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Karthik Javanappa — consultant who ships the AI, not just the slide.
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● OPEN_TO_ROLES · AI & Strategy consulting · Frankfurt / EU
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4 shipped @ EY-Parthenon · 2 live · 3 in build
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I turn messy business problems into working AI systems and sharp strategy — 6+ years across consulting, automotive, venture capital and ed-tech, from M&A analytics and agentic workflows to market intelligence and growth.
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- 6+
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- 4
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- awards_and_honours
- 6+
- industries
- 4
// deployed across EY-Parthenon · Schaeffler · Porsche Ventures · Xtrawrkx · Micelio Mobility · HHL Leipzig · McKinsey Forward
The registry: every AI system, with its real status.
Nothing here is a mockup. Shipped means in use by strategy and M&A teams at EY-Parthenon (client specifics anonymised). Live means running right now — one of them is on this page. In build means exactly that: scoped, started, and shipping with a public repo — the status flips when the code does.
01 due-diligence-agentsAgentic research for commercial due diligence shipped EY-Parthenon
- Problem
- Target benchmarking and peer research in due diligence is repetitive, manual and inconsistent across teams.
- Approach
- AI agents in n8n that orchestrate LLM reasoning with live web search and return structured, source-linked outputs.
- Impact
- Standardised benchmarking outputs and saved analyst hours on every study.
Separate workflows handle target screening, peer identification and metric collection. Each agent decomposes the research question, runs searches in parallel, validates findings against multiple sources and writes results into a consistent template — so two teams researching the same market no longer produce two different answers.
02 deepquery-agentAutomated document Q&A for project teams shipped EY-Parthenon
- Problem
- Teams answer long lists of recurring questions from hundreds of pages of project documents — slow and error-prone.
- Approach
- A Copilot Studio agent: upload an Excel question list and PDF sources, the agent processes them in batches and writes answers back row by row.
- Impact
- Cut manual document review to a fraction; reusable across new and existing projects.
The agent generates SharePoint upload links, monitors the repository for new files, batch-processes question sets against the source documents and produces per-batch summaries. Progress is visible in real time through the OneDrive-synced Excel file, so users watch answers appear as the agent works.
03 proposal-engineLLM-powered knowledge retrieval over past proposals shipped EY-Parthenon
- Problem
- Years of RFP and proposal knowledge sit in scattered files; teams rebuild content from scratch and ask around for precedents.
- Approach
- A central repository with LLM-based metadata extraction and a parent/child agent pipeline for retrieval, surfaced through a chat interface.
- Impact
- MVP live with the team, with past proposal content found in seconds instead of hours.
The MVP runs on Copilot Studio with SharePoint storage and automated notifications. I'm now redesigning it as a VS Code extension built on GitHub Copilot Chat with Claude as the LLM and the Microsoft Graph API for semantic search over per-team repositories — removing the MVP's file-size, OCR and access-control limits.
04 entity-resolutionCompany-name cleansing for M&A analytics shipped EY-Parthenon
- Problem
- M&A datasets are full of messy company names and unclear ownership structures; manual cleansing eats analyst time.
- Approach
- A modular pipeline combining deterministic rules, ML matching and targeted web search to cleanse names and map parent–child relationships.
- Impact
- Reduced manual effort and improved consistency of entity data across M&A analytics.
Deterministic rules catch the common normalisation cases cheaply, an ML matcher resolves near-duplicates, and web search handles the long tail of ambiguous entities — each stage only escalates what it can't resolve, keeping the pipeline fast and auditable. The same architecture supports follow-on benchmarking and peer-research workflows.
05 job-search-agentsAutonomous pipeline that finds roles and tailors every application live personal stack
- Problem
- Applying well takes hours per role, and good postings slip past while you're busy tailoring the last one.
- Approach
- A two-agent pipeline. A discovery agent scans new postings and scores each one against a structured archive of my experience, writing ranked leads into an Airtable tracker. An application agent then takes a queued lead and produces a tailored CV, cover letter and company one-pager, files everything into a dated application folder and updates the tracker.
- Impact
- Every application is genuinely tailored, nothing falls through the cracks, and the whole pipeline is visible on one dashboard. Running daily in my own search.
Built as Claude agent skills with Airtable as the system of record: a Searches table feeds the discovery agent, scored leads land in a review queue, and moving a lead to "Queue" triggers the application workflow. If you're a recruiter reading a tailored application from me, there's a decent chance this system drafted the first version.
06 ask-my-aiThe recruiter-facing chatbot running on this page live this site
- Problem
- Recruiters skim. They have one specific question — "has he done X?" — and a static page makes them dig for it.
