Abhishek Mishra

American Society for AI (ASFAI) is a private club of prominent leaders, executives, and experts in Artificial Intelligence.

Fortune 500 companies around the world rely on Arcion’s cloud-native, distributed Change Data Capture (CDC) technology to drive fast and accurate data insights. Arcion helps enterprises eliminate slow, brittle data pipelines and the maintenance overheads. Break down data silos through high volume, scalable data pipelines with guaranteed transactional integrity.

Emergent Ventures is a Silicon Valley based early-stage VC firm that invests in Al and data-led B2B Software businesses and manages over $200M. Emergent invests early in high-potential entrepreneurs, leads seed rounds, and works closely with entrepreneurs to help them get to their next milestones faster. One of Emergent’s key assets is a tightly knit network of 100+ influential founders, senior corporate executives, and investors, who provide valuable insights and connections to the portfolio.

AI Udaan is one-on-one career acceleration for senior engineers and engineering leaders operating where there is no map. Udaan (उड़ान) means flight. The work is the climb: the Staff or Principal promo that keeps slipping, the first Director or VP seat, the move between management and IC in either direction. This is not advice from the sidelines. We take your goal and run it like a project. Scope it, map your org and the stakeholders around you, build the artifacts that make your thinking legible, then work it week by week with blunt feedback and specific tasks between sessions. For every hour with you there is an hour of preparation on your exact situation. Where AI has moved the bar in your org, we build something real to clear it. Behind it: 25 years inside Microsoft, Google, and Meta, including going back to an IC role as a Director after 22 years away. That taught me more than any promotion. Ten years mentoring 100+ engineers, managers, directors, and partners, many of whom earned a hard promotion, and others who got unstuck, changed direction, or grew into VP and partner roles. Several are now at OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, and Tempus AI. Three ways in, and every engagement credits forward if you go deeper: a Diagnostic session that maps your whole board, a Half Arc over three months, and a Full Arc over six. One-on-one only. Six clients at any time, never more. No cohorts, no group calls, no interview cramming, no resume rewrites. Start with a 20 minute fit call. Free, and not a sales call.

The hard part of AI-native isnt the model. Most enterprise AI programs stall in one of two places. The first mile, where teams automate the wrong work before anyone redesigns it. The last mile, where a proof of concept wins the room and never survives production, trust, and governance. Neither gap closes with a strategy deck or another tool on the stack. AINativeX is built around the split that decides the outcome. 70% people and process. 20% data and evaluation. 10% the model. That is also how we score a company in diligence: the reason a deal disappoints usually sits in the 70%, while most technical reviews grade the 10%. Three ways we work. Technical due diligence, two to three weeks. An operators read on whether the technology, the team, and the claims hold up, written the way an investment committee decides. Includes a talent map of who to hire and who to back. AI-native transformation, three to six months. Embedded with the frontline, decomposing the work function by function, redesigning the highest-leverage workflows before automating them, and standing up the data, evaluation, and governance foundation underneath. Product and technical scale, six months and up. For teams whose AI product works and now has to survive scale and enterprise buyers. Architecture for cost, latency, and reliability. Release gates. Engineering org design. The practice is led by Abhishek Mishra, 25 years at Microsoft, Google, and Meta. At Google he rebuilt the platform behind 30,000 support professionals and 120M calls a year. At Meta he led 20+ GenAI agents worth over $100M annualized. Both were changed from the inside, which is where the method came from. Clients buy judgment and a team that can run without us, not a bench of contractors. Engagements start small and end when your people can run it alone. Start with a working session. Ninety minutes with you and a couple of your leads, on a workflow you already care about. akmishra@ainativex.ai

American Society for AI (ASFAI) is a private club of prominent leaders, executives, and experts in Artificial Intelligence.

Fortune 500 companies around the world rely on Arcion’s cloud-native, distributed Change Data Capture (CDC) technology to drive fast and accurate data insights. Arcion helps enterprises eliminate slow, brittle data pipelines and the maintenance overheads. Break down data silos through high volume, scalable data pipelines with guaranteed transactional integrity.

Emergent Ventures is a Silicon Valley based early-stage VC firm that invests in Al and data-led B2B Software businesses and manages over $200M. Emergent invests early in high-potential entrepreneurs, leads seed rounds, and works closely with entrepreneurs to help them get to their next milestones faster. One of Emergent’s key assets is a tightly knit network of 100+ influential founders, senior corporate executives, and investors, who provide valuable insights and connections to the portfolio.