EXL has acquired data and AI consulting firm Aimpoint Digital to expand its forward-deployed AI engineering capabilities and help enterprises move AI projects from pilot stages to production.
The acquisition adds around 250 AI engineers, platform architects, analytics consultants, decision scientists and AI strategists to EXL’s workforce.
The companies did not disclose the financial terms of the transaction.
The acquisition will strengthen EXL’s capabilities across the enterprise AI lifecycle, covering strategy, architecture, engineering, deployment, evaluation and managed operations. It will also expand the company’s expertise across AI and data platforms, including Anthropic, Databricks and Snowflake.
“Clients require a partner who can take them from AI ambition to impact at enterprise scale,” said Rohit Kapoor, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of EXL.
“Aimpoint Digital’s forward-deployed strategists and engineers bring the hands-on expertise to turn AI strategy into production reality on the platforms our clients trust most,” Kapoor added.
The acquisition comes as enterprises increase spending on AI but continue to face challenges in moving projects beyond pilots and into production. By combining Aimpoint Digital’s engineering capabilities with EXL’s industry expertise, data foundations and agentic AI solutions, the companies intend to help clients integrate AI into business workflows.
Aimpoint Digital will bring expertise in building enterprise data and AI platforms, along with engineers who work closely with client teams to develop and deploy AI systems.
“Joining EXL lets us do more breakthrough work on a much larger scale,” said Ben Yopp, Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder of Aimpoint Digital.
“We bring deep AI strategy and engineering talent and EXL brings industry expertise, global reach and the ability to run AI in operations. Together, we can take clients’ most important AI initiatives into production and keep them performing at the highest levels,” Yopp added.
The combined offering will also give clients a single partner across the AI implementation process, from initial strategy discussions and architecture to production deployment and ongoing operations. EXL said this approach would reduce handoffs between teams and establish clearer accountability for business outcomes.
The acquisition follows EXL’s purchase of AI model training and evaluation company iMerit. The iMerit acquisition expanded EXL’s capabilities in model training, evaluation and reinforcement learning.
With Aimpoint Digital, EXL is looking to strengthen the engineering and deployment side of its AI business, complementing iMerit’s expertise in developing and improving AI models.
Together, the two acquisitions expand EXL’s capabilities across the AI lifecycle, from model development and evaluation to enterprise deployment and managed AI operations.
