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Sanay Shah London

I took 43 flights in 45 weeks doing street photography during my year abroad in Singapore.

The full mapEvery role, prize and course so far

These days it's AI strategy and adoption: finding where a team's time goes, then getting them using something that helps. The story and the work are below.

The route so far

Who I am

  1. School · Whitgift, Croydon

    Theatre and rowing

    I played Lady Macbeth in the school's Macbeth. It was a boys' school, so someone had to. I was also in its first student-led play and got scouted by an acting agency at 15. On the water, I coxed an under-15 four that won a national B final.

    Me on stage in a school play, mid-line, in a long coat against a dark set.
    School theatre
    A rowing four racing on a river, with the cox circled in red.
    The cox, circled
  2. Singapore · Sep 2024 to May 2025

    A year at SUTD

    I spent a year on exchange at SUTD in Singapore. I shot street photography on a Fujifilm and took 43 flights in 45 weeks, fitted around the degree.

    I also mentored a student team for STEAMunity, who won Best Prototype and presented to the Deputy Prime Minister, and did research for ALITA, a legal innovation group in Asia-Pacific.

  3. Frames from the road

    Me pointing up at a shop sign on an old wooden street in Japan.
    Jan 2025
    Me climbing mossy stone steps to a small wooden shrine in a forest.
    May 2025
    Me reading on a bench under a wall of bookshelves.
    May 2025
    Me with my hands on my head in the street while a monorail train runs through the middle of a tower block behind me.
    Jun 2025
  4. Cardiff · Aug 2025 onwards

    The AI programme at Innovi

    Back in Cardiff for final year, I took on the AI programme at Innovi Advisors, a UK accountancy practice, part-time. I sat with the partners to find where staff time went, then turned 15 stalled draft agents into one agent the team now uses day to day. I run the staff training too.

  5. First client · Summer 2026

    A national pharmacy group

    This summer I got my first client of my own, a national UK pharmacy group with about £500m turnover, delivered through Innovi. I spent three days on site with Finance and HR, and three Copilot agents shipped. HR staff built two of them after an hour with me. Then I wrote the Executive Director a letter on what worked and who should own the next phase.

    Delivered through InnoviAug 2026Three days on site

  6. Graduation · July 2026

    A First from Cardiff

    I graduated with a First in Computer Science from Cardiff University. Alongside the degree I ran events for the university's AI safety society.

    Cardiff UniversityFirstBSc Computer Science

On the Fujifilm

Photography

I shoot street photography on a Fujifilm X100VI. These are a few frames from 2025. The rest are on @sanay.photography.

Me taking a photo of myself in a round mirror on a train, the camera held up to my eye.
The camera, Mar 2026
A street food stall at dusk, smoke rising from the grill under a canopy while a woman waits.
Apr 2025
A small restaurant in Japan at night, its front open to the street, red lanterns over the counter.
Mar 2025
A man in a yellow shirt playing a painted public piano in a dark train station.
Jun 2025
People sitting in shade under a bridge by the water, a boy standing on the wall, fishing boats moored beyond.
Apr 2025
Two macaques on a wooden post, one grooming the other, trees behind.
May 2025
A room full of life-size handmade dolls seated at desks under strings of paper lanterns.
May 2025
A curved wall of old apartment blocks seen from the street, a green pedestrian light in front.
Jun 2025
A purple and pink sky at dusk above the silhouettes of trees.
Mar 2025
The side of an old apartment block in hard afternoon light, air conditioners on every floor.
Jun 2025
A street of low shophouses at dusk under a pink sky, cars parked along both sides.
Apr 2025
A city skyline at blue hour across a river, the towers and a bridge lit up.
Jun 2025
Rows of pagodas leading to a large seated Buddha on a green hillside.
Jun 2025