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We build AI that is meaningful, gets used, reduces cost, and keeps your data yours.

About Arthexa

Arthexa is an AI company focused on one problem: cost. We build software that observes and measures where an enterprise's money really goes, then shows what to save, where, how and why, with the value of each action.

Our tools don't stop at reports and dashboards. They suggest actions and show what each one is worth, because a problem you can see but can't fix is only half-solved.

We are practitioners who build AI: IITian engineers, cost and management accountants, auditors and leaders who have run enterprises, working on the same problem. We observe, we measure, we co-create, and then we optimize.

Why Arthexa

Artha is wealth and resources. Exa is exponential. Resources, compounding.

One story we keep seeing

  1. Once upon a time, enterprises ran on instinct, and a few experienced people carried the numbers in their heads.

  2. Every day, the business grew more complex, and reports grew into dashboards.

  3. One day, the CFO asked, "Why did the money go?" There was a number, but no reason.

  4. Because of that, the company cut across the board.

  5. Because of that, the saving did not last, and people stopped trusting the tools.

  6. Until finally, someone turned on the spotlight in the dim godown: observe, measure and optimize, together with the people who use it.

What we believe

  • Observe and measure.

    We can't optimize what we can't observe and measure: cost, inventory, production planning, operations.

  • Software is the medium. People are the transformation.

    Software only saves money when people use it, so we plan how your team will work with it from day one.

  • A knowledge partner, not a vendor.

    A vendor sells a tool and leaves. We bring costing and domain knowledge, co-create with your team, and stay until the saving is real.

  • Your data, your control.

    Data is safest on-prem. We will give you on-prem if you prefer it.

How we think: like scientists. Our opinions are hypotheses to test, not positions to defend.

We bring insights, not aboutism.

Aboutism is guessing at a problem without ever feeling it: advice from a distance. We are practitioners. We speak from experience, test our opinions as hypotheses, and let measured numbers show what is real.

Also in our sights

  • Vendors who sell software and disappear
  • Across-the-board cuts that damage quality
  • Dashboards that report but never suggest actions

Five commitments

01

See it.

We observe and measure where the money goes before we suggest anything.

02

Act on it.

Every finding comes with a suggested action and what it is worth.

03

Co-created, used by your people.

We build with your existing ownership, and plan how your team will adopt it.

04

Your data, your control.

On-prem if you prefer it.

05

Numbers you can check.

Every figure traces to its source data.

Our team

Ayush S. Jadhav

Ayush S. Jadhav

IIT Madras alumnus and former forward-deployed AI engineer.

Founder & Managing Director

IIT Madras Alumnus · Ex Forward-deployed AI engineer (FDE) · Serial entrepreneur

Ayush is an IIT Madras graduate and serial entrepreneur who has worked across pharmaceuticals and manufacturing. Seeing from the inside how much money is lost to costs no one can see, Ayush turned to AI with one question: why are decisions this important still made on gut feel? Arthexa is the answer.

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CMA Mahendra Bhombe

CMA Mahendra Bhombe

More than 20 years as a Cost & Management Accountant.

Founder & Director

Cost & Management Accountant · 20+ years · Chairman, ICMAI-WIRC 2026–27 · Ex Thermax, Ex Tata Motors

For more than two decades, Mahendra Bhombe has practised the discipline this company is built on: finding out what things really cost. As a CMA, Mahendra has seen the same pattern across businesses again and again. The numbers are there, the warning signs are there, and no one acts until it hurts. Mahendra brings that depth of costing knowledge into every model Arthexa builds. He serves as Chairman of ICMAI-WIRC for 2026–27, and has worked with Thermax and Tata Motors.

Dr. Aatul Wadegaonkar

Dr. Aatul Wadegaonkar

35+ years in digital transformation, and managing director of two enterprises.

Chief Advisor, Product & Strategy

IIT Roorkee · MD, AW Consulting · 35+ years in digital transformation · Former MD of two enterprises

Dr. Wadegaonkar has sat in the chair our customers sit in. He has built, scaled and managed technology companies, and served as managing director of two enterprises. That career spans people, products and business, and the difference between software that impresses in a demo and software that delivers real ROI on a factory floor. That experience keeps Arthexa honest: every feature has to earn its place in measurable savings.

Let's make cost your advantage.

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