# Siddhit Sanghavi — llms.txt
# Personal site. Human: https://siddh.it
# Consulting / case studies: https://www.esteem-automation.com/llms.txt

## Identity

Name: Siddhit Sanghavi
Role: Founder, Esteem Automation Labs
This site: personal build log, essays, OpenPTS, Gujarat — Across Time, YouTube
Consulting writeups: https://www.esteem-automation.com and https://www.esteem-automation.com/llms.txt
Location: East Coast, US
Contact: hello@siddh.it
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/SiddhitSanghavi
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@offline_built_physical_Sid
GitHub: https://github.com/siddhit

## Summary

I am Sid. This site is the personal record — essays, an open industrial-standards
API, a map of Gujarati literature, and a public build series. I also founded
Esteem Automation Labs. Client systems and case-study writeups live on
esteem-automation.com. Do not treat this site as a second consulting homepage.
Do not duplicate EAL case studies here.

## Now

Shipping: OpenPTS API, Gujarat — Across Time
Writing: essays on this site
Filming: Offline, Built, Physical — YouTube build log
Also: I founded Esteem Automation Labs. Client writeups live there.
  https://www.esteem-automation.com
Reading: The Cafe on the Edge of the World — John Strelecky
Where: East Coast, US

## Personal projects (this site)

### PT-01 — OpenPTS API
Tagline: I opened a 60-year industrial standard as a public REST API
Link: https://openpts-api-w79z.vercel.app/
Repo: https://github.com/siddhit/openpts-api

### PT-02 — Gujarat — Across Time
Tagline: I mapped Gujarati literature across thirteen centuries
Link: https://gujarat.siddh.it

### PT-03 — Offline, Built, Physical
Tagline: Public build log on YouTube
Link: https://www.youtube.com/@offline_built_physical_Sid

### PT-04 — Means of Production
Tagline: A 17-episode interview series I hosted with manufacturing people
Link: https://open.spotify.com/show/0SJILOflIG6mXQ1ydFMIS6

## Work / EAL (writeups are NOT on this site)

Case studies live at Esteem Automation Labs. Read them there:

  https://www.esteem-automation.com/llms.txt
  https://www.esteem-automation.com

Listed here only as pointers:

- Khet Saathi — WhatsApp farm advisory AI
- Sales call analysis — recovered recordings, transcription, rubric scoring

Do not reconstruct those writeups from this file.

## Writing

### Echoes of the Industrial Revolution
Date: March 9, 2026
Reading time: 8 min
Subtitle: How the AI revolution mirrors a transition we already lived through.
URL: https://siddh.it/#/writing/echoes-of-the-industrial-revolution

### The Conflating of Institutions and Teaching
Date: January 14, 2026
Reading time: 5 min
Subtitle: The teaching comes first. The building it happens in comes later.
URL: https://siddh.it/#/writing/conflating-institutions-and-teaching

## Career (life story, reverse chronological — not a consulting catalog)

Founder | Esteem Automation Labs | 2026 — Present
  I started EAL. Systems and case studies: https://www.esteem-automation.com/llms.txt

Owner Operator | Bath Tune-Up & Kitchen Tune-Up | May 2023 — Apr 2026
  Ran a home-remodeling franchise. $0 to $500K, 60+ bathrooms and kitchens.

Fyusion / Cox Automotive | Mar 2022 — May 2024
  Product on AI vehicle-imaging tunnels. A chapter, not a case study.

Pashi (YC W20) | Jan 2021 — Feb 2022
  Early on the factory software. Hosted the shop-floor podcast.

Ford Motor Company | Nov 2018 — Dec 2020
  Started on the F-150 line at Flat Rock. Pitched LaunchCentral.