For mid-market companies

From AI ambition
to verified EBITDA.

AiStudio identifies, builds and deploys bespoke AI systems inside your operations. We bring strategy and engineering together in one team, and stay until the outcome lands.

The gap

Every business owner has AI in the plan.
Almost nobody has it in production.

The constraint is execution, not technology.

01 / CAPACITY

The engineers who can build this won't join a mid-market operating company one at a time. That's structural, not a hiring problem.

02 / COMPLEXITY

The business runs on judgment nobody wrote down: the exceptions, the edge cases, the pricing logic held by two people.

03 / ADOPTION

Pilots clear the build and then die in daily use. After go-live, nobody owns the number, and the value never reaches the P&L.

A company that doesn’t use AI and one rebuilt around it are not the same business. Only one of them is worth more.

Where we drive value

Your plan is the floor.
AI adds to every lever already on it.

Business-plan exitEntry EV1Revenueacceleration2Costto serve3Fasteradd-ons4New dataproducts5MultipleexpansionExit EVENTERPRISE VALUEBusiness planAI uplift

Revenue acceleration

Give the same revenue team greater reach across accounts and markets.

Cost to serve

Automate delivery work and put the freed capacity back into growth.

Faster add-ons

Give each acquisition the shared engine and playbook built for the first.

New data products

Turn existing operational data into paid features and services.

Multiple expansion

Strengthen earnings quality and transfer embedded IP to the next owner.

How we deliver

One deployment pod.
Diagnosis to finance-verified value.

Identification

Timeline

Weeks 0–2

What you get

An identification memo: two or three use cases, the assumptions behind each, and the data we need.

WHAT WE DO
  • A two-day workshop with the sponsor, CEO, operators and IT
  • Walkthroughs of real work, recorded
  • Every use case scored on process, systems, data and uplift

Discovery

Timeline

Weeks 1–3, on site

What you get

A quantified opportunity map, a solution design, and a business case the client signs off.

WHAT WE DO
  • ERP, CRM and workflow logs read, not workshops alone
  • Every step mapped with the operators who run it
  • The target state co-designed as an AI-native workflow

Development

Timeline

Weeks 3–8 per phase

What you get

A production workflow running at one site, a live KPI view, and the runbook to operate it.

WHAT WE DO
  • Built where bought software stops
  • Backtested on history before anyone uses it
  • Weekly releases into the ERP and CRM, alongside the users on the floor

Change management

Timeline

Alongside the build, then monthly

What you get

Finance-verified value. Your code, runbook and repeatable engine.

WHAT WE DO
  • Adoption baselined before go-live
  • Value tracked live, with a named owner for every metric
  • Daily reports, monthly reviews and actions
Proof

What this looks like in practice.

Where we sit

Not a strategy house. Not a point tool.
Not a team you have to hire.

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How AiStudio compares with strategy consultants, point AI vendors and an in-house AI team
Strategy consultantsPoint AI vendorsIn-house AI teamAiStudio
Use cases chosen by EBITDA impact
Engineers building in your live systems
Value inside the hold period
Adoption tracked into daily use
Cost tied to results, not to time or headcount
You own the code and the runbook
Repeatable across the portfolio
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Team

Founders who built production systems.
A bench that deploys them.

Founders
Sharad Mirani

Sharad Mirani

Co-founder, AI & Engineering

Built low-latency ML systems for high-frequency trading, and the production infrastructure under them — backtesting through to deployment. Tower Research, Optiver and Goldman Sachs.

Monish Pathare

Monish Pathare

Co-founder, Business & Operations

Built the analytics and decision systems behind 400M AUM private markets, tying portfolio data to the P&L through KPI frameworks. Lightbox and EXL.

Deployment team

Deployment strategists and forward-deployed engineers

Our team’s experience spans
Tower Research Capital
Goldman Sachs
BCG
L.E.K. Consulting
Arthur D. Little
Lightbox
University of Cambridge
Atlan
IIT Bombay
Optiver
Advisors
Ankush Thakkar

Ankush Thakkar

GTM Strategy

L.E.K. Consulting, where he led the firm’s first AI-in-education work and scaled go-to-market for EdTech and SaaS businesses.

Ravi Lakhani

Ravi Lakhani

Capital & Networks

Head of MENA at ABRA Ventures, a $100M deep-tech investment platform. Earlier, digital transformation programmes for large regulated banks.