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Your business needs
a Fractional AI Officer.
Not a full-time hire.

Every Indian company competing in the next decade needs AI leadership. We provide fractional Chief AI Officers — senior strategy, implementation guidance, and team training — at a fraction of the cost.

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30%
India AI consulting CAGR through 2035
88%
Indian employees already using GenAI at work
12%
SMEs actually using AI in core business functions
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Dedicated AI Officer platforms built for Indian business
Free Presentation · 15 Slides

Let Us
Demystify AI
For Your Business

A plain-English guide to AI for Indian business owners. No jargon. No hype. The presentation Riz Thakur delivered to EO Mumbai — now available to every business owner in India.

15Slides
20 minWatch Time
4DFramework
FreeAccess
01 The Foundational Truth — There is nothing intelligent about Artificial Intelligence. Yet.
02 The Car Analogy — You don't need to know how the engine works. Working knowledge is enough.
03 The Driver Analogy — Find your destination. Your AI Officer selects the appropriate tool.
04 The 4D Framework — Data · Direction · Driver · Domain. The only starting point that works.
05 AI is Your 8th Core Function — The companies that treat it this way in 2025 will be impossible to compete with in 2030.
Open Presentation
The Problem

AI is not a technology problem.
It's a leadership gap.

Indian SMEs know AI is transforming their industries. What they don't know is where to start, what to buy, who to trust, and how to measure success.

Large enterprises have CIOs, CTOs, and now Chief AI Officers. Mid-market companies in apparel, real estate, manufacturing, and retail are left navigating this alone — with vendors who sell products, not strategy.

The solution isn't a ₹2 crore full-time hire. It's a trusted AI Officer who is embedded in your business one day a week, aligned to your industry, and accountable to your outcomes.

That's what we've built.

Fact 01

Only 12% of Indian SMEs use AI in core operations — not because they don't want to, but because they have no one qualified to lead it.

Fact 02

A full-time Chief AI Officer costs ₹80L–₹1.5Cr per year. Most companies with under ₹100Cr revenue cannot justify that headcount.

Fact 03

95% of enterprise AI pilots fail to deliver measurable ROI — not because the tech is bad, but because there's no executive owning the outcome.

Fact 04

India has hundreds of thousands of BPO and software professionals qualified to deliver AI officer services — but no platform to train and place them.

Three ways to engage
with The AI Officers

Whether you're a company that needs AI leadership, a professional who wants to become an AI Officer, or a sector specialist — there's a track for you.

Core Service
01

Fractional AI Officer

A senior AI strategist embedded in your business. Owns your AI roadmap, vendor decisions, team enablement, and outcome reporting — without the full-time overhead.

  • AI readiness audit & gap analysis
  • Custom 90-day AI roadmap
  • Vendor evaluation & selection
  • Board-level AI reporting
  • Team training & upskilling
  • Starting from ₹35,000/month
In Beta
02

AI Officer Training Programme

For software professionals, BPO executives, and business leaders who want to become certified AI Officers and serve companies in their sector.

  • Sector-specific AI curriculum
  • Business strategy, not just tools
  • Live case-based cohort learning
  • Placement assistance with client companies
  • Ongoing practitioner community
  • Starting from ₹18,000/cohort
Apply to become an AI Officer → ▶️ Try ELOVA AI Free — Levels 1 & 2 →
Coming Soon
03

AI Officer Marketplace

The Upwork for AI Officers. Vetted, sector-trained AI professionals listed and available for fractional engagements — matching companies directly with qualified officers.

  • Verified AI Officer profiles
  • Sector & language matching
  • Outcome-based engagement models
  • Escrow & milestone payments
  • Rating & review system
  • India-first, global-ready
Industry Focus

AI playbooks built for
your sector

Generic AI advice doesn't work. Our officers are trained with sector-specific use cases, vocabulary, and competitive context.

🏭

Manufacturing

From quality control automation to predictive maintenance and supply chain intelligence — AI that moves on the shop floor, not just the boardroom.

