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.

Superhuman quality, human accountability

Agents give the work superhuman throughput; senior humans hold the quality bar. A named person signs off on everything that ships.

The model

Sidu Ponnappa

CEO & Co-founder, realfast

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

We started realfast after ChatGPT, not before it, so there was never a services org to bolt AI onto. Every role, every process, every metric was designed assuming agents do the building. That's the factory: AI-native from the first commit.

The humans sit with the customer, shape the strategy, and cut it into an execution plan. The agents take it from there, with the humans managing them the way you'd run a team of very fast, very literal engineers: brief, review, correct, repeat.

We want our customers pulling off moves their competitors call impossible, again and again and again.

Read Sidu's thesis >

"People call us when the deadline is impossible and the board is watching."

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 >

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. 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.

The leverage is unforgiving, so we don't rush it.

What we look for

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? Apply through your agent >

How we work

Four principles shape every engagement.

From our superagile manifesto, the way an AI-native firm actually ships.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Come build the software factory.

Apply through your agent

The team

One team for strategy and build.

Our people don't hand off between thinking and shipping. The person who scopes the problem with you is the person who builds the system that solves it: strategist and engineer in the same seat, agents on the muscle.

49 people

Sidu Ponnappa

CEO, Co-founder

Aakash Dharmadhikari

CPTO, Co-founder

Steven Sule

CFO, Co-founder

Rishi Ayyer

VP, AI Consulting

Vinay Mimani

Head of GTM

Nikhil Mannikar

GTM Lead & AI Strategy Consultant

Saurav Shah

AI Strategy Consultant

Ankit Pandey

Transformation Consultant

Manas Vaze

UX Design Lead

Rajnish Dashora

VP Engineering

Prashant Mittal

Principal Engineer

Jewel James

VP, AI & ML

Paulomi Gudka

Managing Director, USA

Akhil Chandran

Senior Salesforce Developer

Megha BC

Salesforce Quality Analyst

Divya Gurunathan

Salesforce Business Analyst

Srini Satyan

Head of Program Management

Jeetal Shah

Program Manager, Founder's Office

Allison Wright

Head, Customer Success

Sumanth Raj Urs

Director & Program Manager, Marketing & Recruitment

Aniket Hendre