Pranav Janardhanan

AI × AUTOMOTIVE × PRESALES

See the signal before it becomes the strategy.

I build AI-powered intelligence for teams shaping the future of mobility.

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Automotive Watchdog
Live signals● LIVE
EV
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Software-defined vehicles
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THE THESIS

Market noise becomes useful when patterns connect.

Automotive Watchdog tracks global stories, detects emerging patterns and turns them into decision-ready intelligence—helping presales teams understand what matters to OEMs before the opportunity is obvious.

01 / The product

From global news to a map of what matters next.

Automotive Watchdog is my working prototype for an automotive intelligence platform. It reads the market continuously, filters repetition, uses AI to understand each story and publishes the most relevant signals in a form that consultants and presales teams can use.

LIVE PROTOTYPE

Automotive Watchdog

A daily view of EV, software-defined vehicle, supply-chain, policy and OEM signals—summarised, scored and placed on a global map.

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20+automotive news feeds monitored every day
AIrelevance, category, summary, score and location enrichment
150highest-value signals ranked for daily publication
0servers to patch or keep running when the pipeline is idle

02 / How I built it

A small, serverless intelligence pipeline on AWS.

The system is intentionally lean. Infrastructure is deployed with AWS SAM, data moves through managed services, and two different AI models handle high-volume enrichment and higher-reasoning trend extraction. It runs for minutes—not all day.

INGEST / 05:00 UTC DAILYAUTOMATED
1

EventBridge

The daily schedule wakes up the ingestion workflow.

2

Fetch Lambda

Reads RSS feeds, keeps recent stories and removes URLs already seen.

3

SQS Queue

Buffers new articles so the enrichment stage processes them reliably.

4

Enrich Lambda

Classifies, summarises, scores and geolocates stories in batches.

Bedrock · Claude Haiku
5

DynamoDB

Stores enriched articles for 14 days and maintains the deduplication index.

PUBLISH / 06:00 UTC DAILYLAST 7 DAYS
6

EventBridge

A second schedule begins the publication workflow.

7

Publish Lambda

Ranks the top 150 stories and extracts cross-market trends.

Bedrock · Claude Sonnet
8

S3

Publishes the map and a fresh data/news.json dataset.

9

CloudFront

Serves the private S3 origin globally over HTTPS.

10

Browser

Loads the newest intelligence directly into the live map.

Built for low-touch operations

CloudWatch alarms watch Lambda errors and queue depth. SNS sends an email only when something fails. Adding a source means updating sources.json; changing logic means rebuilding and redeploying the SAM stack.

  • AWS SAM
  • Lambda
  • SQS
  • EventBridge
  • Bedrock
  • DynamoDB
  • S3
  • CloudFront
  • CloudWatch
  • SNS

Estimated operating cost

$3–8

per month at the prototype workload, with no continuously running compute.

Pranav Janardhanan
CHENNAI, INDIAAI × AUTO

03 / About me

I translate complex technology into decisions people can act on.

I'm Pranav Janardhanan, a Senior Manager at LTIMindtree working across automotive, enterprise technology, presales and transformation.

My career has moved from software development at TCS, to business IT and digital product delivery at Tata Motors, and into client-facing strategy and solutioning. Across that journey, the recurring problem has been the same: valuable information exists everywhere, but decision-makers need a clearer signal. Automotive Watchdog is one practical answer to that problem.

I work best where business context, technology and storytelling meet—turning industry movements into solution hypotheses, and those hypotheses into prototypes that make an idea tangible.

CurrentSenior Manager
LTIMindtree
ManagementPGDM
IIM Shillong
EngineeringB.E. Computer Science
PSG College of Technology
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