About

An applied AI lab, not an agency.

Transfrm Labs is an applied AI research and consulting practice led by Rachitt Shah. We design the architecture, evaluations, and infrastructure that keep AI systems alive after the demo — then hand the team the keys.

What we do

Most AI systems work in a notebook and break under real traffic. Retrieval quality degrades as the corpus grows, evaluation is a spreadsheet of vibes, cost curves surprise finance in month three, and nobody can say whether last week's prompt change made the product better or worse. That gap — between a working demo and a system a business can depend on — is the whole of our work.

We have been shipping production LLM systems since GPT-3, before "AI engineer" was a job title, and have trained more than 300 engineers in the process. Engagements fall into three shapes: production architecture for RAG, agents, and eval loops that hold under load; technical due diligence for funds and acquirers who need to know what is actually under the hood before they wire money; and fractional AI leadership for teams that need senior technical direction without a $500K hire.

We work engineer-to-engineer. No decks that outlive the code, no discovery theatre, no framework of the month. You get architecture decisions with the tradeoffs written down, evaluation harnesses your team can run without us, and the capability to keep going after the engagement ends. If a project is not a fit, we say so on the first call rather than sell into it.

The details

Legal name
Transfrm Labs
Principal
Rachitt Shah, Applied AI Consultant
Founded
2023
Base
Bangalore, India · San Francisco, USA
Contact
rachitt@transfrm.in
Engagements
Worldwide, remote-first

The bench

When an engagement needs more firepower, we bring in collaborators — not contractors. Each could run their own shop.

Rajaswa Patil
Applied AI · ex-Postman, Microsoft Research
Anshul Bhide
AI Strategy · ex-Replit, VC · MIT Sloan
Ayush Chaurasia
ML/CV · co-founded Ultralytics (YOLOv8)
Kumar Shivendu
ML Platforms · Qdrant, search, devtools
Vipul Maheshwari
Applied ML · LanceDB, Superlinked
Rohan Balkondekar
GenAI Lead, Air Arabia · F500 + YC

Working together

Ship with evidence.

We take on a limited number of engagements. If it is not a fit, we will tell you. If it is, we move fast.

rachitt@transfrm.inResponse within 48 hours

Transfrm Labs
by Rachitt Shah

Applied AI systems, production-grade. Building with teams at Accel, Sequoia, and friends. Bangalore · San Francisco.

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