Sachin Duggal said, the company Engineer.ai never claimed to “automated software development,” they’ve always preferred the term “human-assisted AI.” The company has laid stress on being transparent to customers, investors and anyone they’ve interacted with.
The engineer.ai business model of human-assisted AI is designed to “remove any repetitive processes from the ‘build, run & scale’ journey.” platform-matching work is an important part of the process. AI and other technologies are an important part of the work, but the talent, capacity partners, have an equally important role to play. “The company will always be a human-assisted AI company as this partnership provides unique solutions that the customer needs,” it adds.
Duggal, in an exclusive interview to Inc42, said “they never got a chance to explain themselves before the report was released. I offered the person to meet me personally when I came to Delhi, but it never happened.”
The official statement, released last night, reads, “we (the founder and the team) offered to meet with the WSJ six times. This, unfortunately, was never taken up; and we were never provided with documents to comment on. Many of our answers, which dispelled several of the allegations, were excluded from the reporting.”
The company also claims that they were asked to share “trade secrets” on record over a phone call, which was not possible for the company as their patent application is still in making.
The company has also highlighted the factual inaccuracies in the WSJ report that accused the Engineer.ai of lying to the investor about having developed 80% of the platform. Sharing a slide form its technical due diligence slide-deck which was shared with the investors before their investment, the company clarified that it has never lied to any of the investors. The company has always maintained, it has developed 40% of the platform, and was working on 20%.
The engineer.ai business model of human-assisted AI is designed to “remove any repetitive processes from the ‘build, run & scale’ journey.” platform-matching work is an important part of the process. AI and other technologies are an important part of the work, but the talent, capacity partners, have an equally important role to play. “The company will always be a human-assisted AI company as this partnership provides unique solutions that the customer needs,” it adds.
Duggal, in an exclusive interview to Inc42, said “they never got a chance to explain themselves before the report was released. I offered the person to meet me personally when I came to Delhi, but it never happened.”
The official statement, released last night, reads, “we (the founder and the team) offered to meet with the WSJ six times. This, unfortunately, was never taken up; and we were never provided with documents to comment on. Many of our answers, which dispelled several of the allegations, were excluded from the reporting.”
The company also claims that they were asked to share “trade secrets” on record over a phone call, which was not possible for the company as their patent application is still in making.
The company has also highlighted the factual inaccuracies in the WSJ report that accused the Engineer.ai of lying to the investor about having developed 80% of the platform. Sharing a slide form its technical due diligence slide-deck which was shared with the investors before their investment, the company clarified that it has never lied to any of the investors. The company has always maintained, it has developed 40% of the platform, and was working on 20%.
