We build what others can’t.

Artikate Studio was founded in India and has been building software since 2016. We operate as a deep-tech engineering firm across AI systems, government and defence platforms, enterprise software, healthcare data and commerce. Clients range from classified government bodies to national federations and D2C brands. We are an AWS Partner, Google Cloud Partner, Red Hat Partner, Razorpay Technology Partner and part of NVIDIA Connect. Every engagement is handled by senior engineers, and the people who scope the work stay accountable for it.

Six practices, one delivery standard: AI and ML systems (computer vision, sovereign LLMs, RAG pipelines, MLOps); defence and national security platforms with air-gapped, LAN-only and classified data requirements; national-scale enterprise platforms; digital commerce; healthcare and regulated data; and product design and brand. We go deep rather than wide.

Yes — a significant part of our portfolio is classified government and defence work. We operate under strict NDAs and are experienced with air-gapped deployments, LAN-only infrastructure and sovereign model setups where no data leaves the client’s premises. We never name government or defence clients publicly. Those programmes appear by codename only — ARGUS, MINERVA, GARRISON, SENTINEL, SCRIBE — with capability and measured outcome described in full. Whatever we will not say about them is exactly what we will not say about you.

Our fastest classified delivery was MINERVA: 75 days from brief to production, on a classified corpus, with no data leaving the premises. A Shopify Plus store is typically 4–8 weeks. Enterprise platforms reach a working MVP in 6–10 weeks and then iterate. From the second phase onward you see working software every fortnight, and we agree the delivery plan before anything is signed.

Yes, and we test it with the network interface physically down rather than merely firewalled. We deploy open-weight models — Llama 3 70B, Gemma, Mistral, Qwen — onto your hardware, quantised to GGUF and sized against the real sustained workload. Retrieval runs locally over your own corpus with pgvector, and every generated answer cites the source document so an officer can verify it without trusting the model. Model and index updates arrive signed, on controlled media; no inbound network path is ever opened for convenience.

Four ways to engage: fixed-scope build (defined system, price and date — the right shape for tenders and board-approved capital projects); dedicated team retainer (a standing team on a monthly fee, joint IP available, typically 12–24 months, and our most common model); sovereign deployment (on-premise or air-gapped delivered end to end, including hardware specification and operator training); and support and SLA, where we take over an existing system, stabilise it, document it and run it. Effort is stated in person-days against a named work breakdown — the custody platform resolved to 1,256 days across 26 weeks, auditable line by line.

You do — all of it. Source code, schema, infrastructure definitions and documentation, on an open-source base with no per-seat licence at the platform layer. We treat exportability as a test: if you could not reconstruct your records and history from an export within one working day, it is a silo with an API page, not a platform you own. Either ending is normal and we plan for both from day one — support and enhancement under SLA, or a clean handover to your own team with the code and the runbook.

Always. We do not run a marketplace or a bench-based staffing model. Engineers assigned to your project work only on your project for its duration, so you get a consistent team rather than rotating contractors.

That flexibility is built into every engagement. A bench protocol keeps additional engineers current on your codebase, so a team can go from two to six inside a sprint cycle without losing delivery momentum. Priorities can also shift between two-week cycles without renegotiating the contract.

There is a structured escalation to the founding team, a sprint retrospective, and if needed a partial team change. In eight years we have never abandoned an engagement — we stay until the product is right.