Most AI consultancies have never presented to a board of trustees. Most higher-ed consultants have never shipped production AI. We are both people at once.
Dr. Irene Irudayam
CEO & Founder
A sitting university Chief Data Officer. Twenty years in higher-ed data strategy, institutional analytics, and board-level decision support. Ed.D.
Irene has sat on the client’s side of every table we work at: cabinet, accreditation review, budget committee. She translates AI into the language institutions actually decide in — risk, mission, and money.
Kranthi Deepak
CTO, COO & Founder
Twenty-two years from mainframe to cloud to production agentic AI — as engineer, site reliability lead, and head of operations. Systems designed, shipped, and kept running 24/7 across clouds; the teams who inherit them trained to run them. M.B.A.
Kranthi builds the thing, runs the thing, and teaches your team to run it. SRE, 24/7 operations, and hands-on technical training are the disciplines most advisory firms outsource; here they are the point. Every recommendation Aspire makes has been tested against what production actually demands.
Principal-led, by design
No bench handoff
The people in the first meeting are the people on the engagement. Nothing is delegated to a team you never met.
Compliance as lived practice
FERPA and HIPAA are not checkboxes we studied for a proposal — they are constraints we have operated under for two decades. Systems designed to the spec clear review faster.
Production discipline
We have carried the pager. Anything we build arrives with runbooks, monitoring, and a rollback path — on whatever cloud you run.
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Woman-owned small business
Texas HUB
Certification in progress
Two principals
Every engagement, no exceptions
Texas, USA
Serving institutions nationwide