→ Predictive maintenance → Quality vision systems → Demand forecasting
🧵

Apparel & Retail

Trend forecasting, inventory optimisation, size recommendation engines, and supplier AI — for brands competing on speed and margin.

→ Trend & demand AI → Inventory intelligence → Personalisation engines
🏢

Real Estate

Price prediction, lead scoring, automated due diligence, and tenant-matching AI — helping developers, brokers, and PropTech firms move faster.

→ Valuation AI → Lead scoring & CRM AI → Document automation
🏦

BPO & GCCs

Transform your delivery model with AI-augmented teams. From document processing to agentic workflows — the BPO that adopts AI first, wins.

→ Agentic process automation → AI QA & coaching → Knowledge management AI
📦

Supply Chain & Logistics

End-to-end visibility, route optimisation, and vendor intelligence — using AI to compress costs and build resilience in complex Indian supply networks.

→ Route & fleet AI → Supplier risk scoring → Inventory AI
🎓

EdTech & Education

Adaptive learning, student outcome prediction, and AI content systems — built on real experience designing and deploying AI in education platforms.

→ Adaptive learning AI → Outcome prediction → AI content pipelines
Why Trust Us

Practitioners, not
theorists.

Tsunami

The AI Tsunami

A business leader's guide to the wave of AI transformation reshaping industries globally — and what Indian companies must do to survive and lead.

Published
SI

Superintelligence

The next frontier — what happens after AI becomes smarter than us, and the strategic decisions businesses must make now before that threshold arrives.

Upcoming
"I've been architecting technology products since the late 1990s. The shift we're seeing with AI isn't just another technology cycle — it's a restructuring of every industry's competitive map."

Our founder has spent 25+ years building technology products and platforms. The AI Officers is built on lived experience — not theory.

ed5.com — AI-Powered Education Platform

Architected and built an adaptive AI learning platform serving students and institutions. Full AI product design, model integration, and delivery.

Tristone Partners — Agentic AI Environment

Designed and deployed an enterprise agentic AI system for a leading financial services firm. Strategy, architecture, and implementation from ground up.

Your case study here

We're onboarding our first cohort of pilot clients across manufacturing, real estate, and apparel. Interested in being a founding client? Join the waitlist.

Ask an AI Officer

Have a question about AI
for your business? Ask.

Submit your business question. Our AI Officer will respond with a simplified, actionable answer — publicly, to build a knowledge base for Indian business.

Submit your question →

Full Q&A functionality launching with the platform. Join the waitlist to be notified.

Sample questions from business owners

How do I start with AI if I have no tech team? Can AI help reduce my fabric waste? What AI tools actually work for Indian SMEs? How long does an AI implementation take? Is my data good enough to train a model? How do I write a brief for an AI vendor? What's the difference between AI and automation? Should I build or buy AI tools?

Why 95% of AI pilots fail — and what the other 5% do differently

The failure isn't the technology. It's the absence of business ownership. Here's what separates companies that get ROI from AI from those that accumulate expensive experiments.

Read the full insight →

Where does your business
actually stand on AI?

Score yourself across all four dimensions — Data, Direction, Driver, Domain. Get your results instantly and receive a personalised report by email.

D1
Data
What data does your business actually have?
D2
Direction
Is your leadership aligned on where AI goes first?
D3
Driver
Who owns your AI outcomes and is accountable?
D4
Domain
Is your competitive knowledge captured and protected?

Join the waitlist.
Two tracks. One mission.

We're building India's AI Officer ecosystem. Whether you need an AI Officer or want to become one — your journey starts here.

For Companies

I need a Fractional AI Officer for my business

Get matched with a sector-trained AI Officer who can assess your readiness, build your roadmap, and own your AI outcomes.

  • Free AI readiness assessment
  • Sector-matched AI Officer
  • Founding client pricing (limited slots)
  • Direct founder involvement in onboarding
For Professionals

I want to become a certified AI Officer

Join the first cohort of India's AI Officer training programme. Get certified, get placed, and build a fractional practice in your sector.

  • Early access to training curriculum
  • First cohort founder pricing
  • Placement priority with client companies
  • Practitioner community access

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