A remote-first team that has built custom software since 2009 and now builds AI-native business systems for growing companies.
Our story
For far too long, leaders of growing companies have been stuck between software that almost fits, rented forever, and consulting projects with open-ended bills that take years to go live. The result is a fragmented stack of tools and spreadsheets held together by people, and AI has only made it worse, becoming one more tool in a stack that was already too crowded.
There's a new way there™. That's the idea behind thinkbridge: think bigger, move faster, go further.
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A world where technology works quietly in the background, freeing people to create and thrive.
To exemplify our core values and help clients become software-defined businesses that own their software, data and context, and pay for the value their software creates.
To give people their time back, so they can spend it on what matters most in their lives.
That's why growing companies rely on thinkbridge to replace rigid software, spreadsheets and manual work.
The founder story
Founded in 2009 as Anamika by leaders with more than 30 years of solving business problems with technology. It became thinkbridge in 2014.
“Software should fit the business, not the other way around. It should speak the language of the business, not some generic best practice. And it should be accountable, priced on the value it delivers.”
Anand KrishnanCo-founder, Managing Partner and CEO
Sai GaneshCo-founder, Managing Partner and Chief Scientist
Founded as Anamika, a custom software consulting business. The name means “no name” in Hindi. From 2009 to 2014 it delivered several custom development projects for large Fortune 1000 companies.
Anamika became thinkbridge, a cloud-native “tech-as-a-service” company, and opened its labs center in India to design, build and operate software. Our mandate, inspired by Rice University's Pliny Project, was to figure out how to deliver software faster and for less than off-the-shelf software.
Several industry firsts for a company our sizeWe ramped up our engineering accelerators to speed up software development and help clients see value sooner. We called it accelerated software development. Remote-first was our core all along. We reinforced it from 2014, once the technology was mature enough to support it.
From 2018 to 2020 we kept designing, building and operating software, with the aim of helping companies put technology first and increase the value of their business.
When COVID hit, our remote-first strategy and our industry firsts helped our clients run their business without missing a beat.
Our accelerators grew into our first design-to-code platform, which generated code automatically from a visual designer. It was generally successful, so we kept investing heavily in cutting the time and cost of custom-fit software. We also started growing our team in Latin America.
We had several machine learning projects in production and were experimenting with machine learning for code generation when large language models arrived. They gave our design-to-code platform a booster shot and made us more confident in our mission.
We deliver custom-fit software faster and for less than off-the-shelf software. Systems go live about four months from kickoff and belong to the client at the end of the term.
Our team is built for long-term partnerships. Our revenue is tied to our clients' results, our core values drive every engagement, and our leaders stay involved from the first conversation through go-live and managed care.
Managing Partner and CEO
Anand co-founded thinkbridge with Sai Ganesh and leads the company as CEO. Before thinkbridge, Anand worked with large clients at IBM. In tenth grade, Anand sold electronic typewriters and heard “no” on 87 sales calls, which taught the lesson that a product only matters if the problem it fixes is big enough. [Degree, university]
Managing Partner and Chief Scientist
Sai co-founded thinkbridge and, as Chief Scientist, shapes how the team builds each client’s custom operating layer. Sai has written software since age 15 and met Anand in college in 1992. During college, Sai sold and serviced diesel motors for fishermen whose catamarans were palm logs tied together. [Degree, university]
Managing Partner and Chief Customer Officer
Shamik is the advisor clients turn to, explaining software decisions in plain terms and keeping each engagement tied to its outcomes. He has led large technology transformation projects and managed portfolios by their results. He can be bribed with a good book. [Degree, university]
Managing Partner and Chief People Officer
Nikesh leads people and hiring at thinkbridge and has also worked across its engineering, product, operations and finance. Before thinkbridge came seven years at Infosys, including time in London and Tokyo. Nikesh joined when thinkbridge was 10 people working out of a small row house. Nikesh holds a degree in electronics and telecom engineering.
Managing Partner, Head of APAC and GCC
Andy leads thinkbridge across Asia Pacific and GCC. He opened the Singapore office and works directly with CEOs and founders. He has built revenue teams from zero in Singapore, India, Myanmar & Ukraine over his 15-year SaaS career. Off the clock, he travels and captures every moment through his lens. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Murdoch University and executive leadership certificates from Wharton and Columbia Business School.
Head of Growth
Matt works with CEOs, CFOs and operating leaders whose businesses have outgrown rigid ERP and spreadsheet-run processes. In 25 years building revenue teams in enterprise technology, SaaS and services, he grew new business at companies later acquired, including Stuzo and Avionos. He surfs, climbs mountains and can move his ears without touching them. He holds a B.A. in marketing from Saint Joseph’s University.
