The chitralai story: building applied AI for creatives

Mounika Atmakuri is the co-founder of chitralai, an AI-powered media platform that helps photographers and creative professionals make their visual content instantly searchable and usable. Before chitralai she was with the GMR Group, so she brings both an enterprise background and a builder's view of what it takes to ship applied AI. In this session Mounika will walk through the chitralai story. How they decided what to build, where the technology actually helps versus where it gets in the way, what early users taught them, and the calls she would make differently with hindsight. It is a practical, founder-to-founder conversation for anyone thinking about building with AI or putting it to work in their own business.