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About realfast

We don't ship features.
We move the metric.

The whole story
Our mission

realfast is an applied-AI strategy and engineering firm. We help software-driven enterprises turn urgent, high-stakes problems into products and platforms that move the number the business actually cares about.

01 Why we exist

There's no pre-AI version of this company.

Most firms selling AI today were built before it. They have a services org, a delivery playbook, and a headcount model designed for a world where humans typed the code - and now they're bolting agents onto the side and calling it transformation.

We started after ChatGPT, not before it. There was never an old machine to retrofit. Every role, every process, every metric was designed on the assumption that agents do the grunt work and people do the judgment. That's what makes us a strategy house with deep engineering, not a dev shop - applied AI in the structure, not on a slide.

02 What we do

Strategy and engineering, one team.

Strategy without engineering is a deck. Engineering without strategy is a backlog. We do both in the same seat - the people who scope your problem are the people who build the system that solves it. No hand-off, no translation layer, no account manager between you and the person writing the code.

And we build systems you own, not hours you rent. A services firm sells you time and leaves when the invoice clears. We leave you with products and platforms that keep working after we're gone - that your team runs and extends, that make the next problem cheaper to solve than the last.

03 Who we work with

Software-driven enterprises with something urgent on the line.

We work with companies where software is the business, not a cost center - where a stalled workflow, a slow function, or a manual process is holding back a number that matters right now.

We're not here for the experiment that could wait a year. We take the problems that are urgent and high-stakes: the ones where getting it right changes the quarter, and getting it wrong is expensive. Those are the problems applied AI is actually good at, and the ones worth putting senior people on.

04 How we measure ourselves

One number, agreed up front.

Licenses bought and dashboards lit describe activity, not outcomes. Before any code, we find the one business metric you want moved and we tie the engagement to it. If we don't move it, we haven't done the job - and we say so.

That's the whole promise, and it's deliberately narrow. We don't ship features. We move the metric.

"The humans are the constraint - the agents aren't. Our job is to point the best people at the number that matters and get out of their way."
Sidu Ponnappa · CEO, Co-founder
05 The founders

Applied AI in the DNA, not the pitch.

realfast was founded by three people with decades between them across enterprise implementation, data engineering, M&A, and AI.

Sidu Ponnappa
CEO, Co-founder
Aakash Dharmadhikari
CPTO, Co-founder
Steve Sule
CFO, Co-founder
06 The platform

Exo: the machine our people build on.

Our people don't start from a blank repository. They build on Exo - our applied-AI platform - so the latest gains in AI velocity and quality reach your project as they happen, on infrastructure that's ISO 27001 and SOC 2 compliant with full observability across every workflow.

Exo is the leverage under the work, and it's why a small team ships like a large one: four or five exceptional people, agents doing real work inside a governed system, enterprise quality at startup velocity.

07 The people

The firm is its people. Agents are on the grunt work.

Small teams of senior people. A named human accountable for every AI output. Something usable shipped every week. That's the operating model - and how we work, what we look for, and what it's like to build here is a page of its own.

People at realfast
08 Backed by Where we are
Backed by
Peak XV Partners
Formerly Sequoia India & SE Asia
RTP Global
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Work with us

From strategy to shipped.

Bring us the problem that's urgent and expensive - the one where the number won't move. We'll tell you whether we can move it, and if we take it on, we'll build the system that does.