Arjun Venkatesh

Co-founder & CEO, ChainCraft Global

Arjun Venkatesh is co-founder and chief executive of ChainCraft Global. Before founding the company in 2019 he led machine-learning platform engineering at a global bank, where he spent five years learning why technically sound models fail to reach production in large organisations. He has since overseen more than 120 AI systems from discovery through to live operation across logistics, insurance, banking and healthcare. He writes about the organisational rather than technical causes of AI programme failure, and is the author of ChainCraft’s pre-pilot checklist.

Enterprise AI strategy

ML platform engineering

AI programme governance

Production readiness

2 articles by Arjun

Strategy · 10 min read
The real reason 80% of enterprise AI pilots never ship
It is not the models. After 120 production deployments, the failure pattern is always one of three organizational mistakes — and all three are fixable before you write a line of code.Arjun Venkatesh · Jul 21, 2026
Voice AI · 11 min read
Disclosure, consent, and compliance for AI phone agents
A practical compliance checklist for voice AI across India, the US, and the EU — what regulation actually requires today.Arjun Venkatesh · Jun 9, 2026

2 articles by Arjun

The real reason 80% of enterprise AI pilots never ship

Disclosure, consent, and compliance for AI phone agents