Founder of SayMake · High-agency AI learning
Sunny Patneedi
Helping kids turn what they love into real-world capability.
I'm Sunny Patneedi, Founder of SayMake. I build AI-supported, interest-driven, project-based learning that helps young people develop real skills, earned confidence, and the agency to shape their own future.
Before founding SayMake, I spent two decades building software, data, and machine-learning systems at companies including Apple, Microsoft, and Salesforce.
SayMake: Learning, made tangible
How might AI help kids move from an interest to something they can point to, explain, and improve?
A high-agency maker experience built around real projects, with real-time voice AI, multi-turn memory, and an architecture designed to keep children’s PII out of model context.
An active SayMake beta with 30+ families—and a clearer hypothesis: capability is earned by making, not consumed as content.
Puddle: A guide for young builders
Young people need help turning curiosity into a next step—not another feed competing for their attention.
An AI project-strategy tutor for ages 9–14 that turns screen time into a roadmap of projects, science fairs, and portfolio artifacts.
A working exploration of what a patient, project-first learning companion can make possible.
SPEAR: Security at the seam
LLM applications need runtime guardrails that can be tested as deliberately as the systems they protect.
Open-source LLM security middleware paired with a red-team evaluation harness for inspecting prompt-enforcement behavior.
A public artifact with a 700+ probe red-team eval harness—built to make the security work inspectable, not merely claimed.
What I am building
SayMake is an AI-supported maker studio for young people. The work begins with an interest, turns it into a real project, and keeps the learner responsible for choosing, building, testing, explaining, and improving.
The design principle is simple: AI should scaffold thinking, not surrender it. The struggle, reflection, and iteration involved in making something real are part of how capability develops.
How to explore this site
Start with the high-agency learning overview for the underlying approach, then use the public frameworks for practical tools. The About page provides a longer biography, and the Contact page explains the best routes for speaking, media, partnership, investor, and research conversations.