# Zeroic Senior-only software and AI development studio for founders and SMBs. ~8 senior engineers - no juniors, no project managers, no account managers; clients work directly with the engineers building their product. Founded in December 2022 by Prashant Abbi and Khushi Arora, who have been shipping production software for 6+ years. Based in India, working with clients mostly in the US, UK, EU and Australia. ## What we build - **AI products** - LLM products, retrieval, agents, RAG pipelines, MCP servers. Built with OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, embeddings, vector databases. - **Custom software** - SaaS, internal tools, admin platforms. Next.js, React, Node, TypeScript, Python, PostgreSQL, Supabase. - **System architecture** - Data models, API contracts, event pipelines, auth, security. Advisory or hands-on. ## Services and pricing - **Audits** - from $1,000, 1-2 weeks. AI, Security, or Performance audit. Delivered as a ranked report, not a slide deck. https://zeroic.in/services/ai-audit - **MVP Sprint** - from $12,000, 5-6 weeks. Zero to production. Auth, payments, AI, deploy. Fixed scope, fixed price. https://zeroic.in/services/mvp-development - **Retainer** - from $4,000/mo. Senior engineer embedded on your team. Three tiers: part-time, dedicated or embedded. https://zeroic.in/services/senior-developers - **Code Rescue** - from $6,000, 2-4 weeks. Rebuild vibe-coded MVPs (Lovable, Bolt, Cursor) to production-grade. https://zeroic.in/services/code-rescue ## Named clients and outcomes - **FormulaBot (now Better Analyst)** - 1.5M+ users. Two senior engineers from Zeroic embedded since 2023. Zeroic built the LLM pipeline, dashboards, data flows and 40+ data connectors. - **Performalise** - Enterprise engineering intelligence. LOTTE AI Coach + Value Intelligence + Kaizen engine. 5+ enterprises, 2.5+ year Zeroic retainer. - **Great Kapital** - ₹4,000+ crore (₹40B+) in off-balance-sheet trade finance facilitated for Indian corporates. 1,000+ suppliers, 9.7/10 vendor NPS. Bank partners: Axis, HDFC, HSBC, Citibank, J.P. Morgan. - **Artswrk** - Two-sided marketplace connecting brands with creative talent. Built from zero in 8 weeks, scaled to 10k+ creators, acquired. - **RoomHawk** - AI hotel price tracker, 2M+ rooms monitored. - **QuizBot** - AI quiz-generation platform, acquired. - **GoodShifter** - Browser plugin for sustainability scoring on grocery receipts. Bilingual EN/FR, EU-first. - **ComplyAssist** - Compliance management SaaS with AI predictive analytics. - **Finance Girlie** - Islamic personal finance platform (Plaid integration + custom transaction categorization). 400+ women served. - **Glibzter** - Two-sided coaching platform (assessments, video lessons, 1:1 booking, Stripe payments) on Bubble. - 30+ more products shipped across B2B SaaS, AI tools, marketplaces, and consumer apps. ## How engagements work - Free 30-minute intro call with a senior engineer. - Fixed scope and fixed price for Audits, MVP Sprints and Code Rescue; Retainers are monthly. - Clients own 100% of the code, infrastructure, docs and credentials. No lock-in. - 6 weeks of post-launch bug support on every MVP Sprint. - Replies to every inquiry within 24 hours. ## Good fit when - A founder needs an MVP in production in 5-6 weeks. - A Lovable, Bolt, Cursor or Bubble app is breaking under real users. - A team in production needs senior engineering capacity without a full-time hire. - A business wants to know whether AI is worth building before spending on it. ## Stack we work with - **AI/LLMs** - OpenAI GPT and reasoning models, Anthropic Claude, Llama, Mistral, RAG, embeddings, Pinecone, Weaviate, pgvector, LangChain, LlamaIndex, MCP, agents, evals - **Frontend** - Next.js, React, Vue, Svelte, Astro, Remix, TypeScript, Tailwind, shadcn/ui - **Backend** - Node, Python, Go, Ruby, FastAPI, Django, Rails, tRPC, GraphQL, REST - **Data** - PostgreSQL, Supabase, Firebase, MongoDB, Redis, ClickHouse, BigQuery, Snowflake, Prisma - **Infra** - Vercel, AWS (Lambda, RDS, S3, ECS), Cloudflare Workers, Fly.io, Railway, Docker, Kubernetes - **Integrations** - Stripe, HubSpot, Salesforce, Slack, Zapier, Twilio, SendGrid - **No-code / rescue** - Bubble, Webflow, Retool; rebuilding MVPs from Lovable, Bolt, Cursor ## Founders - **Prashant Abbi** - Co-founder. Ex-JP Morgan. https://www.linkedin.com/in/prashantabbi/ - **Khushi Arora** - Co-founder. Ex-HPE. https://www.linkedin.com/in/khushi-arora-/ ## Proof and reviews - Contra: https://contra.com/ZeroicAgency/reviews (5.0 stars, 7 reviews) - Clutch: https://clutch.co/profile/zeroic (5.0 stars, 18 reviews) - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/zeroic/ - "They're still on retainer. Says most of what I need to say." - Josef Bacher, Founder, Performalise ## Blog - **GPT vs Claude vs Llama in production: choose by task type** - GPT vs Claude vs Llama for production: pick a model per task, not per leaderboard. Which tier wins extraction, formatting, agents, and when open weights pay. https://zeroic.in/blog/gpt-vs-claude-vs-llama-production - **Fixed-price MVP development: the scope discipline that makes it work** - Fixed-price MVP development works when scope is a boundary, not a feature list. The scope rules that let a 5-6 week fixed sprint ship without creep. https://zeroic.in/blog/fixed-price-mvp-development - **AI voice agent architecture: the four parts that decide if it ships** - AI voice agent architecture in production: speech-to-text, turn detection, text-to-speech and telephony each fail differently. Where they break, how to fix it. https://zeroic.in/blog/ai-voice-agent-architecture - **Senior engineer retainer vs. full-time hire: the real math (2026)** - The full year-one cost of a US senior hire versus a senior retainer, line by line, and the four situations where hiring full-time is still the right call. https://zeroic.in/blog/senior-engineer-retainer-vs-hire - **Code Rescue vs a full rewrite: the real math for vibe-coded MVPs** - Code Rescue vs a full rewrite for a cracking Lovable or Bolt MVP: why most founders shouldn't default to a rewrite, with the decision framework and real costs. https://zeroic.in/blog/code-rescue-vs-rewrite - **Five production failure modes in every Lovable and Bolt MVP** - Vibe-coded MVP in production: the five failure modes we fix in every Code Rescue engagement, in the order they'll hurt your Lovable or Bolt app. https://zeroic.in/blog/vibe-coded-mvp-production - **pgvector vs Pinecone: when Postgres stops being enough** - pgvector vs Pinecone: most teams reach for a dedicated vector DB too early. The thresholds - memory, QPS, filtered search - where pgvector stops being enough. https://zeroic.in/blog/pgvector-vs-pinecone - **Lovable vs Bolt vs Cursor: which vibe-coded MVP survives to production (2026)** - Lovable vs Bolt vs Cursor, from rescuing all three: Lovable ships open databases by default, Bolt often leaks API keys, Cursor needs a developer but lasts. https://zeroic.in/blog/lovable-vs-bolt-vs-cursor - **When to rebuild your Bubble app in code - and when to stay** - Bubble to code migration: Bubble works as a production platform until four thresholds - users, integration depth, latency and audit surface. What to do at each. https://zeroic.in/blog/when-to-rebuild-your-bubble-app - **English-to-SQL at a million users: what breaks, in order** - English-to-SQL in production: what breaks as it scales to a million users - query validation, dialect drift, ambiguous references and wrong user schemas. https://zeroic.in/blog/english-to-sql-at-1m-users ## Contact - Email: zeroic.in@gmail.com - WhatsApp: +91 98739 27225 - Book a 30-min call: https://zeroic.in/book ## Links - Home: https://zeroic.in/ - About: https://zeroic.in/about - Services: https://zeroic.in/services - Rebuild a Bubble app in code: https://zeroic.in/bubble-to-code - AI development company: https://zeroic.in/ai-development-company - Work: https://zeroic.in/work - Book a call: https://zeroic.in/book