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Groundwork™.

Groundwork maps how your organisation actually runs, then puts agents to work inside it, one measured workflow at a time.

I

We map your operations and their artefacts: the inputs, outputs and owners of each process.

II

We build agents into one process at a time, each measured against a baseline.

III

Your people keep the sign-offs. An agent gains autonomy only after beating its baseline.

Overhead view of a team working together around one large technical drawing, hands pointing, writing and marking up the shared plan
Source · Owner · Sign-off

Why now

Intelligence is now abundant and on tap.

Your competitors rent the same models, by the token. What is scarce is what the models stand on: facts with an owner, and processes that exist as a map. The constraint is how much of your organisation an agent can trust and act on.

This has happened before. Factories first bolted electric motors onto coal-era floors and gained roughly 6%; the threefold gain came when the factory was redesigned around the motor. A chat window is the same bolt-on. The question is what your company should look like in an agent-native world, and what has to be rebuilt to get there.

6% 3× ADOPTION REDESIGN

The gain came from redesign, not adoption.

After P. A. David, "The Dynamo and the Computer" (1990)

First principles

Four operating principles.

  1. Fitted to your contextMost AI systems do not work out of the box. We adapt each one to how your organisation actually runs.
  2. People and agents, one teamHumans and agents have to work together. We design the interface between them, and your people keep the sign-offs.
  3. Everything observableYou always know what is going on: what an agent read, did and produced, on every workflow.
  4. Improving on its ownFeedback loops let agents improve automatically, with minimal human intervention.

Where it starts in an EPC business

Start where work repeats and errors are expensive.

Recurring handoffs, each checkable against a source:

Tender costingPurchase-order trackingVendor evaluationSpec-to-product matchingAs-built clearance
The method

Five steps. One checkable artefact each.

A five-step engagement: map your workflows and rank the opportunities, record every fact with its owner, build or select agents, train your teams, and measure everything against the current process. The Agentic Transformation System™ is the method behind it.

EXPANSION RE-ENTERS AT 03 01 02 03 04 05 TerrainMapping Knowledge &Process Graph AgenticOrchestration TeamTraining Monitoring &Feedback THE TERRAIN MAP THE GRAPH THE AGENTS THE PLAYBOOK THE METER
From documents your teams already produce (RFPs, POs, drawings, BOMs) and short interviews, each workflow ranked by effort and cost of error. Complimentary.
Every fact recorded with an owner, a source and a timestamp, held in an NDA-gated data room.
Built with your team in milestones, build-or-buy per workflow. Copilots prepare, your people commit; a supervisor agent stops on failed checks.
Your teams learn to run, correct and extend the agents: 30% theory, 70% hands-on, on the tools chosen for your workflows.
Dashboards and instrumentation on every deployed workflow. Failures and corrections are reviewed and used to improve the agent.

Deployments compound. Later agents reuse the verified data, controls and evaluation work of earlier ones, and cost less to ship.

Tools

Production tooling, chosen per workflow.

AgentsClaude Code, Codex, Dify, LangGraph, Vercel AI SDK
Workflowsn8n
DataPostgres, pgvector
HostingVercel, Railway, AWS
ObservabilitySentry, PostHog, LangFuse
DocumentsPDF-to-Markdown pipeline

The Academy

Your people learn to work beside agents.

We recommend which tools to adopt, and train your teams on them. Training runs through step 04 of the method.

30% THEORY
70% HANDS-ON
  • Strategic Foundations. How LLMs and agents work, where they fail, what the agentic era means for organisations.
  • Applied Practice. Labs: rapid prototyping (Lovable), workplace acceleration (Cowork), agentic engineering (Claude Code).
  • Function-specific modules. Product, sales enablement and recruitment today; tailored to the teams you choose.

The team

Seasoned operators who scaled the largest digital platforms in Asia.

Varun Torka
Varun Torka
Agentic Transformation Partner
Over a decade as a product, data & AI leader across Grab, Ola and NetApp. Built and scaled technology products and operating models across complex businesses. IIT Delhi & IIM Calcutta.
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Ashish Piplani
Ashish Piplani
Co-founder & CEO, AirShelf
Over a decade as a strategy & operations leader across Grab, Lazada and Flipkart. Built and scaled digital businesses at some of Asia’s largest technology platforms. NUS MBA & BITS Pilani.
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Evgeny Oleynik
Evgeny Oleynik
Co-founder & CTO, AirShelf
Over a decade as a technology & AI engineering leader. Former Co-founder & CTO of 12Go, building and scaling high-volume platforms across AI, data and distributed systems.
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30+ years with leading digital organisations

Grab Lazada Flipkart PayPal Ola NetApp Mu Sigma 12Go

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