CentrikLabs Information

Centrik Labs builds custom AI products for mid-market firms, and we build them from inside your operations. We're a pure-play forward-deployed engineering (FDE) studio: our engineers embed in your team, work under your real constraints, and ship AI that moves a number you actually care about. We've earned the right to do this. Our founders are Y Combinator and Indian Angel Network alumni who build category-defining businesses, scaling products at BharatPe & AXIS Bank founding startups acquired by Zomato and Cult.fit, and leading forward-deployed engineering teams at ServiceNow. Our team carries deep operating experience from Meta, ByteDance, Netflix, Airtel, and Accedo, people who have built, scaled, and sold, not just advised. Forward-deployed engineering, embedding senior engineers to build custom AI under live conditions, is the model Palantir pioneered and the frontier labs now copy. But most who claim it today either bolt it onto a platform they're selling, or bill hours and leave nothing behind. We run FDE in its true spirit: no platform to push, no seats to fill. We deploy into your business, find the highest-leverage problem, and build a production AI system you own outright, measured on the outcome, not the size of the deck. And we bring this enterprise-grade model to the mid-market, firms with real, high-value problems that have never had access to forward-deployed engineering. That's how we're redefining the space: the discipline of the Fortune 500, delivered to the companies the giants overlook. Have a problem worth solving and a number worth moving? Let's talk.