Imran Khaliq
Co-founder & CEO
Previously led AI platform teams at two Fortune 500s. Obsessed with shipping.
About Technovate AI
We're building the AI partner we wished existed.
Technovate AI was founded in 2022 by a senior team of AI engineers and strategists who had spent a decade inside consultancies, watching AI projects fail for predictable reasons. We built the firm we wished we could have hired: senior on every call, shipping in week one, and accountable for outcomes — not artifacts.
240+
Production systems shipped
180+
Years of combined experience
22
Countries we serve
62
Senior engineers & strategists
Mission
Ship AI that earns its place in your business.
We exist to make AI a productive member of your team — not a slide deck, not a pilot purgatory. Every engagement starts with the outcome we're committing to, and every line of code is measured against that outcome.
Vision
A world where AI ships the boring way.
We imagine an industry where AI is delivered like any other critical infrastructure — with clear SLOs, observable behavior, rollback plans, and owners. Boring, in the best possible way. Reliable, audited, and quietly indispensable.
What we believe
Six values that shape every engagement.
These aren't posters on a wall. They're how we hire, how we scope, and how we make tradeoffs when the deadline is tight.
01. Ship before you sell
We deliver working software in week one. No 60-page discovery deck before we've written a line of code.
02. Outcomes, not artifacts
We measure success in ROI, latency, denials averted, hours saved — never in slide count.
03. Own the architecture
We design systems your team can run after we leave. No black boxes, no proprietary lock-in.
04. Senior on every call
Engineers and strategists do the work. No offshore bench, no junior staffing pyramid.
05. Security from day one
SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR — controls baked in from architecture, not bolted on at audit.
06. Honest about AI
We'll tell you when AI is the wrong tool. We turn down work where automation can't earn its keep.
Leadership
The senior team behind every engagement.
Engineers and strategists with a decade of production AI between them. You'll work with the people on this page — not the team they delegate to.
Dr. Maya Anand
Co-founder & CTO
PhD in ML, ex-research at a top lab. Architect on most of our RAG systems.
Sana Qureshi
Staff ML Engineer
Builds the eval harness behind every production deployment.
David Okafor
Head of Platform
Owns the infrastructure that makes our agents reliable at scale.
Mariana Costa
Engagement Lead
Translates business pain into technical specs — and back into outcomes.
Anand Subramanian
Senior Engineer
Writes the code your team will maintain after we leave.
Milestones
Four years of compounding.
A short history of the firm — what we've shipped, who we've shipped it with, and what we've learned.
Founded
2022Two engineers, one designer, one strategist — set out to ship AI that pays for itself.
First enterprise engagement
Q3 2022Signed with Northwind Health to rebuild their prior-auth workflow from the ground up.
SOC 2 Type II
Q2 2023Achieved SOC 2 Type II compliance within 12 months — audited controls across the engineering org.
100th production system
Q1 2024Shipped our 100th production AI system — across healthcare, finance, retail, and logistics.
Series A
Q3 2024Raised a $14M Series A led by Founders Fund to scale engineering and platform investment.
AI Platform Suite GA
Q2 2025Released our internal platform — governance, evaluation, and observability — to select clients.
Global expansion
Q4 2025Engineering hubs in San Francisco, London, and Bengaluru — serving clients in 22 countries.
Want to work with us?
We're always hiring senior AI engineers and strategists.
If you've shipped production AI and want to do it with a team that cares about outcomes over artifacts, we'd love to hear from you.