About
Principal-led, with a team sized to the work.
The person in the first conversation leads the engagement to the end of it, and that does not change. What changes is how many people sit alongside her, which depends entirely on what is being built.
Who runs it
Advisory work is done by the principal directly. Build work carries a delivery team she assembles and runs.
Khyati Pandya founded Manki Solutions after twenty years running enterprise technology — Director of Software Engineering at Mastercard, General Manager and Head of Third-Party Applications at Olam, Senior Technical Program Manager at Visa, and Senior Manager of Program Delivery at LTIMindtree.
Two of those years were spent on the client side of vendor relationships, owning a 300-application estate across more than seventy countries and deciding what got bought, what got built and what got switched off. That is the seat most consultancies have never occupied, and it is why this practice can recommend keeping an incumbent vendor, or stopping a program, without it costing anything.
Assessment, decision advisory and fractional leadership are hers directly — that work is one senior person by design. Build engagements carry engineers brought on for the engagement and run by her, the same arrangement she ran at considerably larger scale at Mastercard and Olam. What a client buys either way is that she is on it from the first conversation to the last.
Sector experience
How we work
Positions the practice holds, and will hold against its own commercial interest.
Position
The assessment can say stop
An advisory engagement that cannot conclude “do not do this” is not advice. The fee does not depend on what the document says.
Position
No licences, no reseller margin
Nothing is earned on a platform choice, which is what makes a recommendation to keep an incumbent vendor credible.
Position
Built to be handed over
Documentation, runbooks and knowledge transfer are part of delivery, so the client keeps the ability to operate the work or put it back out to tender.
Position
Scoped to end
Engagements have a fee and an end date from the start. Managed operations is the one thing meant to continue, and it is contracted separately.
Position
No bait and switch
The senior person who scopes the work is the senior person who runs it. Where a build needs more hands, they are named and introduced before the engagement starts — not substituted in afterwards.
Start with a conversation.
Forty-five minutes, no obligation either way.