A named problem
We start from the workflow, the user and the constraint. A request for 'an app' or 'AI' becomes a build only after we can say what it will change in the business.
India
A software development partner based in India, with the studio in Lucknow.
Sunbeam is an Indian software studio. The company is based in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, and that is the only office we have. We work with businesses across India remotely, and with teams in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, the United Kingdom and the United States who want an engineering partner in India. This page is the national picture. City and country pages cover the working relationship in more detail.
Based in Lucknow, India. Other Indian cities are served remotely, on India Standard Time.
The market
What people mean when they look for a software company in India.
The phrase covers two very different searches. An Indian company wants a team that understands owner-led decisions, message-heavy operations, bilingual customers, and tools such as Tally sitting next to a new system. An overseas company wants a development partner in India: engineers who can own a slice of product or operations work, communicate in English, and leave the code in the client's account.
We are built for both, within the limits of a single studio. We are a small engineering partner. We take work we can stay close to. We are a poor fit if you need a large bench, a city office in every metro, or a vendor that will staff a project by the dozen.
Inside India, the work clusters around four needs: a digital product or website that represents the business properly, a system for the operation itself, automation of a repeated hand-off, and a way to stop critical knowledge living in one person's head. Outside India, the same four needs show up with a harder constraint on time zones, data location and written communication. Those constraints are described on the Saudi Arabia, UAE, UK and US pages.
Time overlap
Inside India, the working day already matches.
India uses a single civil time zone, India Standard Time, UTC+5:30, with no daylight saving. A team in Kochi, Kolkata, Mumbai or Chandigarh shares the clock with Lucknow. Live workshops and same-day reviews are ordinary, and they should be used for decisions.
International clients do not get that full day. If you are hiring from Riyadh, Dubai, the UK or the US, use the page for your country. It states the real overlap, including the seasons when the UK or the US changes clocks and India does not.
Indian teams
Plan collaboration inside a normal business day. We still keep scope in writing so a shared time zone does not become an endless meeting.
Overseas teams
Treat the overlap as a decision window. Progress, questions and review material should make sense to someone who reads them outside that window.
Remote delivery
How delivery works from Lucknow.
Remote delivery is the default for every client who is not in Lucknow. The engineering happens here. You keep the repository, the cloud account, the domain and the analytics property. We document the decisions that a later team would need.
English for the record
Delivery writing is in English. With Indian clients we can discuss the work in Hindi as well. Specifications, interfaces and handover notes stay in English unless we agree otherwise.
A partner you can leave
The system should remain operable if you stop working with us. That is a design requirement, not a negotiation at the end. Maintenance is available when you want a continuing technical owner.
Services that fit
Services for an India engagement.
These four areas are how we organise the work. A single engagement often uses two of them, for example a public website and the internal system behind it.
Websites and digital products
Business websites, web applications and product surfaces for Indian companies, and for overseas teams shipping with an Indian engineering partner. Performance, structure and a clear next step for the visitor are part of the build.
Business systems
CRMs, portals, dashboards and operational software for companies that have outgrown a patchwork of tools. We integrate with the systems you already run when the interface and the data quality support it.
Automation, including AI
Workflow automation and AI where the task is specific: routing, reminders, document handling, support drafts, retrieval over your own material. We define the review step before the model is allowed near a customer or a ledger.
Knowledge systems
Search and assistance over the documents, policies and procedures a team already has, or an internal tool that makes that knowledge operational. Useful when the business depends on a few experts. Premature when those experts have not agreed what the correct answer is.
The wider practice
Lucknow is the studio. These services are available to clients here and anywhere else we work.
Related reading
Local questions
Frequently asked questions.
Where in India is Sunbeam based?
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. That is our only physical base.
Do you work with companies in other Indian cities?
Yes. Delivery is remote. We share India Standard Time with the rest of the country, so collaboration sits in a normal working day.
Can an overseas company hire Sunbeam as a development partner in India?
Yes. Read the page for Saudi Arabia, the UAE, the United Kingdom or the United States for the time overlap and the remote working model. The engineering team is the Lucknow studio.
Are you a large multi-city agency?
No. We are one studio. That suits a defined product, system or workflow. It is the wrong shape if you need a large distributed bench or a local office in your city.
Will we own the software?
Yes, unless a written agreement says otherwise. Repositories, hosting, domains and analytics stay in your accounts.
How do we start?
Tell us the workflow or product problem, who it affects, and what you have already tried. Talk with Sunny on the website, or email [email protected]. We will recommend a next step before talking about a build.
Other places
Where else this studio works.
Lucknow
Our only physical base. AI agents, automation, custom software, websites, knowledge systems and cloud for businesses that work in the city, and for clients elsewhere.
Uttar Pradesh
One studio in the state capital, working remotely with teams in Kanpur, Noida, Varanasi, Agra, Prayagraj, Meerut and elsewhere in UP.
Saudi Arabia
Remote engineering for Riyadh and the rest of Saudi Arabia, with a 2 hour 30 minute time difference and delivery in English.
United Arab Emirates
Remote delivery for Dubai and the wider UAE. The time difference is 1 hour 30 minutes, so most of the working day overlaps.
United Kingdom
Remote product and systems work for UK teams. The live window is a UK morning and a Lucknow afternoon. No UK office.
United States
Remote engineering for US product and operations teams. East Coast has a short live window. Pacific time is an async relationship.
Start with the workflow that is slowing the business down.
Tell us who is affected and what a better month would look like. We will recommend a practical next step.