HCLTech and Inspeq AI Partner to Drive Responsible AI Integration in Enterprise Applications

HCLTech Partners with Inspeq AI to Drive Responsible AI in Enterprises

Indian IT companies are pushing towards building AI, while focusing on doing it with responsibility. To continue this bid, HCLTech has partnered with Inspeq AI, an Irish-Indian technology firm to aid enterprises worldwide in responsibly developing and integrating AI applications. This collaboration positions Inspeq AI as the youngest company to partner with HCLTech on such an initiative. The alliance aims to embed a Responsible AI (RAI) layer into application development, seamlessly integrating with existing toolchains like Microsoft Co-Pilot, AWS Bedrock, and other business applications. The joint platform follows the five pillars of Responsible AI: Fairness, Robustness, Explainability, Privacy, and Transparency. Through this platform, industries, including financial services, can address critical challenges such as credit risk, underwriting, fraud detection, and risk scoring. For example, a prominent European bank leverages this platform to tackle issues ranging from account openings to loan and insurance underwriting. "We are immensely proud to announce our partnership with HCLTech and together bring Inspeq's RAIops platform for safe AI and Agentic deployments in top enterprises around the world," stated Apoorva Kumar, CEO of Inspeq AI. "This is a big step for us toward advancing AI safety and performance on a huge scale for the protection of global enterprise brands." The partnership leverages Inspeq AI's capabilities and HCLTech's extensive client base to offer scalable, enterprise-grade GenAI solutions and agents for secure, compliant processes. The industry-agnostic platform, underpinned by advanced NLP and AI/ML, assesses and enhances models across applications, enabling responsible AI development while driving cost savings and speeding up delivery for HCLTech's clients. Founded in 2023, Inspeq AI raised $1.1 million (INR 9.13 Crore) in pre-Series A funding, led by Sure Valley Ventures, a specialist AI investment firm. The platform is designed to make GenAI app development four times faster, with projected development cost reductions of up to 70%. Co-founded by industry veterans from Microsoft, Meta, LinkedIn, and Amazon, Inspeq AI is headquartered in Ireland. Its RAIops platform is geared towards advancing safe and ethical AI adoption while aligning with global standards like the EU AI Act. The platform employs over 50 research-backed metrics and 20,000 data sets to safeguard compliance, reduce security risks by 90%, and enhance model accuracy by 80%, ensuring responsible AI governance across industries. HCLTech is seeing traction in its AI offerings, as highlighted by CEO C Vijayakumar during the company's Q2 2025 earnings call. He shared that AI has been integrated into the majority of their recent deals, highlighting the platform's key role in service transformation. "We have seen strong wins with most of our deals incorporating AI capabilities. Our platform AI Force is gaining widespread adoption for service transformation among our clients," said Vijayakumar. He further emphasised how the company's AI offerings, such as HCLTech AI Force, HCLTech AI Foundry, and AI Labs, are driving innovation across sectors. A key differentiator for HCLTech is the integration of AI Force with Microsoft GitHub Copilot, which will soon be extended as a Copilot extension. "AI Force is now integrated with Microsoft GitHub Copilot and will soon provide unmatched extensibility and a broad range of use cases," said Vijayakumar.

HCLTech Partners with Inspeq AI to Pioneer Responsible AI Integration in Enterprise Applications

Inspeq AI announced that it has formed a strategic alliance with the leading global technology company HCLTech to help global enterprises develop and integrate AI applications responsibly. As part of this alliance, the two partners will provide the Responsible AI layer in App Development, integrating it with existing toolchains, including MSFT Co-Pilot, AWS Bedrock, and other business applications. Inspeq AI is the youngest company ever to form an alliance of this nature with HCLTech.