Axis Arc Advisors
Strategy & Transformation Advisory

Every leap needs a strong foundation.

Axis Arc Advisors is the foundation for our strategy and transformation practice — and the home base for the coaching, incubations, and ideas built alongside it.

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Services

Three pillars, one practice — grounded in twenty years of operating at enterprise scale and building things from zero.

The Foundation

Enterprise & AI Transformation

Helping large organizations move AI from pilot to practice — without losing the governance and discipline that scale requires.

  • AI-native transformation & adoption
  • IT strategy & platform governance
  • Build-vs-buy & vendor strategy

The First Leap

Startup Growth Advisory

Go-to-market and growth advisory for early-stage companies — finding product-market fit and building the outbound engine before scaling it.

  • Go-to-market & expansion strategy
  • Customer success frameworks
  • Product-market fit & outbound product management

The Pivot

Leadership & Team Effectiveness

Coaching leaders and teams to operate at their edge — ready for the AI era, clear-eyed about change, and free of the traps that keep good teams stuck.

  • AI-era leadership readiness
  • Navigating pivots & avoiding capability traps
  • Building a growth and beginner's-mindset culture

Ventures

The same three pillars, in action — selected work, thought leadership, and startup incubations organized under the practice they belong to.

The Foundation

Selected Work

Enterprise AI Standardization at Scale

Replaced scattered AI pilots with a governed, org-wide productivity stack across 120,000+ users.

CRM Governance: 5% to 40% Adoption in 18 Months

Built and scaled an internal governance product by earning trust team-by-team.

25,000-Agent Platform Migration

Moved a contact center organization onto a homegrown, AI-enabled platform with no disruption to service.

Quote-to-Cash Unification Across Six Acquisitions

Unified fragmented sales systems, cutting the sales cycle in half.

The First Leap

Startup Incubations

Go-to-Market Strategy for a Growth-Stage Fintech

Built and launched the go-to-market motion for an early-growth fintech company.

India Market Build-Out for a Global SaaS Company

Designed the market entry and operational build-out strategy for an India expansion.

Talent Pipeline Building for Early-Stage Teams

Helping early-stage companies build recruiting pipelines and hiring processes as they staff up their first teams.

The Playground App

The incubation vehicle itself — where new ideas get built, tested, and either graduated or shelved.

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The Pivot

Coaching & Thought Leadership

The Real Women in Tech

Podcast and community translating senior leader insight into practical strategies on influence, sponsorship, and leadership for women in tech.

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Literal Musings

Writing on leadership, technology, and the in-between moments of building a career.

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Executive & Team Coaching Engagements

Coaching individuals and teams through internal growth, internal mobility, career pivots, personal branding, and values-alignment frameworks.

Founders

Strategy & Transformation

Shivam Khullar

20+ year technology leader operating at the intersection of systems thinking, human leadership, and enterprise AI transformation — grounded in strategy consulting at Deloitte and Perficient, and proven over fourteen years as an operator inside NVIDIA, Google, and Salesforce. Builds the governance, adoption strategy, and delivery mechanisms that turn AI strategy into compounding business outcomes, not pilots.

Architecture & Engineering

Agam Brahma

Software engineer currently building at Cerebras Systems, working on the hardware and software stack behind some of the industry's largest AI training systems. Brings structured, systems-first engineering discipline to the practice — the rigor that turns strategy into something that actually ships.

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Whether you're navigating an enterprise AI transformation or a personal leadership inflection point, we'd like to hear where you're headed.

Email: shivam.khullar@gmail.com

Phone: 650.450.3889