Artikate Studio
AWS Partner · GCP Partner · Razorpay Partner

We Build What
Others Can't.

AI systems for India's defence institutions. National-scale enterprise platforms. Shopify stores that convert. Built by engineers who ship on time, every time.

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⭐ 4.9/5
Client Rating
93%
NPS Score
100%
On-time Delivery
7+
Countries

Artikate at a Glance

A proven partner for hard engineering problems.

We deliver highly skilled AI engineers, data scientists, and cloud specialists who consistently solve hard problems and ship reliable systems. From a single AI module to entire mission-critical platforms — we help you build faster without compromising quality or security.

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4.9/5
Verified Client Rating
Clutch · DesignRush
93%
Net Promoter Score
Clients willing to refer us
100%
On-time Delivery
Across all engagements
7+
Countries Served
From India to the Middle East

What We Build

Scale your projects with a team that feels in-house.

From a single AI module to entire platforms — we provide expert development and strategic guidance for your most ambitious technical challenges.

Defence · Enterprise · Government

AI & ML Systems

Custom AI implementations from computer vision to sovereign LLMs. We build production-grade AI for environments where commercial cloud APIs are not an option.

  • Computer vision and object detection
  • Sovereign LLM on-premise deployment
  • RAG pipelines over private data corpora
  • MLOps, model monitoring, and retraining
AI Services
SaaS · Government · Fleet

Enterprise Platforms

National-scale systems that manage millions of records and serve thousands of concurrent users. Built for reliability, security, and long-term maintainability.

  • National sports and athlete management
  • Fleet intelligence and GPS telemetry
  • Custom ERP and workflow automation
  • AI-powered analytics dashboards
Enterprise Services
D2C · Retail · SaaS

Digital Commerce

Shopify Plus stores and headless commerce experiences that handle launch-day traffic spikes, AI recommendations, and multi-gateway payment flows.

  • Shopify Plus development and PWA
  • AI conversational commerce
  • Pre-order and launch management
  • Payment gateway integration (Razorpay, UPI)
E-commerce Services

Our Work

A few of our client results.

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75 days
AI document platform delivery

Project MINERVA — Classified government AI system delivered in 75 days from brief to production

1.4M+
Athletes on Krida AI

99.97% uptime across 3 years. Selection process time cut from 6 weeks to 4 days

97.8%
Detection accuracy — Project ARGUS

Air-gapped multi-camera perimeter intelligence. 0.18% false positive rate at 40+ feeds

41%
Fewer breakdowns — EMSPL Fleet

2,400 vehicles. Predictive maintenance AI. 24-month ongoing partnership

34%
Conversion uplift — GamesTheShop

Shopify Plus rebuild. 48,000 concurrent users during launch. 1.1s page load

58%
Higher AOV — Neurobloom AI

AI-powered conversational commerce. Personalised supplement stacks. UAE expansion in 4 months

Client Testimonials

Engineering support that just works.

We plug in quickly, communicate clearly, and help your team deliver with less stress and more predictability.

Artikate embedded with our team from day one. Their ability to understand our security constraints and still ship at pace was unlike anything we had experienced with previous vendors. MINERVA was our most ambitious project — they delivered it in 75 days.

Senior Director, Technology

Classified Government Client — India

Behind every major milestone for Krida AI is a technology win. Artikate built a platform that now manages 1.4 million athletes, and it has never gone down. Their team treats our product as their own.

Chief Product Officer

National Sports Federation — India

The work was technically complex — real-time telemetry from 2,400 vehicles, predictive maintenance models, offline-first mobile apps. Artikate handled every dimension with impressive depth and delivered an ROI we could measure in the first quarter.

Head of Technology

EMSPL — India

How We Deliver

How we deliver every sprint.

Our engineers are not freelancers. They are dedicated Artikate team members who take ownership of your project and create valuable solutions with you.

01
Day 1–3

A Pre-Kickoff Technical and Strategic Review

Every engagement begins with a deep-dive brief — not a sales call. We ask hard questions about your security requirements, existing stack, integration constraints, and what "done" actually means. By day three, we have a shared, written understanding of the problem space before a single line of code is written.

Deliverables

  • Constraint and risk mapping
  • Security and compliance review
  • Scope definition and agreement
  • Signed NDA and confidentiality protocol

Why Artikate

Ship software faster. Staff your teams reliably.

Six reasons engineering leaders choose Artikate for their most important builds.

