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  "markdown": "Chief Executive Officer.\n\nIrana Wasti has been chief executive and a board member of Thought Industries since October 2025, and announced its Customer Knowledge AI Platform and Lens. She was earlier chief product officer at BILL and president of GoDaddy EMEA, where she led the company's expansion across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.\n\n- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/iranawasti/\n\n## What Irana builds\n\n- [Lens (Thought Industries)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/thought-industries-lens.md), graded E, 43.5/100, in Company knowledge \u0026 data catalogues. Lens, from Thought Industries, indexes a company's website, help centre, files, Zendesk articles and Academy courses into one knowledge layer. It answers customer questions through a website widget, a remote MCP server, a REST API and answer-engine files. Chief Executive Officer, researched 2026-10-28.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Barry Kelly](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/barry-kelly/), Co-founder; CEO from 2013 until April 2024, then founder and board member\n- [Julien Denaes](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/julien-denaes/), Chief Strategy Officer, also overseeing engineering\n- [Karishma Wadhwani](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/karishma-wadhwani/), Head of Product - AI \u0026 Monetization; Agentic Platform\n- [Sarah Phoenix](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/sarah-phoenix/), Chief Product Officer\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [Luminate Capital Partners](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/luminate-capital-partners/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Irana Wasti?\n\nIrana Wasti has been chief executive and a board member of Thought Industries since October 2025, and announced its Customer Knowledge AI Platform and Lens. She was earlier chief product officer at BILL and president of GoDaddy EMEA, where she led the company's expansion across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.\n\n### What does Thought Industries, Inc. make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Lens (Thought Industries) from Thought Industries, Inc.. Lens, from Thought Industries, indexes a company's website, help centre, files, Zendesk articles and Academy courses into one knowledge layer. It answers customer questions through a website widget, a remote MCP server, a REST API and answer-engine files.\n\n### Who has invested in Thought Industries, Inc.?\n\nThe sources our research read name Luminate Capital Partners.\n\n### How are Irana's tools graded?\n\nLens (Thought Industries) is graded E, 43.5 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://www.thoughtindustries.com/about-us/leadership-team/\n- https://www.thoughtindustries.com/blog/thought-industries-launches-lens-and-unveils-customer-knowledge-ai-platform/\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahptalis\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/karishmawadhwani\n- https://www.thoughtindustries.com\n- https://support.thoughtindustries.com/hc/en-us\n- https://lens.thoughtindustries.com/\n- https://support.thoughtindustries.com/hc/en-us/articles/4404061896343-Premium-Live-Chat\n- https://www.thoughtindustries.com/blog/thought-industries-promotes-robin-wadsworth-to-ceo/\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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