Built by an engineer who lives the problem.
CiteForge is the AEO/GEO product its founder needed for his own brands and couldn't buy at a global-south price point. Here's the team, the studio, and the worldview behind it.
Girish Hiremath
Founder & Principal Engineer · 14+ years across Fortune 500 compliance, banking, pharma, telecom, and IoT · M.Tech Data Science & AI candidate at IIIT Dharwad.
The best AI products are built by engineers who understand both the algorithms and the real-world systems those algorithms have to serve. Girish's career started in 2012 building IoT cloud agents and a Hindi Reader powered by OpenCV and Artificial Neural Networks — work that was showcased at an international developer conference. Fourteen years of shipping enterprise software for Fortune 500 clients later, he returned to AI formally through the M.Tech program at IIIT Dharwad and is now applying that combined backbone to AEO/GEO under IntelliForge AI.
- 14+
- Years of enterprise engineering
- 6
- Industries served at Fortune 500 scale
- 12+
- Production projects shipped
- 30+
- Technologies in active rotation
Why this team
Architected compliance, core-banking, AML, and pharma kit-ordering platforms; led teams of 7+ at a Fortune 500 life sciences company with measurable scalability and engagement gains.
Built a Hindi Reader with OpenCV + ANNs in 2012, showcased at an international developer conference; now formally trained at IIIT Dharwad and shipping multi-agent RAG systems through IntelliForge AI.
Runs paraphrase ensembles across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Grok every week for IntelliForge's own product family. CiteForge is the tool he needed and couldn't buy.
Credentials & affiliations
Specializations: Generative AI, NLP & Speech Processing, Computer Vision, Financial Analytics, AI in Healthcare. Pursued alongside full-time work.
14-day intensive on AI agent development, RAG systems, LangChain / LlamaIndex, and prompt engineering.
Aligned with India's Bharat AI Mission. Ships AI-native products through a five-level framework spanning foundations, automation, agents, and full applications.
Career
Full timelineSix industries, multiple Fortune 500 clients, and a return to AI as a formal discipline. Employer names are anonymised here matching the founder's portfolio convention.
- Now2025 — PresentPrincipal Software Engineer · M.Tech DSAI candidateCompliance & RegTech · IIIT Dharwad
Leading AI/ML integration into compliance workflows; postgraduate coursework in Generative AI, NLP, Computer Vision, Financial Analytics, and AI in Healthcare.
- PharmaOct 2023 — Mar 2025Senior Full Stack DeveloperFortune 500 Life Sciences Company
Led Agile Scrum for a 7-person team; Spring Boot microservices and Angular 15 UI for a kit-ordering portal — 30% scalability and 35% engagement gains.
- BankingDec 2021 — Sep 2023Senior Full Stack DeveloperGlobal Banking Corporation
Designed the Personal Accounts & Core API platform across Oracle, NuoDB, and HBase — 25% backend performance gain on OpenShift CI/CD.
- FinTechDec 2020 — Dec 2021Senior Full Stack EngineerMajor US Financial Institution
Built a Financial Crimes / AML platform with blue-green deploys and Angular 10 migration — 40% efficiency gain, zero-downtime releases.
- BankingApr 2019 — Dec 2020Senior Full Stack DeveloperTop-4 US Investment Bank
Built a Client Onboarding Lifecycle Tool on Pivotal Cloud Foundry + AWS — 98% code coverage with JUnit 5 and Mockito.
- TelecomSep 2016 — Mar 2019Module Lead & Senior DeveloperGlobal Telecom Leader
Designed microservice architecture with RabbitMQ; managed 13M+ test results for 2,600+ users via Elastic Search + Kibana dashboards.
- OriginFeb 2012 — Aug 2016Software DeveloperLeading Semiconductor & IoT Company
Built a Hindi Reader using OpenCV and Artificial Neural Networks; IoE Cloud Client Agent on a proprietary SOC platform; LTE UE & eNB simulators in C++ and Perl.
A Hyderabad studio shipping AI in weeks.
CiteForge is built by IntelliForge AI, a Hyderabad-based AI agent and workflow automation studio. The studio's thesis is straightforward: India and the rest of the global south have the same need for production AI as Silicon Valley does, but at a fraction of the price point — and 13+ years of enterprise engineering experience is exactly what's required to ship AI that clears compliance, performance, and reliability bars.
IntelliForge AI operates on a five-level framework — from prompt-engineering foundations through workflow automation, creative studio work, agent development, and full AI app development. CiteForge sits at L4 + L5: autonomous agents inside a full SaaS application.
- Headquarters
- Hyderabad, Telangana, India
- Legal entity
- IntelliForge AI · Individual Proprietorship
- Industries served
- Banking · Pharma · Telecom · Enterprise SaaS · IoT · E-commerce
- Studio site
- intelliforge.tech
Other products from the studio
Velocity proof — the products and tools the same team has shipped under IntelliForge AI. Multi-Agent Deep Research is the architectural precursor to CiteForge's probe engine and citation graph.
Direct precursor to CiteForge's probe engine and citation graph architecture.
- Multi-Agent
- RAG
- LLM
RAG + agent in production — interactive portfolio with a chatbot trained on career data.
- L4
- L5
- RAG
AI-powered hiring platform with auth + role-based experience.
- SaaS
- Auth
Consumer wellness AI app — conversion-first UX shipped end-to-end.
- L5
- Wellness
LMS for AI training — registration, access, progress, feedback.
- LMS
- Operations
Markdown→PDF Converter and YouTube Transcript Scraper — engineering-quality showcase.
- Free
- Public
What we believe.
Every CiteForge feature traces to a citable paper section, a measured customer outcome, or a number on the dashboard. Marketing adjectives don't ship.
Hyderabad, in INR, for the global south first. The incumbents' cost structures lock them out of 90% of the world. We don't have that constraint.
AEO/GEO is structurally an attribution and evidence problem. Fourteen years of compliance, AML, and pharma engineering means we treat audit trails as primitives, not features.
Probing six AI engines across thousands of paraphrased prompts daily is impossible by hand. Dashboards leave the work to you. CiteForge does it.
IntelliForge AI is publicly aligned with India's Bharat AI Mission — the ₹10,372 crore IndiaAI initiative to make production AI accessible across Tier I, II, and III cities. CiteForge inherits that mission: research-grade tooling at a price point a global-south SMB can afford, with multi-language probe coverage and INR-first billing as first-class features.
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