AI consulting, advisory and training · Hyderabad, serving India and abroad hitesh@256tec.com
AI lab · AI development in Hyderabad

When the answer is build, our lab builds it.

Advice comes first: we help leadership teams decide what AI to build, what to buy and what to skip. The lab is for when the answer is build. When a pilot earns it, the same team takes it from an MVP to production inside your CRM, ERP, cameras or data stack, so nothing gets lost between the recommendation and the build. If another team is a better fit, we help you choose them and review their work.

256 TechnologiesHow a build runs
MVPUsually about two weeks, answering the key technical and business questions
Integrates withYour CRM, ERP, cameras or data stack
Ships withMonitoring, evaluations and an audit trail
Deploys toOn-prem, your VPC or the cloud
Your teamWorks alongside ours, with training for the builders who will run it
Illustrative demos, not client work. Everything in this section uses made-up data to show what a deliverable looks like. Client work is on the case studies page; names and figures from other engagements are shared on request, under NDA.
01

AI agents

Find the workflows worth automating and validate one with a working prototype. We build conversational and multi-step agents for sales, support, onboarding and internal work, on web, WhatsApp, your CRM or a custom interface. Every agent ships with written permissions, an audit trail and a safety test suite. The governance and policy side is on the agentic AI consulting page.

OutcomeFaster response times, more leads captured, less routine load on your people.
Illustrative demoSales agent

Sales assistant on WhatsApp

Answers product questions, qualifies the lead, books a store visit and writes the record back to the CRM. Anything outside policy goes to a person.

Hi, do you have the 6-seater dining set I saw on Instagram?
Yes, the Oslo 6-seater in walnut is available at our Jubilee Hills store. Would you like to see it this weekend?
Saturday evening works
crm.create_lead / calendar.book 6:00 pm / handoff: none
Done. You're booked for Saturday at 6 pm. Priya from the store will meet you.
Illustrative demoSafety testing

Safety and evaluation

Every release is tested against adversarial prompts and policy rules before customers see it.

Test suiteCasesStatus
Prompt injection140pass
Discount abuse62pass
PII leakage88pass
Off-topic drift45review
Hallucinated stock51pass
02

Computer vision

Test whether the cameras you already have can measure footfall, dwell time, shopper movement and shelf health, or catch tool breaks, abnormal vibration and part-quality problems on the shop floor. Pipelines run at the edge or in the cloud.

OutcomeHigher throughput, fewer breakdowns, and stores laid out around how people actually shop.
Illustrative demoMachine monitoring

Tool-break event log

Camera and vibration signals combined to flag a broken tool before the next batch of bad parts.

CNC-07 cycle normal
CNC-03 vibration above band
CNC-03 tool break detected, line paused
Tool replaced, 4 parts quarantined
CNC-11 surface finish drift
Illustrative demoRetail analytics

Store floor dashboard

Footfall, dwell and zone heatmaps from existing CCTV, so merchandising decisions start from how shoppers actually move.

Footfall8,412
Conversion21.4%
Avg dwell6m 12s
Shelf gaps7
Zone heatmap, 10am to 9pm
03

Machine learning

Find the customers at risk of leaving and work out which retention offers are worth testing. We build churn, recommendation, demand forecasting, RFM and predictive maintenance models, and measure lift against a holdout before recommending a rollout.

OutcomeBetter retention, tighter operations, and lift you can measure.
Illustrative demoLoyalty and commerce

Insights that land in tools teams already use

Churn scores, RFM segments and demand forecasts delivered into the CRM, the campaign tool or the replenishment sheet. The best AI products disappear into the workflows people already have.

Weekly demand, SKU group Aforecast vs actual
actualforecast weeks
RFM segmentCustomersChurn risk
Champions3,120low
Loyal, lapsing5,486medium
At risk, high value1,204high
New, one visit9,870medium

Enterprise ready

For teams with security reviews and compliance owners, the controls are built in from the first sprint.

On-prem, VPC or cloud deploymentData security controlsRole-based access Full action logsModel and prompt versioningObservability dashboards Evaluation suitesHuman approval gates

The builds above are illustrative demos with made-up data. They are not client deployments. Client names and figures are shared on request, under NDA.

Start here

Have something worth building?

Start with a free advisory session. If the use case holds up, we scope a validation sprint, and we will tell you if a vendor or another team would build it better.