About Slate Labs

Making organizations
AI-capable.

Slate Labs helps teams build real AI fluency - from first principles through to hands-on execution - so every employee can build with AI and every leader can steer adoption with confidence.

What we believe.

Most organizations don't have a tools problem. They have a skills problem. Teams have access to Copilot, ChatGPT, and a dozen AI products - but without structured training, adoption stalls at surface-level usage.

Slate Labs closes that gap. We build AI fluency from first principles - how the technology works, where it creates real value, and how to apply it to the work that's actually in front of your teams.

Back to first principles

The Team

The people behind the blackboard.

Practitioners who build and ship AI solutions daily, not academics or facilitators. We teach what we do.

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Manni Arora

AI Platforms & Product

Manni helps build the next generation of AI platforms at Microsoft, with prior engineering and product roles at Apple and Amazon. She has shipped tools used by millions of developers and now focuses on making AI practical for real teams - from agent frameworks to evaluation pipelines and production-grade tooling.

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Nitin Ravi

Enterprise Transformation & Strategy

Nitin has led enterprise transformation and AI programs at McKinsey & Company, partnering with Fortune 500 leaders to take AI from pilot to production. He focuses on the operating model side of AI org design, change management, and the governance practices that turn isolated wins into lasting capability.

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