Now
What Rhea does at Rhai
Rhea runs Rhai and leads every engagement herself. The work is in person and hands-on: she goes to a company's office, sits with its teams, and builds alongside them on their own systems, so that the company owns everything from minute one.
- AI workshops for companies. Sessions from a three-hour intro to a full customised day, assembled from a library of 22 modules. Workshop formats →
- Intelligence dashboards. Custom dashboards that brief each leader every morning and draft the next action, rather than only reporting what happened.
- Hang w AI. A free in-person community in Bangalore and Hyderabad, with more than 350 members, where a dozen people at a time build with AI. About Hang w AI →
Work
Companies she has worked with through Rhai
- Dodla Dairy — two months of discovery, a 70-page demo intelligence dashboard, and a two-day leadership workshop. Field notes →
- Bliss Aerospace — a build day with the planning team that produced a working production scheduler on a Microsoft tenant they already owned.
- Hester Biosciences — an engagement on turning leadership's AI momentum into owners across the company. Read the write-up →
More than a dozen companies have been through Rhai's workshops, across real estate, aerospace, manufacturing, F&B, healthcare and fintech.
Before Rhai
Background
Rhea spent seven years as CTO and co-founder of Hoovu Fresh, a B2B puja-flower supply chain operating across nine Indian cities, where she built and ran the AI layer the operation runs on. It started as a weekend project. Hoovu Fresh appeared on Shark Tank India.
She studied at Stanford. Rhai is the Hoovu experience turned outward: the same way of deploying AI inside a real operating business, taught to and built with other companies.
Writing
Field notes and build logs
- How to make twenty champions
- Two days inside a dairy company, rethinking it with AI
- Building the Hoovu Dashboard — an AI-run operating system for a flower supply chain
- How to build an AI agent into your dashboard — a field guide
- An AI CMO that learns your brand
- An honest structural diagnosis for businesses
- Vanaja — a voice HR partner that speaks everyone's language
- ComPrice — Building commodity price intelligence for Indian mandis
FAQ
Questions about Rhea Karuturi
Who is Rhea Karuturi?
Rhea Karuturi is the founder of Rhai, an AI practice based in Bangalore and San Francisco that runs hands-on AI workshops for companies and builds the intelligence dashboards their leadership runs the business on. Before Rhai she spent seven years as CTO and co-founder of Hoovu Fresh. She studied at Stanford and has appeared on Shark Tank India.
What does Rhea Karuturi do now?
Rhea Karuturi runs Rhai. She leads every engagement herself: AI workshops for company teams, custom intelligence dashboards, and AI-backed consultancy. She also hosts Hang w AI, a free in-person community in Bangalore and Hyderabad where operators and founders build with AI every week or two.
What is Rhai?
Rhai is the AI practice Rhea Karuturi founded. It teaches Indian companies to build with AI on their own systems through in-person workshops, and builds custom intelligence dashboards. Rhai has worked with companies including Dodla Dairy, Bliss Aerospace and Hester Biosciences.
How is Rhai connected to Hoovu Fresh?
Rhai grew out of Hoovu Fresh. As CTO, Rhea Karuturi built the AI layer that runs Hoovu’s B2B puja-flower supply chain across nine Indian cities — it began as a weekend project. Rhai is that same hands-on approach turned outward, for other companies.
How do I contact Rhea Karuturi about a workshop or talk?
Email rhea@heyrhai.com, or start a conversation from heyrhai.com. Rhai works on site in Bangalore and San Francisco, and travels for engagements elsewhere.