Sachin
Dev Duggal and his college mate Saurav Dhoot. Duggal, a serial
entrepreneur, holds an engineering degree from Imperial College, London,
and a master’s degree in entrepreneurship from MIT. The duo set up
their first company Nivio in 2004. They cashed out in 2012 and started
SD Squared that finally evolved into Engineer.ai.
The Idea
“A
decade ago, ‘tech’ was just a tag, but now, it is a must-have,” says
Duggal. “However, for millions of SMBs in India and elsewhere, buying
expensive software or hiring in-house IT teams is not a viable option.
So, we have built tech solutions to turn ideas into products at double
the speed and tailored pricing.”
How It Works
Customers
can specify their concepts with the help of a drag-and-drop features
menu on a human-assisted and AI-powered cloud platform called Builder.
Here applications are developed in an assembly line manner to ensure
speed, scale and cost efficiency. Simply put, each project is broken
down into building blocks, and up to 60 per cent of the work is done by
AI tools and automated processes.
As
most of the applications have standard features and repeat codes, these
are automatically assembled in projects as per requirements and
customers only pay for unique coding. The ‘custom’ part of the work is
allocated to domain experts from a network of 50 software firms and
10,000 developers. Support and maintenance are provided for a monthly
fee.
The
start-up is also into cloud arbitrage and offers CloudOps, an AI-based
cloud management platform for businesses to ensure smart usage and cost
benefits. Plus, there is a prepaid card for buying cloud storage
capacity.
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