# Aksutra Intelligence Labs > Aksutra Intelligence Labs is an independent AI research and development lab in Jaipur, India, founded by Hardik Zayne in 2025. It researches how AI systems are grounded, evaluated and made dependable, builds AI agents and operations software on its own system, takes website commissions, and runs Zayne Forge, its creative studio. Its long-term aim is foundational AI. ## About Aksutra Intelligence Labs Aksutra Intelligence Labs is an independent, founder-led research and development lab. Its research concerns how AI systems answer from evidence rather than guessing, how they are evaluated honestly, and how visual realism is perceived. Published work is openly available on Zenodo and can be read in full on https://aksutralabs.com/research. The lab does not announce models, benchmarks or release dates before the work is finished, and it does not claim certifications it does not hold. Where it uses third-party language models, everything around them — the system they run in, its security and its evaluation — is Aksutra's own. ## Lines of work — in brief Aksutra Intelligence Labs does seven kinds of work. Each has its own page: - [Aksutra Harness — custom AI agents](https://aksutralabs.com/studio/commissions/harness): a custom AI agent built for one organisation on Aksutra's own system — grounded in the client's knowledge, connected to its tools, governed by its rules, tested on its real cases, and running on third-party language models chosen for each task. For any domain. - [Aksutra Samvad — an AI office for every channel](https://aksutralabs.com/products/aksutra-samvad): for public representatives, government departments and any organisation that serves people at scale. Requests on WhatsApp, websites, Telegram, email, SMS or apps, in Indian languages, typed or spoken, become tracked cases, routed to the right department and followed to resolution. Hosted by Aksutra or on the client's own infrastructure. - [AI research](https://aksutralabs.com/research): independent research and development — grounded language systems, generative systems, evaluation and safety, and visual perception — with papers published openly. - [Creature design and worldbuilding — Zayne Forge](https://aksutralabs.com/studio): original lifeforms, extinct life and the worlds they inhabit, for film, documentaries, brands and games. - [AI film production and brand content — Zayne Forge](https://aksutralabs.com/studio/works): cinematic film, documentary and brand content, with identity, light and physics held consistent from shot to shot. - [Archaeological reconstruction — Zayne Forge](https://aksutralabs.com/studio/reconstruction): ancient sites, objects, people and landscapes reconstructed from the archaeological record, with what is evidenced kept distinct from what is inferred. - [Bespoke website commissions](https://aksutralabs.com/studio/commissions): a small number of websites a year, one at a time, each designed from a blank page for a single business. Live examples: https://aksutralabs.com/studio/commissions/websites Questions about any of them are answered in full at https://aksutralabs.com/faq ## Products All products are listed at https://aksutralabs.com/products. They share one foundation built in-house: an operations system (cases, routing, approvals, schedules, records) and a security layer (role-based access, encrypted sensitive fields, consent records, a full audit trail). Agents run on any channel — WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, websites, email, SMS, apps and devices — and can be hosted by Aksutra, in the client's cloud, or on the client's own servers. ## Systems Zayne Forge runs on one internal system, Forge OS: the operating layer for its visual production, introduced on June 5, 2026 as the successor to Forge O. It governs realism, perceptual fidelity, detailing and consistency, and adds adaptive effort control, dynamic workflows and a faster high-detail mode. Page: https://aksutralabs.com/studio/systems/forge-os In an internal comparative review across more than 1,000 controlled generations, Forge OS scored above Forge O and a typical AI workflow on every measure tested (for example, perceptual realism 78% against 66% and 57%). These are directional internal evaluations, not third-party standardised benchmarks. The studio does not sell, license or disclose Forge OS: it ships outputs, never engines. https://aksutralabs.com/studio/the-vault ## Founder — Hardik Zayne - Full name: Hardik Zayne. Also published as Hardik Kumawat. - Born: 1 December 2004, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. - Roles: Founder, Aksutra Intelligence Labs. Founder & Director, Zayne Forge. Visual Director and Visual System Architect. - Creative Partner and Signature Partner with AI platforms including Dreamina (ByteDance). - ORCID: 0009-0008-0585-0254 — https://orcid.org/0009-0008-0585-0254 - Profile: https://aksutralabs.com/founder ## Published papers Each can be read on https://aksutralabs.com/research, page by page. - Zayne's Theory of Cinematic Reality (January 2026) — DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18444345 — https://zenodo.org/records/18444345 - The Principle of Visual Reality (2026, CC BY 4.0) — https://zenodo.org/records/18500168 - On Structural Depth: A Measure of Authenticity in Physical and Created Systems (February 2026) — https://zenodo.org/records/18670427 - Noise Wheel: A Visual Framework for Understanding Perceptual Noise in Images and Cinema — https://zenodo.org/records/18480503 ## How a Zayne Forge project runs Seven stages, in order: inquiry and fit call; signed agreement; discovery, measured in days of research; planning inside Forge OS; staged production with review gates; verification against internal standards; delivery with usage rights and a verification report. Full detail: https://aksutralabs.com/studio/process ## Key Pages - [Home](https://aksutralabs.com/) - [Products — Aksutra Harness, Aksutra Samvad and website commissions](https://aksutralabs.com/products) - [Aksutra Harness — custom AI agents](https://aksutralabs.com/studio/commissions/harness) - [Aksutra Samvad — an AI office for every channel](https://aksutralabs.com/products/aksutra-samvad) - [Commissions — websites](https://aksutralabs.com/studio/commissions) - [Research — with the published papers](https://aksutralabs.com/research) - [News — announcements and articles](https://aksutralabs.com/news) - [About](https://aksutralabs.com/about) - [Founder — Hardik Zayne](https://aksutralabs.com/founder) - [Questions about Aksutra](https://aksutralabs.com/faq) - [Zayne Forge](https://aksutralabs.com/studio) - [Forge OS](https://aksutralabs.com/studio/systems/forge-os) - [Process](https://aksutralabs.com/studio/process) - [Case studies](https://aksutralabs.com/studio/case-studies) - [Outputs, never engines](https://aksutralabs.com/studio/the-vault) - [Studio FAQ](https://aksutralabs.com/studio/faq) - [Archaeological reconstruction](https://aksutralabs.com/studio/reconstruction) - [Papers and resources](https://aksutralabs.com/resources) - [Reviews](https://aksutralabs.com/reviews) ## Contact - Office: 3rd Floor, C-3, Shanti Nagar Rd, Shanthi Nagar B, Gurjar Ki Thadi, Jaipur, Rajasthan 302019, India - Email: aksutra.labs@gmail.com - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/aksutralabs/ - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aksutra.labs - Zayne Forge Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zayne_forge - Hardik Zayne LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hardik-zayne-a740273a3/ ## Areas Served Jaipur, Rajasthan and the rest of India; the United Arab Emirates, Singapore, the United States, the United Kingdom, and clients worldwide.