किनारे — where land meets water, and ideas meet reality.
I'm Indy Nagpal — Chief Innovation Officer at Straker, an ASX-listed AI and language company. I've spent three decades at the intersection of language, technology, and people: building systems, leading teams, and thinking carefully about what it means for organisations to work alongside intelligent machines.
My background is unusual. A Master's in Applied Psychology sits underneath the engineering. That combination — human behaviour, statistics, and thirty years of watching probabilistic computation evolve from mainframe punch cards to millisecond inference — shapes how I approach AI: not as a purely technical endeavour, but as an organisational and human one.
I work with both ends of the spectrum: large enterprises navigating AI adoption at scale, and early-stage AI ventures trying to find their footing — where the questions are different but the underlying tension between capability and judgment is exactly the same.
Most organisations fail to extract value from AI not because the technology is inadequate, but because the hard problems are human: governance, judgment, institutional memory, and the balance between automation and oversight.
What's perhaps unusual is that I'm as comfortable in the architecture of encoder-decoder models as I am stepping back to ask what the business metrics should even be — and whether the model is actually moving them.
I'm particularly interested in the gap between AI capability and enterprise deployment reality — and in what competitive strategy looks like when model capability is no longer the primary constraint. Voice-native AI, agentic workflows, specialist small language models: the interfaces are already changing who can direct intelligent systems, and how.
I'm open to conversations that don't fit neatly into a category. Some ideas:
If something here resonates — or if you have an idea that doesn't quite fit the list above — I'd like to hear from you.
I write regularly on LinkedIn about AI strategy, enterprise deployment, and how organisations can move from AI curiosity to genuine competitive advantage.