Sai Prakash

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CTO and Co-Founder, MindStaq | AI and Enterprise Systems | Studying AI Since 1996

Sai Prakash is the CTO and co-founder of MindStaq, an AI-native work management platform built to unify scattered tools and give teams a system that actually knows their work.

He has spent more than 25 years in technology and product leadership, building and scaling platforms at the intersection of enterprise systems, AI, and user-centric design. He spent six years at Microsoft and held roles at Thomson Reuters and Agility.

He holds a Master of Science in Mathematics and Computer Science from Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, where he studied artificial intelligence in 1996, during the years the field had gone quiet. He later completed entrepreneurship study at The Wharton School.

On the show, Sai brings the long view. He was inside this technology three decades before it became fashionable, which makes him unusually useful at separating what is real from what is being sold.

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Nov. 9, 2026

Please Save Our Jobs: How to Stay Relevant When AI Layoffs Reach Your Company

Is your job next, and what are you supposed to do about it?


AI is now the most cited reason for layoffs in the United States, and the people being cut rarely get a vote. Most of the advice on offer is either panic or platitude. This episode is neither.


Sai Prakash, CTO and co-founder of MindStaq, returns to The Leadership Sovereignty Podcast with host Ralph E. Owens II and co-host Terry Baylor, and this episode closes our series of conversations with Sai Prakash. He has studied artificial ...
Guest: Sai Prakash
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Oct. 26, 2026

What If AI Gets Turned Off: How to Lead AI Adoption Without Relying on a Single Vendor

Who decides which AI your team relies on, and who decides when it changes?


The AI a team leans on usually arrives the way any other tool does: someone tries it, it works, and it spreads. Who will decide when it changes rarely makes it into the plan.


Sai Prakash, CTO and co-founder of MindStaq, returns to The Leadership Sovereignty Podcast with host Ralph E. Owens II and co-host Terry Baylor, and this conversation continues the one that began in the last episode. Sai puts the issue as a que...
Guest: Sai Prakash
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Oct. 12, 2026

Hero of Their Role: How to Get Team Buy-In on Project Management Without Chasing Updates

Why won't your team keep the project tool updated, and what would make them want to?

Most project management tools fail the same way. The team stops updating them, the manager starts chasing status, and the tool becomes a report nobody wants to feed.

Sai Prakash, CTO and co-founder of MindStaq, returns to The Leadership Sovereignty Podcast with host Ralph E. Owens II and co-host Terry Baylor, and this conversation continues the one that began in the last episode. Sai has spent more than 25 yea...
Guest: Sai Prakash
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Sept. 29, 2026

He Studied AI in 1996: What Non-Technical Leaders Get Wrong About What AI Can Do

Sai Prakash was studying artificial intelligence in 1996, on a 175 megahertz machine, during the years the field went quiet. Now the CTO and co-founder of MindStaq, he tells Ralph E. Owens II and Terry Baylor what actually changed, what did not, and why most non-technical leaders are measuring AI against the wrong thing. This is the first conversation in an ongoing series with Sai Prakash.
Guest: Sai Prakash