14 PhDs
Recruited from top universities and federal labs. Research depth is what makes an accuracy claim defensible rather than aspirational.
THE TEAM
Depth over headcount, and the same faces from workshop to production.
The people who run the first workshop are the people who are still there at go-live. That continuity is the reason a six-year client relationship still feels like the first month, and it is the single thing customers mention most often.
RESEARCH BENCH
MODEL PARTNERSHIP
25+ certified architects
Claude Certified Architects, deployed into client teams rather than held centrally.
FOUNDED
2021
Five years of building agentic systems for enterprises, through three generations of frontier models.
PIPELINE
IIT · Berkeley · Michigan
Roughly two thirds of the India team came through the top four IITs, with interns from Michigan, Berkeley, Georgia Tech and Emory.
FOUNDERS
RESEARCH
Where it started
Flexday was founded in 2021 on a simple bet: that the hard part of enterprise AI would turn out to be domain depth rather than model access, and that the companies who invested early in understanding how work is actually done would still be standing when the novelty passed.
Sujit Goswami
Founder & CEO
FOUNDERHima Chebrolu, PhD
Founder & COO
FOUNDERThe bench
Accuracy is a research problem before it is an engineering one. This is the group that owns evaluation design, segmentation work, retrieval quality and the honest answer about what a model can and cannot be trusted to do yet.
Mukut Kalita, PhD
Lead, AI Research
RESEARCHJundong Liu, Dr
AI Researcher
RESEARCHKiran Chaitanya
AI Researcher
RESEARCHPriti Gupta, PhD
Data Scientist
RESEARCHNirmal Kartha
Principal Data Scientist
RESEARCHENGINEERING
The build
Platform, connectors, pipelines and the solutions themselves. This group is why a workshop prototype and a production system are the same artifact rather than two projects.
Jnyan Ankur Kakati
Technology Leader
ENGINEERINGNandan Choudhary
Software Engineering Lead
ENGINEERINGMedha Dandamudi
Data Science Engineer
ENGINEERINGDELIVERY, GROWTH AND PEOPLE
Alongside the customer
Program delivery, customer success, support, marketing and hiring. The forward-deployed model only works if the people around it hold the rhythm steady.
Kevin Leman
Customer Success Leader
DELIVERYDonald Hall
Program Delivery Specialist
DELIVERYIsabelle Leonard
Marketing Specialist
GROWTHPriyanka Dash
Human Resources Specialist
PEOPLELucas Morales
Customer Support Specialist
DELIVERYThis is the core team. The wider group spans the United States and India, with research collaborations beyond both.See open roles →
HOW THE TEAM IS BUILT
Three principles that have not moved since 2021
Hire for depth, staff for continuity
The person who walks your process in week one is still on the program at go-live. Handover between a discovery team and a delivery team is where most of the understanding quietly disappears, so there isn't one.
Research sits next to delivery
PhDs are not kept in a lab producing papers. They are in the workshops, writing the golden sets with your SMEs and arguing about what a good answer looks like in your domain.
Small teams, then grow into scope
Two people to start, always. Team size is set at day 60 from what the work turns out to need, which is a more honest number than anything a proposal could have guessed.
THE TEAMFLEXDAY.AI
- FOUNDED
- 2021
- RESEARCH
- 14 PhDs across AI, imaging, retrieval and optimization
- CERTIFICATION
- 25+ Claude Certified Architects, deployed into client teams
- FOOTPRINT
- United States and India, with research collaborations beyond both
- SOURCING
- Top universities and federal labs; roughly two thirds of the India team from the top four IITs
- INTERNSHIPS
- Michigan, Berkeley, Georgia Tech and Emory
- STAFFING MODEL
- Two people forward deployed at the start; team size fixed at day 60 from actual scope
- CONTINUITY
- The workshop team is the delivery team
- TRUST
- Current certifications and live status at trust.flexday.ai
- NOTE
- Photographs and titles are published on flexday.ai. Roles shown are the core team; the wider group is larger.
The people you meet are the people who build it.
No handover between a discovery team and a delivery team. Come and meet them.