Manikantha S

Manikantha S

Head of Product

About

Mani heads Product at Sarvam AI, India's full-stack Sovereign AI platform building foundational models and products for Indian languages. A product leader with deep experience in consumer and platform products, Mani has spent his career shipping products at the intersection of AI, design, and growth. Before Sarvam, Mani led product at StableMoney and Swiggy, where he worked on building products used by millions of Indians across food, payments, and financial services. At Sarvam, his scope spans product across the API Platform, Samvaad (conversational AI), Studio (Creators) and Akshar (Document Intelligence). An alumnus of BITS Pilani, Mani is focused on building a self-serve product-led motion that puts India's AI stack in the hands of every developer and enterprise in the country.

Building an agent demo is easy. Getting it to production, where it handles real volume, stays reliable, and makes money, is where teams stall. This talk traces the full path from model to live product: the foundation models, the API and tooling layer that scales you from first call to deployment, and the agent, voice, and document capabilities that turn model output into something a business will pay for. You'll leave with a practical map of the stack and a clear sense of where to place your bets.

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