About us

The people behind Petaluma AI.

We are founder-led operators helping organizations apply AI to real business workflows with speed and clarity.

Our team

Nikhil Maddirala

Head of technology

Nikhil is a product leader who led AI automation at Meta, where systems he built reached billions of users. He now helps organizations turn AI strategy into practical, high-impact workflows.

His background spans product leadership at Meta and Adobe, with formal training across computer science, logic, and business, including Yale MBA and graduate studies at Penn and the University of Amsterdam.

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Piyush Agarwal

Head of business

Piyush spent nearly a decade as an enterprise leader at Google, scaling AI-powered products to over $500M in annual revenue for global clients including Disney and Airbnb. He ensures your AI strategy is aligned with your business goals and delivers measurable growth.

He holds an IIM MBA and was a member of the SAP President's Club, representing the top 1% of the global sales organization.

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Why Petaluma AI

1. Big tech pedigree

We bring the engineering standards of Meta and Google to organizations without a 50-person development team. We build for reliability, handling the edge cases that generic AI tools miss.

2. The complete AI system

Most AI efforts fail because they are disconnected from the business. We build the two pillars required for real impact: Your Business Intelligence (Deep Context) and Your Business Actions (Reliable Execution).

3. Speed to impact

We move you from "manual friction" to "integrated intelligence" in weeks, not months. You get a working demo on your data in 48 hours and a production-ready workflow in 4 to 6 weeks.

See what world-class AI looks like on your data.

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