# Chitrang Shah

> Chitrang Shah is the co-founder and CEO of Savant Labs, an enterprise analytics automation company built around a practical observation: business analysts know what questions to ask, but spend too much time collecting, cleaning, reconciling, and reporting data by hand. After product and engineering work at IBM, Drawbridge, Lattice Engines, and Dun & Bradstreet, Shah founded Savant in 2021 to give analysts a spreadsheet-familiar, no-code way to automate that work while preserving governance and oversight.

- **Role:** Co-founder and CEO at Savant Labs
- **Organizations:** Savant Labs, Dun & Bradstreet, Lattice Engines, Drawbridge, IBM
- **Education:** Master of Science in Computer Science, Rochester Institute of Technology, Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering, Sardar Patel University
- **Known for:** Co-founded Savant Labs and led it from a 2021 launch through $29.5 million in disclosed funding., Helped build Lattice Engines' B2B customer data and predictive marketing products before the company's acquisition by Dun & Bradstreet., At Savant, developed a spreadsheet-familiar, no-code approach to turning analysts' work into automated, governed workflows.

## Career timeline

- **Before 2012** — Worked as a software engineer at IBM, contributing to application frameworks, middleware, APIs, web clients, performance work, and debugging, according to a public professional recommendation.
- **2012-2013** — Served as Director of Product Management at Drawbridge.
- **2014-2019** — Led product at Lattice Engines, ultimately serving as Chief Product Officer and working on machine-learning-driven B2B marketing and sales products.
- **2019-2021** — After Dun & Bradstreet acquired Lattice Engines, served as SVP and Chief Product Officer for Digital Marketing and Sales Solutions.
- **2021** — Co-founded and launched Savant Labs in September to automate repetitive analytics work for business users.
- **2023** — Savant announced an $11 million seed round and launched its analytics automation platform for data analysts.
- **2025** — Savant raised an $18.5 million Series A led by Dell Technologies Capital, taking total funding to $29.5 million.
- **2026** — Shah focused his public writing on trustworthy, governed AI automation for finance, tax, and accounting workflows.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Savant Labs and led it from a 2021 launch through $29.5 million in disclosed funding.
- Helped build Lattice Engines' B2B customer data and predictive marketing products before the company's acquisition by Dun & Bradstreet.
- At Savant, developed a spreadsheet-familiar, no-code approach to turning analysts' work into automated, governed workflows.
- Led Savant through a 2025 year in which the company reported more than 10,000 production workflows and roughly 100 billion rows processed per month.
- Led Savant when its platform received a 2025 Gold Stevie Award for Technical Innovation of the Year and Gold and Silver TITAN Innovation Awards.

## Latest updates

- **2026-06** — Published 'Closing the AI Trust Gap in Finance,' arguing that core finance automation must be repeatable, governed, reviewable, and auditable.
- **2026-04** — Published an evaluation of Claude Cowork against enterprise finance workflows involving large spreadsheets, PDFs, repeatable preparation, and governance.
- **2026-02** — Published findings from Savant's finance AI research, highlighting a gap between pilots and mature enterprise-wide adoption.
- **2025-12** — Reported that Savant had surpassed 10,000 production workflows and was processing roughly 100 billion rows per month.
- **2025-01** — Savant raised an $18.5 million Series A led by Dell Technologies Capital, bringing disclosed funding to $29.5 million.

## Links

- Website: https://savantlabs.io
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chitrang

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Last updated: 2026-08-18