Portfolio · 2026

Zayan

SaaS Founder · Polymath · Author

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Teenage builder and AI specialist from Riyadh.

I build products, write books, and think about what comes next.

What The Work Is About

Build · Application development

Systems · AI integration

Visual · Image and visual editing

Research · Writing and learning

Open Source

Formal learning that supports the experiments.

01 Teaching AI Fluency Anthropic Academy 12 of 12 correct

02 English Wordsmith Bhanzu Language, clarity and expression

Every idea connects to something. This is how I think: one concept pulls in others, and a pattern emerges. Drop any idea below and see it unfold.

“Reading a book is one thing, but writing one… that’s a whole new kind of magic!” — Syed Zayan Abbas

Things worth knowing about.

Books

The Psychology of Money Morgan Housel on wealth and behaviour

Elon Musk Walter Isaacson’s portrait of obsession

Dune Frank Herbert’s universe of politics and prophecy

Films

The Dark Knight Nolan’s masterclass in moral complexity

Interstellar Science and emotion at the edge of space

Inception A dream within a dream within a film

Claude The one I think with

NotebookLM Research transformed

Perplexity Search, reimagined

Design

designmanifesto.vercel.app Built by me

Mobbin Real patterns from real products

21st.dev Modern components done right

Not a pursuit, just a way of paying attention to the world.

Syed Zayan Abbas