Why we started
Vikesh was running TexAu when he kept seeing the same failure pattern: enterprises dumping ₹2-5 crore into 6-18 month AI pilots that never shipped. He'd built real products at Slack, Botpress, DoNotPay, Fireflies. He knew what production actually looked like. And he knew the problem wasn't models. It was everything else.
Santosh came from ZScaler and ThriveStack, where he'd built infrastructure for millions of events. That security-first, reliability-obsessed mindset. Nishan was a Principal AI Engineer, not a researcher. An actual builder. He'd taken systems from papers to revenue.
So they founded Automation Agents. Not consultants who bill by the hour. An agency obsessed with shipping production AI in weeks, not years. With evals built in from kickoff.
"Accuracy doesn't matter if you can't deploy it. And we won't deploy anything without evals tied to what actually costs you money."