Production AI, engineered and owned

Frontier intelligenceis not the hard part.Running it inproduction is.

Every engagement delivers the same goal: a production AI system running in your own stack, owned by your team. We build it, deploy it, and train the people who run it.

No deck. Straight to your problem.
You ownthe modelthe training datathe code

How we work

From a use case to a system you own.

No open-ended retainers. Every engagement is scoped to a working system and a clean handover, measured against your own cases the whole way.

01

Scope

We start from your use case, not a platform. One call defines what working means and how it will be measured.

02

Build against evals

We build to an eval suite drawn from your real cases, so progress is a number, not a demo.

03

Deploy to the data

Cloud, on-prem, or air-gapped. The model runs where your data already sits.

04

Hand over the keys

You keep the model, the training data, and the code. No lock-in, nothing to renew.

Who builds it

Software we have built already runs where downtime is measured in dollars per second.

Himalayan Labs was founded by Varun Singh. The database software he built, ScaleArc, ran in production at NASDAQ, Dell, and Microsoft. We build production AI the same way that demands: to survive contact with a live queue, not just a demo.

Deployed in production atNASDAQ · Dell · Microsoft

The eval engine

Nothing ships without an eval.

Every capability is graded against your real use cases before it goes live, so accuracy is a number you can see, not a claim you have to trust.

In test mode, the actions your team takes become new evals, so the system keeps being measured after launch, not just before it. That is the difference between a demo and something you can trust with a live queue.

TESTEVALRETRAIN

Measured, not asserted

Every deploy re-runs the eval suite against your real cases before it ships.

Agentic AI cost calculator

Know what it costs before you build it.

The fully-loaded cost of a production agent, a finished video, or an hour of transcription. Not the price of a token: the prompt and tools billed on every turn, the clips you render and discard, the voice on top. Priced across every model on the stack, so you can see where the money goes and choose accordingly.

  • Pick a use case, then any model on the stack for each step.
  • See which stage actually dominates the bill, not just the token price.
  • Watch the number swing as you change models, then choose accordingly.
Open the calculator

No sign-up. Rates verified against source.

For example
Voice support agent
Text-to-speech dominates, not the model.
~$0.02
per conversation
Short-form video, fully built
Mostly generation, including clips you discard.
~$45
per finished minute
Transcription
The cheap, high-volume workhorse.
~$0.30
per hour of audio

Figures depend on the models you pick. Run yours.

Deploy

Hardware that ships with the models already loaded.

Five inference-ready boxes, from a desktop to an eight-GPU rack. An open LLM, real-time voice, and retrieval, pre-loaded and benchmarked, so it runs the moment it arrives. You own it.

gpt-oss · real-time voice · RAG — pre-loaded, guaranteed, yours

Entry ~₹6.5–8.5 L to Rack ~₹4.3–5.8 Cr, incl. GST

See all five configs

The second meaning of AI

AI answers like a person. It also builds like a team.

That second meaning is the one most people miss. The same models that let an agent understand a customer let a pair of engineers build what used to need a department. We work both sides, and the proof is our own software: three products, live in production, each built by a pair, give or take.

MoviePipe.ai

A live AI video pipeline: screenplay in, cinematic shots out. Many generative models behind one interface, real payments, real users.

Serverless AWS · multi-model

ReduceWaste.ai

A material-nesting engine written in Rust, with a hand-written GPU kernel and trained placement models, shipped in 19 languages.

Rust · GPU kernel · ONNX

TestFlo.ai

One platform for end-to-end, load, API, and security testing, where teams usually stitch together five separate tools.

E2E · load · API · security

This is not a story about working harder. It is leverage, and it is teachable. It is the efficiency we get your team to →

The stack we build on

Vendor-neutral by design, from silicon to model.

We are not tied to one chip, one cloud, or one model. We choose the parts that fit your latency, budget, and data residency, and we know each one well enough to defend the choice.

Inference systems
Silicon we build and tune on
Inference providers
Clouds and inference APIs we serve on
Models
Open and frontier, matched to the task

Marks denote tools we build, deploy, and train on. They do not imply endorsement or partnership.

Ownership

01The model.02The training data.03The agentic code.

You own the model, the data, and the code, so there is no vendor to renew with and no dependency to lose.

Playbooks

Take the thinking with you.

The same material we walk clients through, as PDFs. Leave an email and it downloads.

PDF

The build brief

How we scope and build a production agent, end to end.

PDF

AI training programs

The three programs, the MDAP framework, and what your team walks away able to do.

PDF

Two-day executive brief

The condensed decision guide for leaders: build versus buy, privacy, and real cost.

Questions

What teams ask before the first call.

We already call the OpenAI and Anthropic APIs. Why do we need you?

The frontier model is the easy part. We build the system around it: the evals, the training-data pipeline, the deployment, and the ownership. You keep your choice of model. We make it survive production.

Can the model run where our data cannot leave?

Yes. We put inference hardware on-prem or fully air-gapped, sized to the workload. The model comes to the data, not the other way around.

What do we actually own at the end?

The model, the training data, and the code that runs them. There is no vendor to renew with and no dependency to lose.

How do you prove it works before real traffic?

Every capability is graded against an eval suite built from your real cases. Accuracy is a number you can see before anything ships.

How long does a first system take?

Weeks, not quarters. We scope to one use case and build against its evals, so there is a working, measured system early.

Who is behind this?

Himalayan Labs was founded by Varun Singh, whose software has run in production at NASDAQ, Dell, and Microsoft.

Book a call

Bring the use case. Leave with a plan.

Thirty minutes with an engineer who has shipped this before. Either of two of us can take it, so slots stay open.

01We scope the use case with you.
02We tell you what running it in production takes.
03You leave with a cost and a timeline.
Book a 30-minute callNo deck. Straight to your problem.
Or write to us with the use case →