ThirdAI

ThirdAI is an AI-powered root-cause analysis platform for complex industrial operations, helping engineers understand why equipment and process failures occur and act on them faster.

Founded in 2024, the company addresses a costly bottleneck in manufacturing facilities, where root-cause analysis can take 20 – 40 hours because evidence is fragmented across equipment logs, sensor data, images, service records and technical documentation. ThirdAI brings these sources into a causal-intelligence layer that traces cause-and-effect relationships and helps engineers identify the underlying source of equipment and process failures. Its deployments have demonstrated an 80% reduction in diagnostic time.

ThirdAI is working with complex industrial environments across semiconductors, aerospace, utilities and automotive manufacturing, where a single failure can have significant consequences for production and asset performance. Its platform identifies the upstream variables driving faults and failures, while capturing successful resolutions as reusable playbooks for future incidents. With active engagements across Fortune 500 companies and measurable results within weeks of deployment, ThirdAI is building a way for industrial organizations to turn individual troubleshooting expertise into repeatable operational capability.

Region

India

Sector

Industrial tech
Third AI

Company Leadership

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    Vivek Vishwakarma

    Vivek Vishwakarma

    Vivek Vishwakarma is an engineer and technology leader whose career sits at the intersection of advanced manufacturing, semiconductor systems and applied AI. He holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington, where his research focused on thermal management, materials and microscale systems, and subsequently worked in technology development at Intel. His experience spans semiconductor manufacturing and battery technology. He has also contributed to more than 10 patents and accumulated over 300 research citations.
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    Sainyam Galhotra

    Sainyam Galhotra

    Sainyam Galhotra is a computer scientist and researcher whose work focuses on causal inference, data systems and reliable machine learning. He is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University, and previously conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Chicago and earned his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, following an undergraduate degree from IIT Delhi. His professional experience includes research roles with Google, IBM and Amazon. At ThirdAI, Sainyam brings this research foundation into an industrial setting, applying causal reasoning to problems where understanding why an event occurred is as important as detecting that it occurred.

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