- Published on August 18, 2025
- In IT Services
Coforge’s AI Reality Check for Indian IT to ‘Strip Away the Fat’
Delivering measurable outcomes with speed and decisiveness, AI is exposing underperformance in the IT industry.
- By Mohit Pandey
Coforge is witnessing an upward move in its growth trajectory as its big bets on generative AI and agentic AI provide a positive momentum. Just this quarter, the company became the seventh largest Indian IT firm posting ₹3,689 crore in revenue for Q1 FY26, a staggering 56.5% jump year-on-year.
Leveraging AI and adapting to the new tech landscape is the main factor driving this growth, according to CEO Sudhir Singh. At the helm of these AI advancements over the last one year has been Vikrant Karnik as the EVP for digital, data, cloud, and AI at Coforge.
Karnik avoids abstract promises or lofty slogans as he has seen the technology’s hype cycles over decades starting his career from EY to Capgemini to Genpact, and now at Coforge. “I think AI was always seen as something wit
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Mohit Pandey
Mohit writes about AI in simple, explainable, and often funny words. He's especially passionate about chatting with those building AI for Bharat, with the occasional detour into AGI.
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