KAI Accelerate

Technical Partnership for AI Startups

You have a compelling idea, deep technical expertise, and ambition. What you might not have is experience building products at scale, talking to customers who don't understand the tech, or figuring out how to make your AI actually valuable to someone willing to pay. PRAKTIKAI is here as your hands-on technical partner—helping you navigate from idea to product to market, with real experience and real skin in the game.

The AI Startup Challenge

You're building something new in AI. That's hard. But the challenge isn't usually the algorithm—it's everything else:

Product clarity: Your customers don't care what AI can and cannot do. They care about their problem getting solved. Translating between those is harder than it sounds.
Market reality: Which customer actually has this problem badly enough to pay for it? How much will they pay? Traditional ways of finding this don't work well for novel AI solutions.
Building while learning: Your product roadmap should change as you learn from customers. But you also need to ship something real. Balancing exploration and execution is messy.
Fundraising while building: Investors want to see traction. But traction takes time to build. You need to be thoughtful about when to raise, what to build before raising, and how to talk about what you're doing in a way that resonates with investors.
Technical decisions that matter: Early architectural choices have outsized impact. You need experience you might not have—how to build for scale, how to handle data responsibly, when to use off-the-shelf vs. build custom.
Going at it alone: Building something new is isolating. You need advisors who understand your space, have seen founders succeed and fail, and will be honest with you when you're heading in the wrong direction.

How We Work With You

PRAKTIKAI isn't a typical advisor or accelerator. We don't hand you a playbook and disappear. We work with you as technical partners—bringing hands-on expertise, real experience from the trenches, and a commitment to your success.

Advisory & Mentorship

Regular guidance from people who've been there.

You get ongoing access to our team as sounding boards. We help you think through product strategy, customer conversations, fundraising decisions, and the inevitable hard choices. We've built products, we've worked with startups, we've seen what works and what doesn't. We'll tell you the truth, even when it's not what you want to hear.

This is conversation—regular check-ins, quick advice on decisions, perspective when you're stuck. It's not day-to-day project management, but it's consistent support.

Hands-On Technical Partnership

We code with you, not at you.

For some engagements, we roll up our sleeves and build alongside your team. We help with architecture decisions, implement core components, handle tricky problems (data pipelines, model deployment, scalability), and teach your team how we think about building production AI. This isn't outsourced development—it's partnership. Your engineers learn, our engineers deliver, and you move faster.

This model works especially well when you need to build an MVP quickly, validate a hypothesis, or solve a technical problem that's blocking you.

We might be 20% of your team or 50%, depending on what you need. The goal is to accelerate your progress without making you dependent on us.

Go-to-Market Support

Help translating technology into business value.

This is where many technical founders struggle most. You've built something cool, but who wants it? How do you find those customers? How do you talk about your product in a way that makes sense to them?

We help you:

Define your Ideal Customer Profile (ICP): Who actually has the problem your AI solves? What's their budget? What's their decision-making process? We help you get specific and validate your assumptions with real conversations.
Identify your beachhead market: You can't sell to everyone. Which segment should you own first? Where can you build momentum that creates a platform for expansion?
Craft your value proposition: How do you talk about what you've built in terms your customers care about? We help translate the tech into business outcomes.
Build your go-to-market motion: Sales playbook, pricing model, channel strategy—whatever makes sense for your business. We help you figure out what to do first and how to measure whether it's working.

We bring experience from working with AI companies across industries, and we're honest about what's worked and what hasn't.

Funding Support & Investor Introductions

Help with fundraising, from strategy to closing.

Raising capital is part of your journey (though not all of it). We help at every stage:

Fundraising strategy: When should you raise? How much? What story should you tell? We help you think through the timing and positioning that makes sense for your business and market.
Pitch development: We'll help you craft a story that's compelling, honest, and specific to your solution. We'll give you feedback and help you get tight.
Investor introductions: We have relationships with VCs, angels, and strategic investors who are active in the AI space. We'll intro you where it makes sense and provide context for why we think it's a good fit.
Due diligence support: When investors dig into your technology, traction, and team, we can be a sounding board and help you think through how to respond to their questions.

We're not an incubator or accelerator program—this isn't a formal cohort with a demo day. This is flexible support tailored to your needs and stage.

Who This Is For

We work with founders at any stage—from pre-idea conversations to post-product market fit scaling. Whether you're:

Pre-seed: You've identified a problem and want to validate whether it's worth solving. You might have technical expertise but no business/product experience.
Seed stage: You've built something, you have early traction, and you're trying to figure out how to scale without drowning.
Post-seed/Series A: You've found product-market fit and you're scaling. You need execution speed and help navigating new challenges as you grow.

The specific ways we help will vary depending on your stage and needs. A pre-seed team might need heavy go-to-market support and MVP development help. A Series A company might need specific technical expertise to build a key feature or navigate a complex data problem.

What matters is: you're building something in AI, you're serious about it, and you're open to honest feedback and hands-on partnership.

Why Work With PRAKTIKAI

We're hands-on. We don't just advise—we build. We know what it's actually like to deal with messy data, scale models, and ship products that real people use.
We're pragmatic. We focus on what actually matters: solving real customer problems and building sustainable business. Not hype, not being first with a trend, just results.
We understand the technology and the business. Unlike purely business-focused advisors, we understand the technical constraints and possibilities of what you're building. Unlike purely technical people, we understand what customers care about and how to build a sustainable business.
We bring a network. Investors, customers, partners—we have relationships across the AI ecosystem. When it helps, we'll make intros.
We're direct. We'll tell you when we think something won't work. We'll push back on bad ideas. We'll also celebrate wins and push you to be more ambitious.
We're flexible. We adapt to your needs. Some months you need more technical help, other months more strategic guidance. We work around your cash flow and your stage.

Let's Talk

Whether you're just starting to think about building an AI company or you're already in the trenches and need support, let's have a conversation. No commitment, no BS. Just a chance to see if we can help.