About Cedarwood
A founder-led engineering studio in Kerala, working with clients in India and the US.
Cedarwood Consulting Pvt Ltd is a small software and AI consultancy based in Thiruvananthapuram. We are engineers first. The founder has spent a career building enterprise software and, more recently, designing and operating automated trading systems where a bad assumption costs money the same afternoon.
That background shapes how we work. We prefer measurable outcomes to impressive demos, we verify systems against reality rather than against our own database, and we would rather tell you a model does not help than sell you one that does not.
Alongside client work we run an engineering internship in Trivandrum, because the best way to build a team is to teach people to ship.
- Based in
- Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
- Serving
- India · United States
- Focus
- AI systems, trading & fintech, data platforms
- Engagements
- Fixed-scope builds · retained engineering
Principles
What we believe.
Evidence over hype
Every model change is graded against a baseline. A result that says 'the model adds nothing' is a good result.
Production is the goal
Notebooks are where ideas start, not where they end. We build for the 3 a.m. failure, not the demo.
Senior engineers, small teams
You work directly with the people writing the code. No hand-offs, no account layers.
Open-weights when it makes sense
Hosted frontier models where quality demands it, local models where cost, privacy or latency wins.
Cost is a feature
Caching, dedup, routing and right-sizing are part of the design, not an afterthought.
Verify, don't assume
In trading we confirm every action against the broker. That same discipline shapes everything else we build.
Contact
Tell us what you are trying to build.
A short email is enough. We reply within two working days with either a clear next step or an honest reason we are not the right fit.
Based in
Cedarwood Consulting Pvt Ltd
Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India