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Move a business metric, not an adoption chart.
Licenses bought and dashboards lit describe activity, not outcomes. Before any code, we find the number the customer wants moved. If we don't move it, we haven't done the job.
People & Culture
Relationships by humans. Strategy by humans. Taste by humans.
while the agents do the grunt work.
Sidu Ponnappa Aakash Dharmadhikari Steven Sule Rishi Ayyer Vinay Mimani Nikhil Mannikar Saurav Shah Ankit Pandey Manas Vaze Rajnish Dashora Prashant Mittal Jewel James Paulomi Gudka Akhil Chandran Megha BC Divya Gurunathan Srini Satyan Jeetal Shah Allison Wright Sumanth Raj Urs Aniket Hendre Aravind Karthik Anitha Thammineni Rajat Goyal Mohit Agarwal Piyush Sinha Nayan Jain Jigish Chawda Shishir Joshi Suraj Chandola Priyanshu Gaur Harsh Jain Animesh Das Asarar Ahmed Rishabh Garg Arul Praveen T Nameet Rajore Saran Kumar Isaac Sanctis Rohit T Saurabh Kamboj Shashwat Gupta Noel Mathew Harshit Agarwal Ashlesh Shenoy Omkar Narayankar Vaidehi Joshi Aviral Srivastava Saurabh Nandedkar
The right team is small to the point of looking ridiculous.
Four or five exceptional people with agent leverage out-ship teams several times their size.
On the work
Superhuman quality, human accountability.
Engineers, designers, and product managers, each running fleets of agents. Agents give the work superhuman throughput; senior humans hold the quality bar.
On hiring
The leverage is unforgiving, so we don't rush it.
We've done it on enough engagements that it stopped being a claim and became the operating model. We hire slowly and pay at the top of the market, because one wrong hire, magnified by agents, can undo the work of all.
On your systems
Levers on your systems of record.
First the agents map how your work actually flows. Then we build software levers on the systems you already run. Nothing gets ripped out. Everything gets faster.
Sidu Ponnappa CEO & Co-founder, realfast
There's no pre-AI version of this company.
We want our customers pulling off moves their competitors call impossible, again and again and again.
Read Sidu's thesis Why realfast
A first-person note on choosing realfast, from the person behind our recruitment and branding. Experience the pitch as a fully working Windows 95 desktop.
Read the note"People call us when the deadline is impossible and the board is watching."
Four principles shape every engagement.
From our superagile manifesto, the way an AI-native firm actually ships.
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Restructure the work before applying AI to it.
AI compounds whatever process you point it at. Redesign first and it gets dramatically faster. Skip it and you just run the old bottlenecks at higher speed.
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A named human is accountable for every AI output.
Agents write a lot of what ships. A person signs off on all of it: in the work, in the docs, in the audit trail. It's the only honest way to run this.
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Cadence is the unit of trust.
Something usable ships every week. By Friday the customer can use what we built; Monday's improvement is already scoped.
The one skill has nothing to do with code.
It's reducing ambiguity faster than the next person. The bar has three parts, and the last one is what separates people.
Judgment under ambiguity
The thesis updates every three months. We hire people who make good calls on incomplete data and update as new evidence arrives.
Fluency with agents
Not autocomplete. Directing a model through a real piece of work end to end, prompts, evals, review loops, to a quality bar.
Written reasoning
Prose is the visible surface of how you think. The agents amplify whatever you hand them. Muddy writing, muddy work.
Think you clear the bar?
The work gets harder here.
If that's the work you want, not the story of it, we'd like to hear from you.