Light Craft Labs is an 📝Artificial Intelligence (AI) strategy and transformation consultancy founded by 📝Rishi Diwan. The firm partners with senior leadership teams — Heads of Digital Transformation, VPs of Innovation, Chief Digital Officers — to move organizations from AI intent to execution. Their stated differentiator is deploying senior practitioners on every engagement and closing with tangible artifacts rather than slide decks.
Their service model has three named offerings: Ignite, a facilitation sprint to align leadership teams on AI strategy and produce a prioritized roadmap; Laser, a hands-on delivery engagement that takes an AI-powered product from concept to production with fixed milestones and full knowledge transfer; and Pulse, a long-term embedded enablement engagement to make GenAI a durable organizational capability through coaching and capability building.
The firm claims a client NPS of 100, 15+ years average team experience, and 50+ zero-to-one products shipped. Published case studies include a 4-week agentic testing automation build for Starburst Data (80% revenue retention impact) and a B2B marketplace delivery using GenAI that improved order NPS from 30 to 90+.
The Team
Rishi Diwan (Founder & Managing Partner) previously led AI product work at SAP, Salesforce, and JP Morgan. Vidur Bhatnagar (Tech Lead & Co-Founder) is pursuing an MS in Robotics at UPenn with a background in 0→1 builds. Ashutosh Pandey (Tech Lead) brings 17+ years of full-stack engineering. Shirish Kumar (AI & Data Architecture Lead) founded DiabloAI, acquired by LiveRamp. Carly Cooper (Human + AI Culture Strategist) holds a doctorate in change leadership from USC with field experience at SAP, Infosys, and Barclays. Jason Wolf (GenAI Creative Strategist), formerly Creative Director on SpaceX's Vision Team, is an MIT-trained physicist with 14 patents across Microsoft and SAP.
Light Craft Labs is playing in the same water as every other "AI transformation" consultancy, but the team composition is unusually strong — the combination of Shirish's LiveRamp acquisition background, Carly's organizational psychology depth, and Jason's SpaceX/MIT pedigree is genuinely differentiated. The "Conviction Over Consensus" framing in their positioning is the most honest thing on the site; most firms in this space produce exactly the strategy theater they claim to reject.
The three-offering arc (Ignite → Laser → Pulse) maps cleanly to the land-and-expand consulting motion. Ignite creates the roadmap and dependency; Laser proves capability with a shipped artifact; Pulse converts the relationship to recurring revenue. It's a well-designed funnel.
The Agentic Augmentation coaching cohort overlaps in intent with their Pulse offering, though One Studio operates at a different layer — building infrastructure and operators, not transforming enterprise orgs. Worth monitoring as a potential referral source or collaborator for cohort members who need enterprise-facing AI delivery capacity.