Sairam Krishnan
Services

Services

Engineering leaders

Fit Call

Free

A short free call.

You tell me the problem, and we decide together whether I am the right person for it.

Architecture Call

One hour on the design, scaling problem, data model, or AI build your team is stuck on.

Bring the doc or the diagram; leave with a recommendation.

Design Review

A written review of one design doc before your team commits to building it: data models, service boundaries, failure modes, and scale.

Every risk is ranked with a proposed fix, and the week closes with a call to walk your engineers through it.

Executives

Keynote

A keynote for a conference, summit, or company offsite, shaped around the audience’s AI decisions.

My delivered talks include AI for Impact and Knowledge Graphs, Then Small Language Models.

Presented “Knowledge Graphs, Then Small Language Models” to Atos on September 3, 2026, with a live setup of a local model in five minutes.

Masterclass

One session or a connected series, built around your team’s work.

I have taught applied AI to HP teams, trained Morgan Lewis’s internal AI champions, and led practical AI programs for PBS and Sonova.

Designed and taught a two-session course at HP: AI Foundations for Digital Innovators, then Applying AI in IT and Digital Solutions.

Taught Sonova’s two-part progression from prompting to AI agents, workflows, and skills.

AI ROI Review

I run every AI initiative on your list through a four-layer framework.

  • A SCALE strategic readiness assessment of your firm
  • A value driver tree that traces each initiative to return on invested capital
  • A discount rate adjusted for AI-specific risks such as vendor and platform dependency and organizational friction
  • Stage gates that release each tranche of funding only on evidence

You get a decision scorecard that tells your executives which initiatives to fund.

Every month

Advisory Retainer

Standing access for your engineering leaders: design reviews before work starts, office hours for hard distributed-systems and AI problems, and mentoring for senior engineers growing into staff roles.

Fractional CTO

I become your technical leader, accountable for outcomes.

  • Technical strategy and roadmap
  • Architecture and design reviews
  • Hiring loops for your first engineers
  • Mentoring and performance management
  • Vendor and agency oversight
  • Investor technical due diligence and board updates
  • AI strategy and ROI decisions

Month one opens with a two-week stack audit and a 90-day plan, included.

Serve as co-founder and CTO of Ondoway, owning technical strategy, AI architecture, and end-to-end delivery into private beta.

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