Chirag Patnaik

@NakliTechie

My current focus is applied AI — training small language models and distributed inference, getting capable models to fine-tune and serve on the hardware you actually have.

I'm co-founder of Prashnam, India's first AI-powered telephonic opinion platform — its survey data has been cited by The Economist and The New York Times — and I lead product and technology for Atrium Solutions, building a forecasting and decision-intelligence platform. Over two decades I've held senior product roles across Times Internet, India Today, IndiaMART, and Samsung.

What I've Been Building

Lately my work has centered on small language model training and distributed inference — getting capable models to fine-tune and serve on the hardware you actually have.

Most of the rest is a collection of single-file web apps that run entirely in your browser — no accounts, no servers, no data leaving your device.

Lately the frontier work has pulled two ways at once: pushing model inference all the way into the browser tab (text-diffusion language models in kohra), and, when a model is simply too big for a tab, serving it on cheap spot GPUs that survive being reclaimed mid-run. Everything public is open source.

Featured

Cairn

Frontier-model inference on cheap spot GPUs — the kind the cloud can reclaim from you at any second. Fast checkpoint-and-migrate keeps a big model served at spot prices without the eviction being fatal.

In development · private

Pitch

On-device voice commerce for online stores. Shoppers talk, search, ask about a product, and hear the answer read back — all in their own browser, on a per-merchant brand-tuned model. Zero inference cost per shopper.

In development · private

LocalMind

Private AI research agent — web search, document ingestion, RAG memory, real tool calling, all on a small open model on WebGPU. Runs entirely in your browser.

kohra

Text-diffusion language models running in the browser — a denoising loop over ONNX Runtime Web and WebGPU. To our knowledge, the first in-browser text-diffusion generation.

NakliOS

A private, browser-native desktop that gives every single-file tool a home — windowed apps, ⌘K spotlight, a dock, themed wallpapers, sticky notes, per-app sandboxing. Immersive mode runs each app as a native-feeling window.

NakliData

A browser-native semantic data workbench. Query millions of rows of CSV or Parquet with DuckDB compiled to WebAssembly, chart the results, and write them back — the data never leaves the tab.

NakliAmp

A single-file music player in the browser, a Winamp homage. Your local library plays on-device with WebCodecs decoding, nothing uploaded anywhere.

Sheaf

A full PDF editor in a single HTML file — merge, reorder, redact, OCR, fill forms, sign, and compress, every operation on your own disk. Open source, no upload, plus an agent interface none of the others have.

Projects