AI Strategy & Transformation

(re)Imagine Work.
With AI.

Light Craft Labs partners with senior leadership teams to align on AI strategy, build organizational conviction, and move from intent to execution.

Our Services
100
Client Net Promoter Score
15+yrs
Average Team Experience
50+
0 to 1 Products Shipped

What leaders say after
working with us.

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"Vidur's tech leadership, and product/design DNA were evident in his product decision making and fast execution as he drove us to launch in 5 months and see an immediate impact on customer satisfaction and order volume."
Founder & CEO
Global B2B Wholesale Network
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"Ashutosh onboarded 3× faster than employee onboarding, and shipped MVP for Starburst Platform Upgrade automation in just 4 weeks. We are looking forward to continue to work with Light Craft on this core component of our strategic customer retention priority."
Jitender Aswani, SVP of Engineering
Starburst Data, Inc.

From first contact to measurable
outcomes in days.

Case Study Laser Technology · Data Infrastructure

Agentic Upgrade Testing Automation

Built GenAI-powered agentic testing automation to drive retention of the most strategic customer — one with complex and varied technology landscapes. Turned a retention risk into a scalable, repeatable capability.

4wk
To Pilot Launch
80%
Revenue Retention Impact
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Case Study Laser E-Commerce · B2B Marketplace

New B2B Marketplace with Agentic Experiences

Delivered a modern B2B marketplace built on agentic experiences — 10× faster and 3× cheaper using GenAI. Transformed the buyer journey with intelligent automation that drove measurable commercial impact.

90+
NPS (from 30)
Avg. Order Value

Three Sparks. One Arc.

From Clarity to Capability

01 · Ignite

Ignite

Think Google Design Sprint. On Steroids.

Our flagship strategic facilitation engagement. We take senior leadership teams from fragmented intent to a prioritized, actionable AI strategy they own and execute.

  • AI strategy alignment for leadership teams
  • Five structured phases
  • Cross-organizational consensus building
  • Prioritized roadmap with sequencing plan
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02 · Laser

Laser

Ship something, with your team. Build belief.

Hands-on delivery engagement for taking an AI-powered product or project from concept to production. We bring precision, pace, and deep technical execution.

  • Discover → Diagnose → Design → Deliver
  • Senior engineers and practitioners from day one
  • Full knowledge transfer to your team
  • Fixed milestones, transparent scope
See How We Build
03 · Pulse

Pulse

Turn AI into a core capability.

Long-term enablement engagement designed to make GenAI a durable organizational capability through embedded expertise, coaching, and capability building.

  • Embedded senior practitioners in your teams
  • Executive and team AI coaching
  • Capability building programs at every level
  • Organizational independence, not dependency
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We are not a firm that hands you
a framework and steps back.

Light Craft Labs brings deep GenAI expertise, senior practitioners on every engagement, and a track record of helping organizations move from strategic ambiguity to decisive action.

We work with senior leadership teams — Heads of Digital Transformation, VPs of Innovation, Chief Digital Officers, and their cross-functional peers — who are navigating an AI mandate with real urgency and real accountability.

Our work is built for leaders who are done with strategy theater and ready to move.

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Conviction Over Consensus

We help teams reach genuine commitment, not the polite agreement that produces slide decks no one executes.

02

Practitioners, Not Presenters

Every engagement is led by senior practitioners with hands-on AI experience — not junior analysts learning on your dime.

03

Prototypes Over Proposals

We close engagements with tangible artifacts and testable concepts, not decks and recommendations that gather dust.

04

Human-Centered Transformation

Technology is the instrument; people are the strategy. We center organizational dynamics in every engagement we run.

Senior practitioners on
every engagement.

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Rishi Diwan
Founder & Managing Partner

Rishi brings 10+ years of AI product leadership spanning SAP, Salesforce, and JP Morgan, with a track record of driving portfolio and GTM strategy across businesses with $1B+ ARR. A humanist and futurist at his core, he has led rapid incubation of AI-native products in consumer, sports, and finance — and has advised organizations from the boardroom and the Office of the CEO. He founded Light Craft Labs to help senior leaders move from AI ambiguity to decisive action.

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Vidur Bhatnagar
Tech Lead & Co-Founder

Vidur is a rare combination of engineer, founder, and product thinker. He started coding at 10, sold his first startup at 22, and has since led 0→1 builds and technology transformations spanning early-stage ventures to Amazon-scale systems. His work has earned 15+ awards, 5 patents, and 2 academic publications. Currently pursuing an MS in Robotics at UPenn, Vidur brings a research-grade technical perspective to every engagement he leads.

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Ashutosh Pandey
Tech Lead

Ashutosh is a full-stack developer and technical manager with 17+ years of hands-on engineering experience. Technology-agnostic by practice, he works fluidly across stacks and platforms — bringing rigorous execution wherever the problem lives. He has a particularly strong track record in training and upskilling engineering teams, making him as effective at building organizational capability as he is at shipping product.

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Shirish Kumar
AI & Data Architecture Lead

Shirish is an AI and data architect with 17+ years of experience aligning deep technical strategy to business outcomes. He founded DiabloAI, which was acquired by LiveRamp, and built expertise in entity resolution, identity graphs, and scaled data matching along the way. He now designs AI-native platforms and enterprise distributed systems — bringing the rare combination of a founder's instincts and an architect's rigor to every engagement.

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Carly Cooper
Human + AI Culture Strategist

Carly brings more than 25 years of culture, change leadership, and organizational design to the most consequential question in enterprise AI: are people actually ready to trust it? A Fulbright Specialist and adjunct faculty at Brown and USC, she holds a Doctorate in Change Leadership from USC and a Master's in Organizational Psychology from Columbia, with field experience shaping culture and programs for SAP, Infosys, and Barclays. At Light Craft Labs, she architects the human side of AI adoption — the permission structures, trust frameworks, and cultural foundations that turn deployment into genuine, lasting transformation.

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Thinking Out Loud.

AI Strategy

Your AI Strategy Needs a Cultural Pause

Over $300 billion in enterprise AI spending. Nearly 90% of knowledge workers using AI at work. Yet only 5% report using AI to genuinely transform how they work. These numbers don't reveal an incentive problem — they reveal a trust problem. Enterprises don't need stronger incentives. They need the discipline to delay outcomes until value is visible.

Jan 15, 2026  ·  9 min read Read on Medium
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Ready to move from intent
to action?

We work with a limited number of clients at a time to ensure every engagement gets the senior attention it deserves.