AI development company / India
AI development company in India for US teams.
We are an India-based AI development studio that builds for US founders and CTOs. You get senior engineers who work your hours, ship in weeks, and hand you full ownership of everything they build, at roughly half the cost of hiring the same people locally.
- 9+ hrs
- daily US overlap
- 100%
- IP ownership
- Senior
- engineers only
- Weeks
- to first build
Why build here
Why US companies build AI in India
India has trained a generation of engineers on the same papers, frameworks, and production problems your US team works with. The difference is supply. There are far more of them, and the loaded cost of a senior engineer runs well below a comparable US hire. That gap is what lets a funded startup put real AI talent on the problem without burning a year of runway on salaries.
Cost alone is not a reason to hire anyone. What makes the math work is talent density. The strongest teams here have shipped LLM products, RAG systems, and ML pipelines that serve real traffic, not just demos. You are hiring for judgment about what breaks in production, and that judgment exists in plenty.
The honest objection is the time zone. Done badly, offshore means a 12-hour wall where every question waits until tomorrow. We run our schedule against US hours instead of against the clock in Chennai, so the bulk of your working day has live engineers on the other side of the call.
What we build
What we build
LLM products and AI agents
RAG pipelines, agentic workflows, evals, and the unglamorous plumbing that keeps a model reliable: retries, guardrails, caching, and cost control.
AI features in existing apps
Search, summarization, copilots, and classification wired into the product you already run, without a ground-up rewrite to get there.
Data and model infrastructure
Vector stores, fine-tuning loops, inference deployment, and observability so you can see what your AI is doing and what each call costs.
Full-stack delivery
Frontend, backend, and infra under one roof. The team that builds the model also serves it, so nothing falls through the seams.
The collaboration story
How we work across time zones
Our day starts before your morning standup and runs deep into your afternoon. In practice that is 9 or more hours where you can ping an engineer and get an answer in minutes. We keep the cadence that a co-located team would: a live standup, reviews on open pull requests, and pairing when something is stuck.
You talk to the people doing the work. There is no account manager translating your intent into a ticket and back. When an engineer thinks your spec is wrong, they say so on the call, which is the whole point of hiring senior people in the first place.
Everything lives in your tools. Your repo, your project board, your Slack. We fit into how you already ship rather than asking you to learn ours.
Why us
Why FoundrySoft
9+ hours of live US overlap
Standups, reviews, and pair sessions happen in real time, every working day. You are not handing off work into a void overnight.
100% IP ownership in writing
Every line of code, prompt, and model weight is yours from day one. Mutual NDAs and clean IP assignment are standard, never an upsell.
Senior engineers, no hidden juniors
You get the people who write the code, with the seniority to push back when a decision needs it. No padded teams you never meet.
Weeks, not months
Small senior teams skip the layers. A working build in a few weeks, then tight iteration against real usage instead of a year-long plan.
Across India
Where we work
We are headquartered in Chennai and work with US clients across India's major tech hubs. Pick your city for the local view.
Questions
Common questions
- Why hire an AI development company in India?
- You get senior engineering talent at roughly half the loaded cost of a US hire, with a deep pool of people who have shipped real machine learning and LLM products. The catch most teams worry about is communication and time zones. We solve that by running our day against US hours and putting you in direct contact with the engineers writing the code.
- How do you handle the time zone gap?
- Our team in Chennai works a shifted schedule that gives you 9 or more hours of live overlap with US business hours. Standups, code reviews, and pair sessions happen in real time, not over a 24-hour email relay. You are not waiting until tomorrow for an answer.
- Who owns the code and the models?
- You do, completely, from the first commit. We sign mutual NDAs and assign all IP to you as standard practice. Code, model weights, prompts, and data pipelines are yours, with nothing held back or licensed.
- Will I work with senior engineers or junior staff?
- You work directly with senior engineers. We do not pad teams with juniors you never meet or route everything through an account manager. The person on your call is usually the person writing the code.
- How fast can you start and ship?
- We can usually start within a week or two of scoping. First working builds land in weeks, not quarters, because small senior teams skip the hand-off layers that slow most agencies down.
Let's scope your AI build.
Tell us what you are trying to ship. We come back with a direct read on approach, timeline, and cost, with the engineers who would do the work on the call.