Clevarity Clevarity

About

Clarity. Precision. Depth.

Writing software is rarely the hard part. Understanding how your business really works — the exceptions, the workarounds, the rule only one person remembers — is where the work is.

Our story

Clevarity started in 2023, out of a frustration our founders had watched play out too many times.

A business with a clear idea. A technology partner who agreed to everything. Eighteen months, a budget gone, and a system nobody could extend — because the questions that mattered were never asked at the start.

The pattern was always the same. Agencies that sold before they understood. Consultants who answered in jargon. Development shops that built exactly what was asked for, even when what was asked for was wrong.

None of that is malice. It's structure. A firm paid by the hour has no reason to tell you that half the plan should be cut.

We built Clevarity to sit on the other side of that. We say what we think before the contract, not after it. We cut features that don't earn their place. And when we're not the right team for something, we say so — which costs us work occasionally, and has never once cost us a client.

Clevarity was founded in Dubai in 2023. The engineering practice behind it has been running since 2013. Our co-founders started their first software practice in Chennai that year. Since then the team has delivered more than 200 projects for over 50 clients. Clevarity is what happens when that bench turns its attention to the Gulf — and to the regulated institutions here that cannot afford a learning curve.

What we hold to

Say the difficult thing early.

The expensive moment in a project is not the bug. It is the assumption nobody questioned in week one. We ask the uncomfortable questions while they are still cheap to answer, even when it shortens the engagement.

Build less, properly.

Every feature is a liability someone maintains for years. We would rather ship four things that hold than twelve that need watching. Simplicity is not a style here — it is how a system survives its third year.

Own the outcome, not the ticket.

We are not measured by what we delivered. We are measured by whether it worked, stayed up, and could be handed to your team without a translator.

Learn the domain before writing the code.

We run discovery with the people who actually do the job, write down a domain model everyone agrees on, and then build the rules so your own experts can change them without calling us. A system your team cannot alter is a system you will eventually replace.

Work inside your team, not alongside it.

Our engineers embed in your tools, your repositories and your delivery rituals, and stay through go-live and support. There is no handover meeting where the knowledge quietly stays with us.

How we work

Four stages. No code until stage two is signed off.

  1. 01

    Define

    We agree the business outcome before the feature list. Anything that doesn't serve it gets cut here, where cutting is free. This is also where we challenge the brief — the stated problem and the real one are often different.

  2. 02

    Blueprint

    Architecture, stack and risks, on paper. We name what could go wrong and what it would cost before anyone commits. In regulated work, this is also where the compliance posture gets designed in rather than retrofitted.

  3. 03

    Build

    Two-week sprints, each ending in something you can open and use. No invisible progress. If a sprint produces nothing you can click, something has gone wrong and we would rather you knew.

  4. 04

    Run

    Launch, monitor, scale. And a clean handover whenever you want it — documented, with your team able to carry it without us. We would rather be re-hired than depended on.

We build our own software too

Clevarity develops its own products, and represents selected products from other developers across the region.

This is not a side venture. It is the reason the engineering holds up.

Running your own software teaches things that client work never will — what breaks at 2am, what costs money in year three, which features nobody opens. Our cloud optimisation product exists because we solved the problem for a client first, saw it was everyone's problem, and built a platform so others could use it at a fraction of the cost.

The same team builds both. The same rigour applies to both.

Leadership

Muhil Venkat

Muhil Venkat

Co-founder &
Chief Delivery Officer

Ajaiy Dharsaun

Ajaiy Dharsaun

Co-founder &
Chief Technology Officer

Fazil Badrudeen

Fazil Badrudeen

Chief Innovation Officer

Muhil Venkat

Muhil Venkat

Co-founder & Chief Delivery Officer

The person responsible for things actually shipping.

Muhil co-founded his first software company in Chennai in 2013 and brought the same discipline to Clevarity, running Delivery and Product Development, shuttling between Dubai and Chennai. He is a taskmaster with an uncomfortable eye for detail — a difficult quality in a colleague and an excellent one in whoever signs off your release.

He describes the work he likes as organic: initiatives that grow out of understanding a client rather than being imposed on one. In practice, that means he will question the brief before he builds to it.

Engineering, College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University.
Ajaiy Dharsaun

Ajaiy Dharsaun

Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer

The technical mind behind what Clevarity builds.

Ajaiy has spent more than fifteen years building software for businesses and institutions, and the habit that shows most is how long he stays with the question before he touches the answer. He is the person the team turns to when a problem has no obvious shape — a platform that has to scale before anyone knows how far, an integration nobody documented, an AI feature that has to earn its place.

Bring him a problem and he returns an architecture — robust, scalable, modular, in that order. He holds the team to a principle that sounds obvious and that almost nobody follows: get it right the first time. Rework is the most expensive thing in software, and the easiest to avoid if someone is willing to slow down at the start.

Engineering, College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University.
Fazil Badrudeen

Fazil Badrudeen

Chief Innovation Officer

Seventeen years of leadership across technology, banking and finance, healthcare and mobility.

Most recently he built a digital bank from zero to one inside ADGM, as its first hire — which in practice meant doing every job until there was someone to hand it to. That is where much of Clevarity's regulatory instinct comes from. Not from reading the rulebook, but from standing up a licensed institution against it.

Before that he co-founded Cryokinesis, India's first cryotherapy chain, and exited through acquisition.

At Clevarity he sits where regulation meets product — the two things that decide whether a platform in this region ever reaches launch.

Bradford University School of Management. A CIM-chartered marketer, which is an unusual thing for an innovation officer to be, and shows in how often he argues the customer's side.

The facts

Established
2023, Dubai
Engineering since
2013, Chennai
Delivered
200+ projects · 50+ clients
Based
Meydan, Dubai — working across the Middle East, the US, the UK & Europe, and India
Cloud
Agnostic — Azure, AWS, Google Cloud and others
Sectors
Financial services · regulated and public sector · healthcare · real estate · commerce and marketplaces · energy · education · cloud infrastructure
Framework
DFSA and ADGM · TOGAF · ArchiMate · BIAN · COBIT · ITIL

We deploy into your cloud accounts and pipelines where they exist, rather than moving you onto ours. Azure, AWS or Google Cloud — we hold no partner tier that decides the answer in advance, so the recommendation follows your data residency obligations, your estate and your cost profile.

You have the business. We have the blueprint.

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