About
A small team, building AI inside the companies that need it most.
Founder
Zayan Khan
Dhaka, Bangladesh
I founded Perlage after fifteen years of watching capable companies pay too much for too little. I studied Computer Science at Brunel (First-Class Honours), then spent two and a half years at Berenberg Bank in London shipping production machine-learning systems on the equities trading floor.
Most recently I led growth at iFarmer — Bangladesh's largest agri-tech startup — across retail, financing, advisory, and procurement business units, reporting to the CEO. Perlage is the natural compound of that work: deep operator context, real production ML, and a clear thesis that incumbents don't need another vendor. They need a team that builds the thing, trains the in-house team, and leaves.
Thesis
Buy the outcome. Not the seat.
SaaS sells you software you have to bend your business around. McKinsey sells you a deck. Perlage builds the working system, ships it into your environment, trains your team, and walks away. You own the code, the model, the data, and the people who know how it works.
That's it. No platform fees, no per-seat pricing, no exclusivity clauses that grow heavier each renewal. Build it once, build it well, hand it over. The engagement ends — the capability stays.
Principles
How we work, in four lines.
01
Direct, not consultant-speak.
No synergies, no transformation journeys. We say what we built and what it does — in language any operator can act on.
02
Practical over theatrical.
We don't ship demos that won't survive contact with production data. Every system we build runs in your environment, against your real workflows, before we call it done.
03
Confident on outcomes, honest on tradeoffs.
A model that works 85% of the time with the right human-in-the-loop beats a 99% promise that breaks in week three. We tell you which one we're shipping and why.
04
Plain English in every deliverable.
Technical depth where it earns its place. Never as a moat. If your team can't extend it after we leave, we failed.
Stage
Early, focused, and deliberately small.
Perlage is a solo founder shop today, with two active paying clients. We're hiring carefully — engineers who care about shipping into production, not researchers chasing the next benchmark. If that's you, the contact page is also a hiring inbox.
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Want to talk?
Whether you're a prospective client, a potential hire, or just curious — write to us.