I can't eat the food I want. So I'm building my way out.

Originally published at ayonbuilds.hashnode.dev

I can't eat the food I want.

I can't travel. I can't do the things my peers do.

I'm a 2nd year CS student in Chandigarh. No connections. No money. No big university name behind me.

Last week I was researching AI security tools and stumbled across a startup called Artemis. Founded in 2025. Just raised $70M. Building AI agents that automatically investigate security threats.

I had just built something in the same category. From my room. With free tools. Zero budget. Simulated data. No users. No team.

Not even close to what they've built.

But I understood the problem well enough to build a working version of it myself. And that told me something.

I'm not there yet. Not even close. But I'm working on the right problems at the right time — and I'm just getting started.

Here's what I built — ARIA (Autonomous Risk Investigation Agent). It detects suspicious authentication events in real time, maps them to MITRE ATT&CK threat techniques, and automatically generates plain-English incident reports using an LLM investigation chain. Built with FastAPI, React, PostgreSQL, and Groq API.

GitHub: github.com/Ayon99/ARIA

My name is Ayon. I'm building AI systems in public — the wins, the failures, the gap between what I make and what the funded teams make, and everything I'm learning along the way.

I have one goal. Break through. Completely. Whatever it takes.

If you're in a similar position — small city, limited resources, big ambition — follow along. I'm not going to pretend I've figured it out. But I'm going to document every step of figuring it out.