About Cordiant

We sit in the middle the market is missing.

Architecture depth. Engineering velocity. Platform acceleration.

Cordiant is a bespoke AI implementation firm operating two commercial motions on one proprietary three-layer platform. For the work that has to ship to production — in environments where a human has to be named for every action that touches a system of record.

Origin

Cordiant has been building Fortune 5000 software for two decades. The platform is the distillation of that work.

Across two decades of Fortune 5000 services work as Cordiant, we saw the same architectural failure at every engagement. The employee-facing layer was bound one-to-one to each system of record. Every vendor imposed its own surface. Every migration became a full-enterprise event. The interfaces multiplied; the work didn't.

The first version of what is now the Cordiant platform was built to solve that failure on a single engagement. The second version solved it on two. By the fifth, the platform was absorbing more than half of what used to be custom engineering per project. Cordiant pivoted from services firm to product company the day the platform — not the engagement — was what produced the outcome.

India-based delivery is not an afterthought or a cost play; it is our native operating model. The cost structure, the scale posture, the architectural discipline — all refined across two decades of Fortune 5000 work as Cordiant, and now compounded by a platform that compresses production time by sixty to seventy percent against a from-scratch custom build.

What we believe

Three beliefs. Everything else follows.

I

Applications, not agents.

The conversational surface can be AI. The transaction engine cannot. Agents reason, decide, and commit on their own; our applications render dialog and execute deterministic code. That split is why our work ships to production in environments governed by SOX, HIPAA, GDPR, PCI — and why agent-first pilots stall in the security review.

II

Deterministic execution.

Every sensitive action runs as application code under role-based access, policy enforcement, approval chains, and full audit trails. Free-text conversation never triggers spend, grants access, or commits a transaction. The cognitive layer is constrained to what the systems of record permit. AI cannot hallucinate a wire transfer — because the AI is not the thing executing it.

III

Platform over headcount.

Arbitrage is engineering discipline, not staffing. A senior, architecture-led team of two to three people on the Cordiant platform delivers what larger programs require fifteen-person teams and twelve to eighteen months to produce. We scale capability. Competitors scale people.

How we operate

The texture of the engagement.

Six operating commitments that hold across every Cordiant engagement, regardless of motion, vertical, or scale.

Senior teams. Always.

Two to three architecture-led engineers per engagement. No pyramid. No junior offshoring of the hard parts. The people who design the system are the people who ship it.

India engineering. Fully remote. Founder-led delivery.

Our engineering organisation — including leadership — is distributed across India. We are a fully remote company, headquartered in Bengaluru. The founder personally runs every engagement from first briefing to first system live. Architecture conversations, scope decisions, and executive briefings go through one name you know — not an account manager, not a delivery partner, not a layer between you and the person who signed the company's first customer.

Published pricing.

Milestone-billed. Fixed-scope. Transparent. Opaque pricing is the default in enterprise AI services; we publish because the comparison we want is on architecture and delivery, not on procurement leverage.

Source code delivered.

At the end of every engagement, source code, documentation, and full knowledge transfer are delivered under a perpetual internal-use license. Your team can run, extend, operate, and exit the platform at any point.

Inside your tenant.

Deployment runs inside your existing cloud infrastructure under your existing security posture. No new SaaS vendor in your data path. No data leaves your cloud. Identity federates through your SSO.

No lock-in by design.

Vendor lock-in inverts on the Cordiant platform: switching cost moves from your user base to your integration team — an order of magnitude smaller, and a cost you can plan around.

What we build

Two motions. One platform beneath.

Both motions run on the same proprietary three-layer architecture — theme tokens, component sprite, deterministic primitives. What changes is where it lands.

Motion one

Cordiant Hotel Commerce

A licensed conversational commerce application for hotel brands on Opera Cloud and Simphony. Two products on one platform — guest-facing and staff-facing. Live today. The first property in a brand reaches production in six to eight weeks; subsequent properties in two to four.

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Motion two

Cordiant Enterprise

Bespoke conversational applications for Fortune 5000 enterprises — Customer Commerce, Employee Interface, Domain Intelligence, and multi-surface AI Transformation Builds. Five months from kickoff to first system in production. $320,000 per engagement.

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Leadership

Two principals. Two decades of Fortune 5000 delivery together — as Cordiant.

Cordiant is led by its founders. The architecture decisions, the engagement decisions, and the line-by-line quality of what ships to production are owned by the same two people who signed the first customer.

Selected work. Two decades. As Cordiant.
The first SOX platform

Engineering partner for the world's first Sarbanes-Oxley compliance platform, built with Paisley Consulting and adopted by 153 Fortune 500 clients.

African core banking platform

Built a highly rated African core banking platform — 4-star CGAP rating — used by multiple institutions across the continent.

Dennis Paul
Co-Founder & CEO

Inventor of the two architectures that define Cordiant's product surface — conversational‑plus‑deterministic execution, and the single‑stream multi‑modal interface. Two patent applications filed. Owns product, commercial, and customer relationships, and personally leads every engagement from first briefing to first system live.

Dilip Radhakrishnan
Co-Founder & Head of Strategy

Company strategy, corporate structure, and the operating posture that lets a small firm sell to Fortune 5000 buyers. Runs multiple companies across the oil & gas and technology sectors, and brings that operator lens to every Cordiant engagement decision.

Next step

Two motions. One briefing.

A thirty- to forty-five-minute briefing with Cordiant leadership. We walk the architecture, show the live reference deployment, and propose a first-system scope against either motion — Hotel Commerce or Enterprise.

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