AI · CGI · GenAI · Agentic AI
Crankshaft News builds automated news and entertainment systems powered by AI, CGI, GenAI, and Agentic AI — from research to production.
Projects
Composable AI pipelines and live projects for news automation, CGI storytelling, generative audio, and entertainment — each designed to extend independently.
Turbo music-video commercial generation pipeline that turns a one-sentence pitch into a 60-second high-velocity ad with synchronized audio and video.
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Transform novels and long-form narratives into production-ready screenplays using GenAI pipelines, structural analysis, and cinematic formatting.
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Autonomous AI-powered radio in Rust with DJ agents, real-time audio processing, and HTTP streaming for agent-driven media generation.
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Agentic AI workflows that ingest, verify, synthesize, and publish news stories with human-in-the-loop editorial controls.
Generative CGI pipelines for visual news segments, explainers, and entertainment content — from script to rendered scene.
Research tooling for automated fact-checking, source triangulation, and narrative drift detection across media ecosystems.
Research
Published and in-progress research on agentic news systems, GenAI pipelines, and automated entertainment.
2025 · Shyamal Suhana Chandra
A composable framework for multi-agent news pipelines — from source ingestion and claim extraction to synthesis, editorial review, and publication — with audit trails at every stage.
2025 · Shyamal Suhana Chandra
Exploring end-to-end generative pipelines that convert structured narratives into CGI-ready storyboards, scene descriptions, and rendered visual assets for news and entertainment.
2025 · Shyamal Suhana Chandra
Methodology and evaluation metrics for adapting long-form literary works into screenplays while preserving narrative structure, character arcs, and cinematic pacing.
2026 · Shyamal Suhana Chandra
Research on agent ensembles that cross-reference claims, detect hallucinations, and score source reliability in AI-generated news and entertainment content.
Leadership
Sole Technical Founder
Shyamal leads Crankshaft News's technical vision — building composable agentic systems that automate news production, research verification, and generative entertainment from the ground up.
Architecture
Built for growth — extend offerings, add research papers, or spin up new product pages without rewriting the site.
Offerings and research papers live in JSON files under src/content/. Add a new entry — no code changes required.
Each page section (Hero, OfferingsGrid, ResearchPapers, FounderSection) is an independent React component you can reorder or reuse.
Next.js static export produces pure HTML/CSS/JS served by GitHub Pages — fast, secure, and free.
GitHub Actions builds on every push to main and deploys to crankshaftnews.github.io automatically.
crankshaftnews.github.io/ ├── src/content/ ← offerings.json, research-papers.json ├── src/components/ ← reusable UI blocks ├── src/app/page.tsx ← composes sections ├── public/ ← logo, founder photo, .nojekyll └── .github/workflows/ ← auto-deploy to GitHub Pages Stack: Next.js (static export) + Tailwind CSS v4 Host: GitHub Pages via GitHub Actions URL: https://crankshaftnews.github.io