Independent AI Consultant · Los Angeles, CA

I help businesses solve problems with AI.

I'm Shrivan — a product veteran with nearly 20 years across energy, healthcare, and beyond. I work with a small number of companies at a time, going deep rather than wide.

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6+
Industries Served
$1B+
Impact Delivered
$10M+
ARR Scaled
80%
Time to Value Improvement
10,000+
End Users
1M+
Assets
30%
O&G Market Share
Why this matters

Most AI projects fail before they start.

I've watched this play out across my entire career — from big data to machine learning to AI. The intentions are genuine. The technology is often impressive. The models actually work. But the project still fails because it was never solving the problem anyone actually had.

I've seen this pattern dozens of times since. Companies get excited about AI — rightfully — and skip from “this could be interesting” to “let's build it” without ever pausing at “should we, and how?” The gap between a promising demo and a working product in production is wider than most people expect.

That gap is where I work. Not just building — but figuring out what's worth building, what it should actually do, and how to get it to the people who need it.

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What I do

Three ways I can help

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AI Consulting & Strategy

Figure out where AI actually fits your business — and build a roadmap grounded in your real constraints, not just what's technically possible.

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AI Implementation & Agent Building

I build the thing. Custom AI agents, automated workflows, and integrations — designed to go into production, not sit in a demo environment.

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1:1 AI Training & Coaching

Intensive, personalized sessions for executives and team leads who need to move from curious to genuinely capable — on their own schedule.

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Selected work

Projects I'm proud of

A few examples of the kind of work I do — anonymized where needed, specific where I can be.

Oil & Gas

Field Operations Platform

Built the only mobile-first field ops platform in oil & gas — displacing 30-year-old dominant software at ExxonMobil.

30% of all US oil & gas through one platform
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Oil & Gas · Strategy

Risk Strategy at ExxonMobil

Eight years inside ExxonMobil — from compliance to process engineering to leading risk strategy.

40+ regulations · $20M project portfolio
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Fintech · AI · Consumer SaaS

Ask Bubba

AI-powered stock research for people who don't speak Wall Street. Built and shipped solo: web, iOS, and Android with Stripe billing and a live paying user base.

3,000+ companies · 163 industries · 6 AI lenses
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Is this a fit?

Who I work best with

I keep my practice small by design. Before reaching out, here's an honest look at who tends to get the most out of working with me.

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Small to mid-sized businesses ready to invest

You have the budget, the team, and the urgency — but AI strategy hasn't crystallized yet.

Teams that have tried AI pilots that didn't land

You've run experiments. They looked good in demo. They didn't make it to production. You want to know why — and how to fix it.

Executives who need to actually understand AI

Not just hear about it. You want to make real decisions about it — what to fund, what to skip, what questions to ask your team.

Sales & marketing teams ready to move faster

You see the opportunity in AI tools but don't want to lose the human quality that makes your outreach actually work.

If you're serious about AI,
let's talk.

I work with a small number of clients at a time. If you want to work with someone who's been in the room when AI works — and when it doesn't — I'd like to hear what you're building.

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