Vivek Khandelwal

Vivek Khandelwal is the Chief Business Officer at CogniSwitch, where he leads go-to-market strategy, enterprise partnerships, and the company's thought leadership programs. He is the author of Signal, CogniSwitch's weekly newsletter that translates the complex machinery of enterprise AI infrastructure into clear, actionable intelligence for practitioners and executives in regulated industries.

With a background in chemistry (M.Sc., IIT Bombay) and a career spanning enterprise technology strategy and AI product development, Vivek brings a methodical, evidence-based approach to understanding how AI systems fail and how they can be made more reliable. His writing focuses on the structural reasons why enterprise AI projects stall — poor knowledge quality, missing evaluation frameworks, and the gap between what LLMs promise and what regulated deployments require.

At CogniSwitch, Vivek works closely with customers in healthcare, financial services, and life sciences to identify where in an AI deployment trust breaks down. This work informs his editorial focus: knowledge quality, governance frameworks, context engineering, and the evaluation methodologies that separate audit-ready AI from AI that only looks compliant on a slide deck.

He writes about neuro-symbolic AI not as an academic concept but as an operational constraint — the specific class of problems where probabilistic reasoning alone is insufficient, and where formal verification of AI outputs becomes a competitive advantage. Before CogniSwitch, Vivek worked in enterprise technology across strategy and business development roles.