Software built by people who have run it in production.
IntelliQuest Software Labs designs, builds and maintains business-critical
systems — from custom platforms and cloud infrastructure to data pipelines and intelligent
automation.
"Anyone can ship a demo. We build the version that still works in
eighteen months, under real load, maintained by your team."
VB
Vinay BagadeFounder & CEO
What we build
Engineering practices, not a menu of buzzwords.
Six areas we go deep in. If a project sits outside them, we will tell you
plainly rather than learn on your budget.
Custom Software Development
Business-critical systems built to your workflow — architected to be extended by your own team, not to lock you in.
Product Engineering
End-to-end ownership from discovery through launch and iteration, with the delivery discipline of an in-house team.
Cloud & DevOps
AWS, Azure and GCP — infrastructure as code, containerised delivery, and CI/CD pipelines that make releases routine.
Data Engineering & Analytics
Pipelines, warehousing and governance on Databricks and Snowflake, so reporting reflects reality instead of last quarter.
QA & Test Automation
Selenium and Playwright suites wired into CI from day one — regressions caught by the pipeline, not by your customers.
Intelligent Automation
Agentic AI, UiPath and Automation Anywhere applied to the repetitive work quietly consuming your team's week.
How we work
Four stages, and you see working software in every one.
No six-month silence between kickoff and delivery. You review something
real at the end of each iteration.
Discovery
We map the actual problem, the constraints and the people affected before a line of code is written.
Architecture
A design your team can reason about, sized to what you need now with room for what comes next.
Build
Short iterations, working software you can see each sprint, and no surprises at the end.
Run
Observability, SLOs and handover documentation, so the system stays healthy after we step back.
Advisory & talent
Beyond delivery: judgement where it counts.
Not every problem is solved by writing more code. Sometimes what a business
needs is an experienced view on whether the plan is sound, the programme is recoverable, or
the team is right.
01 / Project Advisory
Strategic oversight that keeps delivery on time, on budget, on ROI
Whether a programme is just getting under way or has already drifted off track, we bring
independent, strategic oversight to hold it against the outcome it was funded to deliver
— on schedule, within budget, and aligned to the ROI case that justified the investment.
The approach is the same either way: establish what is genuinely true about current delivery,
re-baseline against that original business case, and hold execution to it through to completion.
02 / IT Startup Consulting
From MVP development to Series A readiness
We help founders build and validate a minimum viable product using lean methodologies
— shipping the smallest thing that proves the thesis, then scaling only what the
evidence supports.
As funding conversations approach, we prepare the technical side of the story: architecture
that scales, documentation that exists, and engineering metrics that hold up under diligence.
03 / Board Advisory
Executive-level technical perspective in the boardroom
Boards increasingly carry technology risk they have limited means to interrogate. We bring
an independent, executive-level view on cyber and delivery risk, digital transformation
programmes, and where innovation spend genuinely earns its return.
Our founder is an IICA-certified Independent Director, registered with the
Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs, with 25+ years in enterprise IT.
04 / Staffing & Placement
Elite technical talent, matched to high-growth roadmaps
We connect high-growth companies with pre-vetted, elite engineers selected against the work
you actually need done — not against keywords on a résumé — so every
candidate accelerates your roadmap from day one.
For early-career hiring, the same pipeline runs through
Ascend,
our talent programme.
How we engage
Embedded with your team, not billing from a distance.
We work in your rituals — your stand-ups, your board, your review cadence — so decisions
happen in hours rather than in the gaps between status reports.
2–3 wksTo first working increment
FortnightlyDemo cadence
Day oneCode in your repository
Our stack
The platforms we build on.
Chosen because they suit the problem — not because they were fashionable
the quarter the project started.
Python
Snowflake
Databricks
Grafana
Salesforce
UiPath
ERPNext
Automation Anywhere
Agentic AI
Our talent programme
Ascend
Building software well means having engineers who
can. Ascend is our programme for training graduates in the niche stacks the industry is
short on — then proving them on live projects before anyone makes an offer.
Whether you are a student looking for a route into serious engineering work,
or a company that needs people who can contribute from week one, it starts here.
Twenty-five years inside enterprise IT, on both sides of the table — building
systems, and inheriting the ones that were built badly. That experience shapes how
IntelliQuest works: clear architecture, honest estimates, and code your own team can own.
He founded IntelliQuest Software Labs in Pune to do engineering the way it
should be done, and to open a serious route into the profession through Ascend.
25+Years in enterprise IT
PuneHeadquarters
2026Founded
Contact
Tell us what you are building.
Send us the problem, the constraints and the deadline.
We will come back with a straight answer on whether we are the right team for it.
