Prateek Porwal
Operations, talent, sales and business development. Usually the first person you talk to, and the one who scopes the engagement.
vibencode
About
We stay until it runs without us.
A deep-tech AI consulting and engineering practice, run by three founders and a small team. We take the work where being wrong is expensive: money moving, data that cannot leave the country, a decision somebody will be asked to justify.
The founders
On the work, not over it
Samyak Jain
Product and delivery. Has spent his career turning ideas into things that actually ship, which is a narrower skill than it sounds.
Samarth Paliwal
Technology and engineering direction. Has been writing code since adolescence and still writes it every day.
How we got here
The short version
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June 2021
First international order
Before there was a company there was a client, which is the right order for these things.
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May 2022
First commercial delivery
Shipped, in production, being used by people who were not us, which is the only definition of delivered we accept.
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February 2023
Enough people, and then no more
Enough of a team to run more than one engagement properly at a time, which is a different thing from running more than one at a time. We stopped there deliberately.
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2024–2025
The practice turns
Full-stack and SaaS delivery was what we were good at. We kept the discipline and changed what sat inside it: retrieval, evaluation, agents in the loop, and the operational work that keeps any of it running.
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Now
The same gap, somewhere new
Generation got cheap, and suddenly there is more code than anyone understands. That is the problem this practice was already built around — luck in the timing, not in the building.
How we work
Six things we actually hold to
- Say the uncomfortable thing earlyIf the use case is wrong, or the data is not there, you should hear it in week one rather than week nine.
- Measure before buildingThe evaluation gets written before the interface. A capability nobody can assess is a liability.
- Recommend against ourselvesSome problems do not need AI. Saying so costs us one project and earns the next three.
- Design for the handoverWe work so that leaving is uneventful. Documentation, tests and a team that has been doing it alongside us.
- Keep the human where it mattersApproval sits where money, data or reputation changes hands. Autonomy is earned, not assumed.
- Ship, then widenBehind a flag, on real traffic, one team first. Big-bang launches are how you find out what you got wrong all at once.
Lean on purpose
Why the team is the size it is
A small team is not a stage we are trying to grow out of.
Most of what goes wrong on one of these projects goes wrong in the gap between the person who understood the problem and the person who writes the code. Every layer you add widens it. The widest version is an agency with a sales team at one end and a delivery pod at the other, joined by a document.
So the person who scopes your engagement is on it. The founders are on it. Nobody is briefed through a specification, because there are few enough people involved that a specification is not the only way the understanding can travel.
It also means we can only sell what somebody here actually wants to work on. There is no bench to keep busy. In a field that moves at this speed that is not a constraint, it is the mechanism: the depth is a by-product of people following what they find genuinely interesting, and it does not survive being assigned.
The cost is that we cannot take everything that comes in. That is the trade, and we would make it again. What time is left goes to our own products and to the people coming up behind us.
The hard part was never the model. It is everything the model touches.
Where we are
And how that works
Based in Indore, Madhya Pradesh.
Vibencode Pvt. Ltd., registered at Sagar, Madhya Pradesh. The team is spread across India and works remotely, from wherever the engagement needs it.
Remote by default, on site when it earns its cost.
Discovery and handover are the two phases where being in the room genuinely changes the outcome. The rest rarely needs a flight.
You will always know where it is.
A shared channel and a written update every week. Most of what people dislike about consultants is not the work, it is not knowing.
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