Intelligence, set in motion.

AI Research & Applied AI Lab

Tandav is the cosmic dance: destruction and creation in a single motion.

10Products shipped
6Industries
3Prior startups founded
01

Selected Work

AI research, agentic products, and full applications, all designed, built, and shipped by a deliberately small team.

Focused language model training
AI Research

Focused Models

Small, specialized language models trained for narrow, high-value tasks: opinionated models that outperform general-purpose giants on the work that matters.

WickedWrite, AI writing for LinkedIn creators
Applied AI

WickedWrite ↗

An AI-assisted editor for LinkedIn creators that turns real, cited industry stories into posts in your own voice. Ideation to carousels to scheduling, with a strict no-fabrication policy.
Multimodal AI educational content generation
AI Research

Multimodal Education

Generation pipelines that compose text, audio, video, and diagrams into complete, coherent learning experiences. Content that teaches, at scale.

BetterInvest, alternative investments in media
Fintech

BetterInvest ↗

Media & entertainment receivables as an investable asset class: invoice discounting against confirmed OTT, TV, and music contracts. ₹880 Cr+ transacted.
Noah, agentic AI colleague for finance teams
Agentic AI · Private deployment

Noah

An agentic AI colleague for finance teams that lives in Microsoft Teams, running demand forecasts, budgeting, and financial analysis as a teammate, not a tool.

Spacethetic, AI interior and exterior design
Applied AI

Spacethetic ↗

An AI design studio for real spaces. Upload a photo of any room or exterior, add your own furniture, and iterate photorealistic redesigns with plain-language prompts, structure preserved.
FineHero, premium parking protection
Consumer Fintech

FineHero ↗

Premium parking protection for NYC drivers. Pay a ticket in a minute, let experts dispute it on a no-win-no-fee basis, and get alerts days before tickets hit city records.
Creator Unit, creator discovery platform
Applied AI

Creator Unit ↗

A creator discovery platform: search 12 million+ Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube creators by audience, location, and performance, and build the right roster in minutes.
Anisam Community, gated villa-plot community
Real Estate Platform

Anisam Community ↗

A story-driven booking platform for a 69-plot gated community in the Velliangiri foothills, with an interactive site plan, live plot availability, and site-visit booking woven into the narrative.
Chaithanya Samarth villa blocking portal
Real Estate Platform

Chaithanya Samarth ↗

A live villa-blocking portal: 163 villas on a zoomable interactive master plan with real-time availability, filters, and a reservation flow that takes under a minute.
02

Capabilities

Through product builds and fractional-CTO engagements, we work at every altitude of the stack.

  1. 01

    AI-first transformation

    We help organizations go AI-first, across their products and the processes that build them.

  2. 02

    Agentic products

    Agentic AI systems built from scratch, or agentic capabilities woven into products that already exist.

  3. 03

    Zero to one, one to ten

    We take founders' tech startups from nothing to shipped, and from shipped to scaled.

  4. 04

    Tiny, hyper-efficient teams

    We help businesses run on small, AI-enabled tech teams that out-ship organizations ten times their size.

03

Founder

Praveen Koka, founder of Tandav Labs

Praveen Koka

Founder & CTO, Tandav Labs

Praveen is a CTO, CPTO, and software architect who has founded and built startups across IoT, analytics, and SaaS, leading product and engineering teams of 5 to 30 across Bengaluru, Berlin, and the U.S.

His ventures include Greenroom, whose analytics engine processed millions of social posts a day, and Decklar, an IoT tracking company serving global logistics. As VP Engineering at Berlin's ROQ.ai he led teams building an AI platform that generated working web apps from plain-text prompts; he currently also serves as VP of Artificial Intelligence at Trilogy, training specialized language models for focused tasks.

  • 2010Skope Solutions · Co-founder · RFID systems integration
  • 2011Decklar · Co-founder · IoT tracking for logistics
  • 2015Greenroom · Co-founder & CPTO · creator analytics at scale
  • 2015Knotable · Software Engineering Consultant · New York
  • 2015GOIN' · Technical Lead · technology leadership, Seattle
  • 2020Hawtlist · Founder & CEO · social commerce
  • 2021ROQ.ai · VP Engineering · prompt-to-app platform, Berlin
  • 2024Tandav Labs · Founder & CTO
  • 2025Trilogy · VP of Artificial Intelligence
praveenkoka.com ↗