AI Sutra — Data & AI Products · Consulting · Data Mesh

Build AI-Powered Workflows That Reduce Costs, Improve Productivity and Unlock Enterprise Knowledge.

Delivered by leaders who have implemented AI, analytics and automation solutions across banking, financial services and global corporate services.

What We Do

Enterprise AI & Automation Services

Enterprise AI & Automation Strategy

Define your AI vision and build a prioritised roadmap tied directly to business outcomes — lower costs, faster operations, reduced risk. We help you cut through the hype and invest where AI delivers real returns.

Knowledge Platforms (RAG / Graph-RAG)

Build enterprise-grade knowledge assistants that surface accurate, cited answers from your internal documents, policies and regulations. Graph-RAG architecture enables multi-hop reasoning across complex, interconnected knowledge domains.

Intelligent Document Processing

Automate document-heavy workflows — from board minutes and contracts to invoices and compliance reports. Combining OCR, LLMs and human-in-the-loop validation to reduce manual effort by up to 80% while maintaining accuracy and audit trails.

Agentic Workflow Automation

Deploy AI agents that orchestrate multi-step business processes end-to-end — from data ingestion and enrichment through to approval workflows and downstream system updates — freeing your teams to focus on high-value work.

Data Products & Data Mesh

Design and deliver self-serve data products on a federated data mesh architecture — enabling business domains to own, publish and consume trusted data at scale, without creating centralised bottlenecks.

AI Governance & Risk

Establish responsible AI frameworks covering model explainability, bias detection, regulatory compliance and ongoing monitoring — ensuring your AI systems remain trustworthy, auditable and aligned with ethical and legal obligations.

Real-World Delivery

Case Studies — Our Work in Action

These stories are our moat. Real outcomes, real complexity, real scale.

Intelligent Automation

AI-Enabled Board Meeting Intelligence Platform

Significant reduction in manual effort with full governance and auditability

Organisations faced significant manual effort producing board and committee minutes — reviewing lengthy recordings, attributing speakers, summarising decisions and verifying accuracy. Minute Intelligence Platform transforms this into an AI-enabled workflow combining deterministic orchestration with targeted AI augmentation, delivering structured, auditable minutes at scale.

  • Automated ingestion, transcription and speaker diarisation of multi-hour recordings
  • LLM-driven summarisation — executive summary, action items and formal minutes
  • "Summary-to-source" traceability: navigate directly to the exact point in the original audio
  • Human-in-the-loop review checkpoints to maintain compliance and board-level governance
  • Repeatable enterprise architecture — beyond experimental prototypes
Generative AI / Graph-RAG

Enterprise Graph-RAG Knowledge Platform

Governed, grounded AI answers across complex regulatory and financial knowledge domains

Led design and delivery of a Graph-RAG platform to answer complex finance and tax questions across hundreds of structured and unstructured documents — including multi-sheet Excel files, superseded regulations and ambiguous terminology. Traditional search and basic RAG approaches failed to deliver enterprise-grade accuracy; this solution did.

  • Schema-aware ingestion pipelines for complex tabular and document data
  • Document lineage, versioning and precedence logic — answers grounded in approved sources only
  • Intent classification and semantic enrichment for accurate retrieval across inconsistent terminology
  • Staged LLM orchestration to optimise latency without sacrificing answer quality
  • Bounded conversation memory strategy for coherent multi-turn interactions
Intelligent Document Processing

Invoice Automation

Straight-through processing with ERP integration

OCR-powered invoice processing pipeline with human-in-the-loop validation and direct ERP integration — eliminating manual data entry, reducing errors and accelerating payment cycles across a global shared services operation.

  • OCR extraction with LLM enrichment
  • Human validation workflow
  • ERP integration (SAP / Oracle)
Advanced Analytics

FX Trading Analytics Platform

Analytics capability supporting billions in weekly trading flow

Built and led the analytics capability for a major institutional bank's FX trading desk — delivering real-time analytics, revenue attribution and optimisation insights across billions of dollars in weekly trading flow.

  • Billions in weekly trading flow
  • Real-time revenue attribution
  • Optimisation & client analytics
Founder & Director

Kailash Ballu

Former Director, Head of Analytics, Financial Markets
Westpac Institutional Bank

  • 🏦Former Director, Head of Analytics, Financial Markets — Westpac Institutional Bank
  • 🤖Executive Director, Intelligent Automation & AI
  • 🎓MBA, AGSM (Australian Graduate School of Management)
  • 🎓ME, University of Virginia
  • 📍20+ years in Data, Analytics and AI — Sydney, Australia
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Why AI Sutra?

Deep Expertise. Real Delivery.

AI Sutra was founded on a simple belief: that AI and automation should produce measurable business outcomes — not slide decks. We bring hands-on delivery experience from some of Australia's most complex data and AI environments.

From building the analytics capability behind billions in weekly FX trading flows, to deploying AI and automation workflows across global corporate services operations spanning 40+ countries — our work is grounded in real-world complexity.

30+

AI workflows delivered

$5M+

Annual savings generated

20+

Years of experience

AI Sutra

Use Our Data Platform To Build Data Products & Manage Enterprise Data Mesh

Ingest Data

Ingest data and load into AWS. Ingest Module can be hosted on prem to push to S3. Alternately deploy it in AWS cloud

Build Data Pipelines

Build your data transformation pipeline using the rich drag and drop GUI and PySpark

Configure Data Product

Configure transformed output as data product that can be leveraged in other pipelines.

Environments and Versions

Deploy to different environments or create new versions at the click of a button. Let the tool handle all the operations in the backend.

Run Pipelines

Run your pipelines on serverless spark that auto scales based on load. Save on cost and improve efficiency

Manage Teams

Organize teams around data domains/business units to manage the various sets of products.

Cloud Hosted

AI Sutra product is a AWS hosted solution that is deployed into your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) using Terraform/Cloudformation.

Manage Data Mesh

View and manage organization wide data mesh in the mesh view. Manage Scheduling of the pipeline runs

Track Cloud Resource Costs

Track usage of the Spark server in EMS by each run and analyse at product level

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