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Unni Nair
Systems • Sports • Story Worlds

Systems

I transform complex media ecosystems into scalable, revenue-generating platforms — unifying business, product, engineering, and data to drive operational excellence and unlock growth.

This work has powered multi-billion-dollar businesses across streaming distribution, Ad Tech, media finance, and analytics — modernizing legacy ecosystems and making execution measurable and explainable.

In Active Development

CovenantAI

I’m building an AI-powered contract intelligence platform focused on obligation tracking, cross-contract exposure, and workflow automation — applying lessons from contract, entitlement, and risk systems built at enterprise scale.

Purpose-built for obligation risk
Obligation tracking
Risk visibility
Cross-contract exposure
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System Map

How the pieces connect

These systems are strongest when they share one operating reality — connecting commercial intent to execution, controls, and insight.

Sales / CRMContracts & RightsAd Sales / TrafficDistribution OpsFinance / Rev RecData & Analytics

Inputs: deals, obligations, inventory, timing

Controls: rights, governance, auditability

Outputs: revenue, performance, risk visibility

Selected Systems

Sales, Marketing & CRM (Salesforce)

Where pipeline becomes execution — and forecasting becomes explainable.

PipelineDeal & account managementRevenue operationsPartner health

CRM succeeds when it reflects how teams actually sell and collaborate. My focus is less on tooling and more on decision flow — reducing friction while making what’s real visible to the people accountable for outcomes.

  • Industry-leading CRM + Deal/Account Management platform used across Content Distribution.
  • Improved pipeline visibility, account health, partner support, and deal velocity.
  • Shared operating system across Sales, Finance, Product, and Legal.

Outcome Snapshot

Evidence
  • Enabled revenue teams to operate from one truth across accounts, deals, and commitments.
  • Improved visibility into partner performance and deal velocity at scale.
  • Reduced friction between commercial execution and downstream reporting.

Ad Sales, Research & Traffic

Where inventory, demand, pricing, and delivery have to reconcile.

PlanningPricingPacingDeliveryMeasurement

In advertising environments, systems only work when they mirror reality. I’ve led platforms and integrations that align the commercial promise with operational delivery — so teams stop arguing about numbers and start acting on them.

  • Built one of media’s first ad sales optimization platforms, driving ~$40M incremental annually.
  • Improved advertiser profitability transparency and supported sustained growth.
  • Enabled early digital ad sales at scale through key platform integrations.

What changed

Evidence
  • Disconnected tools → a reconciled commercial + operational view.
  • Upstream promises → downstream delivery with fewer surprises.
  • Better pricing & pacing decisions with shared measurement.

Financial Systems (Ad Sales & Distribution)

Where commercial intent meets auditability.

Revenue recognitionRemittanceBillingControlsAudit trails

These systems sit at the intersection of finance, sales, and operations. Precision matters, but so does speed — the goal is control that doesn’t create drag.

  • Designed and launched automated remittance and payment platform.
  • Enabled Finance to absorb 30% more revenue recognition with no added headcount.
  • Improved transparency and control without slowing execution.

Outcome Snapshot

Evidence
  • Increased Finance capacity by ~30% with automation and cleaner workflows.
  • Reduced ambiguity early — before it became downstream compliance risk.
  • Strengthened auditability while keeping the business moving fast.

Legal, Contract, Rights & Risk Management

Where risk concentrates in exceptions, not templates.

ObligationsEntitlementsDeviationsComplianceGovernance

Effective CLM isn’t document storage — it’s decision support. The work taught me that most contracts are standard, but the risk lives in the non-standard edge cases. Great systems convert “contract complexity” into usable signals.

  • Built contract, entitlement, and risk management systems — first in the industry.
  • Reduced manual oversight, eliminated compliance gaps, enabled 20% reduction in supporting headcount.
  • Directly informs CovenantAI: obligation tracking, risk detection, and workflows.

Outcome Snapshot

Evidence
  • Made obligations legible to non-legal teams (Sales, Ops, Finance).
  • Exceptions surfaced early, before they became surprises or disputes.
  • Automation + controls enabled ~20% support headcount reduction.

Media Supply Chain & Distribution Platforms

Where content moves through constraints — fast, with governance intact.

FAST/CTVRights & windowsPartner deliveryContinuityOperational control

Media supply chains are constraint-driven systems: rights, windows, partners, metadata, and timing. The best designs make constraints explicit so teams can move quickly without breaking governance or downstream reporting.

  • Led cross-functional launch of 19 FAST channels in 6 months (~$80M Year 1 revenue).
  • Modernized continuity and rights visibility across MVPDs, vMVPDs, AVOD/FAST platforms.
  • Reduced handoffs and clarified ownership across complex workflows.

Outcome Snapshot

Evidence
  • Accelerated time-to-launch while preserving rights governance and partner obligations.
  • Improved visibility into continuity and obligations across platform partners.
  • Reduced operational friction across the content lifecycle.

Data & Analytics Platforms (AWS / Snowflake)

Where operational truth becomes decision support.

AWSSnowflakeBIReal-time insightCross-functional truth

Analytics only matters when it changes decisions. I build data products that help teams see what’s happening, diagnose why, and decide what to do next — in time to act.

  • Created enterprise Data & Analytics platform on AWS/Snowflake with real-time deal, revenue, and operational insights.
  • Reduced reporting cycles from days to minutes and cut costs ~10%.
  • Unified operational, financial, and commercial data into one workable view.

Outcome Snapshot

Evidence
  • Reporting cycles: days → minutes (real-time operational visibility).
  • Lowered reporting costs ~10% while improving confidence in the numbers.
  • Connected Sales, Finance, Legal, and Ops through shared metrics and definitions.

Throughline

I’m a builder who sits at the intersection of business intent and technical execution — translating complex workflows into platforms that scale. The pattern is consistent: modernize legacy ecosystems, make operational truth real-time, and strengthen governance while accelerating delivery.

Operating model

Intent
Structure
Incentives
Behavior
Outcomes

The work is usually not “more features.” It’s tightening the loop between what the business is trying to do and what the system actually causes people to do — with governance intact.