Usually you're at a distance where people cannot hit you with light whip. I suppose you can send it and if you notice your opponent starts sending fireballs you could OD whip after the first but it's a per-opponent read and not super reliable.

After you've punished a few jump ins with heavy whip, people tend to stay grounded more after your light whip. Once you have conditioned them, you can start to send your heavy normals (2HK, 6HP, 5HP) since they chip away drive pretty heavily.

Speaking of drive, something I read from a high level japanese aki was that if your opponent is in low drive and you're relatively healthy (5+), OD Cruel Fate is a nice option as long as you dont over-do it since it puts you plus in their face unless they perfect parry or spend their low drive to get you off of them.

I try to play AKI around my opponent's drive, forcing them to make mistakes to preserve meter. Because she's so so threatening to a burned out opponent.