AI development company in Pune
An AI development team built on Pune engineering talent, for US companies
FoundrySoft builds production AI systems for US founders and CTOs, backed by the engineering and product talent Pune is known for. You get senior engineers who keep a daily overlap with your hours, hand you full ownership of everything they build, and ship in weeks. Our HQ is in Chennai and we work with clients across the United States.
Why Pune is a smart place to find engineering talent
Pune has been a college town and an engineering hub for decades. Between its universities, a long line of product companies, and a steady pipeline of ML and software graduates, the city has built up a depth of talent that holds its own against any of India's larger metros. For an AI build, that mix matters. You want people who can reason about a model and the system around it, not just wire an API together.
The other half of the story is cost. Pune sits below the very largest metros on engineering rates, so the same money buys you more senior time. For a US founder watching runway, that is the difference between proving an idea once and being able to iterate on it until it works. We tap into that talent base through our India team rather than asking you to stand up an office and hire locally yourself.
What we build
Most of our work falls into a few shapes. We build AI agents that plan and carry out multi-step tasks against your tools and APIs, the kind of system that does work rather than just answering questions. We build retrieval pipelines that ground a model in your own documents and data, so the answers are accurate and traceable instead of confidently wrong.
We build internal copilots that sit inside the software your team already uses, automation for the repetitive judgment calls that eat a day, and customer-facing assistants that hold up under real traffic. When a project needs custom fine-tuning or a careful evaluation harness to measure whether the AI is genuinely improving, we build that too.
Underneath all of it is ordinary, well-built software. A model is one component in a system that still needs auth, monitoring, a sane interface, and a deployment story. We treat it that way, which is why our builds tend to survive contact with real users.
How we work with US teams
The usual complaint about an offshore team is the overnight wall: you ask a question and the answer arrives a day later. We run our schedule against US time, so most of your business day has live engineers on the other side. Standups, code reviews, and the quick decisions that keep a build moving happen on calls you are awake for.
Beyond the clock, we keep the loop tight. We ship in small increments, demo often, and keep a written trail of decisions so you always know where things stand. You talk directly to the people building, not a layer of account managers in between. Whether you want a fixed-scope project, a dedicated team that joins your repos and standups, or a second set of experienced eyes on architecture, we steer you toward the shape that fits rather than the one that bills the most.
Why work with FoundrySoft
We hold nine or more hours of daily overlap with US working hours, so you reach your engineers while you are at your desk and the build keeps moving while you are away. You keep 100 percent of the intellectual property, the code, and the infrastructure, with nothing held behind us. The people on your calls are senior engineers who write the code themselves, with no quiet handoff to juniors after the pitch.
And we move in weeks, not months. Building from India, with talent from cities like Pune, lets us put serious engineering at a sane cost toward shipping sooner rather than padding a timeline. The point of hiring an AI development company is to get a working system in front of users while the idea still matters. We try hard to make that the default outcome.
Frequently asked questions
Do you actually have engineers in Pune?
Our headquarters is in Chennai, and we draw on the deep engineering and product talent that Pune is known for through our distributed India team. The practical answer for you is the same either way: senior people who write production code, work your hours, and stay accountable for what they ship. If you want a team rooted in Pune's talent base without setting up your own office there, that is what we offer.
Why hire an AI development company in Pune instead of one in a larger metro?
Pune has a long history as an engineering and university city, so the depth of product and ML talent is real while the cost base sits below the largest metros. For a US founder or CTO, that means you get experienced engineers at rates that leave room in the budget to actually iterate, rather than spending it all on a single local hire.
How do you handle the time difference with US teams?
We hold a daily overlap of nine or more hours with US working hours, weighted toward the morning Pacific and Eastern slots. Standups, demos, and quick decisions happen on calls you are awake for. The rest of the build moves while you sleep, so you tend to wake up to progress instead of waiting on it.
Who owns the code and the models?
You do, fully. You keep 100 percent of the intellectual property: the source, the prompts, any model weights you paid to train, and the infrastructure config. We hand over the repository and the deployment so you are never locked into us, and you can bring the work in-house whenever you choose.
How fast can you ship something?
Most engagements move in weeks rather than months. A focused prototype that proves the idea usually lands in two to four weeks, and a production system with monitoring and a real interface typically runs six to twelve weeks depending on scope. We push to get something usable in front of users early and improve it against real feedback.