AI First
We use AI in everything we do. If we can’t apply it ourselves, we have no business advising you.
The team behind SpejAI isn’t just
AI isn’t just
a technology
problem.
Business, finance, security, engineering and adoption expertise, working together to make AI useful inside your business.
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Why Spejspēja
Spej draws from the Latvian word spēja, meaning ability or capability. We help organizations build the capability to adopt AI at scale.
Core values
How we show up in the work.
No Fear
We tell you what you need to hear, not what you want to hear.
Do Hard Things
Governance, change management and legacy integration: the messy problems others avoid.
Build Together
We build with your team so capabilities transfer. We’re not here to hand you a report and leave.
Different backgrounds. Shared responsibility.
We know how many decisions sit between an AI idea and a working solution. The people shaping the business case stay connected to the people building and rolling it out.
Sagar Pandya
Co-Founder & Chief Executive OfficerEnterprise technology, cybersecurity and executive alignment. An exited founder, author and AI speaker who connects leadership decisions with implementation.
Sean Blair
Co-Founder & Chief AI OfficerAI architecture, machine learning and enterprise integration. Leads technical design that connects AI systems to real business infrastructure.
Alex Krutik
Co-Founder & Chief Operating OfficerFinance, operations and the business case. A former CFO with Big 4 experience who brings financial discipline to priorities and investment decisions.
Joseph Kim
Director, AI Consulting & DeliveryConsulting, research and delivery. Connects discovery, coordination and execution to carry the work from kickoff into implementation.
Ken Peel
Director, AI Solutions & QualitySolution architecture, testing and quality. Reviews how systems behave across security, performance and reliability.
Aby Abraham
Director, AI Adoption & Strategic PartnershipsAdoption, training and partnerships. Helps people use AI in their actual work and builds relationships that extend what Spej can deliver.
Blanca María Barrufet
Associate AI DeveloperAI interfaces, APIs, model integration and data pipelines. Based in Chicago, Blanca has a computer science background and a master’s in data science, with experience across public-sector organizations, enterprises and smaller companies.
SOSA
Chief LLM · AI team memberOur always-on AI team member, trained on Spej’s methodology. Never sleeps. Occasionally hallucinates.
The right questions, in the same room.
Business & finance
Is this worth doing? What should change, and how will we know?
Governance & engineering
How should it work, connect and behave within your constraints?
People & adoption
Who needs to use it, and what will help it become part of the work?
Ideas carried into implementationExpertise on the stage.
Expertise on the stage.
Experience in the work.
Sagar Pandya, our co-founder and CEO, is a sought-after AI speaker and the author of The AI Culture Blueprint. His perspective draws on years in enterprise technology, cybersecurity and business leadership.
That perspective is part of a broader practice. Alongside our co-founders and team, he connects what leaders need to understand with what an organization needs to build and adopt.
We build capability. And share what we learn.
Through practical workshops, working sessions and conversations with the wider AI community.
Bring your AI priorities to the whole team.
Bring a priority, a challenge or an idea. We’ll help you find a practical starting point.