Where it came from.
Bharat Chaganty built Illiquid Labs into a fifty-person game studio between 2021 and 2024. While the studio was shipping games, he began experimenting with AI agents that could act on their own inside game worlds and user interfaces, before anyone was calling them that. Those experiments turned into work for real businesses, and Mothership came out of that work.
The lab has since built for clients in media, manufacturing, aquaculture, and consumer software. Every system was designed around that client's specific problem.
What is missing.
The models are good enough. What is missing is someone who goes inside the business, learns how it actually works, and builds against that.
- Consultancies bill hours, so they sell the deck.
- Vendors sell you the model and leave.
- Companies like Palantir do the work properly but price it for governments.
- We do it for the companies that run India.
Four moves.
Every engagement follows the same four moves.
- Find the most expensive problem.
- Prove what AI can do against it with real numbers.
- Build.
- Stay until it compounds.
What is live.
Most systems are live within weeks. A music label's catalogue became a content factory. A public broadcaster's newsroom runs on its own. A shrimp hatchery automates its sales in regional languages. Mothership itself runs on the same systems it sells.
The deliverable is a running system.
One email. Tell us the most expensive problem in your business, or tell us you don't know and we will find it together. The first conversation is a diagnostic, not a pitch.
