What we doThree disciplines.
One foundation.
We operate across three areas — research, products, and studio. Each operates independently, sharing a common foundation of independent development and full ownership.
Research · Products · StudioResearch
Independent AI research and development.
We research how AI systems can be made dependable — grounded in evidence, measured honestly, and accountable for what they do. Our long-term aim is foundational AI, built in India; we work towards it by publishing results we can stand behind, one at a time.
Products
Products built on our own system.
Aksutra Harness and Aksutra Samvad are AI agents deployed for real organisations — on our own operations system and security layer, tested against real cases before release, and supported by the team that built them.
Studio
AI-powered creative production, through Zayne Forge.
Creature design, worldbuilding, and visual development for film, documentaries, and brands. Original lifeforms, extinct life, and the worlds they inhabit.
Approach
How we work.
Independent
We build our own systems. Where a third-party language model is the best tool, we use it — and everything around it, from the software it runs in to its security and evaluation, is ours.
Measured
We evaluate our work across multiple metrics, not a single proxy. We do not make capability claims we have not measured.
Honest
We say where we are. Our research is ongoing, our products are in use, and the studio is available for commission. We do not claim capabilities we have not measured.
Long-term
We build for the long term. We ship when the work is ready, not when the market demands a demo.
Where the work lives
Seven lines of work, one company.
- Aksutra Harness — custom AI agentsCustom AI agents built for one organisation on Aksutra's own system: grounded in the client's knowledge, connected to its tools, governed by its rules and tested on its real cases, running on third-party language models chosen for each task. For any domain.
- Aksutra Samvad — an AI office for every channelAn AI office for public representatives, government departments and organisations that serve people at scale, on WhatsApp, websites, Telegram, email, SMS and apps: requests in Indian languages, typed or spoken, become tracked cases, routed to the right department and followed to resolution, on Aksutra's own system and security layer, hosted by Aksutra or on the client's own infrastructure.
- AI researchIndependent AI research and development in India: how AI systems are grounded, evaluated and made dependable, generative systems and visual perception, with published work openly available on Zenodo. The long-term aim is foundational AI.
- Creature design and worldbuilding — Zayne ForgeOriginal lifeforms, extinct life and the worlds they inhabit, designed for film, documentaries, brands and games by Zayne Forge, the studio division of Aksutra Intelligence Labs.
- AI film production and brand content — Zayne ForgeCinematic AI film, documentary and brand content produced by Zayne Forge, with identity, light and physics held consistent from shot to shot.
- Archaeological reconstruction — Zayne ForgeAncient sites, objects, people and landscapes reconstructed from the archaeological record by Zayne Forge, for museums, documentaries, publishers and film, with what is evidenced kept distinct from what is inferred.
- Bespoke website commissionsWebsites created from a blank page for a single business, one commission at a time: no templates, no themes, a design language derived from the client's own work, and a fixed number of commissions each year.
- Questions about AksutraWhat each line of work is, who founded the company, where it is based and how to reach it — answered in full.
How far along each line is: our work, honestly. Finished commissions: live website proofs.