About SVAG Labs

Built by a practitioner,
for practitioners

SVAG Labs is a fractional CIO and technology strategy practice. We come in when technology decisions are stalling, strategies are disconnected from business reality, or no one can answer the simple questions: Why this. Why now. What does it take. What should we expect.

Nandeep Nagarkar

Founder & Managing Member

25+ years of enterprise technology leadership across healthcare, financial services, retail, and energy. Former technology executive at Wells Fargo, Blue Shield of California, Albertsons, SunEdison, and Alameda Alliance for Health.

Documented outcomes include $2.3M in annual operational savings, 92% error reduction in production systems, and 99% platform uptime across 40-person engineering organizations with $16M budgets.

MBA in Technology Strategy, UC Davis. Author of Thinking With Machines and The Shared Intelligence.


Our Mission

To help organizations make AI and technology investment decisions with the same rigor they apply to capital allocation — with real financial models, not vendor narratives.

Our Vision

A future where trust, intelligence, and human potential converge — where technology strategy is grounded in operational reality, and every major decision has a model behind it.


SVAG stands for Single View Agile Governance — the operating philosophy behind everything we do. What you cannot see, you cannot define. What you cannot define, you cannot measure. What you cannot measure, you cannot evaluate or fund. Single View is not a dashboard. It is the discipline of establishing observability before making any decision.


The Shared Intelligence

A framework for executives navigating AI adoption — separating signal from noise on what AI actually changes in enterprise decision-making.

Book

Thinking With Machines

On the emerging relationship between human judgment and machine intelligence — and what it means for leadership, organizations, and strategy.

Book