About Brihat Infotech
Built for the problems software templates cannot solve.
Organisations bring us the problems that do not fit off-the-shelf software. We bring the discipline to understand them and the engineering to solve them.
The story
From building software to engineering answers.
Brihat Infotech began as a development services firm — websites, apps, the full catalogue. Delivering a hundred of them taught us something the industry rarely admits: most software projects do not fail in the code. They fail in the two months before the code, when nobody asked the right questions.
So we rebuilt the company around the questions. Engagements now start with requirement engineering and process discovery, and end with platforms enterprises actually run on — AI systems, custom ERP and CRM cores, and licensed products like Brihat EHS and Brihat Books that we stand behind ourselves.
The work that proves it is IRFC Invest: the application where Section 54EC bondholders view and track their holdings, engineered by our team for one of India's most trusted financial institutions and operated by them ever since.
- 100+
- Enterprise deliveries
- 6
- Own products live in production
- 10
- Industries served
- 99.95%
- Uptime across managed platforms
“Almost none of the projects that went wrong went wrong in the code.”
I started Brihat building whatever was asked for. Websites, apps, integrations — the full catalogue, and a hundred of them delivered. What that taught me is not a thing the industry says out loud: almost none of the projects that went wrong went wrong in the code. They went wrong in the eight weeks before the code, when nobody asked what the business actually did.
So we stopped taking briefs at face value. Every engagement now starts with someone from our side on your floor, watching the work happen, before a single module is proposed. It costs us four weeks we could have billed as development. It is the reason the platforms we build are still running years later, and the reason I will tell you in a first meeting if a packaged product would serve you better than anything we could build.
The other thing I decided early: you own it. The source from the first commit, the documentation, the decisions and the reasoning behind them. If you want to take it in-house or hand it to another firm, that should be a Tuesday, not a negotiation. A supplier who makes leaving difficult has stopped competing on the work.
If you are weighing a platform decision that your organisation will live with for a decade, I am worth forty-five minutes of your time — even if the answer at the end of it is that you should not build anything at all.
Animesh Pathak
Founder, Brihat Infotech
How we think
Four principles we do not negotiate.
01
Understand before building
Every engagement opens with a paid discovery phase: process maps, a written problem definition, and a sizing. The build is proposed after that document exists, not before.
02
Engineer for year ten
Architecture is a promise about the future. We make conservative bets on foundations and aggressive ones on your growth.
03
Own the outcome
One team from discovery through to production operations. When something breaks at 2 a.m. it is our phone that rings first.
04
Recommend the cheaper answer when it exists
Discovery ends in a written recommendation. Where a packaged product covers the need, that is what the document says, and it is yours to act on either way.
Scope
What we build.
Five kinds of work. Each one is something we operate afterwards, which is the constraint that decides what goes on this list.
- Platforms an organisation runs on — ERP and CRM cores, investor systems, operator consoles.
- AI that reaches production with an audit trail, not a pilot that impresses a board.
- The integration layer between what you are building and what you already run.
- Operating what we build, under SLA, with the architects who designed it.
- Licensed products we maintain ourselves, so we live with our own decisions.
Small enough to reach, structured enough to carry it.
The quiet question behind a large engagement is whether a firm this size can actually deliver it. Here is the shape of the answer.
Six practices
AI, platform engineering, data and cloud, digital experiences, advisory, and dedicated teams. Each staffed by engineers who ship and then operate.
One delivery method
Five phases, the same on every engagement regardless of practice. A client moving between practices does not learn a new process.
Architects who stay
The architect named at kickoff is on the engagement through to operations. Rotation happens with your sign-off or not at all.
No sales engineers
The people in your first meeting are the people who would do the work. Nobody hands you over after signature.
No reseller agreements
We hold no vendor certifications and take no implementation commissions, so there is no product we are paid to recommend. Every line we ship is ours to maintain.
Your source, from commit one
Code in your repository, infrastructure in cloud accounts billed to you, documentation signed off as a phase deliverable. Nothing is held as leverage at renewal.
Who signs off on your platform.
Named at kickoff and reachable throughout. Not a relationship manager standing between you and the engineering.
We are hiring engineersAnimesh Pathak
Founder
Leads Brihat's problem-first practice: map how the organisation actually works before proposing anything, then stay on the engagement long enough to be accountable for whether it gets used.
- ISO/IEC 27001 — Information security management
- ISO 9001 — Quality management
- Ranchi, Jharkhand — Headquarters and engineering
- Noida, Delhi NCR — Delivery and client engagement
Next step
Bring us the problem. We will bring the architecture.
A discovery call takes forty-five minutes. You leave with our read on the problem, the shape of the system we would propose, and a straight answer on whether we are the right team for it.
- No sales deck
- An engineer on the call, not an account manager
- NDA before you share anything