doing
Before your client tells you what they earned, the government already has a receipt. Checking that receipt for two hundred clients is exactly the dull, high-stakes errand nobody should be doing by ...
How This Site Got Its Brutalist Glow-Up
I wanted a terminal-themed brutalist look: a spinning wireframe globe, a yellow that means business, and one cache bug that nearly won.
Meet Kronos: Open-Source AI for Financial Chart Forecasting
Every industry with a billion-dollar moat eventually meets the person willing to give the moat away for free. Now market forecasting meets its GIMP.
An Engineer Got Laid Off by Atlassian — and Gave a Masterclass on the Way Out
A systems engineer posted a video titled 'I was laid off by Atlassian.' Eight years at the company, ended, and handled with rare clarity.
Turning a Room Into a Website You Can Walk Through
Saw a reel one morning. Tried the thing it showed before lunch. It's evening and I'm writing this. That's the whole backstory.
A Detour from Tax Bots: Building a Boutique Storefront in Six Hours
Most days I'm teaching machines to politely refuse GST portal captchas. One quiet Sunday I built a dress shop instead — start to finish.
The Return That Moves Real Money: Automating GSTR-3B End-to-End
If GSTR-1 is the loud, frantic front-of-house, then GSTR-3B is the quiet one, the return that actually moves real money.
What I Learned About Forms 15CA and 15CB This Week
On a call with a senior CA, the topic drifted to Form 15CA — which, until that moment, I'd never heard of. Then I went and automated it.
How I Taught a Robot to File GST Returns at 2 AM (And Why a Kerala CA Firm Loves Me Now)
An agent that logs into the GST portal at 2 AM, fills every table, generates the summary, ships it to WhatsApp for approval, and files via OTP — no human at the browser.
The Invisible Employee Problem — Why I Built a Visual AI Org Chart for a CA Firm
The hardest part of selling agentic AI isn't building it, it's showing it. So I gave the agents a visible presence: org charts, run histories, live updates.
2–3 Hours of Portal Checking, Done in 15 Minutes — How an AI Agent Monitors Income Tax Accounts Daily
A daily agent that logs into the Income Tax portal for every client each morning, checks for notices, downloads PDFs, and posts a summary before the team sits down.
Building in Public: An AI-Powered Compliance System for a CA Firm — Series Introduction
I'm building a full compliance automation system for an Indian CA firm in public — portal monitoring, notice retrieval, deadline tracking, client comms. This is the index.
I Built an AI Agent That Checks the Income Tax Portal and Sends Notices via WhatsApp — Here's Exactly How
A step-by-step build: logging into India's Income Tax portal, pulling the notices, and delivering the PDFs to WhatsApp. No scripts, no selectors, no maintenance.
The CA Firm Automation Playbook: Why AI Agents Are the Biggest Leverage Play in Indian Tax Practice
Indian CA firms juggle hundreds of clients across a dozen government portals. Here's the playbook for handing that monitoring and retrieval to AI agents.
Why Every SMB Needs Agentic Workflows in 2026
There's a gap forming between businesses that use AI as a tool and businesses that use AI as a worker. If you run an SMB, this is the shift that matters.
I Used Claude Code to Automate My Entire Setup — Here's What Happened
I set up an entire dev environment with nothing but Claude Code and plain English. No Googling, no StackOverflow — just telling an AI what I needed and watching it execute.