AI engineering studio

AI software, built by the team that ships its own.

Essentient is the engineering studio behind Ayvik's product platform — Vartalap, Vani and Vishleṣhaṇ. We build that same class of system for clients: production AI that runs against real operations, not a demo that impresses in a meeting.

What we've built, in a PDF you can forward. No form.

Operating since

2022

Incorporated with the MCA, registered with the Registrar of Companies and licensed to export software services.

Products and client systems in production

10+

Four products of our own — Vartalap, Vani, Vanijya and Vishleṣhaṇ — plus Datalens on the Chrome Web Store, and client platforms from ExportHUB to TheDreamz Overseas.

Enterprise architecture experience

20+ yrs

We bring decades of experience building end-to-end systems, from architecture through to what runs in production.

What we do

Four things, done properly.

We'd rather be the right answer for a narrow problem than a plausible answer for every problem.

01

Generative AI

Retrieval, summarisation and drafting built into the systems your team already uses — grounded in your data, not a general model's guess.

02

Agentic systems

Multi-step workflows that take real actions, with the audit trail to prove what happened and the guardrails to decide what shouldn't.

03

Computer vision & ML

Models trained on your data and deployed where the decision actually gets made, rather than in a notebook nobody opens twice.

04

AI strategy

An honest read on what AI will and won't do for your operation, before you spend on it. Sometimes the answer is a script and a database.

Selected work

Systems that went into production.

Businesses with an operation complex enough that software has to understand it — export-import, healthcare, education, manufacturing, and the teams inside them who already know which process is costing them.

Overseas education consulting

TheDreamz Overseas

End-to-end SaaS platform running the whole business — student portal, admin dashboard, CRM, a multi-stage application workflow engine and university matching — replacing fragmented manual processes from first enquiry to placement.

  • SaaS platform
  • Workflow engine
  • CRM

Pujan Enterprise

ExportHUB

A purpose-built ERP for export businesses — sales, purchase, inventory and GST-ready invoicing — deliberately simplified. Adopted in under two weeks with no training overhead.

  • Enterprise ERP
  • Export-import
  • Full-stack

Dental clinic, US healthcare

AI appointment agent

An AI receptionist handling 200+ appointment calls a day with zero missed calls — natural-language booking and rescheduling, CRM sync, and 24/7 cover. 70% cheaper than the human receptionist team it replaced.

  • Voice AI
  • Healthcare
  • Automation

Construction & real estate

BIM fire safety assessment

Automated fire-safety analysis of building information models, turning a manual compliance review into a repeatable check.

  • Computer vision
  • Compliance
  • AI

Education

MBA admissions voice agent

An AI voice agent that runs admissions counselling calls at campaign scale, handling the first conversation so counsellors take the qualified ones.

  • Voice AI
  • NLP
  • Campaigns

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Message from our Founder

Janhwi — Founder & CEO

At Essentient, we believe technology should empower people — not overwhelm them. Janhwi, our Founder & CEO, shares the vision, values and commitment that drive everything we build.

From our roots in Navi Mumbai to serving clients globally, we remain dedicated to delivering intelligent, purposeful software that makes a real difference for the businesses we work with.

Janhwi — Founder & CEO

Writing

Notes from the build.

What we learn shipping AI into businesses that already have a way of doing things.

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Software Development Insights

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Questions

The things people ask before they ask.

What does a project cost?
Most work lands between ₹50,000 and ₹5,00,000 depending on scope. A focused MVP is at the lower end, a production SaaS platform with AI throughout it at the upper. You get a fixed price before anything is built, not an hourly estimate that moves.
How long does it take?
Small projects run 2–4 weeks, an MVP 4–8 weeks, a medium platform 2–3 months, and a large enterprise system 3–6 months. Those are the ranges we quote against, not aspirations.
Can you add AI to software we already have?
Yes, and it is often the better first move. Retrofitting retrieval or an agent into a system your team already uses beats rebuilding it, because adoption is already solved.
Do you work with startups, or only established businesses?
Both. The question we care about is whether the problem is real and specific, not the size of the company attached to it.

Let's talk about what you're building.

Tell us the problem. We'll tell you honestly whether we're the right people to solve it.