IST-Aligned Engineering

No timezone friction. Our engineers work Indian Standard Time and are reachable during your business hours — no overnight delays, no async-only collaboration.

Defence-Grade Security Baseline

Every project starts from a security-first posture. Air-gapped deployments, zero-egress setups, and classified data handling are our everyday baseline — not edge cases.

2-Week Sprint Velocity

You see working software every fortnight. Our sprint cadence means issues surface early, priorities can shift quickly, and delivery remains predictable.

Scope Without Surprises

We manage velocity and budget in parallel. Fixed-price or T&M — we are transparent about trade-offs from day one. No surprise invoices.

Senior-Led Delivery

Every engagement has senior engineering oversight. You are not handed off to juniors after the pitch. The people who scoped the project are accountable for it.

Embedded Partnership Model

We are designed for the long term — not just the handover. EMSPL is a 24-month engagement. We stay invested in your product's success beyond the initial delivery.

Technologies

Built with the best stack.

Full tech stack

AI & ML

PyTorchYOLOv8xLlama 3 70BLangChainRAGWhisper ASRGGUFHugging Face

Cloud & Infra

AWSGCPKubernetesTerraformDockerGPU ClustersAir-gapped

Frontend

Next.jsReactReact NativeTypeScriptShopify PlusPWA

Backend

FastAPIDjangoNode.jsGraphQLPostgreSQLRedis

Insights from Our Blog

Engineering insights from our team.

AI EngineeringFeb 2025

How We Deployed a Sovereign LLM for a Classified Government Client in 75 Days

A technical deep-dive into our approach to on-premise Llama 3 70B deployment, GGUF quantisation, and RAG pipeline architecture in an air-gapped environment.

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MLOpsJan 2025

GPU Cluster Setup for Air-Gapped AI: Architecture Decisions That Matter

When you cannot rely on cloud GPU services, the infrastructure architecture becomes critical. Here is how we think about it.

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EnterpriseDec 2024

Building for 1.4 Million Users: What We Learned Scaling Krida AI

The architectural choices, database sharding decisions, and load testing methodology that allowed us to serve 1.4M concurrent registered users reliably.

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions.

Everything you need to know before starting an engagement.

Artikate Studio was founded in India and has been building software since 2016. We operate as a deep-tech engineering firm with a focus on AI systems, government and defence platforms, enterprise software, and Shopify Plus e-commerce. Our clients range from classified government bodies to national sports federations and D2C brands. We are AWS and GCP Certified Partners, Razorpay Technology Partners, and Red Hat Partners. Every engagement is handled by senior engineers — not juniors.

Our core strengths are: (1) AI-powered systems — computer vision, sovereign LLMs, RAG pipelines, agentic AI, and MLOps; (2) Defence and government platforms with air-gapped, LAN-only, and classified data requirements; (3) National-scale enterprise software — sports management, fleet intelligence, ERP; and (4) Shopify Plus development and AI commerce for D2C brands. We go deep, not wide.

Yes. A significant portion of our portfolio involves classified government and defence work. We operate under strict NDAs, are experienced with air-gapped deployments, LAN-only infrastructure, and sovereign LLM setups where no data leaves the client's premises. We do not name government clients publicly — they are referred to by codename (ARGUS, MINERVA, GARRISON, SENTINEL, SCRIBE).

Our fastest delivery was Project MINERVA — an AI-powered document intelligence platform — in 75 days from brief to production. For a Shopify Plus store, typical delivery is 4–8 weeks. For enterprise platforms, we deliver an MVP in 6–10 weeks, then iterate. We always agree a delivery plan before signing and we track against it publicly in sprints.

We offer both fixed-price and time-and-materials (T&M) engagements. For well-scoped projects with clear deliverables (a Shopify store, a standalone AI module), we prefer fixed-price with defined milestones. For longer-term partnerships, platform development, and government contracts, we typically use a dedicated team or T&M model. Pricing is transparent from day one — no surprise invoices, ever.

Yes — always. We do not operate a marketplace or bench-based staffing model. Every engineer assigned to your project works exclusively on your engagement for its duration. You have a consistent team, not rotating contractors.

We build this flexibility into every engagement. Our bench protocol ensures additional engineers are always familiar with your codebase and can step in immediately. We can scale a team from 2 to 6 engineers within a sprint cycle without losing delivery momentum.

We have a structured process for this — direct escalation to the founding team, a sprint retrospective, and if needed, a partial team change. In 8 years, we have never abandoned an engagement. We stay until the product is right.

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