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About Golden
About Golden
A technology company that agreed to be measured like every other part of a business.
Golden Tech International builds AI and software for one purpose: to move a number our client owns. Two hundred and seventeen people across seven countries, backed by the Yashoda Group, and $1.7 billion in cumulative client value with a document behind every dollar of it.
2016
foundedOne room in Kathmandu
217
peopleAcross seven countries
$1.7B
valueGenerated for clients to date
The Scale Behind The Promise
Cumulative, verified with clients — each figure traces back to a value model agreed with a client's finance team, and to a report that says whether we delivered it.
$1.7B
Client value generatedRevenue created and cost removed across the portfolio
120+
Projects deliveredShipped, adopted and measured in production
217
Team membersEngineers, AI scientists, designers, analysts
7
CountriesDelivery and client presence across four continents
30
PartnersCloud, AI, data and implementation network
18
Industries servedFrom hydropower to banking to hospitality
Who We Are
We were founded on an irritation.
In 2016 a small group of engineers in Kathmandu had spent several years building software that worked and watching it fail to matter. Systems delivered on time and to specification, launched with enthusiasm, and quietly producing nothing. The engineering was never the problem. Nobody had ever established what the work was supposed to be worth, so nobody could tell whether it had been worth anything.
Golden started as an attempt to fix that. The first three projects were rebuilt at our own cost until the client's numbers actually moved, which was an expensive way to learn a lesson and a very effective one. By 2018 the method had a shape: before any architecture, build a value model with the client's finance and operations leaders. Which number moves, from what baseline, owned by whom.
Nine years later we are 217 people in seven countries, most of our work is applied AI, and the rule has not changed. If we cannot name the business number, we do not start the project.
They were the only partner who asked for our P&L before our requirements document.
Fig. 02 — Week one of every engagement, in every countryFinance in the room before architecture is discussed
What We Believe
Three rules that have cost us revenue.
Each of these has led us to argue a client out of spending money with us. Each of them is why they are still clients.
Rule 01
We start at the value model, not the stack
Before architecture, we build a value model with your finance and operations leaders: which line moves, by how much, by when, and who owns it. Technology choices come after that number exists.
Rule 02
We are paid to be useful, not busy
Scope is written as outcomes. If a feature cannot be traced to revenue, cost, risk or time, we argue against building it — even when you are willing to pay for it.
Rule 03
We stay until the value shows up
Go-live is the middle of the engagement, not the end. Adoption, measurement and iteration continue until the business number our client agreed to actually moves.
What We Refuse
The no list.
Firms are defined more by what they decline than by what they advertise. This is ours, and it is enforced rather than aspirational.
We WillAlways
- 01Write a value model before proposing architecture
- 02Put your code in your repositories from commit one
- 03Report honestly in the weeks when it is going badly
- 04Recommend a cheaper option when one exists
- 05Disclose any commission behind a recommendation
- 06Tell you when the answer is process, not software
We Will NotEver
- 01Build a feature we cannot trace to a business number
- 02Take a project we do not believe will pay for itself
- 03Hold data, code or credentials as commercial leverage
- 04Bill graduates as consultants under a partner's name
- 05Report velocity when value was the agreement
- 06Use client data to train anything that leaves their tenancy
How We Are Built
Structured to remove the usual conflicts.
PRINCIPLE 01
No pyramid
The senior engineer who scopes your work builds it. We do not maintain a graduate bench billed at consultant rates, because that structure is precisely what produces technically successful and commercially useless projects.
PRINCIPLE 02
No licence margin
We are paid for delivery, not distribution. Where a partner relationship would earn us anything on a recommendation, it is disclosed in the recommendation itself.
PRINCIPLE 03
Group-backed patience
Being part of the Yashoda Group means we can decline work, forfeit fees against outcomes and take multi-year positions that a firm chasing its next invoice cannot.
The Organisation
Two hundred and seventeen people, counted honestly.
Employees and long-term contracted specialists. It excludes partner-network staff, which is where firms usually inflate this figure.
Where We Are
Seven countries, one delivery standard.
- Kathmandu, Nepal
- Global HQ & Delivery Centre
- Sheridan, United States
- Americas Entity
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
- EU Delivery & Cloud
- London, United Kingdom
- Client Partnerships
- Mikkeli, Finland
- AI Research Liaison
- Dubai, UAE
- Middle East Accounts
- Anápolis, Brazil
- LATAM Contact Office
The Group
Backed by the Yashoda Group.
An industrial house operating five-star hospitality, hospitals, hydropower generation and manufacturing — operations we help run, and which serve as our proving ground.
4
sectorsHospitality, healthcare, energy, industry
1
advantageAI tested in real operations before clients see it
0
urgencyWe can decline work and forfeit fees
Recognition
What we are known for.
- Five-plus industry awards for applied AI and platform delivery
- 99% client retention across a 120-project portfolio
- Independent technical diligence work for investors and boards
- Reference architectures contributed to partner ecosystems
- Outcome-linked engagements with fees genuinely at risk
Contact
How to reach us.
Questions
What people ask about the firm.
- 01. Where are you actually based?Our engineering centre and headquarters are in Kathmandu, with client-facing entities in the United States, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Finland, UAE and Brazil. Work is delivered from Kathmandu with partnership close to your time zone.
- 02. Is Golden a start-up?We were founded in 2016 and are part of the Yashoda Group, so the balance sheet behind us belongs to an industrial house rather than to a funding round. That is what allows us to put fees at risk and decline work.
- 03. What is the connection to the Yashoda Group?Golden joined the group in 2023. Beyond capital, it gives us real hospitality, healthcare, energy and manufacturing operations to build and test in, which is unusual for a technology firm and extremely useful.
- 04. Why the emphasis on refusing work?Because it is the only credible evidence that the business-value method is real. Any firm can claim to focus on outcomes; a firm that writes down “do not proceed” and sends the invoice for nothing is demonstrating it.
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Where to go next.
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