Programme · FDE
Forward Deployed Engineering Programme
The Liquid Ocean Compass in action: 2 days in person, 12 weeks of virtual application, and 2 days to close. Each participant builds a reviewed FDE Opportunity Pack on a real client account.
Strategic advisory · AI · Business reinvention
Become
what’s next.
Helping businesses and leaders turn the wave of AI, shifting markets and changing customer expectations into their next advantage.
A discipline forContinuous
reinvention.LIQUID OCEAN COMPASS
SENSEDECIDEMOVEREPEATreinvention.LIQUID OCEAN COMPASS
A MOVING WORLD. A CLEARER BEARING.
FOR FOUNDERS, LEADERS & TEAMSBENGALURU / MELBOURNE / DUBAI
Start with your question
What brings you here?
Every journey starts from a different place.
01 / Apply Liquid Ocean
Build capability. Make better AI decisions.
Real business challenges. Evidence-led decisions. Defined outcomes agreed before the engagement begins.
Know more ↗Session · AI product
The 7 Gates Session
A 120-minute working session to pressure-test your AI product. Leave with a scored assessment and a 30-day action list.
Sprint 02 · Leadership
Leading whats next SPRINT
From operational excellence to ownership of the next business opportunity. Experienced leaders develop self-initiated business proposals, grounded in your organisation’s strategic priorities.
Domain · Healthcare
HealthTech AI Sprints
Revenue intelligence, clinician productivity, and patient flow. Prioritised business cases with readiness, safety and governance in view.
Explore Healthcare Sprints →Perspective / Understanding the waveClick the map to explore ↗
Historical milestones and illustrative future scenarios — not predictions. Curve height is conceptual; timeline spacing is illustrative.
02 / The wave of AIThe rising wave of AI is here.
The rising wave of AI is here.
What should your business become?
AI raises a bigger strategic question than which tool to adopt: where will you create value as the way people work, buy and compete changes?
What becomes possible?
Look for customer problems you can now solve differently — and experiences worth redesigning.
Where does value move?
Question how you create, deliver and earn value before committing to a technology roadmap.
What must your team become?
Connect AI ambition to the people, workflows, judgment and governance needed to act.
Start with a business question. Define the value. Choose the role for AI.
03 / The methodology behind our workAdvantage changes.
Advantage changes.
Keep your bearings.
Liquid Ocean Compass is the methodology behind Studio NAVAKA’s advisory practice. It helps connect today’s pressures to deliberate choices about your business, products and leadership — then turn those choices into action.
Explore the thinking behind the work ↗I / OBSERVE
Sense
Look for signals beyond today's success.
II / CHOOSE
Decide
Name the future worth pursuing.
III / ACT
Move
Translate direction into a next step.
IV / LEARN
Repeat
Let learning shape the next cycle.
04 / Choose your starting pointA focused start.
A focused start.
A meaningful next step.
A partner programme, a focused product session, or a Leading whats next SPRINT. Choose the engagement that fits your next decision.
The 7 Gates Session
Pressure-test your AI product and identify its highest-risk gate.
120 MINLeading whats next SPRINT
Evidence-backed business proposals, with executive decisions, ownership and next steps.
4–12 WEEKSLed by Harinath Pudipeddi25+ years across technology, product strategy and business leadership.
Meet Hari →05 / Books & published thinkingIdeas to read.
Ideas to read.
Questions to keep.
Two connected perspectives: how to keep reinventing, and how to make AI create real value.
Continuous reinvention
The Liquid Ocean Compass
A broader framework for building lasting products, businesses and leaders as markets and technology change.
Explore the book ↗
AI investment & value
The 7 Gates
A practical framework for building AI products that create real value — and questioning the investments behind them.
Explore the framework ↗Practical tools
Books & IdeasSprint workbooks
A companion space for reflection and strategic work. Explore the Sprint and the working outputs it creates.
The 7 Gates ↗
A practical framework for AI investment and real business value.
06 / What stays constantNew horizons.
New horizons.
The same purpose.
The vision and mission of Studio NAVAKA.
Our vision
Meet change with method.
A world where no market is ever “settled” — and where leaders meet that reality with method rather than anxiety, treating their next reinvention as their most dependable advantage.
Our mission
Reinvent on purpose.
Studio NAVAKA equips leaders and teams to reinvent on purpose. Through the Liquid Ocean® framework — sense · decide · move · repeat — we make constant change navigable, turning the discipline of continuous reinvention into a lasting advantage.
Your next chapter starts with a questionReady to become
Ready to become
what’s next?
A question about AI, growth, product direction or leadership? Start there.
Start a strategic conversation ↗