Rajan Sethuraman, CEO at LatentView Analytics
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AI
Approx. $10 Million /mo
119.8 Million USD ARR

Rajan SethuramanCEO

In this interview, LatentView Analytics CEO Rajan Sethuraman discusses the firm's non-exclusive services partnership with Anthropic to deploy Claude in enterprise environments. He details LatentView's ongoing AI and machine learning initiatives, highlighting that over half of their projects involve AI. Sethuraman outlines their top-line revenue growth guidance of twelve to thirteen percent, expected EBITDA margins of twenty-one to twenty-two percent, and the integration status of their Decision Point acquisition.

Rajan Sethuraman

Rajan Sethuraman

CEO

LatentView Analytics

LatentView Analytics

Founder Stats

  • AI
  • Started 2006
  • Approx. $10 Million /mo
  • 1190+ team
  • Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

About Rajan Sethuraman

Rajan Sethuraman is the Chief Executive Officer of LatentView Analytics, a leading global data and AI consulting firm. Since taking the CEO role in 2019, he has steered the publicly traded company past the 100 million USD revenue mark, focusing on AI-native transformation and agentic models. With over twenty years of experience at Accenture and KPMG, Sethuraman holds an MBA from IIM Calcutta and a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from BITS Pilani.

Interview

July 14, 2026

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Can you describe the nature of LatentView Analytics' new partnership with Anthropic?

Question 1 of 13
Rajan Sethuraman

We have entered a services partnership with Anthropic to act as a consulting partner for enterprises. The goal is to bring all of Anthropic's capabilities—including Claude, co-work features, plugins, and tools—directly into the enterprise context.

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Is this partnership with Anthropic exclusive for deploying Claude in India?

Question 2 of 13
Rajan Sethuraman

This is by no means an exclusive partnership. Just like any other large SaaS or ERP player, Anthropic will maintain multiple partnerships with various systems integration firms and product companies globally.

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Q

What is the commercial objective behind partnering with Anthropic?

Question 3 of 13
Rajan Sethuraman

We expect this partnership to kick up revenues for both LatentView and Anthropic. It adds a powerful new set of services to our existing suite, allowing us to upsell to current clients and onboard new ones.

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How long has LatentView Analytics been involved in developing AI and machine learning solutions?

Question 4 of 13
Rajan Sethuraman

Ever since our inception twenty years ago, we have been doing traditional AI and machine learning work. Over the last three years, we have scaled these efforts into generative AI and agentic AI models.

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How much of LatentView Analytics' recent project work has incorporated AI?

Question 5 of 13
Rajan Sethuraman

When we evaluated our work over the past year, we found that more than half of our projects involved AI in some form, whether traditional machine learning, generative AI, or agentic solutions.

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How does LatentView balance client-facing AI Native solutions with internal AI efficiency tools?

Question 6 of 13
Rajan Sethuraman

About 28% of our project workload is focused on client-facing, AI-native solutions that clients can directly experience. The remaining portion of our AI work is focused on driving internal efficiencies and product development.

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What is your top-line revenue growth guidance for this financial year?

Question 7 of 13
Rajan Sethuraman

We had guided at the start of the year that we would target the 20% mark on a dollar basis, but we have strong confidence and comfort in delivering between 12% and 13% revenue growth.

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What kind of steady-state EBITDA margins do you project for the company?

Question 8 of 13
Rajan Sethuraman

Our EBITDA margin guidance remains steady with our earlier indications. Last year we did between 20% and 23%, and for this year we guide for EBITDA margins of 21% to 22%.

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Why are your EBITDA margins projected to be slightly lower this year?

Question 9 of 13
Rajan Sethuraman

Our margins will be slightly lower due to the substantial investments we are making to build out our AI capabilities, tools, and enterprise solution suites.

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What sectors or application areas are seeing the highest traction for your AI solutions?

Question 10 of 13
Rajan Sethuraman

We see strong traction in marketing, customer analytics, supply chain, and compliance. For instance, we built a price and promotion optimization system for a consumer products firm using an agentic, AI-native solution.

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How do you anticipate the total addressable market will change as AI costs decrease?

Question 11 of 13
Rajan Sethuraman

As the cost of underlying LLMs and agentic AI systems decreases, we expect the total addressable market to expand. Enterprises will invest more in deploying these capabilities to remain competitive.

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Is there any delay in closing the Decision Point integration?

Question 12 of 13
Rajan Sethuraman

There is absolutely no delay in the integration itself. All efforts to integrate our respective services and take a combined suite of capabilities to market have been running smoothly for several quarters.

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What is the current status of the dispute regarding the earnout for Decision Point?

Question 13 of 13
Rajan Sethuraman

There is currently a minor dispute regarding the earnout payout terms. We are in active discussions and expect to resolve the issue and close the matter shortly.

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