About BearPlex

The studiobehind the systems.

BearPlex started in Lahore in 2017 with a conviction: great software comes from small teams of exceptional engineers, not armies of mediocre ones. Nine years later, that conviction is a studio of 65+ engineers building systems that outlast their builders.

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2017

Founded in Lahore

Engineers

Production AI systems

Cities

The story

Nine years of buildingwhat others won't.

A short history of the bets we made, the lessons we collected, and the firm that came out the other side.

2017The beginning.Founded in Lahore with a simple conviction: great software requires great engineers, not large headcounts. First clients, first lessons, first scars.

2019Finding the model.Shifted to senior-only pods and outcome-based pricing. Started turning away projects that didn't meet the bar.

2021Enterprise traction.First Fortune 500 engagements. The model was working, and scaling.

2023AI-native pivot.Vertex360, Extended Trust, PeoplePlus: three enterprise platforms in twelve months. ISO 27001 certified. Autonomous agents became a core competency.

2024Scale and recognition.65 engineers. Clutch Top 1%. 47 production AI systems deployed. Partnerships with Barclays, Samsung, and Aramco.

2026The intelligence layer.SOC 2 Type II in observation. AWS Advanced Partner. Six audits signed at Japan IT Week 2026 with JICA. Building what a 65-person firm can do at enterprise scale.

Built different. Stayed dangerous.

Where we work

One headquarters.Three time zones.

Engineering runs from Lahore. Client-facing offices in Austin and Doha keep the working day overlapping with yours.

Headquarters

Lahore

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Engineering, design, and delivery run from here.

Client office

Austin

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A client-facing office on US Central time.

Client office

Doha

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A client-facing office on Gulf time.

Operating principles

The four ruleswe never break.

The principles below shape every engagement and every hire. If a prospect asks us to bend any of them, we usually decline.

01No prototypes.We only build production systems. If it can't ship, we don't start. Every engagement is a real platform from day one.

02Ninety-day delivery.Intensive engagements with full-stack pods, architecture to deployment in a single quarter. No drift, no scope creep.

03Outcome-based pricing.We get paid when we deliver results. Aligned incentives, zero wasted budget. The firm carries the risk of execution.

04Senior-only culture.Every engineer has shipped production ML systems. No juniors, no training wheels, no on-the-job learning at your expense.

Hamad Pervaiz

Founder & CEO

The founder

Conviction over consensus.Craft over compromise.

Technology is an accelerant. It amplifies competence, and it amplifies chaos. My job is to make sure you are building on a foundation of competence.

Also buildingPeoplePlusIn-house HR SaaS. 143K+ lines of code, and the 65-engineer org runs on it.

Investing throughTuring Venture CapitalAngel investments across AI, ML, and applied tooling.

Advising asFractional CTOThe MediaGale and a small set of select partners.

The first conversation is with him, not an account manager: talk to Hamad.

Alice Chen

Head of North America

North America

Built to change hands.

Alice spent her career on the buy side of the table, in venture and private equity rooms where the question was always the same: is this business actually worth what someone is about to pay for it? Most founder-led businesses are worth less than they look. Not because the product is weak, but because nothing works without the founder in the room.

A business that only works with the founder in the room is not an asset. It is a liability dressed up as leadership.

She runs BearPlex in North America, where her work turns what lives in a founder's head into an operating layer the business can actually run on. A former M&A and securities attorney, she has founded, scaled, and exited businesses of her own, and has worked with Y Combinator-backed companies and EO and YPO member businesses.

BuildingContinuity+AI operators that carry a founder's logic into the day-to-day, so the business runs without depending on any one person.

Investing asPender Hastings CapitalPartner. Venture and private equity across the U.S. and Canada.

On the board ofEO Silicon ValleyEntrepreneurs' Organization, Silicon Valley chapter.

Her work has been featured in Forbes, SUCCESS, and Maxim.

M. Irshad Kanwal

Chief Financial Officer

Finance

The arithmetic holds.

Irshad has spent five years as BearPlex's Chief Financial Officer, and he reads a balance sheet the way the rest of the firm reads a stack trace: as a system that either holds under load or fails in predictable places. He came to the money side from engineering, with a decade spent building software for international clients, including as a Principal Software Engineer at TRG.

Most software firms do not die of bad code. They die of bad arithmetic.

Before BearPlex he founded a software services firm of his own and scaled it to multi-million dollar revenue in under three years, work recognized with a Pakistan Fortune 500 Award. He has run the P&L he now audits, which is why outcome-based pricing here is not a slogan: every engagement is priced by someone who has carried the risk himself.

Five years atBearPlexChief Financial Officer. Owns engagement economics, outcome-based pricing models, and the discipline that keeps a 65-engineer firm funded.

FoundedA services firm of his ownScaled it to multi-million dollar revenue in under three years. Recognized with a Pakistan Fortune 500 Award.

Engineered atTRGPrincipal Software Engineer at The Resource Group. A decade of building for international clients before moving to the money side.

Work with BearPlex

Talk to the peoplewho will build it.

65+ engineers headquartered in Lahore, with client-facing offices in Austin and Doha. Tell us what you are building, and we will tell you honestly whether we are the right studio for it.

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