ShipLabs Memorandum // Est. 2024
Mumbai, India

ShipLabs

Lean AI-Native Systems Engineering & Strategic Consultancy

AI-Native Agency

High-throughput AI engineering.
Zero PowerPoint.

We are a lean, developer-first AI consultancy. We deploy autonomous agent loops and orchestrate highly-optimized data pipelines for businesses navigating the Indian digital landscape.

⚡ High throughput code
💼 Operational AI Focus
🇮🇳 Optimized for Indian Scale
01 // The Thesis

Why We Are Lean and AI-Native

Traditional technology consulting is broken. Incumbent firms deploy heavy armies of junior analysts and project managers who build beautiful presentations and deliver zero working software. This model is collapsing under the weight of its own bloat.

ShipLabs operates differently. We are an AI-native, engineering-driven agency. We utilize highly advanced coding agents, automated unit testing, and model-guided generation loops to operate at a scale that once required dozens of developers.

Our lean architecture means we have no middle management, no unnecessary alignment meetings, and no corporate overhead. When you partner with ShipLabs, you work directly with veteran software engineers who build, ship, and support production-ready AI systems.

Operational Protocol

"Our metric of success is simple: lines of operational, high-performance code running in your cloud infrastructure within weeks. We build deep integrations into legacy databases, write deterministic validation wrappers around probabilistic LLM outputs, and make your business workflows autonomous."

We focus heavily on the Indian enterprise landscape. From understanding complex, dynamic regulatory guidelines from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to developing hyper-local, multilingual logistics and support systems, we construct solutions engineered for India's unique scale and structural diversity.

02 // Active Labs

Developer Utilities & Active Platforms

Our open sandbox of products built, tested, and actively maintained in-house.

PDF
Live Platform

PDFMaker

A high-throughput API designed for enterprise template rendering. Create highly reusable HTML/CSS templates and dynamically generate secure, pixel-perfect PDFs at scale. Ideal for invoices, compliance reports, and dynamic contract delivery.

APINodeAWS
Open Platform
OTA
In Development

React Native OTA Delivery

A binary-delta over-the-air (OTA) updates architecture. Seamlessly ship JavaScript, layout, and static asset updates directly to live React Native applications. We leverage advanced `bsdiff` delta sync protocols to minimize bandwidth and ensure 100% update delivery.

Delta-SyncReact NativeEdge
Early-Access Beta
03 // Strategic Essays

Deploying Practical Intelligence

Our written briefs on applying AI to high-impact sectors in India.

Accounting & Tax

GST Reconciliation & TDS Allocation at Scale

Focus Area: India B2B
System: Agentic RAG & OCR
Read time: 4 min

Chartered Accountancy firms and corporate finance departments in India spend thousands of manual hours reconciling GSTR-2B filing ledgers against internal purchase registers. Here is how we automated it.

Manual audit times reduced by 92%

Read Brief
Quick Service Operations

Multilingual Voice Orders & Local Mandi Supply Chain

Focus Area: Urban Hubs
System: Whisper / POS Integration
Read time: 5 min

High-volume cloud kitchens and QSR chains lose up to 15% of order potential during peak traffic hours due to busy lines. We built low-latency multilingual voice systems linked directly to real-time mandi procurement forecasts.

Zero missed phone calls

Read Brief
Fintech & Governance

Navigating RBI Master Circulars with Deterministic RAG

Focus Area: RBI / SEBI / MCA
System: Graph RAG & Guardrails
Read time: 5 min

India's fintech and corporate compliance environment changes overnight. We built deterministic Graph RAG architectures to monitor regulatory updates and automatically suggest redlines to existing corporate agreements.

Corporate policy audit turnaround reduced from 14 days to 4 minutes

Read Brief
👨‍💻
Akshat Sethi
Founder, Engineer & Maker
04 // The Founder

Veteran Engineering. No Layers.

ShipLabs was founded by Akshat Sethi to bypass the administrative overhead that slows down traditional engineering consultancies. Akshat is a systems architect, developer, and builder of utility-driven software platforms.

By establishing a lean, AI-native consulting structure, Akshat personally oversees every core architecture design and code deployment. This ensures that our systems maintain extreme performance, modern standards, and deterministic safety.

05 // Direct Access

Build Something Real.

We do not pitch or compile slide decks. Tell us about your complex database architectures, pipeline challenges, or operational friction points. We will respond with a functional design outline or prototype proposal.

Schedule a Briefing

Book a direct 30-minute technical session on our calendar to discuss your database architectures, pipeline requirements, or automation hurdles:

Direct developer access · Instant booking

Direct Email Consultation

Skip the scheduling cycle and drop us your specific engineering problem statements, pipeline schemas, or structural bottlenecks:

Response time typically under 12 hours.