About Us

🎯 Vision

At HERE AND NOW AI – Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, our vision is to pioneer a future in which advanced AI agents — culminating in a fully autonomous Robot Professor — transform learning, enterprise workflows, and global innovation. By harnessing cutting-edge frameworks and protocols, we aim to democratize AI, foster intelligent collaboration, and enable lifelong, autonomous learning across communities and industries.

🛡️ Mission Statement

We are dedicated to:
1. Democratizing AI education through accessible, expert-led programs founded in theory and enriched with hands-on practice.

2. Driving seamless AI integration by building enterprise-grade applications—CRMs, ERPs, chatbots, RPA agents.

3. Advancing AI research and development by exploring agentic frameworks, standards, and collaborations that ensure interoperability, security, and scalability.

4. Developing the fully autonomous Robo‑Professor, a teaching entity powered by multi‑agent coordination and capable of delivering personalized education at scale.

🏢 What We’re Doing Now

1. Enterprise-Grade AI Applications

We are actively building AI-powered CRMs, ERPs, chatbots, and RPA systems using frameworks like GPT‑2 on IBM Watson, RPA agents, and agentic structures. Each day, our core team develops 10 new AI applications, with the goal of achieving 10× growth every 90 days—showcasing our relentless pursuit of scale and innovation.

2. Agentic Innovation & Protocols

We utilize Model Context Protocol (MCP) to integrate tools securely via JSON-RPC—our “USB‑C for AI,” enabling seamless data and function exchange.
We adopt and extend Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocols—which originated at Google Cloud—to empower inter-agent communication across capabilities, supported by secure, web-standard messaging.
Our systems leverage orchestration of multi-agent frameworks implementing reasoning engines, planning, and shared tool access, all coordinated via A2A & MCP for secure, collaborative task execution.

3. High-Performance Infrastructure

Our AI systems run on MCP servers with agent-to-agent protocols over high-performance compute. We build with the Google Cloud standard stack, including agent-to-agent communication and orchestration tools. Every layer is designed for scalability, resilience, and real-time action.

📜 Our Journey

2011–2017
Founded in Chennai, HERE AND NOW AI began as a data science lab—conducting data collection, statistical methods, machine learning, and predictive analytics using SPSS and Python.

2018
We expanded into AI: built our first chatbot using GPT‑2 on IBM Watson—marking our first AI-powered solution.

2019–2022
Our capabilities grew with:
RPA agents to automate repetitive tasks.
Introduction of agentic frameworks, enabling internal orchestration and multi-agent workflows.

2023–Now
We implemented advanced MCP + A2A protocols, standardizing inter-agent communication. Each day we deploy ~10 smart agents, aiming to build 10× more every 90 days—demonstrating our commitment to rapid innovation and scale.

Founding Members of HERE AND NOW AI

Deepti BALAGOPAL,
COO

Balaji K, CTO of Here and Now AI, working at a digital workstation

Balaji KAMALAKKANNAN,
CTO

Ruthran RAGHAVAN
CEO & Chief AI Scientist

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