Built by engineers. Operated by the same engineers.
IDEA Foundation is an engineering-led AI company, incorporated in 2007. Eighteen years of engineering, shipping, and operating sovereign and commercial AI systems for defence, public sector, regulated enterprises, and AI-native operators.
Engineering-led, multi-decade, end-to-end accountable.
Engineering-led
Founders are engineers; reviewers are engineers; the people who shipped the system are the people who get paged for it. We hire for rigour, not headcount targets.
Eighteen years of depth
Incorporated as IDEA Foundation in 2007 — eighteen years of shipping production systems. Long enough to know what breaks in year three.
Sovereign and commercial under one roof
Air-gapped defence platforms, regulated enterprise AI, and AI-native co-build — the same engineering bar, three buyer worlds. We don't subcontract the hard parts to anyone.
Operated by the same team
Discovery, architecture, build, ship, run — one accountable team across the lifecycle. SLAs are signed by the engineers behind the systems, not by an account manager.
The shape of the work, across eighteen years.
Incorporated as IDEA Foundation in 2007. Multi-decade track record across sovereign and commercial workloads — long enough to know what breaks in year three.
Production deployments across India, US, UK, Europe, Middle East, and APAC — defence, real estate, legal, life sciences, and e-commerce.
Sovereign infrastructure, classified networks, no external telemetry. Engineered to ship inside the perimeter and operate there for years.
HoloMap, PlugSafe, Intfuzon, NOSTRA, Jatayu, Maritime Awareness, Bhaasha, Housing & Urban AI, Aedrix, Castle — engineered in-house, owned end-to-end, operated by the team that built them.
Advisory, engineering, and enablement — under one roof.
Strategy, data policy, sovereignty posture
Practitioner-led advisory before any architecture. We define data ownership, residency, audit posture, and capability sequencing — the prerequisites every regulated AI programme stalls without.
Platform, applied AI, and owned products
Lakehouses, vector indexes, agentic systems, document understanding, signal intelligence — engineered into production with evaluation harnesses, observability, and runbooks shipped alongside the model.
Managed operations & AI talent
24x7 inference SLAs, drift monitoring, on-call response, and embedded engineers placed into client teams. The operate layer the business hangs on once the system is live.
Founded by two engineers — still run by them.
Rajneesh Malviya
Three decades across software engineering, enterprise architecture, and technology leadership. Has led IDEA Foundation from incorporation in 2007 to a recognised force in defence-grade AI and analytics, with deep expertise in open-source ecosystems and AI intelligence platforms shipped into 18+ countries.
Shalini Malviya
Former CSIR Doctoral Fellow and Scientist at IIT Delhi. 35+ years across research, computational intelligence, and software development. Anchors IDEA Foundation's research vertical — advanced analytics engines, movement-intelligence models, and multilingual NLP — and leads how that research lands with buyers.
The work, three doors in.
Industries
National security, public sector & urban governance, real estate & construction, legal, life sciences, tourism & travel, and e-commerce — the buyer worlds we operate inside.
Services
Applied & generative AI, digital products & platforms, immersive training systems, AI for startups, and embedded AI talent — discovery to managed operations.
Customer Stories
Systems running where it matters — air-gapped fusion intelligence, urban governance AI, construction CRMs across three continents, agentic workflows in regulated enterprises.
Want to know how we ship? Talk to us.
Practitioners on the first call. Engineering reviewers in the room. No account managers, no slideware — the people who build the systems are the people you meet.
About IDEA Foundation
What does IDEA Foundation do?
- IDEA Foundation is an engineering-led AI company that builds and operates production-grade AI systems for defence, public sector, regulated enterprises and AI-native startups. It ships ten owned products — including Intfuzon, NOSTRA, Jatayu, Bhaasha, HoloMap and PlugSafe — alongside delivery services spanning applied and generative AI, product engineering, immersive training systems, and embedded AI talent.
Is IDEA Foundation related to Xebia?
- No. IDEA Foundation is an independent Indian company, incorporated in 2007 and headquartered in Panchkula, Haryana. It is not affiliated with, owned by, or a rebrand of Xebia or any other consultancy. Some third-party business directories still carry descriptions scraped from an earlier version of this website that inadvertently reproduced another company's marketing copy; those entries are inaccurate and do not describe IDEA Foundation.
Where is IDEA Foundation based?
- The company is headquartered at HSIIDC IT Park, 4th Floor, Leap Infratech Building, Plot No. 6, Sector 22, Panchkula, Haryana 134116, India, and delivers across 18+ countries.
When was IDEA Foundation founded, and who runs it?
- IDEA Foundation was incorporated in 2007. It was co-founded by Rajneesh Malviya, who serves as Chief Executive Officer, and Shalini Malviya, Director of Business Development.
Can IDEA Foundation deploy AI systems air-gapped or on-premise?
- Yes, and it is a defining characteristic of the company's work rather than an exception. Products such as Intfuzon, NOSTRA, Jatayu, Bhaasha and HoloMap are built to run inside air-gapped national-security infrastructure on customer-controlled hardware, with no external model calls, no data egress and no telemetry.
How does IDEA Foundation sell to Indian government and defence buyers?
- IDEA Foundation is GeM-listed and a Government-Certified OEM, and its defence and public-sector platforms are built to be RTI- and CAG-ready by construction. The company holds ISO/IEC 27001:2022, ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 22301:2019 certifications, and aligns deployments to MEITY guidance and DPDPA 2023.