- Approach
- The chat widget in the corner of this page: an n8n workflow answers questions over my full experience corpus, with a zero-dependency keyword-matched fallback baked into the page so it degrades gracefully if the backend is unreachable.
- Impact
- Specific answers in seconds instead of scrolling. Try it — bottom-right corner.
The front end is dependency-free JavaScript with typo-tolerant fuzzy matching over a local knowledge base; when the webhook is configured it upgrades transparently to the n8n-hosted LLM workflow. Yes, the portfolio demos itself.
07 peerbenchOpen-source peer-benchmarking agent — public twin of system 01 in build open source
- Problem
- My due-diligence agents live inside a firm's walls, so I can't show you the code. This one you'll be able to run yourself.
- Approach
- Give it a target company; it identifies peers, collects comparable metrics with live web search, validates across sources and emits a sourced comparison table plus a short benchmarking memo.
- Status
- Scoped and in build — repo link lands here the moment it ships (July 2026).
08 dataroom-qaCitation-grounded document Q&A — public twin of system 02 in build open source
- Problem
- Data-room Q&A tools that can't cite the page they got an answer from aren't usable in diligence.
- Approach
- Drop in PDFs and a question list (CSV/Excel); it answers each question with page-level citations and flags the ones it can't ground in the documents — refusing beats hallucinating.
- Status
- Scoped and in build — repo link lands here the moment it ships (July 2026).
09 market-sizerTAM/SAM/SOM estimation agent with an auditable assumption tree in build open source
- Problem
- LLMs will happily hand you a market size with no way to check the maths.
- Approach
- Describe a market; the agent builds a top-down and bottom-up sizing as an explicit assumption tree — every number sourced or flagged as an assumption you can edit, with the estimate recomputing from your inputs.
- Status
- Scoped and in build — repo link lands here the moment it ships (July 2026).
// honesty policy statuses on this page track reality, not ambition — "in build" flips to a repo link only when the code is public.
Strategy meets applied AI.
I'm a consultant who builds. My work sits at the intersection of corporate strategy, M&A analytics and applied AI — I frame the business problem, then ship the agent, pipeline or tool that solves it.
That blend is the point: the consulting instinct to frame a problem crisply, plus the engineering to actually build the fix rather than hand off a slide. It's what I bring to a strategy or M&A team — and the registry above is what it looks like in practice.
Where I've made an impact.
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AI & Automation Intern (Master's Thesis)
EY-Parthenon- Shipped 4 AI systems now used by strategy and M&A teams: due-diligence agents, document Q&A, proposal knowledge retrieval and entity resolution.
- Built end-to-end Azure data automation (SharePoint, Logic Apps, Data Factory, SQL) replacing manual Excel-heavy reporting.
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Strategy & Business Development Intern
Schaeffler AG- Built a competitor dashboard that replaced manual tracking, saving the e-mobility strategy team 5+ hours per week.
- Co-developed and delivered 3 post-merger strategy workshops aligning 100+ managers on new strategy processes.
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Student Consultant
Porsche Ventures- Built a GPT + VBA dashboard analysing trends across 700+ VC-backed companies to surface Data & AI governance gaps for quantum-technology investments.
- Delivered 4 investment-facing presentations translating deep-tech concepts into decision-ready insights.
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Chief of Staff & Strategy Consultant
Xtrawrkx Management Consulting- Contributed to a 50% revenue increase within two quarters by leading 5+ client consultations and proposal presentations.
- Built a network of 21 subject-matter experts and managed 4 parallel project timelines to accelerate delivery.
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Co-founder & COO
Entuition- Co-founded an ed-tech and grew it to ₹20M (~€220K) revenue in two years, scaling the team from 5 to 20+.
- Drove a 500% increase in paid users in 18 months, expanding from 3 to 17+ partner universities.
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Team Lead & Product Engineer
Micelio Mobility- Designed and built the company's first commercial two-wheeler EV prototype within 12 months, now in production.
- Directed 5 engineers and managed 100+ pilot-unit deployments at client sites.
Master of Business Administration
B.E. in Electronics & Communication Engineering
Trusted by the people I've worked with.
I've closely observed Karthik's journey from a fresh graduate to a skilled engineer with startup potential. At Micelio he was comfortable with ambiguity and had the right balance of creativity and pragmatism. His confidence in meeting EV-industry executives and presenting concise reports to leadership impressed me.
Karthik has shown a great deal of talent and business acumen across the various projects he worked on with us. I'm sure he is poised to achieve greater heights with his management education now.
Karthik proved his dedication and team spirit. He was able to demonstrate his ability to work on both conceptual and data-driven projects, and was able to transfer his theoretical knowledge on strategy building into practice. Thank you for your support in our team!
Let's talk.
Open to AI & strategy roles and collaborations. I usually reply within a day.