Jul 2025 – Present · 10 mos

• Founder & AI ROI Partner | 90‑Day Sprints to Turn Your AI Stack into Profit
• 🔥 Founder to Founder: Your AI Stack Is Bleeding Cash
• I’m the founder of ThoughtKraft AI, where I help resource‑tight CEOs transform scattered AI experiments into profit engines—fast, friction‑free, and outcome‑driven.
• At Amazon, I led teams that unlocked $100 M+ in savings by cutting complexity—never adding it. Now I apply that operator’s rigor straight to startups:
• How We Deliver in 30–90 Days
• ✅ 3 High‑Impact Tools you can implement this month —no engineering lift required
• ✅ Adoption Systems with > 92% team compliance (zero slide‑deck fatigue)
• ✅ $5K+/mo SaaS Cuts replaced by targeted automations that pay for themselves
• Why Founders Choose ThoughtKraft.AI
• 90‑Day Execution Sprints—pilots, not powerpoints; clear milestones, clear ROI
• Outcome‑First Pricing—you pay only for measurable impact, never for deliverables you don’t use
• Founder‑Led Engagements—direct access to me, no junior associates
• Ready to operationalize AI and extend your runway?
• Book Your Founder Sprint

Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 4 mos

Jun 2022 – Jun 2025 · 3 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Transforming retail chaos into $100M savings and 1M+ hours/year back for actual work – by automating the complex with Gen AI, APIs, and a disturbing love of process efficiency.
• Key Deliverables:
• $100M+ saved | 1M+ hours/year reclaimed
• Brokered peace between 60+ engineers, 20+ biz teams in 22 countries, everyday, for breakfast.
• (Spent afternoons forging alliances in dependency trenches, dodging scope-creep snipers, and extracting $100M from no-man’s-land.)
• Scaled 15 AI agents to 22 countries, covering 100's of processes
• From vendor outreach to catalog to deals– making global agent rollouts look suspiciously smooth.
• (Also fluent in 5 chaos languages: Engineering, Legal, Finance, Leadership, and "why is this broken?" Even the UN wants me now.)
• Cut dev effort by 12%
• Redesigned requirements processes (60% fewer clarifications, 15% less rework).
• Upshot - Engineers reclaimed 12% of their sanity.
• Democratized AI for business teams
• Built drag-and-drop tools letting non-engineers ship automated workflows. (The revolution will not be backlogged.)
• Amazon Document Bar Raiser (1/700)
• Trained 100+ leaders and refined 50+ VP/CEO docs for effective communication. Clarity is my love language, even for VPs.

Apr 2021 – Jun 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Worked with CEO's office to drive programs and strategic initiatives for own brands.

Dec 2018 – Mar 2021 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• Deployed India’s first two-way e-comm. supply policy, improving fill rates by 15% & vendor CSAT by 10%
• Reduced Inbound TAT at FC's by over 20% by deploying a two-channel inwarding model
• Designed vendor return policies that freed over 1 Cr. in working capital
• Delivered 30% reduction in ageing return units in by successfully deploying a new RTV policy
• Reduced Policy escalations by 20% by designing proactive communication channels
• The Policy Group at Flipkart is a unique function, entrusted with creating targetted behavioural impact, and includes responsibilities such as
• Improving processes & vendor experiences by designing policies through data analytics & end-user insights
• Creating workflows for data analysis & insight-gathering to identify process gaps requiring policy solutions
• Achieving alignment on policy solutions with business, vendors & ops teams utilizing data & relationships
• Design processes to help early discovery & proactive resolution of issues in implementing policy solutions
• Deploy policies across 1000+ partners, collaborating with finance, legal, tech & ops to drive enforcement
• Build & train autonomous teams to manage execution, escalation, audits & dispute resolution across policies

Dec 2017 – Dec 2018 · 1 yr

• Co-Own P&L & sales for some of the largest personal care & men’s grooming brands
• Leveraged strong key account relations to maintain optimal margins, promotions & visibility
• Co-creating properties and products with partners to create unique shopping experiences
• Lead the Selection, Marketplace & Trust & Safety charters, creating exciting & safer consumer experiences
• Key Achievements
• Successfully negotiated multiple brand/product launches as exclusives on Flipkart, incl. Marico’s True Roots
• Unlocked >100,000 units of inventory by creating a new process for identification & activation by partnering with tech
• Reduced customer returns up to 15%, through analysis & tracking of violating sellers
• Spearheaded initiatives reducing warehouse rejections by 25% by partnering with product & ops teams

Nov 2016 – Dec 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Responsible for complete P&L of Allen Solly Junior in Large Format Key Accounts, across 100+ doors & their E-Com. End to end ownership - incl. store planning, buying & merchandising, primary & secondary sales. Lead a team of 8 regional sales Team Leads, managing a front-end salesforce of over 110 store staff.
• Developed & Implemented a sell-thru driven Inventory optimization strategy, for a 30% sale uplift
• Delivered YoY revenue growth >100% ; Q1 FY18 growth >120% (L2L growth over 40%)
• Created the master template for store revamps, delivering over 20% growth across 4 pilot stores
• Introduced an automated QR Based system for tradeshow billing to streamline customer experience

Jun 2016 – Jun 2017 · 1 yr

Apr 2015 – May 2015 · 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

• Understanding degrowth of Allen Solly trousers by analyzing sell-through, sales trends & stocking patterns
• Studied performance levers with a market study across 18 stores in 3 cities to identify opportunity & gaps
• To ensure recommendations reflected consumer behaviour, they were validated by designing, administering and analyzing in-person surveys to crystallize buying behaviour & decision making
• Developing a customised stocking model for individual stores to optimise sell through & visual appeal

Jan 2015 – Feb 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo · New Delhi Area, India

• Increasing brand visibility of IIFT through mass media coverage for IIFT events and enhancing the relationship between IIFT and various media houses
• Responsible for co-organizing all campus events including symposia, conclaves, summits & festivals as part of the elected Student Council body
• Leading a committed team of 11 to manage all digital social media presence & visibility for IIFT across networks (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube), online fora (PagalGuy, Career Anna) & management education portals (InsideIIM)
• Maintaining robust external relationships with corporates, professors, alumni, and prospective students & other aspirants, including hosting meet-up's & information sessions

Jan 2014 – Apr 2014 · 3 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Worked across different EPIC Radiant & Reporting Modules. Performed extensive testing between different reporting systems, ensuring system stability & compatibility.

Jun 2013 – Nov 2013 · 5 mos · Ahmedabad Area, India

• Digital Media Liaison, Developing & improving digital social engagement, generating sustained interest for new product launches & managing brand position among influencers.

Jan 2013 – May 2013 · 4 mos · Naroda

• Successfully completed a solo exploratory project titled "Expanding the usability of databases by adding XML semantic metadata", utilizing intelligent structural analysis to add natural langauge navigation over a database's structure.

Dec 2011 – Dec 2011 · 0 mo

Jun 2011 – Jul 2011 · 1 mo