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Leadership

Three founders. One system.

Karis is led by the three people who started it, and clients work with them directly: founders who listen for the real problem, and a founder who builds what others cannot.

  1. 01 Tanmay Bundiwal
  2. 02 Pranav Dhoolia
  3. 03 Kartik Kashikar
Tanmay Bundiwal

Co-founder · Strategy & Clients

Tanmay Bundiwal

Finds the real problem before anything gets built.

Tanmay leads strategy and engagements at Karis, and brought its founding team together. He sets the company’s direction and finances, and runs each engagement from first meeting to delivery. Since 2022, he has led a turnaround at Rama Group, his family’s business, growing revenue 4× in three years. Along the way he has sold directly to government departments in more than ten cities across central, western and eastern India, learning how public institutions actually buy, decide and deliver. He also built Burrrn Graphics, a printing and signage company, on borrowed capital and repaid it from its own earnings within 18 months. He holds a Computer Science degree from the University of British Columbia.

  • Strategy
  • Engagements
  • Public sector
  • Project finance
  • Problem framing
Pranav Dhoolia

Co-founder · Technology

Pranav Dhoolia

Builds AI that proves itself before it goes live.

Pranav leads technology at Karis. He architects and builds every system Karis delivers, and sets the engineering standards each engagement runs on. Since 2024, he has built generative AI for enterprise clients in Europe and Australia, from AI layers on a company’s core platform to course-generation engines for vocational education and governed agents for legal practice. His focus is AI an institution can audit: approvals, verification and data controls written into code the model cannot bypass. In a published 12-task benchmark on regulated legal work, his governed system passed all 12; the same AI model without it passed 7. His open-source framework for connecting AI agents to any software system has more than 580 GitHub stars and 110 forks. He holds a Computer Science degree from the University of Queensland.

  • Technology
  • Architecture
  • Governed AI
  • AI agents
Kartik Kashikar

Co-founder · Clients, Execution & Partnerships

Kartik Kashikar

Finds the work worth taking on, and sees it delivered.

Kartik leads clients, execution and partnerships at Karis. He finds the opportunities the company takes on, and builds its relationships with government bodies and delivery partners. He also manages Strategem Softech LLP, a government supply and IT execution firm, which under his lead has delivered three government orders worth $1.5 million since 2025. Before that he founded and ran two hospitality businesses in Nagpur, took both to break-even within two months of opening, and grew them past $200,000 in gross revenue over two years. He holds a degree in Computer Science Engineering.

  • Client leadership
  • Execution
  • Government partnerships
  • Delivery partners

A note from the founders

We started Karis because the systems India runs on deserve better. We listen until we understand what is actually going wrong, build only what fits, and stay until it holds up on its busiest day.

Too often a department buys a system, a vendor delivers it, and the problem it was bought to solve is still there a year later. When you work with Karis, you work with the three people who started it, from the first conversation to the system in use.

  • Tanmay BundiwalCo-founder · Strategy & Clients
  • Pranav DhooliaCo-founder · Technology
  • Kartik KashikarCo-founder · Clients, Execution & Partnerships

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