A candid conversation with Navin Budhiraja, CTO and Head of Products at Vianai Systems, Inc. on The Ravit Show in Palo Alto.

From Bhilai to Palo Alto. Navin topped the IIT entrance exam, studied at Cornell, and led at IBM, AWS, and SAP. We sat down to talk about building AI that enterprises can actually use.

What we covered:

- Vianai’s mission and the hila platform: why it exists and the problem it solves

- How hila turns enterprise data into something teams can interact with in plain language

- Responsible AI in practice: tackling hallucinations and earning trust

- Why a platform like hila is needed even with powerful foundation models

- Conversational Finance: what makes it useful for finance teams

- Real integrations: ERP, CRM, HR systems, and how this works end to end

- Security for the real world: air-gapped deployments, privacy, and certifications

- The road ahead: how AI, IoT, and cloud are converging in the next 2 to 3 years

- Advice for the next generation of builders from Bhilai, the IITs, and beyond

Why this matters:

Enterprises want outcomes, not hype. Navin’s lens on trust, flexibility, and scale shows how AI moves from pilot to production.

Thank you, Navin, for the clear thinking and straight answers. Full interview on The Ravit Show YouTube channel is live.

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