I’m Indy Nagpal — Co-CEO 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 I write about it here and on LinkedIn.
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.
My perspective spans large enterprises navigating AI adoption at scale and early-stage AI ventures finding their footing — where the questions are different but the underlying tension between capability and judgment is exactly the same.
I’m a long-time supporter and, since 2025, an executive committee member of Prayas — a South Asian theatre company performing in Aotearoa New Zealand. It keeps the rest of what I do grounded.
What I think about
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.
Open to speaking
I speak on AI strategy, enterprise adoption, and what it actually means — practically and organisationally — for businesses to work alongside intelligent systems. Keynotes, panel discussions, executive roundtables, workshops.
If you’re organising something where these topics matter, I’d welcome the conversation. Details and a contact form are on the speaking page.
Kinarey
किनारे — kinārē — is a Hindi and Urdu word meaning the shore, the edge, the bank of a river. The place where land meets water. Neither one thing nor the other, but where the most interesting things happen.
That’s what this site is. A place to think at the edge — between technology and strategy, between research and practice, between what AI can do and what organisations are actually ready for.