BearPlex

BearPlex is a Lahore-based AI engineering studio founded in 2017, now operating across four continents with 65+ engineers. The firm focuses on building what it calls "sovereign AI systems, autonomous agents, and enterprise platforms"—production-grade infrastructure rather than proofs of concept. It works with enterprise clients including Barclays, Samsung, the Australian Government, Aramco, and Packages Ltd, and has delivered 80+ projects totaling over 30 million lines of code.

The company's positioning is explicitly selective. It accepts only three partnership slots per quarter (Q2 2026) and turns away work that doesn't meet its architectural bar. Founder and Chief Architect Hamad Pervaiz frames the philosophy as trading speed for resilience: building systems engineered for the next decade, not the next demo.

Services and capabilities

BearPlex organizes its offerings into nine disciplines grouped across four pillars: Cognitive Computing, Product Engineering, Data & Alignment, and Foundation.

Cognitive Computing covers autonomous agents and workflows (multi-agent systems using LangChain and AutoGPT), model engineering and fine-tuning (Llama 3, Mistral on proprietary data), and RAG systems with vector databases and knowledge graphs.

Product Engineering includes enterprise platforms built with React, Next.js, and Node on cloud-native infrastructure, plus interface design focused on reducing cognitive load for complex AI products.

Data & Alignment encompasses RLHF pipelines for model behavior alignment, and data infrastructure (Apache Spark, Airflow, ETL) that turns raw data into production ML fuel.

Foundation covers sovereign cloud architecture (Kubernetes, Terraform, multi-cloud orchestration) and integrated teams embedded as permanent extensions of client organizations—not contractors who disappear after delivery.

The company explicitly avoids selling hours or developer resources. Instead, it deploys "elite engineering pods" as outcome-focused units.

Notable work

Vertex360, built for Australian disability service providers, is a 73,000-line, 32-module enterprise platform achieving 100% NDIS compliance and replacing spreadsheet-based operations for 847 participants across 1,203 service agreements.

Extended Trust, Canada's top-rated vehicle protection platform, processes claims in 6 minutes and has paid $40M+ in claims across 200K+ customers.

PeoplePlus, built in-house over 10 months, is a 143,000-line HR SaaS with 15+ modules, 130+ database tables, and AI-powered recruitment. It consolidated eight disconnected tools (Asana, Zoho Books, Stripe, Slack) into one platform for 65+ engineers.

Yaay365 is a full-stack African rewards platform built with six synchronized apps (web, mobile, partner portal, admin dashboard) totaling 150,000 lines of code.

CleverCoach rebuilt a legacy German tutoring platform from PHP/MySQL to a modern SaaS with teacher-student matching using Haversine distance, digital contracts, and dual-sided financial engines (33K LOC, 13+ database tables).

Scale Mediation powers the US mediation lifecycle with a six-microservice platform handling case management, multi-party scheduling, Stripe Connect payments, AI assessments, and nine automated workflows.

Letti AI uses semantic job matching with LLMs and pgvector (3,072-dimensional embeddings) to scrape LinkedIn, Indeed, and Glassdoor across 50+ analysis points.

SimpliRFP deployed a custom GPT on Azure OpenAI for government contract discovery, extracting 31 structured data points from US and Canadian RFPs and cutting review time by 66%.

How they work

The Protocol is a three-phase engagement model. Phase 1: The Diagnostic ($2,997 fixed) stress-tests architecture across all layers and surfaces technical debt with a prioritized roadmap delivered via 90-minute war room debrief. Phase 2: The Build executes the diagnostic blueprint with an integrated pod (architect, engineers, QA) producing production-ready code, CI/CD infrastructure, and full documentation on a retainer or project basis. Phase 3: The Guardian provides 24/7 monitoring, security patches, dependency updates, and SLA-backed support on a recurring subscription. The company explicitly does not build prototypes—only shipping production systems—and operates on outcome-based pricing aligned with client results rather than billable hours.

Team and credentials

Founded by Hamad Pervaiz (also fractional CTO to select partners and angel investor through Turing Venture Capital), BearPlex has 65+ engineers across four continents. The firm operates a senior-only culture: every engineer has shipped production ML systems, with no juniors or training roles. It is ISO 27001 certified since 2023, GDPR and Data Privacy compliant (last audit November 2024), and pursuing SOC 2 Type II certification with expected completion Q3 2026. BearPlex holds AWS Advanced Partner status and was listed on the Deloitte Fast 50 (2024). It ranks in the Clutch Top 1% globally for AI development firms as of 2024–2025. The firm has appeared at TechCrunch Disrupt (Battlefield 200, 2024) and multiple speaking engagements on autonomous systems and enterprise architecture.