Shivank Jalan

Young entrepreneur & AI builder — 14, based in Kolkata.

I build AI products that actually ship. Two are live and used by real people. I go to school in the mornings and build in the evenings.

About

I build things I'd actually use.

I'm 14 and I live in Kolkata. Most of what I know, I taught myself by building real things and watching them break. I don't wait until I understand everything to start — I start, ship something small, see what happens, and fix it.

That's how both of my products got made. KidLink came from watching families waste hours hunting for after-school classes. Elevate came from seeing small businesses buried in work a computer should be doing for them. Real problems I could actually see, not imaginary ones.

I work with AI the way other people work with a text editor — it's just part of how I build. 138+ Claude skills, plus Firecrawl, n8n, Firebase and Cloud Run when the problem calls for them. The tools exist now. Being 14 isn't a reason to wait.

Selected work

Products & projects

A modern workspace representing Elevate's business automation

Product 01

Elevate

AI agents for businesses that don't have a data team.

Small businesses are buried in paperwork, repetitive workflows, and records they can't search. Elevate lets them describe what they need in plain English — invoice processing, document search, record lookup — and an AI agent does it. Affordable, and it works from day one.

PythonClaude APIReactFirebaseCloud Run

₹3,000 / agent · live

Visit Elevate →
A learning environment representing KidLink's class discovery platform

Product 02

KidLink

A free way for Kolkata families to find real classes.

Finding a tutor or after-school class in Kolkata used to mean calling numbers off Facebook groups, half of them dead. KidLink is a free platform of verified listings and independent teachers with direct WhatsApp contact — no booking fee, no middleman, no commission. Built solo and running on Google Cloud Run.

ReactViteFirebaseFirestoreCloud Run

in production · v139

Visit kidlink.company →
Code and interfaces representing the Jarvis voice assistant

Project 03

Jarvis

A voice assistant that lives in my menu bar.

Every AI assistant I used lived in a browser tab. I wanted one that listens from the dock, always there. Jarvis is a native macOS voice assistant — Groq handles inference for near-instant responses, and it runs quietly in the background while I work.

SwiftGroq APImacOSAVAudioEngine

personal use

A remote landscape representing the Wildfire Risk bulletin engine

Project 04

Wildfire Risk

Daily fire-risk bulletins for towns without a data team.

122 remote towns can't watch satellite feeds all day. This engine pulls live satellite data, writes a plain-English risk assessment for each town, and delivers it automatically. The output is a one-page brief a field team can read in a minute — not another dashboard.

PythonNASA FIRMS APIClaude API

in development · 122 towns

How I work

Four things I believe.

01

Build first, perfect later.

A working prototype beats a perfect spec every time. Start with something that runs, put it in front of a real person, and watch what they do. The next version is always better — but only if the first one exists.

02

If a tool exists, use it.

I run 138+ Claude skills and lean on Firecrawl, n8n, Firebase and Google Cloud. The best builders don't reinvent wheels — they know which ones exist and grab the right one faster than everyone else.

03

Solve problems you've seen.

The best things I've built came from watching real frustration — an actual person struggling with something, and me thinking "I can fix that." Being close to the problem is the unfair advantage.

04

Age is context, not a limit.

Being 14 isn't a qualification or a disqualification — it's just context. The products work or they don't. The code ships or it doesn't. I've learned more building real things than I would have by waiting.

Stack & tools

What I actually build with.

Frontend

  • React + Vite
  • Vanilla JS
  • Tailwind CSS
  • HTML / CSS

Backend

  • Node.js + Express
  • Python
  • Firebase / Firestore
  • Cloud Run

AI / LLM

  • Claude (Anthropic)
  • Claude Code CLI
  • 138+ Claude skills
  • Groq

Deploy

  • Google Cloud Run
  • GitHub Pages
  • Netlify
  • Docker

Tooling

  • Firecrawl
  • n8n
  • Obsidian
  • Git + GitHub

And, above all — a vibe coder.

Currently

BuildingElevate v2 · KidLink · Jarvis · Wildfire bulletin engine
LearningAI agent design · enterprise SaaS · SQL, properly
ExploringA go-karting venture in Kolkata · AI workshops for kids

Timeline

The story so far.

Get in touch

If you need something built, let's talk.

I'm 14, in Class 9 in Kolkata, with two live products and time in the evenings. If you need something built, redesigned, automated, or just thought through — reach out.

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