Why Kognate
We're not a legacy consulting firm that assigns you a team of consultants for every project.
Kognate is led by industry leaders with 20+ years building enterprise platforms and AI products. When you hire us, you get people who've done it — not people who read about it.
Kognate is led by industry veterans with 20+ years building enterprise software and AI products. We operate with urgency and run lean with accountability built into our culture.
As a founder, we shipped three products: an e-commerce seller platform, a usage-based billing platform, and a consumer AI product with persistent memory.
The difference: most consultants have either enterprise experience or startup building experience. We have both. We know what it takes to ship fast AND what it takes to survive enterprise security review. We write architecture docs, PRDs, code, and prompts — not just slide decks.
How we work
No six-month discovery. No hundred-page strategy doc.
We diagnose fast, build fast, and iterate in production.
Diagnose the Real Blockers
Two-week diagnostic. We audit your current AI efforts, data architecture, and legacy systems. We identify what's actually blocking production — it's usually not what you think. You get a concrete plan with architecture, cost projections, and a prioritized build sequence.
Build and Ship — With Your Team
We embed with your engineering team and build the system together. Architecture, code, prompts, data pipelines, security review preparation — hands on keyboard, not hands on slides. Every week ends with something working that wasn't working before.
Hand Off a System, Not a Dependency
We're not trying to become your permanent vendor. The goal is to build the system, transfer the knowledge, and leave your team capable of running and evolving it without us. We document everything, train your people, and step back when the system is stable.
Where we are
San Francisco
Global headquarters on the West Coast.
Hyderabad, India
Engineering and delivery center.