Sidharth Parwanda, an Indian product leader based in Indianapolis, said he founded Lampkey.ai, a startup developing project intelligence software, after repeatedly encountering the same problem at work: tracking hours, budgets, and overspending across teams often required days of manually reconciling documents.
Lampkey.ai aims to address that challenge by reading project documents and answering questions about budgets, schedules, and resources, with each answer linked to its source. Parwanda said the company is currently in its pre-launch stage and recruiting design partners.
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According to its website, Lampkey is an AI-powered project management tool that reads documents such as statements of work (SOWs), contracts, change orders, project plans, budgets, schedules, timesheets, and risk logs. It consolidates the information into a single, evidence-backed source of truth called the Project Brain, replacing scattered spreadsheets and status reports.
The company says its platform offers capabilities that general-purpose AI assistants such as ChatGPT and Claude do not provide through standalone prompts. While a one-time AI prompt has no persistent memory of a project or access to an established source of truth, Lampkey builds a Project Brain that tracks approved, superseded, and forecast information.
It also links every fact to the original project document, allowing users to verify where a particular figure or date originated. The system continuously reconciles information as new documents are added, keeping its responses grounded in the project’s history rather than relying only on the most recently uploaded file.
The platform is also designed to distinguish between different types of discrepancies in project documents. Rather than simply flagging conflicting dates or figures, it determines whether one document supersedes another, whether the difference reflects a forecast versus an approved baseline, or whether there is a genuine discrepancy requiring a decision. In the latter case, the system asks users for clarification rather than making assumptions.
Parwanda earned a bachelor’s degree in computer science in India and completed his master’s degree at the University of Houston-Clear Lake. In recent years, he has worked on AI products for U.S. public-sector programs, including a behavioral health assessment platform used across programs in Washington, Virginia, and New Hampshire. He also led the development of an AI recruiting platform at RCR Technology Corp.
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“Every project I ran had the same failure mode: the truth about the project lived in five different places. The SOW said one thing, the change orders said another, the timesheets told a third story, and the status report I wrote every Friday was my best attempt to reconcile all three. I watched good people burn hours stitching together answers they should have been able to just ask for,” Parwanda said.
“So in 2026, I built Lampkey.ai — the tool I wished existed. Upload your project documents and ask questions in plain English. Every answer traces back to the source document it came from, because an answer you can’t verify