STAIR is an operating platform for India's largest enterprises, built by people who have sat on the boards and people who have built the systems. One partner, one standard, one measurable outcome.
Listed groups, regulated institutions and national infrastructure. Engagements are confidential; these are the organisations whose marks we are free to show.
STAIR partners with India's largest listed enterprises, uniting 4 decades on the boards of the country's biggest companies with over a decade at the frontier of AI, to build organisations that scale 10X.
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Shailesh V. Haribhakti
Cofounder & Chairman
Four decades in India's boardrooms and a chartered accountant by
training. He chairs and sits on the boards of some of the country's most scrutinised
listed companies, which is where the standard STAIR holds itself to comes from.
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Shubham Saraff
Cofounder & Director
Over a decade at the frontier of AI, from published research through
to deployed enterprise systems. He advises the CEO of one of India's largest listed
fintechs and serves as CIO to a venture fund and its portfolio companies.
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Coauthors of The AI Auditor
The playbook for building fraud proof, future ready enterprises.
Written for the people who carry the risk: CFOs, CROs, audit chairs and assurance partners. A Big 4 partner called it essential reading to stay relevant in a zero trust economy.
Future of auditing for Indian organizations
Shailesh V. HaribhaktiCofounder & Chairman
Shubham SaraffCofounder & Director
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An operating platform for the exponential age. Four decades in the boardrooms of India's largest listed companies, joined to over a decade at the frontier of artificial intelligence, run as one accountable system rather than a set of separate engagements.
A vertically integrated transformation stack, from board level AI strategy to capital orchestration and deployed intelligence. Most firms sell one slice; STAIR runs all six as a single system, so nothing is lost in the handoffs.
One governed memory for the whole organisation, and a small language model of your own that reasons over it. Not a frontier model rented by the token, but an SLM trained on your work and running inside your estate: it answers in plain language, shows the source behind every claim, and can be frozen and audited like any other control.
The work changes shape with the sector it lands in. What a bank needs from governance is not what a plant floor needs from intelligence, and the operating model is built for the industry rather than dressed up for it.
The proof of the work is what leaders say once the report would normally have been filed and forgotten. Every engagement is confidential, so the voices are attributed by sector, not by name. The words are theirs.
Start with a confidential executive consultation. We will map where the rigour of the boardroom and the force of AI can take your enterprise next.