EVP, Growth and Partnerships
Paul leads growth and partnerships at thinkbridge. For more than 15 years he has helped small businesses, growing companies and enterprises plan and carry out technology transformation, building strategic partnerships across several industries along the way. He once bikepacked across Iceland and is always recruiting companions for his next bucket-list adventure. Originally from Iowa, he graduated from the University of Iowa and now lives in Florida with his wife and two children.
VP, Solutions Delivery
Scott oversees the delivery of client systems at thinkbridge. He has spent more than 30 years leading technology work in healthcare, manufacturing, e-commerce, energy and enterprise software, with a focus on product strategy. Outside work, he plays golf and enjoys music and art. He studied computer science at the University of Texas at Austin.
VP, Customer Success
Bastien leads customer success, working with clients after go-live so their systems keep paying off. He spent more than 20 years in technology, leading partner programs, cloud growth and customer success at Dell and VMware. Off the clock, he coaches his kids’ soccer teams, cooks and goes on diving trips. He holds an MBA from the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business and a Bachelor of Commerce from McGill University.
Director, Talent
Minali leads talent at thinkbridge, from hiring to building the teams that deliver client work. Her 15 years span quality assurance, test automation, talent operations and talent acquisition. Outside work, she is a keen gardener. She holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree.
Director, Brand
Debanjan leads the thinkbridge brand. He set up its templates and guidelines and designed the company website. Before joining in 2022, he spent six years at McKinsey & Company turning consultants’ data and ideas into client presentations. Away from work, he enjoys riding his motorcycle through high-altitude mountain passes. He holds a B.E. in automobile engineering from Sathyabama University.
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The thinkers who do the work, on what changes for the businesses they build for.
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Inside the work at thinkbridge
What changed for the people who use the system every day?
“Supervisors used to hand-merge sales sheets from 200+ stores. Now every sale appears in the client portal at the moment it’s logged, so production follows what’s selling. What took 30 to 60 days now takes seconds.”
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Inside the work at thinkbridge
What do you do now that the agentic platform does the build?
“Building is cheap now, so my work moved upstream: deciding what deserves to be built first. The agent will happily build all of it, so the plan is where I earn my keep.”
What changed for the people who use the system every day?
“Supply Chain used to check stock, open orders and forecast in three places before every decision. Now it takes one screen and one decision.”
The thinkbridge team studied at leading universities and worked at some of the world's best-known companies before joining us.
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How thinkbridge works with clients, and what the team holds itself to.
What every client can count on from us.
“thinkbridge has been instrumental to our growth and for us to be able to continue to meet our clients’ expectations and exceed those expectations.”
Our core values guide how we work every day. They are our culture in action, and they support our vision, mission and purpose.
Outcomes matter most. We build software and take it to production, because that is what counts.
You judge thinkbridge by what's running in production. Every engagement is tied to an outcome we agree on before the build starts.
We check our work before anyone else has to.
We stand by our commitments. We're not perfect, but we know how to make it right.
If something slips, you hear it from us first, with the fix.
We keep people informed, in plain language.
No surprises. You always know what's being built, what's next and what's in the way, in plain language.
Success, failure and everything in between: we own it end to end.
The team that builds your system keeps running and improving it after go-live, through managed care.
We've done several things before they were common. These are a few of them.
thinkbridge is remote-first, with flexible hours and support for wellbeing. Our employee NPS is above 90.
thinkbridge co-founder Anand Krishnan talks with business leaders about how they use software, data and AI to run and grow their companies.
thinkbridge was founded in 2009 as Anamika by Anand Krishnan, Managing Partner and CEO, and Sai Ganesh, Managing Partner and Chief Scientist. It took the name thinkbridge in 2014. Anand also hosts the Meaningful Tech podcast. In 2014 the company set out to deliver software faster and for less than off-the-shelf software.
thinkbridge is a remote-first company with a global team that works with clients worldwide. Teams work flexible hours and are organized around each client's project.
thinkbridge has five core values: outcomes, quality, accountability, communication and care. For clients, that means software judged by what runs in production, validated before go-live, explained in plain language and looked after long after launch.
thinkbridge's client Net Promoter Score is above 90, and about 90% of clients keep working with thinkbridge after their first project.
Yes. thinkbridge is growing and posts open roles on its careers page. It is remote-first, Great Place to Work Certified and has an employee Net Promoter Score above 90.
Tell us what is slowing your business down. thinkbridge will show you the system that fixes it and how soon it can go live.