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Karthik Ramadoss & his AI Wanderlust
How do we build and lead a meaningful life in an age of exponential change?
What you can expect
Mission AI Signal Finder
I’m a technology leader at a large global financial services firm. Twentyfive years in transformational programs encompassing all technology spectrum and specifically in the Insurance vertical.
The last few have been mostly about AI — trying to separate what’s actually working from what’s noise.
Signal Finder is where I share what I’m figuring out.
Who am I
This Substack is my thinking space. A place to connect the dots with AI and ancient wisdom, work and wilderness, books and big questions.
AI is genuinely hard to think clearly about right now. The vendor narrative (”AI transforms everything, sign here”) and the doomer narrative (”AI destroys jobs, run”) are both wrong in useful ways. The real story is slower, messier, more interesting but few people are engaging in.
I’m not trying to be the authority on this. I’m thinking out loud, sharing the research, and learning from the people who push back.
The best issues start a conversation, not end one.
I am a dad to a wonderful 15 year old and as my dad (and my mom) was an inspiration to me, I hope to be his.
If you’re curious about the professional thread running through it all, you can find me on LinkedIn where I talk shop - building global teams focused on innovation, scaling tech and designing systems that power both.
@KintheHouse - short form thoughts on X.
What I write about - 2026 Focus
Most pieces fall into one of these threads:
Why AI adoption fails and what the organizations getting real value are actually doing differently
Vendor strategy what Microsoft, SAP, Salesforce, and Oracle’s pricing moves tell us about where this is going
The quiet workforce shift AI isn’t replacing workers in the ways the headlines suggest; it’s restructuring who gets hired at the entry level
Shadow AI and governance the gap between what companies say about AI policy and what employees actually do (they’re different things)
AI-native competition companies building without legacy constraints, and what that means for incumbents in financial services and insurance
Who reads this
Mostly technology and operations leaders — people running the AI decisions at large organizations — who are working through the same questions I am. If you work in financial services, the dynamics will feel especially familiar. But the patterns show up everywhere.
The format
Roughly weekly. No paywalls. Signal Finder articles lead with a thesis and the best counter-argument I could find. Executive Briefs are faster and more reactive. Occasional book reviews when something genuinely changes my thinking or shifts my perspective.
When a prediction ages badly, I write about that too.
Where to start
AI Adoption Failure — Not the Tools, the Skills Gap - top of my mind for most leaders I talk to
Secret Cyborgs Are Already Running Your Company - casting light on the real resaon for shadow AI and just as a compliance problem
The SaaSpocalypse: $285B in Smoke— the structural shift the selloff narrative and how it shapes Enterprise deals in 2026 and 2027
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