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.

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. Powered by Spoggle data orchestration.

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. See the Foundry.

The 90th percentile difference

Beyond our business model, our differentiation is hiring. We bring bright quants, researchers, and founders to work alongside our clients. Industry operators can join the Guild.

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

Transformation is dead.

Rebuild parts to whole.

Every industry is getting rebuilt, function by function, by intelligence. The operators who move first set the terms for the decade that follows. We come with a thesis, a pod, and a platform that compounds with every engagement. The rest is yours to run.

A thesis, already written.

We arrive with a point of view on where intelligence rewrites your industry. The first conversation builds from it.

Operators who have sat in your seat.

Founders and executives from your industry lead every engagement. They carry the scars, the relationships, and the instincts that only come from having run the play before.

A platform that compounds.

Bastion carries the data, the agents, and the memory from every engagement forward. Yours starts further in than the last one. The next one starts further in than yours.

A return that sits inside yours.

Every engagement is an IP Sale, an equity stake, or a joint venture. Our upside and yours compound on the same axis.

Put your first move in writing.

The industry, the moment you want to move on, and what it looks like from where you sit. A few lines is plenty. The reply comes back with a point of view.