Build the conditions for AI to work.
We help organizations build workforce capability, prepare trusted data, and design how AI-enabled work operates.
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AI Skilling & Enablement
Build practical AI capability across your organization.
View serviceAI-Ready Data Estate
Make trusted organizational context ready for use.
View serviceAgent Strategy & Operations
Strategize, build, and operate AI agents across the organization.
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People
Build AI capability across your organization.
Bespoke skilling and enablement shaped around your people, priorities, and real work.
Fluency
AI becomes a normal part of daily work, supported by confidence and good judgment.
Orchestration
Practitioners direct AI across workflows and build reusable systems others can use.
Stewardship
Champions establish standards, mentor others, and preserve quality as adoption expands.
Engagements can focus on one level or create a path across all three.
Discuss Your Workforce GoalsData
Make organizational context ready for use.
Focused strategy and implementation that prepares the data a priority initiative requires.
Assess
Identify what information matters, what is ready, and what needs attention.
Organize
Make relevant data accessible, consistent, understandable, and usable.
Govern
Establish ownership, permissions, quality expectations, and traceability.
Work can range from assessment and architecture to targeted implementation and governance.
Discuss Your Data PrioritiesAgent Ops
Design how your company runs AI agents.
The plan for running agents across your company: where they fit, the patterns to reuse, and the monitoring and controls to trust them.
Strategize
Where agents fit across the organization, the common patterns to reuse, and the standards to set.
Build
Implement the agents, integrations, human handoffs, evaluation, and controls.
Operate
Observability across quality, reliability, cost, and performance as the work evolves.
Engagements can begin with agent strategy and extend through implementation and ongoing operations.
Bring Us a Workflow20 years at Microsoft
Serving Fortune 500 financial services clients.
A decade of business transformation
Advancing organizations through cloud and AI.
2,000+ professionals trained
Building practical capability for AI-enabled work.
Delivery networkClaude Partner Network
Rift Lab is part of the Claude Partner Network, supporting enterprise adoption through strategy, enablement, and coordinated delivery.
Start Here
Choose the right place to begin.
Use the readiness assessment to identify the condition that needs attention first.
Take the Readiness AssessmentTalk with us about your People, Data, or Agent Ops initiative.
AI readiness questions
Frequently Asked Questions
Rift Lab connects workforce capability, trusted organizational context, and the operating practices needed to move AI from experimentation into reliable work.
- What is organizational AI readiness?
- Organizational AI readiness is the ability to put AI to work with capable people, trustworthy data, clear ownership, appropriate controls, and repeatable operating practices.
- What does Rift Lab help organizations do?
- Rift Lab helps organizations build AI capability across three connected areas: skilling and enablement, an AI-ready data estate, and agent strategy and operations.
- Does Rift Lab provide strategy or implementation?
- Both. Engagements can focus on assessment and strategy, hands-on enablement, data readiness, agent design, or implementation of AI-enabled workflows and internal tools.
- How should an organization get started?
- Start with the five-minute AI readiness assessment to identify a practical first move, or book a strategy call when the opportunity already spans multiple teams or systems.
- Who founded Rift Lab?
- Rift Lab was founded by Shashwat Mohapatra, a former Microsoft leader with 20 years of experience, including Director-level work in Azure AI. He has trained more than 2,000 professionals and helped Fortune 500 organizations adopt cloud and AI.
- Does Rift Lab work with experienced software and agentic solution developers?
- Yes. Rift Lab works with a partner network of seasoned software developers and agentic solution developers. Rift Lab shapes the scope and coordinates delivery, while the right specialists provide engineering depth for each initiative.
- Is Rift Lab part of the Claude Partner Network?
- Yes. Rift Lab is part of the Claude Partner Network, Anthropic's partner ecosystem for organizations helping enterprises adopt Claude. Rift Lab supports adoption through organizational AI strategy, enablement, and coordinated production delivery.
- Can Rift Lab coordinate Forward Deployed Engineer teams for customer delivery?
- Yes. Rift Lab owns the AI strategy, roadmap, and operating model. Through its partner network, Rift Lab can coordinate Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) teams to execute that plan in the customer environment—handling discovery, integrations, custom software and agentic solution development, production deployment, and stabilization. Placement details, staffing, travel, and engagement structure are scoped for each initiative.
