About

We are operators.
We've always been operators.

Agile Catalyst was founded on a simple premise: AI consulting that doesn't ship is just slide-ware. We exist to close the gap between strategy and production — with operators who have already done it.

Our Story

Agile Catalyst was born from a legacy of building. Our founding team led the creation of category-defining platforms — Amazon's recommendation systems, Microsoft Office 365's cloud architecture, LinkedIn Learning's algorithms, Verizon's first fully digital carrier, Meta's responsible AI infrastructure, and Property Finder's technical transformation. We didn't read about these systems. We built them.

In 2024, this experience was codified into two published methodologies — MuShuHaRi (the AI maturity framework) and S+3 Agile (the delivery discipline) — by Agile Catalyst founder and operator Himanshu Niranjani. The frameworks became the operating model for the BeHuman Loop, the category-creation operating system Agile Catalyst is one arm of.

Today Agile Catalyst is the operating-hands arm of the BeHuman Loop and an independent consulting firm serving enterprises, capital partners, and founders globally. We work in three modes — Enterprise AI Empowerment, Investor Advisory, Startup Acceleration — all powered by the same frameworks and operator network.

Our Mission

To close the gap between AI strategy and AI in production.

We unlock the Hidden Value that every enterprise, every portfolio, every startup is sitting on — through operators, frameworks, and discipline that capital and consulting frameworks alone cannot deploy.

Who we are

Much of what we advise on, we've built and scaled ourselves.

Operators who have personally architected and scaled global platforms, then moved into capital and consulting to fix what actually kills companies. Operating mandates, not advisory titles.

Founder

Himanshu Niranjani

Founder · Chief Technology Officer · Author · Investor
LinkedIn ↗Inventor · US Patent 12,056,644 B2

Author of MuShuHaRi and S+3 Agile — two operating frameworks developed across 25 years of practice and documented in self-published books.

Himanshu is the AI and technology brain behind Agile Catalyst and the architect of everything we deploy. With 25+ years of operating experience across Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, LinkedIn, Verizon, and WeWork, he has personally built and scaled platforms that today serve billions of users across 180+ countries — not as an advisor, but as the operator in the seat making the decisions.

See the full operating record at himanshu.behuman.capital
I helped build Office 365 from a founding seat at Microsoft. I rebuilt the Prime Video recommendation engine across 180 countries. I scaled Amazon's rentals business from $35M to $600M. I supported Responsible AI for 3 billion users at Meta. As CTO of Visible, I rebuilt the engineering organisation and reframed customer service as an engineering problem — reducing cost-to-serve significantly, two years before the public AI wave. As CTO of Property Finder, I led the technical transformation through a period of significant growth. Agile Catalyst runs on what I learned doing it, not what I read about it.Himanshu Niranjani, Founder
Capital & Strategy

Lama Yammine

CSO & Senior Partner · Partnership Structuring · Venture Studio Lead · Serial Entrepreneur · Investor
LinkedIn ↗$1B+ raised · PE / VC / sovereign12 ventures · 35 backedFounder & exit · SME banking platform

Lama is the capital and financial strategy brain behind Agile Catalyst — the partner who has built, funded, and exited ventures across fintech, blockchain, and emerging technology, and who brings a network of sovereign wealth funds, private equity, and government relationships that most operators spend a career trying to access. She has lived and worked across nine countries, built her career inside some of the world's largest banks and Fortune 500 companies, and brings a depth of institutional and entrepreneurial experience that spans three continents and four asset classes.

The operating record
  • Banking foundations — China, Middle East, Europe. Began her career in investment and corporate banking, specialising in structured trade finance, investments, and corporate finance for multinational clients across three continents. The institutions she worked with rank among the largest banks globally and the clients among the Fortune 500.
  • First venture — Banking infrastructure for SMEs. Founded in 2021, the platform delivered AI-powered loans, factoring, expense management, and comprehensive banking services to SMEs across Europe. It worked, scaled, and exited.
  • 12 ventures co-launched. 35 backed. Across fintech, greentech, digital assets, and deeptech, as a builder who understands what each stage of a venture actually requires.
  • Over $1 billion raised. From private equity, venture capital, and sovereign wealth funds — for companies and initiatives focused on financial and green technologies. This is not a credential. It is a capability she brings directly to the portfolio companies and funds we work with.
  • Government advisory. Strategic counsel to government bodies on fintech regulation and innovation policy — giving Agile Catalyst a level of institutional access that no purely commercial consulting firm can replicate.
  • Board and advisory roles. Lama currently sits on the advisory and director boards of several funds and scale-ups, and advises firms on investment strategies, market trends, and portfolio management.
Revenue & Europe

Wim Fonteyn

COO & Senior Partner · Revenue & Commercial Strategy · Belgium Lead
LinkedIn ↗Ex-Nike · Miele · Twikit · RidleyCo-founder & exit · HoneysuKellogg-WHU Executive MBA

Wim is the commercial and operational bridge to the European enterprise market. Belgium-based, enterprise-fluent, and with a track record that spans global category leaders and Belgian scale-up reality in equal measure — he understands precisely the environments our clients operate in, the buyers they serve, and the GTM motion required to win in Benelux.

The operating record
  • Nike — Lead Distribution Capabilities EMEA. Ran distribution capability across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa for one of the most operationally complex consumer enterprises on the planet. At Nike's scale, distribution is not a logistics function — it is a revenue architecture. Wim owned it across an entire region.
  • Miele — Head of Operational Excellence. Led operational excellence at one of Europe's most respected premium manufacturing brands. Miele operates in exactly the industrial and manufacturing environments our enterprise clients come from. This is not adjacent experience — it is direct sector knowledge applied at the enterprise level.
  • Twikit — COO. Stepped into the COO seat at a Belgian scale-up navigating the gap between early traction and operational maturity — precisely the gap that kills most promising ventures. He has lived the inside of that challenge, not observed it.
  • Ridley Bikes — CFO / CIO. Held both the financial and technology leadership roles simultaneously at a Belgian cycling brand with international distribution. The combination of financial rigour and technology oversight in a capital-constrained scale-up is a rare operating profile.
  • Honeysu — Co-founded and exited. Built a venture from the ground up, navigated it to exit. He knows what it costs and what it takes.
Where we operate

Based in DIFC, Dubai.

Dubai
DIFC · Headquarters

GCC and MENA operations base. All engagements run from here.

A BeHuman Company

We're one arm of a larger operating system.

Agile Catalyst is the operating-hands arm of the BeHuman Loop. The Loop has six capabilities — capital, operating hands, turnaround, AI infrastructure, training data, and delivery tooling. You can engage Agile Catalyst standalone, or engage the full Loop for category-creation work.

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