About
Independent. Hands-on. Accountable.
I architect, ship, and govern production-grade AI systems — from LLMOps and agentic orchestration to voice AI, sovereign deployments, and ISO-aligned governance — for MSMEs, enterprises, and the people who run them.
- 15+ years shipping · 20 industries.
- 30+ enterprises · India, EU, GCC, Nordics.
- ISO-42001 · DPDP · GDPR · PDPL aligned.
- Independent practice · no body-shop bench.
“Most consultants advise on AI. I build it, operate it, and teach your team to own it.”
The fifty-word read
Madhav Anadkat. Independent Chief AI Officer. I architect, ship, and govern production AI for enterprises and the people who run them — 15 years, twenty industries, ISO-aligned. One person, one practice. Indian principal, global delivery.
At a glance
- Role
- Independent Chief AI Officer
- Day role
- Head of AI & Digital Transformation at a multi-billion-euro software group
- Practice
- Build · Run · Govern
- Coverage
- India · EU · GCC · Nordics
- Ships in
- Six weeks pilot → production (median)
- Aligned to
- ISO-42001 · SOC-2 · GDPR · DPDP
- Engagements
- 30+ enterprises shipped
The longer read
15 years of shipping — in production, not in slideware.
I started in IoT — first maritime AI for global fleets, then medical-grade healthcare IoT in India. The lesson from both decades: a system that doesn’t survive contact with regulators, auditors, or 3am pages isn’t a system. It’s a slide.
Today, that posture carries into AI. I architect, ship, and govern production AI — LLMOps, agentic orchestration, voice AI, private and sovereign deployments, and the ISO-42001 / SOC-2 evidence pack that lets a board sign off without losing sleep. Thirty enterprises across India, the EU, GCC and the Nordics. Twenty industries. Forty production systems live right now.
The practice is independent by choice. No agency overhead, no vendor commissions, no body-shop pressure. I take three retained engagements at a time, run a small senior bench when a co-build needs hands, and walk away when the engineering team I trained can run it without me. That’s the whole job.
Most consultants advise on AI. I build it, operate it, and teach your team to own it.
Selected work
What’s actually in production.
Fortune 500 and enterprise customers — described, never named. NDAs are part of the product; references happen on direct calls, not in marketing.
2026
GCC
Bilingual AI Wellbeing Coach
Enterprise wellness
RAG coach in EN/AR with 23 nudge rules across 9 categories, wearable integration, and PDPL/GDPR/ISO-27001-aligned safety escalation.
- RAG
- EN/AR
- Kubernetes
- Fitbit/Apple Watch
- PDPL
- GDPR
2026
EU
Pharmacy Operational Intelligence Lakehouse
Enterprise SaaS
Azure Medallion lakehouse + an n8n intelligence radar with 5 specialist agents across 16 EPICs, and multi-tenant industry config.
- Azure Medallion
- n8n
- multi-agent
- multi-tenant
2026
KSA
Super Mobile App & RAG Chatbot
Real estate
React Native super-app with Azure OpenAI bilingual LTR/RTL chatbot, 6-role dashboards, and ERP/CRM/facilities integration.
- React Native
- Azure OpenAI
- LTR/RTL
- ERP
2026
Internal ERP
HR Performance Management Platform
People ops
8-EPIC plan · 18-table schema · role-based KRA inheritance · quarterly evaluation flow · 300-point PMS.
- ERP
- PMS
- KRA inheritance
2025
EU
Azure Cloud Cost Audit & Right-Sizing
Pharma data platform
Cloud-PEEAM methodology delivering €20K–32K/yr documented savings with a FinOps governance cadence.
- Azure
- FinOps
- Cloud-PEEAM
2025
Nordics
Voice-Based Behavioral Coach
Pharma · consumer health PWA
Norwegian / Swedish / EN voice coach with SMS + push orchestration across a 5-phase delivery with a dedicated team model.
- Voice AI
- Multilingual
- SMS
- PWA
2024
Global
Maritime AI Vessel Safety & Fleet Management
Maritime
Edge AI + IoT telemetry across global fleet · predictive analytics · onboard MLOps.
- Edge AI
- IoT
- MLOps
2023
India
ICU Bed Upgrade Platform
Healthcare · national rollout
Medical-grade IoT with bedside telemetry · CDSCO/MDR compliance · rolled out through partner hospitals.
- Medical IoT
- CDSCO/MDR
Names are anonymized by industry + region. Reference calls available under mutual NDA.
Stage + classroom
Where I’ve spoken.
HP WeRise · RecognitionAhmedabad · 2025
PMI Gujarat · Chapter panelAhmedabad · 2024
Keynote · Mid-talk2025
2026
Keynote
Vibe Coding: Show & Tell
PMI Gujarat Chapter · PM Forum
2026
Keynote
Responsible Generative AI
NIFT Gandhinagar
2025
Panel
AI for Product Leadership
Atmiya AI Summit
2025
Workshop
Applied GenAI for Enterprise
HP WeRise Ahmedabad
Coverage
10 services, one accountable partner.
AI-as-a-Service
Digital Transformation
Agent-as-a-Service
Voice-as-a-Service
LLMOps
Multi-agent Systems
Private & Sovereign AI
AI Governance
Team Enablement
AI-Assisted Development
Alignment
- ISO/IEC 42001 aligned
- ISO/IEC 27001 aligned
- SOC 2 aligned
- NIST AI RMF aligned
Honest gates
What I don’t do.
The fastest way to know whether to engage me is to know what I’ll turn down. If your need is on this list, I’m not the partner — and I’ll happily refer you to someone who is.
01
Build a body shop
One person, one practice — scoped to my time plus a small senior bench. If you need 80 engineers, you need a system integrator.
02
Take equity
Cash engagements only. Keeps incentives clean and the assessment of your roadmap objective.
03
Resell SaaS
Vendor-neutral by design. No referral fees, no kickbacks, no preferred-vendor pressure on architecture decisions.
04
Train sales teams
My work is engineering and governance. Sales coaches do enablement better — happy to introduce.
05
Promise unmeasurable outcomes
Six-week pilot-to-prod is an average from past delivery, not a guarantee. Every engagement starts with what we agree to measure.
06
Carry more than three retained clients at once
Capacity by choice. Avoids the 'advisor in name only' trap and keeps the calendar honest.
Diligence-friendly
For those verifying before engaging.
01
Reference calls
Available on request. You speak to the people I actually did the work with — no account manager in the middle, no curated reference call. Standard mutual NDA before specifics; happy to sign yours.
02
Written diagnostic
The two-week paid diagnostic doubles as a vendor trial. You walk away with a board-ready roadmap whether or not we go further. See /consult.
03
Speaker / press kit
Bios in three lengths, hi-res headshots, topic library, A/V rider — landing on /press. Email for the current packet.
Elsewhere
Voices from the rooms
48,000+ impressions · 11 notes · 9 venues
PMI Gujarat · Keynote · Dec 2024 
Karnavati · AI Conclave 2025 
Rajkot · Keynote · 2025 
PM Forum · Off-script · 2025