Northern Virginia · Bay Area stretch
Anoop Mehendale
Founder and operator. I commercialize and ship AI inside real businesses — healthcare, enterprise GTM, and the built environment — and I write in public about getting AI from demo to production.
Bio
Mechanical engineer by training. Helped stand up DaimlerChrysler R&D work across Japan and Germany, then spent years in analytics startups (including paths that reached Moody’s Analytics, an IPO, and a scale-up from roughly $3M to $100M). Deep healthcare arc across payer, provider, and pharma — Salesforce, Optum / The Advisory Board, Aetna — then founded and exited Xficient, a generative AI platform for healthcare payer / TPA operations.
Now: Cue Insights advisory, Project Cornerstone with Lessard in AEC, AI Compact for leaders putting AI to work, and open contribution to FINOS CALM (Linux Foundation) on architecture as code for agentic systems.
What I bring
Next up
AI Compact · Inaugural Open Circle
A small room for owners, executives, and practitioners already putting AI to work. Nobody sells — not the hosts, not the guests. Free. Apply for a seat.
Building now
Cue Insights
Advisory for operators who need AI in the business, not in a slide. Strategy, GTM, and hands-on enablement.
AI Compact
Peer community for leaders putting AI to work. Open Circle is the public format. Members’ Table is the private one.
Project Cornerstone
AI production intelligence for architecture, engineering, and construction. A permissioned context layer on Revit, ACC, and PDFs, with work packs that draft deliverables and route them to the right reviewer — less rework, faster reviews, fewer field surprises.
Now: paid assessment with a design-partner firm. Next: live-project pilot.
FINOS CALM
Contributor to the Linux Foundation standard for declarative architecture as code.
Built before
- Xficient — Founder & CEO. GenAI platform for healthcare payer / TPA ops; exited 2023.
- Analytics startups — Operator roles across companies with exits, IPO path, and large scale-up.
- Enterprise healthcare — Leadership at Salesforce, Optum / Advisory Board, Aetna.
Writing · VectorPath on Substack
- Enterprise AI deployment and the hard part after the labs
- Partnerships and the negotiations inside enterprise AI deals
- Architecture as code / governing software nobody is reading
- Context engineering for architecture and the built environment
- Healthcare AI adoption (hospitals, ROI at the application layer)