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Happiest Minds Reinforces AI First Strategy for Enterprise Transformation


Happiest Minds Reinforces AI First Strategy for Enterprise Transformation
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  • January 21, 2026

Happiest Minds Technologies, a digital engineering and Mindful IT company, has reaffirmed its “AI First. Agile Always” strategy to help enterprises shift from AI experimentation to scalable, production-ready adoption. By embedding AI at the core of product engineering, operations, service delivery, and business strategy, the company is enabling clients to build AI-native, customer-obsessed digital businesses with speed, adaptability, and responsible governance.

Quick Intel

  • Happiest Minds advances “AI First. Agile Always” to drive AI-native software development, agentic AI solutions, and AI-led service delivery at enterprise scale.
  • The Generative AI Business Services (GBS) unit has matured 32 GenAI use cases from prototypes to full-scale, replicable implementations across clients.
  • Healthcare leads AI adoption for workload reduction and R&D acceleration, followed by EdTech (personalized learning), Retail/CPG (revenue impact), and Hi-Tech (core product capability).
  • Agentic AI portfolio spans four pillars: agentic solutions, AI-native development, AI-powered ITSM, and AI-driven cybersecurity.
  • An AI Service Delivery Platform combines human expertise with intelligent agents to boost productivity, speed, and scalability in delivery.
  • Responsible AI governance is embedded from day one, focusing on ethics, explainability, safety, and compliance as a trust imperative.
  • Company plans to double its GenAI team to 250 this year and scale analytics strength (including CoE) to ~1,000 professionals by FY27.
  • Emerging initiatives include AI-enabled Ayurveda integrating traditional principles with genomics and modern science for personalized preventive care.

Transitioning from Experimentation to Enterprise Impact

Happiest Minds is helping clients move beyond edge AI use cases by making AI central to how they design products, operate systems, and engage customers. The strategy combines agile delivery for rapid iteration with AI-first thinking to create lasting business transformation.

"AI is no longer an add-on; it is becoming central to how businesses design products, operate systems, and engage customers," said Joseph Anantharaju, Co-Chairman and CEO, Happiest Minds. "Our AI First approach aligns directly with this shift, while our Agile DNA ensures speed, adaptability, and continuous value creation."

Through GBS, the company has matured 32 GenAI use cases—many now scaled and replicated—demonstrating measurable impact across industries. Healthcare leads adoption by easing administrative/clinical burdens and accelerating R&D, while EdTech delivers personalized learning, Retail/CPG drives revenue and engagement, and Hi-Tech embeds AI as a core product feature.

Agentic AI and AI-Native Development at Scale

Happiest Minds’ agentic AI portfolio covers:

  • Agentic AI solutions for autonomous task execution.
  • AI-native software development practices.
  • AI-powered IT Service Management (ITSM).
  • AI-driven cybersecurity capabilities.

The company is also building an AI Service Delivery Platform that integrates human expertise with intelligent agents across software development, product engineering, and modernization programs. This hybrid model delivers faster execution, higher productivity, cost efficiency, and scalability.

"This platform allows us to deliver faster, with significantly higher productivity," said [Mantha – likely Ashok Mantha or similar executive referenced]. "By combining humans and agents within delivery teams, we create meaningful improvements in speed, cost efficiency, and scalability for our clients."

Responsible AI and Emerging Innovation

Responsible AI governance remains foundational, with built-in guardrails ensuring ethical, explainable, safe, and compliant systems. "Responsible AI is not a marketing differentiator—it's a hygiene factor," noted leadership, emphasizing trust as a key competitive advantage.

In healthcare and life sciences, Happiest Minds is developing AI-driven products for cardiology, pediatrics, chronic disease management, and lifestyle correction, alongside a unified multi-omics and bioinformatics platform to automate pipelines and integrate diverse datasets.

The company is also exploring AI-enabled Ayurveda, combining traditional Prakriti concepts with genomics, epigenomics, autonomic signals, and longitudinal phenotypes to enable earlier diagnosis and personalized preventive care.

"AI-enabled Ayurveda represents a rare opportunity to create a global differentiator," said Praveen R P, Co-CEO – GBS Business Unit, Happiest Minds. "By combining concepts such as Prakriti with genomics, epigenomics, autonomic signals, and longitudinal phenotypes, we aim to enable earlier diagnosis and personalized, preventive care grounded in measurable and scalable science."

Talent and Capability Expansion

Happiest Minds plans to double its Generative AI team to 250 professionals this year and scale its total analytics strength (including Analytics Center of Excellence) to approximately 1,000 by FY27, reinforcing its ability to deliver AI-first outcomes at enterprise scale.

About Happiest Minds Technologies

Happiest Minds Technologies is a digital engineering and Mindful IT company focused on helping enterprises build AI-native, customer-obsessed digital businesses through “AI First. Agile Always” principles. The company delivers end-to-end capabilities in AI, cloud, data, cybersecurity, and digital engineering, with a strong emphasis on responsible AI governance and scalable transformation.

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