About
A small senior team. The person on the call writes the code.
Base42 is an AI transformation company. We train your people, give them a private AI platform you own, and rebuild the workflows that matter.
Founder
Dishant Singla
Built The Times of India Group's private AI platform for 5,000+ employees, and trained its teams across BCCL, MMCL and OMS. Builds the systems himself: newsroom agents, an autonomous machining engineer, the platform.
Founded Base42 in March 2026, after ten years building data and AI products at consumer scale. IIT Roorkee, Integrated Masters (2010–15).
- 2024–26HT Digital, Head of Data Products. A central data platform behind 200M monthly users and 1B+ monthly ad impressions.
- 2023–24Wealthy, Head of Product. Grew the product org from 4 to 12.
- KooLed ML personalization and feed ranking for 2M+ daily users.
- OlaA customer data platform unifying 150M+ customer profiles.
- Khatabook · OYOGrowth and business expansion.
What we believe
Four convictions behind every engagement.
Own the context.
It's the only part of AI you can't rent back.
Don't ration AI.
Per-seat licences decide who gets to learn. Platforms don't.
Measure return, not log-ins.
Usage numbers flatter everyone.
Durable over fast.
A weak first impression of AI sticks.
Why 42
The answer to life, the universe and everything.
You still have to know the question. That's the part we help with.
Continuity, IP and security
Built so you never depend on us.
You own all code, prompts, evals and docs. Handover is designed in from the first week. No black boxes.
Talk to the person who builds it.
Thirty minutes with the founder. You describe the problem. We tell you straight whether it's buildable, what it takes, and whether we're the right people.
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