Moative is a quant-grade AI studio

We are a thesis-driven company. It is the mid-market company's time to transform and challenge the incumbents with a better cost, gross margin, and growth profile.

We arm the mid-market rebel through platform-driven AI consulting, skin-in-the-game revenue-share models, and AI-first joint ventures that shake the industry.

Guiding principles

Achieve Outcomes. Finish Tasks: Validate what outcomes matter and work backwards. Work that does not move the needle is as good as not done.
Take Charge. Act Fast: No work is above pay-grade if one knows how to do it. We encourage taking charge and staking claim. Do it now, not eventually.
Learn by Doing: In AI, progress is measured in days. Moative encourages experiments-led learning. We encourage our colleagues to just do it.
Automate Before Hiring: Consulting firms bill by FTEs and hours. We think automation-first. Our model is aligned to our clients' outcomes, not headcount.
Question Everything: It is dogmatic to accept the past ways of building and monetising software and work. We ask to understand and challenge the assumptions.
Partners, Not Vendors: Not lip service. It's our business model — co-create ideas and structures, partner, and go to market with our clients.

Advisory board

Industry leaders who guide our strategy across verticals.

Dan Nalawade

Market Advisor — Various Industries

Former President & CEO of Asia Pacific at General Electric. CEO, CFO, and CRO across several companies.

Ken Fenyo

Market Advisor — CPG & Distribution

CEO at YOU Technology, CMO at Grabango, VP of Loyalty & Digital at Kroger.

Eric Pong

Market Advisor — Global Logistics

LinkedIn Top Voice for Logistics. Manages 1100+ partnerships for a global logistics SaaS major.

Corey Wright

Market Advisor — Various Industries

Channel strategy, innovation, and partnership roles across eCommerce, logistics, and supply chain intelligence.

Leadership

Founders who've built, sold, and scaled companies across three continents.

Ashwin Ramasamy

CEO & Co-founder

Built & sold tech, data & AI companies. Consulted Fortune 500 across US, India, Europe, and West Asia.

Shrikanth Jagannathan

Chief Data Scientist & Co-founder

Led customer analytics globally for a Top 5 European Consulting firm. Built & sold a Data/AI company.

Bharath Moro

Head of AI Solutions & Co-founder

Built and sold a tech company to a NASDAQ-listed firm. Built an Amazon-scale data engineering & prediction platform.

Nikhil Sathasivam

Vice President — Enterprise AI Outcomes

Built an analytics company from early stage to scale. Delivered outcomes for several large-scale data & AI initiatives.

More about Moative

What does Moative do?

We define AI roadmaps and execute them for mid-market companies. Our model is "PE meets MBB" — AI transformation with skin-in-the-game investment through joint ventures and revenue share.

Our AI transformation thesis

Mid-market companies have been sold SAP and Oracle for too long. With AI there is true cost, margin, and revenue unlock — especially when cross-disciplinary teams work together.

Moative Labs

Consulting isn't the answer to every AI adoption challenge. We co-build IP, partner as joint-venture partners, and launch our own products where we see market gaps.

The 90th percentile difference

Beyond our business model, our differentiation is hiring. We bring bright quants, researchers, and founders to work alongside our clients.

Moative history

Shrikanth and Ashwin started Moative in July 2024. Bharath joined immediately. We now have team members across Houston, Chennai, and Bangalore.

Careers at Moative

We hire the 90th percentile from Ivy League universities and resourceful underdogs. We work from Houston and Chennai, with a lean remote team in Bangalore. Write to hub@moative.com.

Sunday newsletter

Every Sunday we send an essay about what we see in the market. Written by our leadership. Vulnerable, irreverent, opinionated. No shilling, just straight from the heart.

The Useful AI Hour

Our conversations with industry leaders who do something useful with AI for their enterprise customer base. Available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Straight-shooting essays on AI for the midmarket

No Ted Talks. No pontification. No talking down. Tactics and strategies for making every dollar of your AI investment count. Read every Sunday. Implement on Monday.

Subscribe to the Moative Memo

Let's talk

Tell us where you want to go

We build AI products with companies, not for them. Whether you're looking for a consulting engagement, a licensing deal, or a co-build partnership, we want to hear what you're working on.

Serial founders, not just consultants

We've built and sold companies three times. We were acquired-guns for PE firms. We've been in AI since it was called statistics.

Partners, not vendors

We think in terms of cost savings multiples and exit value, not FTEs or subscriptions. Revenue-share and co-ownership models that align our success with yours.

Outcomes every 30 days

95th percentile quants and automation engineers. We ship working systems on a monthly cadence, not quarterly roadmaps.

Deep industry knowledge

Energy, healthcare, manufacturing, financial services. Math PhDs from Johns Hopkins and IITs, advisors from Fortune 100 companies.

Talk to our team

Tell us about your AI goals and we'll get back to you within 24 hours.